Terminal device and recording medium for originating signals

A terminal device comprising:

• a storage that stores the number of times a signal was transmitted to another terminal device since a time when a signal was received from another terminal device;
• a controller that refers to the number of times stored in the storage to select a first communication mode in which communication is started after a predetermined user operation is performed in the other terminal device or a second communication mode in which communication is started even when the predetermined user operation is not performed in the other terminal device;
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• a communication unit that transmits a signal to the other terminal device in accordance with the communication mode selected by the controller.

A non-transitory recording medium encoded with a program,

• the program comprising computer-implemented modules including:
• a module that acquires a reference time that is a reception time when a signal was received from a terminal or a call origination time when the terminal device transmitted a signal;
• a module that stores a call origination time when a signal was transmitted to the terminal device;
• a module that selects, by referring to the reference time acquired and the call origination time stored, a first communication mode in which communication is started after a predetermined user operation is performed in the terminal device or a second communication mode in which communication is started even when the predetermined user operation is not performed in the terminal device;
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• a module that transmits a signal to the terminal device in accordance with the communication mode selected.