Portable terminal

• US 8,452,343 B2
• Filed: 04/02/2007
• Issued: 05/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Mobile Communications Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Mobile Communications Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Inventors: Arisawa, Yukihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Appiah, Charles
• Assistant Examiner(s): SCHWARTZ, JOSHUA L
• Application Number:
  US11/732,467
• Publication Number:
  US 20080039152A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,248 Days
• Field of Search: 455/567, 455/574
• US Class Current: 455/567
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/047 Vibrating means for incoming calls

Abstract

A portable terminal includes an output device configured to output a ringing tone, a vibrator configured to generate vibration, and a first controller configured to detect a missed call indicating that an incoming call response operation is not performed, and a second controller coupled to the first controller. The second controller is configured, if the first controller detects the missed call, to notify a missed call notification at predetermined time intervals by at least one of the ringing tone output from the output device and the vibration generated by the vibrator, the missed call notification indicating that a response operation for the missed call is not performed.

Claims

1. A portable terminal, comprising:

an output part configured to output a ringing tone;

a vibrator; and

a controller configured to detect a missed call indicating absence of a response to an incoming call, to perform notification of the missed call with the ringing tone of the output part or a vibration generated by the vibrator based on the detection of the missed call, and to control the notification at predetermined intervals,

wherein the controller is configured to narrow down multiple missed calls logged in the portable terminal until a number of missed calls is reduced to one based on a plurality of preset conditions in accordance with an order of priority of the conditions, and to perform notification of a single missed call to which the multiple missed calls are reduced and a setting part configured to set a number of times the notification is to be performed, wherein the controller is configured to stop the notification of the missed call after the notification is performed the number of times set by the setting part.

2. The portable terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to stop the notification of the missed call in response to execution of an operation of stopping the notification of the missed call.

3. The portable terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

whether the controller performs the notification of the missed call is set on an individual basis with respect to persons registered in an address book, and

the controller is configured to perform the notification based on the individual settings.

4. The portable terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of preset conditions include a condition of a person who has generated an oldest missed call.

5. A portable terminal, comprising:

an output part configured to output a ringing tone;

a vibrator; and

a controller configured to detect an unread email by determining whether a received email is opened, to perform notification of the unread email with the ringing tone of the output part or a vibration generated by the vibrator based on the detection of the unread email, and to control the notification at predetermined intervals,

wherein the controller is configured to narrow down multiple unread emails logged in the portable terminal to a single unread email based on a plurality of preset conditions in accordance with an order of priority of the conditions, and to perform notification of the single unread email and a setting part configured to set a number of times the notification is to be performed, wherein the controller is configured to stop the notification of the missed call after the notification is performed the number of times set by the setting part.

6. The portable terminal as claimed in claim 5, wherein the plurality of preset conditions include a condition of a person who has generated an oldest missed call.