Portable telephone terminal device and a method for restricting pay service for using the terminal device

• US 20040102179A1
• Filed: 11/19/2003
• Published: 05/27/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Tatsuki
• Granted Patent: US 7,263,348 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/405
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/00 Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/47 Fraud detection or prevention means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/68 Payment of value-added services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/745 Customizing according to wishes of subscriber, e.g. friends or family
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/88 Provision for limiting connection, or expenditure
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/0108 Customization according to wishes of subscriber, e.g. customer preferences, friends and family, selecting services or billing options, Personal Communication Systems [PCS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/0116 Provision for limiting expenditure, e.g. limit on call expenses or account
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/0148 Fraud detection or prevention means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/0196 Payment of value-added services, mainly when their charges are added on the telephone bill, e.g. payment of non-telecom services, e-commerce, on-line banking
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/2026 Wireless network, e.g. GSM, PCS, TACS
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/32 Involving wireless systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

To provide a portable telephone terminal device having capability of controlling and inhibiting to use pay service a payer of the telephone does not intend to use, when a user of the telephone differs from a payer. When UIM card is a slave UIM card, the control unit 11 temporarily suspends the input from the operational input unit 13. The control unit 11 reads information of a master UIM card from UIM card module 12 and transmits information of the pay service and a message to desire the entree of the service from the radio communication unit 14. When the radio communication unit 14 can receive no response within a time limit from the terminal device with master UIM card or the response indicates no permission, the control unit 11 shows the message to have no entrée from the terminal device with master UIM card, on the display unit 15. Then the control unit 11 receives an input from the operational input unit 13, and forcibly terminates the service.

Claims

1. A portable telephone terminal device comprising:

a recording medium to record information of a subscriber, and

means for restricting execution of a service that incurs payment except for telephone call fee based on information indicative of master-slave relation recorded in said recording medium.

2. A portable telephone terminal device as defined in claim 1 wherein said restriction means executes restriction according to permission or no permission from a second terminal device having a recording medium that records information indicative of master-slave relation being master, when the information recorded in the recording medium of a first terminal device is indicative of slave.

3. A portable telephone terminal device as defined in claim 2 wherein said restriction means forcibly terminates said service when no response or permission is received from the first terminal device that records the information indicative of master.

4. A portable telephone terminal device as defined in claim 2 wherein said recording medium is User Identity Module UIM card, Subscriber Identity Module SIM card, or Universal Subscriber Identity Module USIM card.

5. A method for restricting pay service for a portable telephone terminal device comprising:

recording in a recording medium information, of a subscriber, indicative of master-slave relation,

deciding whether the information recorded in the recording medium is master or slave, and

restricting execution of a service that incurs payment except for telephone call fee based on the decision.

6. A method for restricting pay service as defined in claim 5 wherein said restricting step according to permission or no permission from a second terminal device which has a recording medium that records information indicative of master-slave relation being master, when information recorded in said recording medium of a first terminal device is indicative of slave.

7. A method for restricting pay service as defined in claim 6 wherein said restriction step forcibly terminates said service when no response or no permission is received from the second terminal device that records the information indicative of master.

8. A method for restricting pay service as defined in claim 5 wherein said recording medium is User Identity Module UIM card, Subscriber Identity Module card SIM, or Universal Subscriber Identity Module USIM card.