Communication apparatus providing communication by using stored identification information

• US 8,811,946 B2
• Filed: 06/24/2008
• Issued: 08/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Nakama, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Nimesh
• Application Number:
  US12/517,343
• Publication Number:
  US 20100099381A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,247 Days
• Field of Search: 455/411, 455/146, 455/145, 455/154.2, 455/457
• US Class Current: 455/411
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3816 Mechanical arrangements for accommodating identification devices, e.g. cards or chips; with connectors for programming identification devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/2061 Language aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/30 Determination of the location of a subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/58 including a multilanguage function
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13103 Memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/74 Identification of subscriber calling from a party-line
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/02 Selection of wireless resources by user or terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/00 Wireless network protocols or protocol adaptations to wireless operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A communication apparatus includes: an interface for reading out identification information regarding a communication carrier from a storage medium in which the identification information is stored; a communication unit for deciding the communication carrier based on the identification information read out by the interface and making communication by using the decided communication carrier; an authentication unit for making an authentication by using the identification information read out by the interface; a control unit for enabling a communicating operation by the communication unit according to a success in the authentication by the authentication unit; and a display control unit for allowing an authenticating display screen for making the authentication to be displayed onto a display apparatus. The display control unit decides a display language based on the identification information read out by the interface and changes a display language on the authenticating display screen according to the decided language.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

an interface unit constructed to read out communication carrier identification information from a storage medium which stores a plurality of information including the communication carrier identification information;

a communicating unit constructed to perform communication by using a communication carrier;

an authenticating unit constructed to perform an authentication;

a control unit constructed to identify, based on the communication carrier identification information read out from the storage medium by the interface unit, the communication carrier for the communication performed by the communication unit and to control a communicating operation by the communicating unit in accordance with the communication carrier identified by the communication carrier identification information read out by the interface unit; and

a display unit constructed to display an authenticating display screen for making the authentication,

wherein the control unit decides a display language in accordance with the communication carrier identification information read out by the interface unit and generates a display signal of the authenticating display screen according to the decided display language.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of information stored in the storage medium includes authentication information and the communication carrier identification information includes communication carrier country information, the authenticating unit makes the authentication by using the authentication information, and the control unit decides the display language in accordance with the communication carrier country information.

3. An apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising an operating unit constructed to input a code by using the authenticating display screen displayed by the display unit,

wherein the authenticating unit makes the authentication by comparing the code input by the operating unit with the authentication information.

4. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control unit sets a first official language of a country corresponding to the communication carrier country information to the display language.

5. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a plurality of slots into each of which the storage medium is inserted,

wherein the authenticating unit makes the authentication by using the authentication information read out from each of a plurality of storage media, and the control unit decides the display language of the authenticating display screen for the plurality of storage media based on the communication carrier identification information read out from the plurality of storage media.

6. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a setting unit constructed to set the display language,

wherein the control unit inhibits the change in the display language by the setting unit until the authentication by the authenticating unit is successful.

7. An apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a slot for inserting the storage medium thereinto, and an operating unit constructed to turn on a power source of the apparatus,

wherein the authenticating unit makes the authentication each time the power source is turned on by the operating unit, and

wherein according to the turn-on of the power source, the control unit discriminates whether or not the storage medium has been replaced after the authentication by the authenticating unit is successful, if the storage medium is not replaced, the control unit generates the display signal of the authenticating display screen of the display language set by the setting unit, and if the storage medium has been replaced, the control unit generates the display signal of the authenticating display screen of the display language decided by using the read-out communication carrier identification information.

8. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a setting unit constructed to set whether or not the authentication by the authenticating unit is executed,

wherein the interface unit writes execution information of an authentication processing showing whether or not the authentication is executed into the storage medium according to a setting result by the setting unit.

9. An apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the interface unit reads out the execution information of the authentication processing from the storage medium, when the execution of the authentication has been set by the read-out execution information of the authentication processing, the control unit enables the communicating operation by the communicating unit according to the success of the authentication by the authenticating unit, and when the execution of the authentication is not set, the authentication by the authenticating unit is not performed and the control unit enables the communicating operation by the communicating unit.

10. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a memory that stores fonts of languages of a plurality of countries,

wherein the control unit generates the display signal of the authenticating display screen by using the font of the decided display language among the fonts stored in the memory.

11. An apparatus according to claim 10, wherein if the font of the language of the country decided based on the communication carrier identification information is not stored in the memory, the control unit controls the interface unit so as to read out the information of the font from the storage medium and controls the display unit to generate the display of the authenticating display screen by using the read-out font.

12. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the storage medium is an SIM card.

13. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit further generates a display signal of a display screen other than the authenticating display screen according to the decided display language.

14. A communication method comprising the steps of:

reading out communication carrier identification information from a storage medium which stores a plurality of information including the communication carrier identification information and authentication information;

communicating by using a communication carrier;

performing an authentication by using the authentication information read out by the reading step;

identifying, based on the communication carrier identification information read out from the storage medium by the reading step, the communication carrier for the communication performed by the communicating step and controlling a communicating operation by the communicating step in accordance with a result of the authentication and the communication carrier identified by the communication carrier identification information read out by the reading step; and

displaying an authenticating display screen for making the authentication,

wherein the controlling step includes deciding a display language in accordance with the communication carrier identification information read out by the reading step and generating a display signal of the authenticating display screen according to the decided display language.