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Answering system and method for automatically hanging up or putting through incoming calls

  • US 8,831,641 B2
  • Filed: 06/29/2012
  • Issued: 09/09/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2011
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An answering system comprising a first mobile phone, the first mobile phone comprising:

  • a front surface, a back surface opposite to the front surface, a top surface adjacent to the front surface, and a bottom surface opposite to the top surface;

    a communication unit configured for communicating with a second mobile phone;

    a position sensor configured for detecting position states of the first mobile phone, the position states comprising a balanced state and an unbalanced state, wherein the unbalanced state is defined by the processor as being when the position sensor detects a first angle between a horizontal surface and one of the front surface, the back surface, the top surface, and the bottom surface as being within a range from five degrees to eighty five degrees;

    a microphone configured for recording sound and generating a sound sample; and

    a processor configured for putting through an incoming call made by the second mobile phone when the first mobile phone is in the unbalanced state and the sound sample comprises sound louder than a reference level of environmental noise in a preset time, and hanging up a current call when the sound sample does not comprise sound louder than the reference level of environmental noise in the preset time and the first mobile phone is in the balanced state.

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