Mobile terminal

• US 8,606,863 B2
• Filed: 09/26/2008
• Issued: 12/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Aono, Tomotake, Ujii, Junichi, Takenaka, Tetsuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Wing F
• Assistant Examiner(s): Thieu, Benjamin M
• Application Number:
  US12/680,536
• Publication Number:
  US 20100241714A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,901 Days
• Field of Search: 709/201, 709204-205, 709/206, 4554561- 6, 455/412.1, 455/420
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver

Abstract

The mobile terminal 10 includes a transmission unit 20 for transmitting an e-mail, a location information acquisition unit 22 and 20 for acquiring the location information of the mobile terminal and a control unit 26 for controlling, at the time of transmission processing of the e-mail, when a predetermined special character is included in the e-mail to be transmitted, so that the location information acquisition unit 20 and 22 acquires the location information of the mobile terminal, and the acquired location information is added to the e-mail to be transmitted by being associated with the special character and the added e-mail is transmitted by the transmission unit 20.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a transmission unit for transmitting an e-mail;

a location information acquisition unit for acquiring location information of the mobile terminal; and

a control unit for controlling so that, when an e-mail to be transmitted includes a predetermined special character at transmission processing of the e-mail, the location information acquisition unit acquires the location information of the mobile terminal in response to an input operation to initiate the transmission processing of the e-mail, and the acquired location information is added to the e-mail to be transmitted by being associated with the special character and the added e-mail is transmitted by the transmission unit, wherein the control unit adds the acquired location information to the e-mail.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein when the predetermined special character is included at encoding of data of an e-mail to be transmitted, the control unit controls the location information acquisition unit to acquire the location information of the mobile terminal.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 2, wherein the control unit controls the location information acquisition unit to acquire information on an address of a location of the mobile terminal as the location information.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 2, wherein the control unit controls the location information acquisition unit to acquire information on a nearest landmark to a location of the mobile terminal as the location information.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 2, wherein the control unit controls the location information acquisition unit to acquire information on a nearest station to a location of the mobile terminal as the location information.

6. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the control unit controls the location information acquisition unit to acquire information on an address of a location of the mobile terminal as the location information.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the control unit controls the location information acquisition unit to acquire information on a nearest landmark to a location of the mobile terminal as the location information.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the control unit controls the location information acquisition unit to acquire information on a nearest station to a location of the mobile terminal as the location information.

9. A mobile terminal comprising:

a reception unit for receiving an e-mail;

a display unit for displaying the e-mail received by the reception unit;

a storage unit for storing, with the e-mail, location information of a transmission side terminal of the e-mail that is acquired by the transmission side terminal in response to an input operation to initiate transmission processing of the e-mail, and that is added by being associated with a predetermined special character included in the e-mail; and

a control unit for controlling the display unit to display information based on the location information of the transmission side terminal stored in the storage unit when displaying the e-mail, wherein the transmission side terminal adds the location information to the e-mail.

10. The mobile terminal according to claim 9, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to display the location information of the transmission side terminal when the predetermined special character displayed on the display unit is selected.

11. The mobile terminal according to claim 10, further comprising a map information acquisition unit for acquiring map information corresponding to location information, wherein the control unit, in response to an input to select and determine the predetermined special character displayed on the display unit, controls the map information acquisition unit to acquire map information corresponding to the location information of the transmission side terminal and the display unit to display the acquired map information.

12. The mobile terminal according to claim 9, wherein the control unit controls so that the special character is converted to the location information of the transmission side terminal and the location information is displayed.

13. The mobile terminal according to claim 12, further comprising a map information acquisition unit for acquiring map information corresponding to location information, wherein the control unit, in response to an input to select and determine the predetermined special character displayed on the display unit, controls the map information acquisition unit to acquire map information corresponding to the location information of the transmission side terminal and the display unit to display the acquired map information.

14. The mobile terminal according to claim 12, wherein when the location information of the transmission side terminal is address information, the control unit controls so that the special character is converted to a part of the address information and the part of the address information is displayed.

15. The mobile terminal according to claim 14, further comprising a map information acquisition unit for acquiring map information corresponding to location information, wherein the control unit, in response to an input to select and determine the predetermined special character displayed on the display unit, controls the map information acquisition unit to acquire map information corresponding to the location information of the transmission side terminal and the display unit to display the acquired map information.

16. The mobile terminal according to claim 14, further comprising a location information acquisition unit for acquiring location information of the mobile terminal, wherein the control unit controls display of the address information of the transmission side terminal depending on the location information of the mobile terminal acquired by the location information acquisition unit and the address information of the transmission side terminal.

17. The mobile terminal according to claim 16, further comprising a map information acquisition unit for acquiring map information corresponding to location information, wherein the control unit, in response to an input to select and determine the predetermined special character displayed on the display unit, controls the map information acquisition unit to acquire map information corresponding to the location information of the transmission side terminal and the display unit to display the acquired map information.

18. The mobile terminal according to claim 9, further comprising a map information acquisition unit for acquiring map information corresponding to location information, wherein the control unit, in response to an input to select and determine the predetermined special character displayed on the display unit, controls the map information acquisition unit to acquire map information corresponding to the location information of the transmission side terminal and the display unit to display the acquired map information.

19. The mobile terminal according to claim 18, further comprising a location information acquisition unit for acquiring location information of the mobile terminal, wherein the control unit controls acquisition of the map information by the map information acquisition unit so that a map having a scale depending on the location information of the mobile terminal acquired by the location information acquisition unit and the address information of the transmission side terminal is displayed.

20. A mobile terminal comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive an e-mail;

a display unit configured to display the e-mail received by the reception unit;

a location information acquisition unit configured to acquire location information of the mobile terminal;

a route information acquisition unit;

a storage unit configured to store, with the e-mail, a first information on a nearest station to a location of a transmission side terminal that is acquired by the transmission side terminal in response to an input operation to initiate transmission processing of the e-mail, and that is added by being associated with a predetermined special character included in the e-mail; and

a control unit configured to control the display unit to display the predetermined special character in a selectable manner when displaying the e-mail,

wherein the control unit controls, in response to an input to select the predetermined special character, the location information acquisition unit to acquire a second information on a nearest station to a present location of the mobile terminal, and controls the route information acquisition unit to acquire route information based on the second information acquired and the first information, and the display unit to display the route information, wherein the transmission side terminal adds the first information to the e-mail.

21. The mobile terminal according to claim 20, wherein the control unit controls, when the predetermined special character displayed on the display unit is selected, the display unit to display the first information.

22. The mobile terminal according to claim 20, wherein the control unit controls so that the first information is displayed as the special character.