Portable telephone terminal apparatus for receiving data and data receiving method therewith

• US 6,658,247 B1
• Filed: 03/01/2000
• Issued: 12/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Saito, Masatoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): Le, Danh C
• Application Number:
  US09/516,519
• Time in Patent Office: 1,371 Days
• Field of Search: 455/553, 455/434, 455/515, 455/517, 455/3.01, 455/466, 455/412, 340/7.2, 340/7.24, 340/7.33, 340/7.34, 340/7.39, 340/7.41, 340/7.42, 709/201, 709/203, 709/217, 709/219, 709/227
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A data reception terminal apparatus and a data receiving method suitable for a music delivering system using a portable telephone terminal apparatus. When data is downloaded with a portable telephone terminal apparatus, received data is divided as blocks. Each block is received with a data reception channel. Whenever each block is received, a received call is detected with a received call detecting channel. Thus, while data is being downloaded, a received call can be detected. When the downloading operation of data is suspended, information that represents the next data position of data that has been downloaded is stored. When the downloading operation is resumed, the data is downloaded from the next data position of the data that has been downloaded and stored. Thus, the data downloading operation is resumed from the next data position of the data that has been downloaded. Consequently, the download time becomes short.

Claims

1. A portable radio telephone terminal apparatus for receiving data transmitted as blocks of a predetermined size, comprising:

monitoring means for monitoring whether a call is received using a control channel;

call receiving means for receiving the call using a call channel;

data receiving means for receiving the blocks of data using a download channel, wherein the blocks are received one at a time; and

control means for switching between the call channel and the download channel when the call is completed, for obtaining a total number of blocks of data to be received, and for tracking a number of blocks of received data, wherein

when the call is completed and the call channel is switched to the download channel the control means determines whether a download has started by checking whether any of the blocks of data has been received, and

when the control means determines that the download has started a next block of data is downloaded and the control channel is monitored by the monitor means to determine whether the call is received, and

when the call is not received a further block of data is downloaded and the download channel is switched to the control channel, this step being repeated until the total number of blocks of data is received.

2. The portable radio telephone terminal apparatus as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

means for suspending the reception of data when the call is received and storing information representing a following block of data to be received.

3. The portable radio telephone terminal apparatus as set forth in claim 2, further comprising:

means for receiving the following block of data when the reception of data is resumed.

4. A method for receiving data that has been divided into a plurality of blocks of data of a predetermined size with a portable radio telephone terminal apparatus, comprising the steps of:

monitoring whether a call is received using a control channel;

receiving the call using a call channel;

receiving the blocks of data using a download channel, wherein the blocks are received one at a time; and

controlling a switching between the call channel and the download channel when the call is completed, obtaining a total number of blocks of data to be received, and tracking a number of blocks of received data, wherein

when the call is completed and the call channel is switched to the download channel determining whether a download has started by checking whether any of the blocks of data has been received, and

when the download has started a next block of data is downloaded and the control channel is monitored to determine whether the call is received, and

when the call is not received a further block of data is downloaded and the download channel is switched to the control channel, this step being repeated until the total number of blocks of data is received.

5. The data receiving method as set forth in claim 4, further comprising the step of:

suspending the reception of data when the call is received and storing information representing a following block of data to be received.

6. The data receiving method as set forth in claim 5, further comprising the step of:

receiving the following block of data when the reception of data is resumed.