Integrated mobile phone ring scheduler
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1. A mobile telephone comprising:
- a transceiver to receive incoming telephone calls;
a ringer to provide an audible alert of the incoming telephone calls according to a parameter;
a ringer controller to automatically set the parameter of the ringer to a value of a parameter indication of a day-time instance in a ringer control schedule, the ringer control schedule indicating a plurality of successive day-time instances, each day-time instance including the parameter indication that is set to one value of a plurality of values; and
a control to instruct the ringer controller to override the automatically set parameter of the ringer to another value,wherein the ringer controller is adapted to automatically set the parameter of the ringer by matching a day and time of an incoming call to a day-time instance of the ringer control schedule on a call-by-call basis.
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Abstract
A mobile telephone comprises a ringer to provide an audible alert of an incoming telephone call. The mobile telephone has a ringer control schedule. The ringer control schedule indicates times at which a parameter of the ringer is to change. The mobile telephone further comprises a ringer controller to automatically change the parameter of the ringer according to the ringer control schedule.
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18 Claims
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1. A mobile telephone comprising:
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a transceiver to receive incoming telephone calls; a ringer to provide an audible alert of the incoming telephone calls according to a parameter; a ringer controller to automatically set the parameter of the ringer to a value of a parameter indication of a day-time instance in a ringer control schedule, the ringer control schedule indicating a plurality of successive day-time instances, each day-time instance including the parameter indication that is set to one value of a plurality of values; and a control to instruct the ringer controller to override the automatically set parameter of the ringer to another value, wherein the ringer controller is adapted to automatically set the parameter of the ringer by matching a day and time of an incoming call to a day-time instance of the ringer control schedule on a call-by-call basis. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A machine-readable medium including instructions executable by the machine to control a mobile telephone, the machine-readable medium causing the machine to:
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receive incoming telephone calls via a transceiver; provide via a ringer an audible alert of the incoming telephone calls according to a parameter; automatically set the parameter of the ringer to a value of a parameter indication of a day-time instance in a ringer control schedule, the ringer control schedule indicating a plurality of successive day-time instances, each day-time instance including the parameter indication that is set to one value of a plurality of values; and override the automatically set parameter of the ringer to another value, wherein the parameter of the ringer is automatically set by matching a day and time of an incoming call to a day-time instance of the ringer control schedule on a call-by-call basis. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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