INTEGRATED MOBILE PHONE RING SCHEDULER
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1. A mobile telephone comprising:
- a transceiver to receive incoming telephone calls;
a ringer to provide an audible alert of the incoming telephone calls according to a parameter;
a ringer controller to automatically set the parameter of the ringer to a value of a parameter indication of a day-time instance in a ringer control schedule, the ringer control schedule indicating a plurality of successive day-time instances, each day-time instance including the parameter indication that is set to one value of a plurality of values;
a control to instruct the ring controller to override the automatically set parameter of the ringer to another value; and
wherein the ringer controller is adapted to automatically set the parameter of the ringer by matching a day and time of an incoming call to a day-time instance of the ringer control schedule on a call-by-call basis.
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Abstract
A mobile telephone comprises a ringer to provide an audible alert of an incoming telephone call. The mobile telephone has a ringer control schedule. The ringer control schedule indicates times at which a parameter of the ringer is to change. The mobile telephone further comprises a ringer controller to automatically change the parameter of the ringer according to the ringer control schedule.
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1. A mobile telephone comprising:
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a transceiver to receive incoming telephone calls; a ringer to provide an audible alert of the incoming telephone calls according to a parameter; a ringer controller to automatically set the parameter of the ringer to a value of a parameter indication of a day-time instance in a ringer control schedule, the ringer control schedule indicating a plurality of successive day-time instances, each day-time instance including the parameter indication that is set to one value of a plurality of values; a control to instruct the ring controller to override the automatically set parameter of the ringer to another value; and wherein the ringer controller is adapted to automatically set the parameter of the ringer by matching a day and time of an incoming call to a day-time instance of the ringer control schedule on a call-by-call basis. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A machine-readable medium including instructions executable by the machine to control a mobile telephone, the machine-readable medium causing the machine to:
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receive incoming telephone calls via a transceiver; provide via a ringer an audible alert of the incoming telephone calls according to a parameter; automatically set the parameter of the ringer to a value of a parameter indication of a day-time instance in a ringer control schedule, the ringer control schedule indicating a plurality of successive day-time instances, each day-time instance including the parameter indication that is set to one value of a plurality of values; override the automatically set parameter of the ringer to another value; and wherein the parameter of the ringer is automatically set by matching a day and time of an incoming call to a day-time instance of the ringer control schedule on a call-by-call basis. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A mobile telephone comprising:
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a transceiver to receive incoming telephone calls; a ringer to provide an audible alert of the incoming telephone calls according to a parameter; and a ringer controller adapted to automatically set the parameter of the ringer to a value of a parameter indication of a day-time instance in a ringer control schedule or to an override value that overrides the value of the parameter indication. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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