Method for disabling alarm temporarily in mobile communication terminal

• US 6,809,641 B2
• Filed: 07/11/2002
• Issued: 10/26/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: SK Teletech Company Limited
• Inventors: Choi, Cham-A, Lee, Hee-Jung
• Primary Examiner(s): Crosland, Donnie L.
• Application Number:
  US10/194,038
• Publication Number:
  US 20030025592A1
• Time in Patent Office: 838 Days
• Field of Search: 340/309.15, 340/7.2, 340/7.28, 340/7.31, 340/7.55, 340/501, 455/418, 455/412.1, 455/412.2, 368/89, 368/94, 368/244, 368/243, 341/22, 341/23, 705/9
• US Class Current: 340/501
• 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 1/72451 according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72463 to restrict the functionality of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/045 Call privacy arrangements, e.g. timely inhibiting the ring signal

Abstract

A method for disabling temporarily preset alarm in a mobile communication terminal for one day, or periodically, or on a designated date, as a user wishes, is disclosed. The method comprises determining whether the temporal disabling button has been pushed by a user while the mobile communication terminal is in receive wait mode, and temporarily disabling the alarm upon pushing the temporal disabling button by the user. The method further comprises determining whether the temporal disabling menu button has been pushed by a user while the mobile communication terminal is in receive wait mode, displaying the temporal disabling menu items upon pushing of the temporal disabling menu button by the user, and temporarily disabling the alarm of the date designated by the corresponding menu item based on the temporal disabling menu item selected by the user.

Claims

1. A method for temporarily disabling an alarm in a mobile communication terminal comprising,

the first step of determining whether a temporal disabling menu button has been pushed by a user while a mobile communication terminal is in receive wait mode;

the second step of displaying temporal disabling menu items upon push of said temporal disabling menu button by said user; and

the third step of temporarily disabling alarms of the date designated by the corresponding menu item upon selection of a temporal disabling menu item by said user.

2. The method for temporarily disabling an alarm in a mobile communication terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein said temporal disabling menu item displayed upon pushing of said temporal disabling menu button comprises ‘

Sundays disabling’

, ‘

First and third weekends disabling’

, ‘

Second and fourth weekends disabling’

, ‘

Designated date disabling’

, or ‘

One day disabling’

.

3. The method for temporarily disabling an alarm in a mobile communication terminal as set forth in claim 2, comprising an additional step of designating a date by the user, if said user has pushed said temporal disabling menu button and selected said item ‘

Designated date disabling’

among said temporal disabling menu items.

4. The method for temporarily disabling an alarm in a mobile communication terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein all preset alarms of a date designated by said menu item selected by said user at said third step are temporarily disabled.

5. The method for temporarily disabling an alarm in a mobile communication terminal as set forth in claim 2, wherein all preset alarms of a date designated by said menu item selected by said user at said third step are temporarily disabled.

6. The method for temporarily disabling an alarm in a mobile communication terminal as set forth in claim 3, wherein all preset alarms of a date designated by said menu item selected by said user at said third step are temporarily disabled.

7. The method for temporarily disabling an alarm in a mobile communication terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein additional steps of displaying the preset alarms and of selecting alarms to be temporarily disabled among said displayed alarms by said user are included after said second step, and only those alarms allowed to be temporarily disabled in advance by said user are temporarily disabled in said third step.

8. The method for temporarily disabling an alarm in a mobile communication terminal as set forth in claim 2, wherein additional steps of displaying the preset alarms and of selecting alarms to be temporarily disabled among said displayed alarms by said user are included after said second step, and only those alarms allowed to be temporarily disabled in advance by said user are temporarily disabled in said third step.

9. The method for temporarily disabling an alarm in a mobile communication terminal as set forth in claim 3, wherein additional steps of displaying the preset alarms and of selecting alarms to be temporarily disabled among said displayed alarms by said user are included after said second step, and only those alarms allowed to be temporarily disabled in advance by said user are temporarily disabled in said third step.

10. A method for temporarily disabling an alarm in a mobile communication terminal comprising,

the first step of confirming whether a temporal disabling button has been pushed by a user while a mobile communication terminal is in receive wait mode;

and

the second step of temporarily disabling the alarm upon pushing of said temporal disabling button by said user.

11. The method for temporarily disabling an alarm in a mobile communication terminal as set forth in claim 10, wherein all alarms are temporarily disabled at said second step upon pushing of said temporal disabling button by said user.

12. The method for temporarily disabling an alarm in a mobile communication terminal as set forth in claim 10, wherein only those alarms allowed to be temporarily disabled in advance by said user are temporarily disabled at said second step upon pushing of said temporal disabling button by said user.

13. The method for temporarily disabling an alarm in a mobile communication terminal as set forth in claim 10, wherein said second step comprises additional steps of:

displaying those alarms not temporarily disabled;

selecting by said user the alarms to be temporarily disabled among the alarms displayed at said displaying step; and

temporarily disabling only those alarms selected by said user at said selecting step.