Mobile communication terminal and call handover method

• US 8,050,677 B2
• Filed: 07/11/2007
• Issued: 11/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Ono, Koji
• Primary Examiner(s): Gary; Erika
• Application Number:
  US11/822,893
• Publication Number:
  US 20080014926A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,574 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 455/436
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/08 Reselecting an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/22 Manipulation of transport tunnels

Abstract

Disclosed is a mobile communication terminal including: a user information storage unit for storing user information having a terminal identifier for identifying an arbitrary communication terminal, and a user identifier for identifying the user of the communication terminal associated with each other; an identifier storage unit for storing, at the time of beginning of a call with the other party of the call, a first identifier for identifying the communication terminal of the other party of the call; a terminal identifier determination unit for determining whether the first terminal identifier and a second terminal identifier are associated with the same user identifier, with reference to the user information, upon receipt of a call-out signal including the second terminal identifier during the call with the communication terminal of the other party; and a call controller for handing over the call to a communication terminal indicated by the second terminal identifier when the terminal identifier determination unit determines that the first and second terminal identifiers are associated with the same user identifier.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal comprising:

a radio communication unit configured to perform radio communications;

a user information storage unit configured to store user information in which a terminal identifier for identifying an arbitrary communication terminal, and a user identifier for identifying a user of the arbitrary communication terminal are associated with each other;

an identifier storage unit configured to store, when performing a call with a communication terminal of the other party of the call via the radio communication unit, a first identifier for identifying the communication terminal of the other party of the call;

a terminal identifier determination unit configured to determine whether the first terminal identifier stored in the identifier storage unit and a second terminal identifier included in a call-out signal are associated with the same user identifier, with reference to the user information stored in the user information storage unit, in a case where the radio communication unit receives the call-out signal including the second terminal identifier during the call with the communication terminal of the other party via the radio communication unit; and

a call controller configured to control the radio communication unit to hand over the call to a communication terminal indicated by the second terminal identifier in a case where the terminal identifier determination unit determines that the first terminal identifier stored in the identifier storage unit and the second terminal identifier included in the call-out signal are associated with the same user identifier.

2. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the user information is created by a function of an address book.

3. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein, in the case where the terminal identifier determination unit determines that the first terminal identifier stored in the identifier storage unit and the second terminal identifier included in the call-out signal are associated with the same user identifier, the call controller controls the radio communication unit to automatically begin the call with the communication terminal indicated by the second identifier included in the call-out signal.

4. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1 further comprising a display unit,

wherein, in the case where the terminal identifier determination unit determines that the first terminal identifier stored in the identifier storage unit and the second terminal identifier included in the call-out signal are associated with the same user identifier, the call controller controls the display unit to display that a party currently calling and a party corresponding to the call-out signal are the same, and

in accordance with an operation which responds to the call-out signal and which is made by the user, the call controller controls the radio communication unit to begin the call with the communication terminal indicated by the second terminal identifier included in the call-out signal.