Portable communication terminal device and response message transmitting method

• US 8,150,389 B2
• Filed: 11/18/2005
• Issued: 04/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Wada, Hitoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Karikari, Kwasi
• Application Number:
  US11/283,158
• Publication Number:
  US 20060116133A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,328 Days
• Field of Search: 455/412.2, 455/425, 455/67.11, 455/423, 455/115.2, 455/424, 455/420, 340/426.21, 340/7.1, 340/7.53, 370/242, 370/452, 370/79
• US Class Current: 455/425
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A portable communication terminal device includes a section for detecting a call from a calling party; a section for obtaining position data for a present position of the portable communication terminal device; a section for storing data of a plurality of areas and a plurality of messages to the calling party, which respectively correspond to the areas; and a section for performing a determination when the call is detected. In the determination, it is determined whether the present position based on the position data belongs to one of the plurality of the areas stored in advance. The terminal also includes a section for performing message transmission when it is determined that the present position belongs to one of the plurality of the areas. In the message transmission, one of the plurality of the messages is transmitted, which corresponds to the one of the plurality of the areas.

Claims

1. A portable communication terminal device comprising:

a call detecting section for detecting a call from a calling party;

a transmission section for transmitting a response message to the calling party;

a position obtaining section for obtaining position data with respect to a present position of the portable communication terminal device;

a storage section for storing data of a plurality of positions, which are location positions, and a plurality of messages which respectively correspond to the plurality of the positions; and

a retrieval section for;

performing a determination when the call is detected by the call detecting section, wherein the retrieval section determines one of the plurality of the positions stored in the storage section, which corresponds to the present position based on the position data obtained by the position obtaining section, and

retrieving one of the plurality of the messages stored in the storage section, which corresponds to the determined position, wherein

the transmission section transmits the retrieved message as the response message to the calling party.

2. The portable communication terminal device according to claim 1, wherein each message is obtained by a voice recording or text-to-voice conversion.

3. The portable communication terminal device according to claim 1, wherein:

the storage section stores a normal message which does not relate to any position; and

when no message corresponding to the present position based on the position data obtained by the position obtaining section is retrieved by the retrieval section from among the messages stored in the storage section, the transmission section transmits the normal message as the response message to the calling party.

4. The portable communication terminal device according to claim 1, wherein:

the position obtaining section obtains the position data after the call detecting section detects the call; and

the retrieval section retrieves the message corresponding to the present position based on the position data which is obtained after the call is detected.

5. The portable communication terminal device according to claim 4, wherein if the position data cannot be obtained by the position obtaining section after the call detecting section detects the call, the retrieval section retrieves the message corresponding to the present position based on the position data which is obtained by the position obtaining section before the call detecting section detects the call.

6. The portable communication terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a message determining section for determining each message corresponding to each position.

7. The portable communication terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an absence mode setting section for setting an absence mode, wherein the transmission section transmits the response message to the calling party when the absence mode is set by the absence mode setting section.

8. The portable communication terminal device according to claim 1, wherein:

the storage section stores data of a plurality of areas as the plurality of the positions, and stores the plurality of the messages which respectively correspond to the plurality of the areas; and

the retrieval section determines one of the plurality of the areas, which includes the present position based on the position data obtained by the position obtaining section, and the retrieval section retrieves the message corresponding to the determined area.

9. The portable communication terminal device according to claim 8, wherein the retrieval section specifies the area, which includes the present position, based on map data.

10. A message transmitting method for transmitting a response message to a calling party when detecting a call from the calling party, the method comprising the steps of:

storing data of a plurality of positions, which are location positions, and a plurality of messages which respectively correspond to the plurality of the positions in advance;

determining one of the plurality of the stored positions, which corresponds to the present position based on the obtained position data, when a call from the calling party is detected;

retrieving one of the plurality of the stored messages, which corresponds to the determined position; and

transmitting the retrieved message as the response message to the calling party.

11. The message transmitting method according to claim 10, further comprising the step of storing a normal message which does not relate to the plurality of the positions in advance, wherein when no position corresponding to the present position based on the obtained position data is determined from among the plurality of the positions, the normal message is transmitted as the response message to the calling party.

12. The message transmitting method according to claim 10, wherein:

the position data is obtained after the call is detected; and

the message, which corresponds to the present position based on the position data obtained after the call is detected, is retrieved from among the plurality of the messages.

13. The message transmitting method according to claim 12, wherein if the position data cannot be obtained after the call is detected, the message, which corresponds to the present position based on the position data obtained before the call is detected, is retrieved from among the plurality of the messages.