Portable terminal

• US 20060154666A1
• Filed: 12/23/2005
• Published: 07/13/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Kono, Kenji
• Granted Patent: US 7,702,316 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/436
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/26 by agreed or negotiated communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/025 Indirect paging
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

When a communication regulation determining block determines that E-mail communication is regulated when an E-mail processing block prepares for communication or initiates communication, information indicative of alternative communicating section using another communication path in which communication is not regulated is displayed on a user interface section. Therefore, it is possible to easily check which communicating section is effective when communication regulation occurs, and hence the user can easily make a determination such as that alternative communicating section is used, or that communication is aborted.

Claims

1. A portable terminal having a plurality of communicating sections which use different communication paths, comprising:

a communication regulation determining section which determines whether communication is regulated in the communication path used by one of the communicating section or not; and

a communication regulation processing section which displays information of another communicating section using another communication path on a user interface section, in a case where the communication regulation determining section determines that communication is regulated in the communication path used by the communicating section when the communicating section prepares for communication or initiates communication.

2. A portable terminal having a plurality of communicating sections which use different communication paths, comprising:

a communication regulation determining section which determines whether communication is regulated in the communication path used by one of the communicating section or not; and

a communication regulation processing section which displays information of another communicating section using another communication path on a user interface section, enables to change the communicating section to another communicating section, in a case where the communication regulation determining section determines that communication is regulated in the communication path for a first data communication when one of the communicating section for performing the first data communication prepares for communication or initiates communication.

3. The portable terminal according to claim 2,

wherein the plurality of communicating sections include two or more of a first data communicating section which performs the first data communication, a second data communicating section which performs second data communication with using a communication path which is different from the communication path for the first data communication, and a voice communicating section which performs voice communication.

4. The portable terminal according to claim 2 or 3,

wherein the communication regulation processing section enables to select one of a first process of selecting communicating section which uses a communication path different from the communication path for the first data communication, a second process in which initiation of the first data communication is waited until the communication regulation determining section determines that communication is not regulated in the communication path for the first data communication, a third process in which transmission data of the first data communication is not transmitted but stored, and a fourth process in which the first data communication is aborted.

5. The portable terminal according to claim 4,

wherein, if the communication regulation determining section determines that communication is regulated in the communication paths of all of the communicating section, the communication regulation processing section enables to select one of the second process, the third process, and the fourth process in accordance with instructions which are input to the user interface section.

6. The portable terminal according to claim 5,

wherein, in a case where the communication regulation determining section determines that communication is regulated in the communication path for the first data communication when transmission data of the first data communication are produced and/or transmitted, the communication regulation processing section displays the information of another communicating section using another communication path on the user interface section.

7. The portable terminal according to claim 6,

wherein the time when transmission data are produced is a time when instructions for initiating production of the transmission data are input to the user interface section, and

the time when transmission data are transmitted is a time when instructions for initiating transmission of the transmission data are input to the user interface section.

8. The portable terminal according to claim 6,

wherein the plurality of communicating sections include the first data communicating section which performs the first data communication, and second data communicating section which performs second data communication with using a communication path which is different from the communication path for the first data communication, and

in a case where the communication regulation processing section selects the second data communicating section as the changed communicating section when the transmission data of the first data communication are produced, a predetermined data production screen which produces the transmission data of the second data communication is displayed on the user interface section.

9. The portable terminal according to claim 6,

wherein, in accordance with instructions input to the user interface section, the communication regulation processing section enables to select one of the first process of selecting communicating section which uses a communication path different from the communication path for the first data communication, the second process in which initiation of the first data communication is waited until the communication regulation determining section determines that communication is not regulated in the communication path for the first data communication, and the third process in which transmission data of the first data communication is not transmitted but stored, and

in a case where the communication regulation processing section selects the second process or the third process when the transmission data of the first data communication are produced, the communicating section which performs the first data communication displays a predetermined data production screen for producing the transmission data of the first data communication on the user interface section.

10. The portable terminal according to claim 6,

wherein the plurality of communicating sections include voice communicating section which performs voice communication,

the portable terminal further has a storage section which stores a destination address of the first data communication and a telephone number of the voice communication while being correlated with each other, and

in a case where the communication regulation processing section selects the voice communicating section as the changed communicating section when the transmission data of the first data communication are transmitted, the telephone number correlated with the destination address of the transmission data is retrieved from the storage section, and a call is made to the retrieved telephone number.

11. The portable terminal according to claim 6,

wherein the plurality of communicating sections include a first data communicating section which performs the first data communication, and a second data communicating section which performs second data communication with using a communication path which is different from the communication path for the first data communication,

the portable terminal further has a storage section which stores an address of the first data communication and an address of the second data communication while being correlated with each other, and

in a case where the communication regulation processing section selects the second data communicating section as the changed communicating section when the transmission data of the first data communication are transmitted, the address of the second data communication correlated with the destination address of the transmission data is retrieved from the storage section, and the transmission data are transmitted to the retrieved address.

12. The portable terminal according to claim 11,

wherein in a case where the communication regulation processing section selects the second data communicating section as the changed communicating section when the transmission data of the first data communication are transmitted, if a message that the attached file cannot be transmitted is displayed on the user interface section.

13. The portable terminal according to claim 11,

wherein in a case where the communication regulation processing section selects the second data communicating section as the changed communicating section when the transmission data of the first data communication are transmitted, if a size of the transmission data exceeds a predetermined data size, a predetermined data correction screen for correcting the transmission data is displayed on the user interface section.

14. The portable terminal according to claim 11,

wherein in a case where the communication regulation processing section selects the second data communicating section as the changed communicating section when the transmission data of the first data communication are transmitted, if there is an attached file in the transmission data, the attached file is transmitted by the first data communicating section after the communication regulation determining section determines that communication is not regulated in the communication path for the first data communication.

15. The portable terminal according to claim 14,

wherein, the communication regulation determining section determines whether the first data communication is regulated in an accessed base station or not when the communicating section which performs the first data communication prepares for communication or initiates communication;

if it is determined that the first data communication is regulated in the base station, further determines whether the first data communication is regulated in other accessible base stations or not;

if an accessible base station in which communication is not regulated is found, initiates the first data communication in the station in which communication is not regulated; and

, if no accessible base station in which communication is not regulated is found, finally determines that the first data communication is regulated.

16. The portable terminal according to claim 9,

wherein, in the case where the communication regulation processing section implements the second process when the portable terminal is in an operation mode where reception is intermittently done at constant intervals, a communication channel through which a message informing whether the first data communication is regulated or not is transmitted is continuously monitored at the constant intervals until the message is received.