Method for managing information in a telephone and telephone for managing information

• US 8,804,933 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2012
• Issued: 08/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Naxos Finance SA
• Original Assignee: Naxos Finance SA
• Inventors: Sanchez, Andres
• Primary Examiner(s): DEANE JR, WILLIAM J
• Application Number:
  US13/538,187
• Publication Number:
  US 20120295586A1
• Time in Patent Office: 774 Days
• Field of Search: 379/201.01, 379/199, 379/196, 379/200, 379/356.01, 379/354, 379/355.01, 455/463, 455/554, 455/555, 455/518, 455/519
• US Class Current: 379/201.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/56 Arrangements for indicating or recording the called number at the calling subscriber's set
• 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 1/66 with means for preventing unauthorised or fraudulent calling verifying user identity or authority in secret or secure digital communications H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/60 logging of communication history, e.g. outgoing or incoming calls, missed calls, messages or URLs

Abstract

Mobile telephone manages stored telephone data and includes a memory that stores telephone data related to at least one of incoming telephone calls to and outgoing telephone calls from mobile telephone, a personal access code entry device that enables a user of mobile telephone to enter a personal access code, a first list containing public telephone data stored in memory before personal access code is entered. Public telephone data in first list is accessible by all users during operation of mobile telephone, a second list containing private telephone data stored in memory after personal access code is entered. Private telephone data in second list is accessible by user only after entry of personal access code. A device provided for at least one of blocking and rejecting an incoming telephone call when telephone number for incoming call is stored in second list and personal access code has not been entered.

Claims

1. A mobile telephone that manages stored telephone data, comprising:

a memory that stores telephone data related to at least one of incoming telephone calls to and outgoing telephone calls from the mobile telephone;

a personal access code entry device that enables a user of the mobile telephone to enter a personal access code;

a first list containing public telephone data stored in the memory before the personal access code is entered, wherein the public telephone data in the first list is accessible by all users during operation of the mobile telephone;

a second list containing private telephone data stored in the memory after the personal access code is entered, wherein the private telephone data in the second list is not stored in the first list and is accessible by the user only after entry of the personal access code; and

a device for at least one of blocking and rejecting an incoming telephone call when the telephone number for the incoming call is stored in the second list and the personal access code has not been entered.

2. The telephone of claim 1, wherein the at least one of blocking and rejecting an incoming telephone call comprises a device structured and arranged to prevent at least one of a visual or audible indication of an incoming call from a telephone number listed in the second list unless the personal access code has been previously entered.

3. A method for managing data used with a mobile telephone, comprising:

entering a personal access code into the mobile telephone by a user of the mobile telephone;

one of creating and updating a protected list containing telephone data comprising telephone numbers stored by a user after entering the personal access code;

one of creating and updating an unprotected list containing telephone data comprising, with the exception of telephone data contained in the protected list, all incoming telephone numbers received and outgoing telephone numbers

whereby telephone numbers in the protected list are not listed in the unprotected list.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

preventing the user from being notified of an incoming call from a telephone number listed in the protected list, unless the personal code has already been entered.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

switching between a first operating mode for public use and a second operating mode for personal access code protected use by manipulating a predetermined command on a keyboard of the telephone.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

storing in a temporary register a current one of the telephone number entered by the user for sending as an outgoing call or the telephone number of an incoming call to the mobile telephone; and

verifying whether the telephone number in the temporary register is contained within the protected list,

wherein, when the telephone number stored in the temporary register is not within the protected list, the telephone number is stored in the unprotected list.

7. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

storing in a temporary register a current one of the telephone number entered by the user for sending as an outgoing call or the telephone number of an incoming call to the mobile telephone;

verifying whether the personal access code has been entered;

verifying, when the personal access code has been entered, whether the number in the temporary register is in the protected list associated with the personal access code; and

wherein, when the number in the temporary register is not in the protected list, storing the telephone number stored in the temporary register in the unprotected list.

8. A telecommunication device selectively operating in one of a public mode and a private mode, the telecommunication device comprising:

a storage device structured and arranged to store at least one access code associated with a private user;

a data entry unit structured and arranged for a user to input at least an access code associated with the user;

a microprocessor structured and arranged to receive the user input and to determine whether the user input corresponds to the at least one access code in the storage device;

when the user input corresponds to the at least one access code in the storage device, the microprocessor is further structured and arranged to change from operating in the public mode to operating in the private mode and to display telephone numbers stored in a private listing associated with the at least one access code and telephone numbers stored in a public listing, which includes, with the exception of the telephone numbers stored in the private listing associated with the at least one access code, all telephone numbers associated with incoming telephone calls received and telephone numbers associated with outgoing telephone calls made.

9. The telecommunications device according to claim 8, wherein the at least one access code comprises a plurality of access codes corresponding to a respective plurality of private users, and

when the user input corresponds to one of the plurality of access codes in the storage device, the microprocessor is further structured and arranged to change from operating the public mode to operating in a private mode for the respective private user corresponding to the one of the plurality of access codes and to display telephone numbers stored in a private listing associated with the one of the plurality of access codes and the telephone numbers stored in a public listing.

10. The telecommunication device according to claim 9, wherein, when operating in the private mode for the respective private user corresponding to the one of the plurality of access codes, the multiprocessor is further structured and arranged to prevent the display of telephone numbers stored in the private listings associated with the other respective private users.

11. The telecommunication device according to claim 9, wherein, when operating in the private mode for the respective private user corresponding to the one of the plurality of access codes, the multiprocessor is further structured and arranged to at least one of block and reject an incoming telephone call from a telephone number stored in the private listings associated with the other respective private users.

12. The telecommunications device according to claim 9, wherein, when operating in the private mode for the respective private user corresponding to the one of the plurality of access codes, the multiprocessor is further structured and arranged to prevent the display of telephone numbers stored in the private listings associated with the other respective private users, to at least one of block and reject an incoming telephone call from a telephone number stored in the private listings associated with the other respective private users, and to indicate receipt of the at least one blocked or rejected incoming call in the private listing in which the telephone number of the at least one blocked or rejected incoming call is stored.

13. The telecommunications device according to claim 9, wherein, when operating in the public mode, the multiprocessor is further structured and arranged to prevent the display of telephone numbers stored in any of the private listings associated with the respective plurality of private users, to at least one of block and reject an incoming telephone call from a telephone number stored in any of the private listings associated with the respective plurality of private users, and to indicate receipt of the at least one blocked or rejected incoming call in the private listing in which the telephone number of the at least one blocked or rejected incoming call is stored.

14. The telecommunication device according to claim 8, wherein, when operating in the public mode, the multiprocessor is further structured and arranged to at least one of block and reject an incoming telephone call from a telephone number stored in the private listing.

15. The telecommunication device according to claim 8, wherein, when operating in the public mode, the multiprocessor is further structured and arranged to prevent alerting a user to an incoming telephone call from a telephone number stored in the private listing.

16. The telecommunication device according to claim 8, wherein, when operating in the public mode, the multiprocessor is further structured and arranged to indicate receipt of the an incoming call in the private listing in which the telephone number of the incoming call is stored without alerting the public user to the incoming call.

17. The telecommunication device according to claim 8, wherein, when operating in the public mode, the multiprocessor is further structured and arranged to prevent alerting the public user to an incoming telephone call from a telephone number stored in the private listing and to indicate receipt of the at least one blocked or rejected incoming call in the private listing.