Response message transmitter and response message transmitting method in cellular mobile telephone apparatus and recording medium recording program for executing the method

• US 8,340,643 B2
• Filed: 04/11/2008
• Issued: 12/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Higuchi, Kazutoshi, Ogawa, Katsuo, Itoh, Fumitaka, Takahara, Yasuaki, Okamoto, Teiji
• Primary Examiner(s): Appiah, Charles
• Assistant Examiner(s): COSME, NATASHA W
• Application Number:
  US12/081,141
• Publication Number:
  US 20080299949A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,719 Days
• Field of Search: 455/412.1, 455/412.2, 455/413
• US Class Current: 455/412.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/642 storing speech in digital form
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6505 storing speech in digital form
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/663 Preventing unauthorised calls to a telephone set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/048 Arrangements providing optical indication of the incoming call, e.g. flasher circuits

Abstract

A cellular mobile telephone apparatus has circuits for generating messages, a storage circuit for storing messages, and transmitter/receiver circuit for transmitting a message. When the user of the cellular mobile telephone apparatus cannot immediately respond to an incoming call, a desired one of a plurality of previously generated and stored messages can be transmitted to a calling party through simple key manipulations or by other means.

Claims

1. A cellular mobile telephone apparatus, comprising:

a plurality of incoming call notification portions for notifying incoming calls received from a calling part via a radio base station or a switching station;

a controller which is adapted to perform controls so that one of the plurality of incoming call notification portions notifies a user of an incoming call to the cellular mobile telephone apparatus; and

a plurality of input portions for selecting, prior to receiving the incoming call to the cellular mobile telephone apparatus, one of a plurality of response messages, that have been previously stored, to be sent to the calling party at a time when the user cannot respond to the incoming call, each of the plurality of input portions corresponding to one of the plurality of response messages;

wherein, when the incoming call to the cellular mobile telephone apparatus is received by the cellular mobile telephone apparatus after the response message has already been selected, the controller controls such that the selected response message is transmitted to the calling party.

2. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of input portions include a key input device and a transducer.

3. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a voice detector adapted to recognize the user'"'"'s voice pattern by determining whether or not voice information input by a transducer matches a predetermined signal pattern.

4. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a voice detector adapted to recognize the user'"'"'s voice pattern by determining whether or not voice information input by the transducer matches a predetermined signal pattern.

5. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of incoming call notification portions include a vibrator and a sounder.

6. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the plurality of incoming call notification portions include a vibrator and a sounder.

7. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the plurality of incoming call notification portions include a vibrator and a sounder.

8. A communication system comprising the cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the base or switching the station is adapted to transmit the selected response message to the calling party, when the user does not respond to the incoming call notification of the notification portions for a previously registered time period.

9. A communication system comprising the cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the base or switching station is adapted to transmit the selected response message to the calling party, when the user does not response to the incoming call notification of the notification portions for a previously registered time period.

10. A communication system comprising the cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the base or switching station is adapted to transmit the selected response message to the calling party, when the user does not respond to the incoming call notification of the notification portions for a previously registered time period.

11. A communication system comprising the cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the base or switching station is adapted to transmit the selected response message to the calling party, when the user does not response to the incoming call notification of the notification portions for a previously registered time period.

24. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a transmitter which transmits address information to the base or switching station, wherein the address information is associated with the selected response message stored in a memory of the base or switching station.

27. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the selected response message remains unchanged until changed by the user to another response message.

12. A method of transmitting a response message in a communication system including a cellular mobile telephone apparatus and a radio base station or switching station, the method comprising the steps of:

storing a plurality of response messages for responding to a calling party in a memory provided in the base or switching station;

selecting, in the cellular mobile telephone apparatus, any response message from the plurality of response messages stored in the memory prior to receiving an incoming call to the cellular mobile telephone apparatus from the calling party at a time when a user cannot respond to the incoming call to the cellular mobile telephone apparatus; and

transmitting the selected response message to the calling party after the incoming call to the cellular mobile telephone apparatus is received by the cellular mobile telephone apparatus.

25. The method of transmitting a response message in a communication system according to claim 12, further comprising the steps of:

transmitting, from the cellular mobile telephone apparatus, address information associated with the response message selected at the selecting step to the base or switching station; and

transmitting, from the base or switching station, the selected response message to the calling party based on the address information transmitted from the cellular mobile telephone apparatus.

28. The method of transmitted a response message in a communication system according to claim 12, wherein the selected response message remains unchanged until changed by the user to another response message.

13. A cellular mobile telephone apparatus, comprising:

a plurality of incoming call notification portions for notifying incoming calls received from a calling part via a radio base station or switching station;

a controller which is adapted to perform controls so that one of the plurality of incoming call notification portions notifies a user of an incoming call to the cellular mobile telephone apparatus; and

an input portion for receiving a user input to select, prior to receiving the incoming call to the cellular mobile telephone apparatus, one of a plurality of response messages, that have been previously stored, to be sent to the calling party at a time when the user cannot respond to the incoming call to the cellular mobile telephone apparatus, the user input to select the selected response message being received prior to receiving the incoming call,

wherein if the incoming call to the cellular mobile telephone apparatus is received by the cellular mobile telephone apparatus after the response message has already been selected, the controller controls such that the selected response message is transmitted to the calling party.

14. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 13, further comprising:

a voice detector adapted to recognize the user'"'"'s voice pattern by determining whether or not voice information input by the transducer matches a predetermined signal pattern.

15. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 13, further comprising:

a voice detector adapted to recognize the user'"'"' voice pattern by determining whether or not voice information input by the transducer matches a predetermined signal pattern.

16. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising:

a voice detector adapted to recognize the user'"'"'s voice pattern by determining whether or not voice information input by the transducer matches a predetermined signal pattern.

17. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the plurality of incoming call notification portions include a vibrator and a sounder.

18. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the plurality of incoming call notification portions include a vibrator and a sounder.

19. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the plurality of incoming call notification portions include a vibrator and a sounder.

20. A communication system comprising the cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the base or switching station is adapted to transmit the selected response message to the calling party, when the user does not respond to the incoming call notification of the notification portions for a previously registered time period.

21. A communication system comprising the cellular mobile telephone system according to claim 14, wherein the base or switching station is adapted to transmit the selected response message to the calling party, when the user does not respond to the incoming call notification of the notification portions for a previously registered time period.

22. A communication system comprising the cellular mobile telephone system according to claim 15, wherein the base or switching station is adapted to transmit the selected response message to the calling party, when the user does not respond to the incoming call notification of the notification portions for a previously registered time period.

23. A communication system comprising the cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the base or switching station is adapted to transmit the selected response message to the calling party, when the user does not respond to the incoming call notification of the notification portions for a previously registered time period.

26. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 13, further comprising a transmitter which transmits address information to the base or switching station, wherein the address information is associated with the selected response message stored in a memory of the base or switching station.

29. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the selected response message remains unchanged until changed by the user to another response message.