Information exchanging apparatus

• US 9,037,084 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2012
• Issued: 05/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ROHM Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: ROHM Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Tanaka, Masahide
• Primary Examiner(s): Brandt, Christopher M
• Assistant Examiner(s): DEAN, JR, JOSEPH E
• Application Number:
  US13/557,998
• Publication Number:
  US 20120295660A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,028 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.2, 455/556.1, 455/500, 709/232
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold

Abstract

An information exchanging apparatus capable of exchanging information with a plurality of outside apparatuses has: a first wireless communicator including a telephone transmitter and telephone receiver for wireless telephone communication with one of the outside apparatuses; a second wireless communicator other than the first wireless communicator; a transmitter arranged to transmit original information to the plurality of outside apparatuses through the second wireless communicator; a processor arranged to process response information from the plurality of outside apparatuses to be received through the second wireless communicator in response to the original information; and a distributor arranged to distribute result information from the processor to the plurality of outside apparatuses through the second wireless communicator.

Claims

1. An information exchanging apparatus comprising:

a wireless communicator that communicates with an outside information exchanging apparatus;

an information exchange portion that exchanges information with the outside information exchanging apparatus by the wireless communicator;

a holding portion that holds data of software for executing the information exchange with the outside information exchanging apparatus by the information exchange portion;

a manipulation operation portion capable of a first predetermined manipulation operation for the information exchange by the information exchange portion and a second predetermined manipulation operation other than for the information exchange by the information exchange portion; and

a software transfer control portion that transmits, by the wireless communicator, information related to the data of software held by the holding portion to the outside information exchanging apparatus in association with the second predetermined manipulation operation other than for information exchange.

2. The information exchanging apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the wireless communicator includes:

a first wireless communicator that has a telephone function portion for transmitting and receiving voice and that communicates with an outside information exchanging apparatus, and

a second wireless communicator other than the first wireless communicator,

wherein the information exchange portion exchanges information with the outside information exchanging apparatus by the second wireless communicator, and wherein the software transfer control portion transmits the data of software held by the holding portion to the outside information exchanging apparatus by the second wireless communicator.

3. The information exchanging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the software transfer control portion receives, by the second wireless communicator, data of software for executing the information exchange with the outside information exchanging apparatus by the information exchange portion and makes the holding portion hold the received data of software.

4. The information exchanging apparatus according to claim 1 or 3, wherein the holding portion holds a software identification signal that identifies the data of software held thereby, and the software transfer control portion transfers the data of software held by the holding portion to the outside information exchanging apparatus by transmitting the software identification signal by the second wireless communicator.

5. The information exchanging apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the holding portion is arranged to further hold a software identification signal that identifies the data of software, and wherein the software transfer control portion transmits the software identification signal held by the holding portion to the outside information exchanging apparatus by the wireless communicator for the purpose of software transfer.

6. The information exchanging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined manipulation operation is to end the information exchange.

7. The information exchanging apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a display, wherein the predetermined manipulation operation is to control the display.

8. An information exchanging apparatus comprising:

a wireless communicator that communicates with an outside information exchanging apparatus;

an information exchange portion that exchanges information with the outside information exchanging apparatus by the wireless communicator;

a manipulation operation portion capable of a first predetermined manipulation operation for the information exchange by the information exchange portion and a second predetermined manipulation operation other than for the information exchange by the information exchange portion;

a software transfer control portion that receives, by the wireless communicator, data of software for executing the information exchange with the outside information exchanging apparatus by the information exchange portion from the outside information exchanging apparatus in association with the second predetermined manipulation operation other than for information exchange; and

a holding portion that holds the received data of software in association with the second predetermined manipulation operation other than for information exchange.

9. The information exchanging apparatus according to claim 8 wherein the

a first wireless communicator that has a telephone function portion for transmitting and receiving voice and that communicates with an outside information exchanging apparatus, and

a second wireless communicator other than the first wireless communicator,

wherein the information exchange portion that exchanges information with the outside information exchanging apparatus by the second wireless communicator and wherein the software transfer control portion receives the data of software by the second wireless communicator.

10. The information exchanging apparatus according to claim 8 wherein the software transfer control portion receives, by the wireless communicator, a software identification signal that identifies the data of software of the outside information exchanging apparatus for the purpose of software transfer.

11. The information exchanging apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the predetermined manipulation operation is to end the information exchange.

12. The information exchanging apparatus according to claim 8 further comprising a display, wherein the predetermined manipulation operation is to control the display.