Cellular phone

• US 8,041,382 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2008
• Issued: 10/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Mobile Communications Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Inventors: Nagase, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; John J
• Application Number:
  US12/261,200
• Publication Number:
  US 20090156262A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,083 Days
• Field of Search: 455/566, 455/550.1, 455/516, 455/517, 455/466, 455/557, 455/455, 455/67.11, 455/551, 455/552.1, 370/474, 370/329, 370/338, 370/328, 370/320, 370/458
• US Class Current: 455/550.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0245 using open/close detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications

Abstract

A cellular phone communicates data with an information provision apparatus connected via a packet network. A control unit obtains an information management apparatus identifier for identifying an information management apparatus within the packet network which is an intermediation at the time of the data communication carried out with the information provision apparatus further connected via an external network among the information provision apparatuses, determines whether the identifier added to the data at the time of the data communication is coincident with the information management apparatus identifier, and calculates a data amount at the time of the data communication carried out with the information provision apparatus connected via the external network. A storage unit stores the calculated data amount.

Claims

1. A cellular phone, comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate data with plural information provision apparatuses which are connected via a packet network;

an obtaining unit configured to obtain an information management apparatus identifier for identifying the information management apparatus within the packet network which is an intermediation at the time of the data communication with an information provision apparatus further connected via an external network among the plural information provision apparatuses;

a determination unit configured to determine whether the information management apparatus identifier added to the data at the time of the data communication by the communication unit is coincident with the information management apparatus identifier obtained by the obtaining unit;

a calculation unit configured to calculate a data amount at the time of the data communication with the information provision apparatus which is connected via the external network; and

a storage unit configured to store the data amount calculated by the calculation unit.

2. The cellular phone according to claim 1, wherein the information management apparatus identifier and the identifier added to the data at the time of the data communication by the communication unit are an IP address in an IP layer.

3. The cellular phone according to claim 1, wherein in a case where the determination unit determines that the identifier added to the data at the time of the data communication carried out by the communication unit is coincident with the information management apparatus identifier obtained by the obtaining unit, the calculation unit calculates the data amount at the time of the data communication carried out with the information provision apparatus which is connected via the external network.

4. The cellular phone according to claim 1, wherein in a case where the determination unit determines that the identifier added to the data at the time of the data communication carried out by the communication unit is not coincident with the information management apparatus identifier obtained by the obtaining unit, the calculation processing by the calculation unit is not performed.

5. The cellular phone according to claim 1, wherein after the socket of the TCP layer is opened, each time the data communication is carried out with the information provision apparatus connected via the external network, the calculation unit calculates the data amount at the time of the data communication carried out with the information provision apparatus, and calculates the total data amount up until the socket of the TCP layer is closed.

6. The cellular phone according to claim 1, wherein after the socket of the TCP layer is opened, the obtaining unit obtains the information management apparatus identifier before the data communication is carried out by the communication unit.

7. The cellular phone according to claim 1, wherein the obtaining unit obtains the information management apparatus identifier, with use of a unique information related to the information management apparatus.

8. The cellular phone according to claim 7, wherein the unique information includes at least a name of the information management apparatus.

9. The cellular phone according to claim 1, wherein the information management apparatus is a proxy server within the packet network.

10. The cellular phone according to claim 1, further comprising a display unit configured to display the data amount stored by the storage unit or a charge corresponding to the data amount stored by the storage unit.