Portable communication terminal

• US 8,457,650 B2
• Filed: 02/12/2004
• Issued: 06/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Taniwaki, Minako
• Primary Examiner(s): Kincaid, Lester
• Assistant Examiner(s): JAMA, ISAAK R
• Application Number:
  US10/778,719
• Publication Number:
  US 20040162088A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,400 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.6, 455/457, 455/456.1, 340/573.1, 726/4, 726/21, 380/241
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• 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 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/14 between corresponding nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/16 selectively restricting mobility data tracking

Abstract

A portable telephone has a positional information system unit employed to use a positional information system function for acquiring positional information, and a communication unit for transmitting/receiving the positional information to/from another terminal. The portable telephone has an address book function capable of registering telephone numbers into a storage unit by an input operation; and a control unit which operates in a manner that when a telephone communication is received, in the case that a telephone number is not notified from a telephone of a caller, or a telephone number notified from a telephone of a caller does not correspond to a telephone number registered in the storage unit, even if a signal for requesting the positional information from the telephone of the caller is received during the telephone communication, the control unit does not send the positional information.

Claims

1. A portable communication terminal comprising:

a present position identifying unit for identifying a present position of said terminal;

a communication unit for receiving a present position request signal which requests from said terminal a present position information representing said present position, and transmitting said present position information in reply thereto;

a control unit for judging whether or not another terminal meets a predetermined condition, and controlling said communication unit to transmit said present position information if said predetermined condition is met when said communication unit receives said present position request signal which is transmitted from another terminal,

wherein said control unit controls not to transmit said present position information to said another terminal in a condition where telephone number of said another terminal is not detected and

a storage unit for storing a predetermined code number,

wherein said control unit controls to transmit said present position information to said another terminal in a condition where a code number transmitted from said another terminal is coincident with said predetermined code number even though a telephone number of said another terminal is not detected.

2. A portable communication terminal comprising:

a present position identifying unit for identifying a present position of said terminal;

a communication unit for receiving a present position request signal which requests from said terminal a present position information representing said present position, and transmitting said present position information in reply thereto;

a control unit for judging whether or not another terminal meets a predetermined condition, and controlling said communication unit to transmit said present position information if said predetermined condition is met when said communication unit receives said present position request signal which is transmitted from another terminal

a storage unit for storing telephone numbers, wherein said control unit controls to transmit the present position information to said another terminal in a condition where a telephone number of said another terminal is stored in said storage unit and wherein said storage unit stores a predetermined code number; and

said control unit controls to transmit said present position information to said another terminal in a condition where a code number transmitted from said another terminal is coincident with said predetermined code number even though a telephone number of said another terminal is not stored in said storage unit.

3. The portable communication terminal according to claim 2, further comprising:

a storage unit for storing a plurality of telephone numbers and supplementary information assigned to each telephone number,

wherein said control unit controls to transmit said present position information to said another terminal in a condition where a telephone number of said another terminal is stored in said storage unit and a supplementary information of the telephone number of said another terminal represents permission to transmit said present position information.

4. The portable communication terminal according to claim 3, wherein said control unit controls to change said supplementary information stored in said storage unit according to predetermined operation made with said operation unit during telephone communication.

5. The portable communication terminal according to claim 2, further comprising:

a display unit for displaying a message,

wherein said control unit controls to display on said display unit a message meaning said terminal transmits the present position information to said another terminal when said communication unit receives the present position request signal, in a condition where a telephone number of said another terminal is stored in said storage unit.

6. The portable communication terminal according to claim 2, further comprising:

an operation unit for adding, changing or deleting information stored in said storage unit,

wherein said control unit controls to register a telephone number into said storage unit according to predetermined operation made with said operation unit.

7. A portable communication terminal comprising:

a present position identifying unit for identifying a present position of said terminal;

a communication unit for receiving a present position request signal which requests from said terminal a present position information representing said present position, and transmitting said present position information in reply thereto;

a control unit for judging whether or not another terminal meets a predetermined condition, and controlling said communication unit to transmit said present position information if said predetermined condition is met when said communication unit receives said present position request signal which is transmitted from another terminal, wherein the control unit judges whether or not said another terminal meets the predetermined condition based on notification of a telephone number from said another terminal; and

a storage section which stores a predetermined code number, wherein the control unit controls the communication unit to transmit the present position information if a code number being transmitted from said another terminal is coincident with the predetermined code number, even when the telephone number is not notified of by said another terminal.

8. The portable communication terminal according to claim 7, wherein the control unit performs a control so that the present position information is not transmitted to said another terminal when the telephone number is not notified of by said another terminal.

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

a storage section which stores the telephone number,

wherein the control unit controls the communication unit to transmit the present position information when the telephone number of said another terminal being notified of by said another terminal is stored in the storage section.

10. The portable communication terminal according to claim 7, further comprising;

a storage section which stores the telephone number

and permission information indicating whether or not transmission of the present position information is permitted, the permission information being unique to the telephone number,

wherein the control unit controls the communication unit to transmit the present position information when the telephone number of said another terminal being notified of by said another terminal is stored in the storage section and when the permission information of the telephone number of said another terminal permits the transmission of the present position information.

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

a storage section which stores the telephone number and a predetermined code number,

wherein the control unit controls the communication unit to transmit the present position information if a code number being transmitted from said another terminal is coincident with the predetermined code number, even when the telephone number of said another terminal being notified of by said another terminal is not stored in the storage section.

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

a storage section which stores the telephone number, permission information indicating whether or not transmission of the present position information is permitted, the permission information being unique to the telephone number, and a predetermined code number,

wherein the control unit controls the communication unit to transmit the present position information if a code number being transmitted from said another terminal is coincident with the predetermined code number, when the telephone number of said another terminal being notified of by said another terminal is stored in the storage section but the permission information of the telephone number of said another terminal does not permit the transmission of the present position information.