Shared phone, medium having recorded therein program for controlling shared phone, and method for controlling shared phone

• US 8,195,222 B2
• Filed: 08/30/2010
• Issued: 06/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Akama, Katsuaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Simon
• Application Number:
  US12/871,896
• Publication Number:
  US 20100323721A1
• Time in Patent Office: 645 Days
• Field of Search: 455 412- 413, 455/426.1, 4554351-4352, 4554561-4566, 4555521-558, 455/462, 455/463, 455/465, 455/507, 455/517
• US Class Current: 455/550.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72502 with one base station connected to a single line
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/183 Processing at user equipment or user record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

The present invention provides a shared phone, a medium having recorded therein a program for controlling the shared phone, and a method for controlling the shared phone, which can make the shared use by a plurality of users easy. The shared phone switches phone numbers depending on users, and includes a user information storage unit that stores user information including phone numbers for each user, a public line communication unit that performs public line communication, and registers phone numbers stored in the user information storage unit to a public line, and detects an incoming call to a registered phone number, a display unit that, in case an incoming call is detected by the public line communication unit, displays user information corresponding to the incoming call from among user information stored by the user information storage unit, and an operation unit that accepts instruction for public line communication from a user, and sends the instruction to the public line communication unit.

Claims

1. A method which is executed by a system including a first communication device and a second communication device, for registering user information of the second communication device in a base station, the method comprising:

causing the first communication device to detect that the second communication device is located in a predetermined area;

causing the first communication device to transmit a request for user information to the detected second communication device by radio communication;

causing the second communication device to transmit the user information to the first communication device by radio communication based on the request; and

causing the first communication device to transmit a registration request for the transmitted user information to the base station by radio communication.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising

causing the first communication device to notify the base station of an off-hook operation in response to an operation by a user when the first communication device receives a notification of an incoming call from the base station.

3. A communication system comprising:

a first communication device; and

a second communication device, wherein

the first communication device includes;

a first transmission unit that transmits a request for user information to the second communication device by radio communication when the first communication device detects that the second communication device is located in a predetermined area, and

a second transmission unit that transmits a registration request for the user information which is transmitted from the second communication device in response to the request for the user information, to a base station by radio communication, and

the second communication device includes

a third transmission unit that transmits the user information to the first communication device by radio communication in response to the request for user information.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the second transmission unit notifies the base station of an off-hook operation in response to an operation by a user when the first communication device receives a notification of an incoming call from the base station.