Mobile terminal apparatus and method for controlling alert operation thereof

• US 8,145,192 B2
• Filed: 05/01/2006
• Issued: 03/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanae, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL
• Application Number:
  US11/577,873
• Publication Number:
  US 20090124296A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,157 Days
• Field of Search: 455/411, 455/412.1, 455/41.2, 455/41.3, 455/456.3
• US Class Current: 455/411
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations

Abstract

There are provided a portable terminal device capable of preventing influence on the surroundings and leakage of personal information without impairing convenience and its incoming call notifying operation controlling method. A portable terminal device (1) executes radio authentication between itself and a radio communicating unit (3). The portable terminal device (1) includes a radio communicating unit for conducting communication with a base station device; an incoming call notifying unit for executing an incoming call notification when an incoming call is detected by the radio communicating unit; an incoming call operation controlling unit for controlling the operation of the incoming call notifying unit; and a radio authenticating unit for conducting radio communication with the radio communicating unit (3) and authentication according to whether or not the distance to the radio communicating unit is within a predetermined distance. The incoming call operation controlling unit controls the operation of the incoming call notifying unit by an incoming call notifying method according to the distance to the radio communicating unit (3).

Claims

1. A portable terminal device comprising:

a radio communicating unit which performs radio communication with a base station device;

an incoming call notifying unit which executes an incoming call notification when an incoming call is detected by the radio communicating unit;

an incoming call notifying operation controlling unit which controls operation of the incoming call notifying unit; and

a radio authenticating unit which conducts radio communication with a radio communicating device and conducts authentication for the radio communicating device in accordance with whether or not a distance to the radio communicating device is within an authentication distance,

wherein the incoming call notifying operation controlling unit limits the operation of the incoming call notification of the incoming call detected by the incoming call notifying unit when the distance to the radio communicating device is farther than the authentication distance so as to be more limited than the operation of the incoming call notification of the incoming call detected by the incoming call notifying unit when the distance to the radio communicating device is within the authentication distance,

wherein the incoming call notifying operation controlling unit does not execute incoming call notification by the incoming call notifying unit for the incoming call detected when the distance to the radio communicating device is farther than the authentication distance, and

wherein the incoming call notifying operation controlling unit includes a storage unit which stores, as non-notified incoming call information, information on the incoming call which is detected when the distance to the radio communicating device is farther than the authentication distance and for which the incoming call notification is not executed by the incoming call notifying unit.

2. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, wherein when the distance to the radio communicating device is shifted from a state of being farther than the authentication distance to a state of being within the authentication distance, the incoming call notifying operation controlling unit executes the incoming call notification by the incoming call notifying unit on the basis of the non-notified incoming call information stored in the storage unit.

3. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, wherein when the distance to the radio communicating device is shifted from a state of being farther than the authentication distance to a state of being within the authentication distance, the incoming call notifying operation controlling unit transmits the non-notified incoming call information stored in the storage unit to the radio communicating device through the radio authenticating unit.

4. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the incoming call notifying operation controlling unit executes the incoming call notification with a setting (default setting) previously installed in the incoming call notifying unit for the incoming call detected when the distance to the radio communicating device is farther than the authentication distance.

5. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the incoming call notifying operation controlling unit prevents the incoming call notifying unit from generating sound when the distance to the radio communicating device is farther than the authentication distance.