Information terminal device and method of controlling the same

• US 8,532,573 B2
• Filed: 08/10/2006
• Issued: 09/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Harada, Noriyuki, Kanno, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Urban, Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sorowar, Golam
• Application Number:
  US11/501,820
• Publication Number:
  US 20070232335A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,588 Days
• Field of Search: 455/550, 455/567, 455/417, 455/418, 455/410, 455/517, 455/41.2, 455/466, 455/556.1, 455/41.1, 455/41.3, 455/68, 455/67.11, 455/69, 455/445, 455/450
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/60 logging of communication history, e.g. outgoing or incoming calls, missed calls, messages or URLs
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

An information terminal device is disclosed that performs communication via a communication network. The information terminal device includes a short-range wireless communication unit that performs short-range wireless communication with an electronic device, a storing unit that stores information about communication via the communication network while the short-range wireless communication with the electronic device is disconnected, and a control unit that causes, upon restoration of the short-range wireless communication with the electronic device, the short-range wireless communication unit to transmit to the electronic device the information about the communication via the communication network if the information about the communication via the communication network is stored in the storing unit.

Claims

1. An information terminal device, comprising:

a short-range wireless communication unit that performs communication with an electronic device via short-range wireless communication;

a public communication unit that performs communication via a public communication network;

a storing unit configured to store information concerning communication via the public communication network; and

a control unit that

determines, in response to an incoming communication via the public communication network, whether the short-range wireless communication with the electronic device is in disconnection,

stores incoming communication information concerning the incoming communication via the public communication network received after the disconnection of the short-range wireless communication into the storing unit if the short-range wireless communication with the electronic device is in disconnection, and

causes, upon restoration of the short-range wireless communication with the electronic device, the short-range wireless communication unit to transmit to the electronic device the incoming communication information and information indicative of ongoing communication if the incoming communication information is stored in the storing unit and the communication via the public communication network is ongoing.

2. The information terminal device as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the information terminal device includes a mobile phone,

the communication via the public communication network is telephone communication via the public communication network, and

the incoming communication information concerning the incoming communication via the public communication network is incoming telephone call information.

3. The information terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein if the communication via the public communication network is ongoing upon the restoration of the short-range wireless communication with the electronic device, the control unit causes the short-range wireless communication unit to transmit to the electronic device the information indicative of the ongoing communication and the incoming communication information concerning the incoming communication via the public communication network stored in the storing unit, to display at the electronic device to respond to the ongoing communication.

4. The information terminal device as claimed in claim 3,

wherein the information terminal device includes a mobile phone,

the communication via the public communication network is telephone communication via the public communication network, and

the incoming communication information concerning the incoming communication via the public communication network includes a telephone number of a caller and time of receiving an incoming telephone call.

5. The information terminal device as claimed in claim 4,

wherein the control unit stores the incoming communication information each time the incoming communication is received via the public communication network during the disconnection with the electronic device, and

the short-range wireless communication unit transmits to the electronic device one or more sets of the incoming communication information and the information indicative of the ongoing communication, so that the electronic device displays, at a display part, the one or more sets of the incoming communication information and the information indicative of the ongoing communication.

6. The information terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic device is wearable by a user.

7. The information terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic device includes a personal computer.

8. A method of controlling an information terminal device comprising:

performing, by a short-range wireless communication unit, communication with an electronic device via a short-range wireless communication;

performing, by a public communication unit, communication via a public communication network;

storing information concerning communication via the public communication network;

determining, by a control unit, in response to an incoming communication via the public communication network, whether the short-range wireless communication with the electronic device is in disconnection;

storing, by the control unit, incoming communication information concerning the incoming communication via the public communication network received after the disconnection of the short-range wireless communication, to a storing unit, if the short-range wireless communication with the electronic device is in disconnection; and

transmitting, by the control unit, upon restoration of the short-range wireless communication with the electronic device, to the electronic device using the short-range wireless communication the incoming communication information and information indicative of ongoing communication if the incoming communication information is stored in the storing unit and the communication via the public communication network is ongoing.

9. The method of controlling an information terminal device as claimed in claim 8,

wherein the information terminal device includes a mobile phone,

the communication via the public communication network is telephone communication via the public communication network, and

the incoming communication information concerning the incoming communication via the public communication network is incoming telephone call information.

10. The method of controlling an information terminal device as claimed in claim 8, wherein if the communication via the public communication network is ongoing upon the restoration of the short-range wireless communication with the electronic device, the information indicative of the ongoing communication and the incoming communication information concerning the incoming communication via the public communication network stored in the storing are transmitted to the electronic device using the short-range wireless communication, to display at the electronic device to respond to the ongoing communication.

11. The method of controlling an information terminal device as claimed in claim 10,

wherein the information terminal device includes a mobile phone,

the communication via the public communication network is telephone communication via the public communication network, and

the incoming communication information concerning the incoming communication via the public communication network includes a telephone number of a caller and time of receiving an incoming telephone call.

12. The method of controlling an information terminal device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the electronic device is wearable by a user.

13. The method of controlling an information terminal device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the electronic device includes a personal computer.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a computer-readable program for controlling an information terminal device that has a function for performing communication with an electronic device via short-range wireless communication and a function for performing communication via a public communication network, the program comprising a set of instructions for causing a computer to execute:

storing information concerning communication via the public communication network;

determining, by the computer, in response to an incoming communication via the public communication network, whether the short-range wireless communication with the electronic device is in disconnection;

storing, by the computer, incoming communication information concerning the incoming communication via the public communication network received after the disconnection of the short-range wireless communication, to a storing unit, if the short-range wireless communication with the electronic device is in disconnection; and

transmitting, by the computer, upon restoration of the short-range wireless communication with the electronic device, to the electronic device using the short-range wireless communication the incoming communication information and information indicative of ongoing communication if the incoming communication information is stored in the storing unit and the communication via the public communication network is ongoing.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium as claimed in claim 14,

wherein the information terminal device includes a mobile phone,

the communication via the public communication network is telephone communication via the public communication network, and

the incoming communication information concerning the incoming communication via the public communication network is incoming telephone call information.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium as claimed in claim 14, wherein if the communication via the public communication network is ongoing upon the restoration of the short-range wireless communication with the electronic device, the information indicative of the ongoing communication and the incoming communication information concerning the incoming communication via the public communication network stored in the storing are transmitted to the electronic device using the short-range wireless communication, to display at the electronic device to respond to the ongoing communication.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium as claimed in claim 16,

wherein the information terminal device includes a mobile phone,

the communication via the public communication network is telephone communication via the public communication network, and

the incoming communication information concerning the incoming communication via the public communication network includes a telephone number of a caller and time of receiving an incoming telephone call.