Portable telephone

• US 9,075,504 B2
• Filed: 08/25/2011
• Issued: 07/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: DRNC Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: DRNC Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Inventors: Takeuchi, Ryosuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Bolotin, Dmitriy
• Application Number:
  US13/217,982
• Publication Number:
  US 20110312302A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,412 Days
• Field of Search: 345/160, 345156-178, 345204-214, 345690-699, 455/556.1, 455/566, 455/403, 455/404.1, 455/574
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/233 including a pointing device, e.g. roller key, track ball, rocker switch or joystick constructional details of pointing devices per se G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6041 Portable telephones adapted for handsfree use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6058 involving the use of a headset accessory device connected to the portable telephone
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72418 for supporting emergency services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/14 including a card reading device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit

Abstract

In a portable telephone according to the present invention, a display displays a block indicative of an operator, predetermined information and a pointer; the operator can be operated in directions opposite to each other; and the controller controls the display so as to shift the pointer to a desirable position within a predetermined information on a screen of the display in accordance with an operation of the operator and also display a mark indicative of a direction to which the pointer can be shifted and in which the predetermined information exists, adjacently to the block along a shift direction through the operator.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

a communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate data with at least one other device;

a storage unit configured to store at least one of audio data, picture data, or e-mail data;

an output unit configured to output the at least one of the audio data, the picture data, or the e-mail data; and

a controller unit configured to;

modify an operational status of the communication apparatus by disabling an operation of the communication unit, such that the communication apparatus suspends the wireless communication of the data with the at least one other device and permits the output unit to output the at least one of the audio data, the picture data, or the e-mail data when the communication apparatus is in the modified operational status,

determine whether a number that is received for an outgoing call is at least one of a pre-registered number or an emergency number, and

when the number that is received is the at least one of the pre-registered number or the emergency number, cancel the modified operational status of the communication apparatus by enabling the operation of the communication unit to permit the wireless communication of the data with the at least one other device.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the modified operational status permits the output unit to output the stored audio data and suspends the wireless communication.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the modified operational status permits the output unit to output the e-mail data and suspends the wireless communication, wherein the e-mail data is output by displaying the e-mail data.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the modified operational status permits the output unit to output the picture data and suspends the wireless communication, wherein the picture data is output by displaying the picture data.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an input unit configured to receive a user command to activate the controller unit to modify the operational status of the communication apparatus.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the wireless communication is a wireless telephone communication.

7. A communication method comprising:

wirelessly communicating, via a communication apparatus, data with at least one device;

storing at least one of audio data, picture data, or e-mail data;

outputting the at least one of the audio data, the picture data, or the e-mail data;

modifying an operational status of the communication apparatus by disabling an operation of a communication unit on the communication apparatus, such that the wireless communication of the data with the at least one device is suspended and permitting the output of the at least one of the audio data, the picture data, or the e-mail data during the modified operational status;

determining whether a number that is received for an outgoing call is at least one of a pre-registered number or an emergency number; and

when the number that is received is the at least one of the pre-registered number or the emergency number, cancelling the modified operational status of the communication apparatus by enabling the operation of the communication unit to permit the wireless communication of the data with the at least one device.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the modified operational status permits the outputting of the stored audio data and suspends the wireless communication.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the modified operational status permits the outputting of the e-mail data and suspends the wireless communication, wherein the outputting of the e-mail data includes displaying the e-mail data.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein the modified operational status permits the outputting of the picture data and suspends the wireless communication, wherein the outputting of the picture data includes displaying the picture data.

11. The method according to claim 7, further comprising receiving a user command to modify the operational status of the communication apparatus.

12. The method according to claim 7, wherein the wireless communication is a wireless telephone communication.