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

• US 8,346,221 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2010
• Issued: 01/01/2013
• 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:
  US12/876,324
• Publication Number:
  US 20100330966A1
• Time in Patent Office: 847 Days
• Field of Search: 455/412.2
• 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 party via a radio base station or switching station;

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

an input portion for selecting one message from among a plurality of response messages to be sent to the calling party in a situation in which the user cannot respond to the incoming call,

a transmitter for transmitting address information to the base or switching station in response to the cellular mobile telephone apparatus receiving the incoming call in the situation in which the user cannot respond to the incoming call, wherein the address information is associated with the selected message stored in a memory of the base or switching station, and

wherein the controller is adapted to control a time period for which the user is to be notified of the incoming call by said one incoming call notification portion before the selected message is to be transmitted to the calling party.

2. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the input portion includes a key input device and a transducer.

3. 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.

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

5. A communication system comprising the cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 1, and the base or switching station.

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

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

9. A communication system comprising the cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 2, and the base or switching station.

10. A communication system comprising the cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 3, and the base or switching station.

11. A communication system comprising the cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 4, and the base or switching station.

6. 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:

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

selecting, in the cellular mobile telephone apparatus, one message from among the plurality of messages stored in the memory in a situation in which a user cannot respond to an incoming call;

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

controlling, in a controller of the cellular mobile telephone apparatus, a time period for which the user is to be notified of the incoming call before the selected message is to be transmitted to the calling party; and

transmitting, from the base or switching station, the selected message to the calling party based on the address information transmitted from the cellular mobile telephone apparatus, after the user has been notified of the incoming call for the said time period.