MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS

• US 20090239571A1
• Filed: 09/08/2008
• Published: 09/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Mobile Communications Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: MOMOTA, Kazuhiro
• Application Number:
  US12/206,292
• Publication Number:
  US 20090239571A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/550.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/66 with means for preventing unauthorised or fraudulent calling verifying user identity or authority in secret or secure digital communications H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724631 by limiting the access to the user interface, e.g. locking a touch-screen or a keypad
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

According to one aspect of the invention, a mobile communication apparatus includes: a remote lock function configured to lock the apparatus when receiving certain information; a determining section configured to determine whether the apparatus is in a coverage area or not; and a no-service lock function configured to lock the apparatus when the determining section determines that the apparatus is out of service.

Claims

1. A mobile communication apparatus comprising:

a remote lock function configured to lock the apparatus when receiving certain information;

a determining section configured to determine whether the apparatus is in a coverage area or not; and

a no-service lock function configured to lock the apparatus when the determining section determines that the apparatus is out of service.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the no-service lock function unlocks the apparatus which is locked by the no-service lock function when the determining section determines that the apparatus is not out of service.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising an accepting section configured to accept an input when the determining section determines that the apparatus is in a coverage area, the input instructing the no-service lock function to set as ON/OFF state,

wherein the no-service lock function is set as ON when the input instructing ON is accepted by the accepting section and the no-service lock function is set as OFF when the input instructing OFF is accepted by the accepting section.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a storing section configured to store data,

wherein the no-service lock function prohibits access to the data when the no-service lock function locks the apparatus.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising:

a non-contact IC card;

an input/output section configured to input/output data to/from the non-contact IC card;

wherein the no-service lock function prohibits the input/output section from inputting/outputting the data to/from the non-contact IC card when the no-service lock function locks the apparatus.