US 2001/0012347 A1Published application

Telephone terminal and caller id utilization method

AssigneeSony Corporation

InventorsYUMI FUJINO, SHIGERU KAWADA

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Abstract

In an automatic answering mode operation, a caller ID detection circuit detects a caller ID that is given at the time of a call reception by a caller ID notification service that is provided by a telephone company. If reception history information having the same caller ID as the detected caller ID is stored in a reception history memory, the number of times of call reception in the reception history information is incremented by one. If no reception history information having the same caller ID as the detected caller ID is stored in the reception history memory, new reception history information having the detected caller ID is generated and additionally stored in the reception history memory. A caller ID and the number of times of call reception are displayed on an LCD based on the reception history information stored in the reception history memory.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A telephone terminal comprising:

caller ID detecting means for detecting a caller ID that is given at the time of a call reception in an automatic answering mode operation;
a reception history memory for storing pieces of reception history information each correlating at least a caller ID detected by the caller ID detecting means and the number of times of reception of calls from a caller of the caller ID;
reception history updating means for incrementing the number of times of call reception in a piece of reception history information already stored in the reception history memory if a caller ID detected this time by the caller ID detecting means coincides with a caller ID of the piece of reception history information, and for generating new reception history information having the caller ID detected this time by the caller ID detecting means and additionally storing it in the reception history memory if the caller ID detected this time by the caller ID detecting means does not coincide with the caller ID of the piece of reception history information;
and
display control means for performing a control so that one of the pieces of reception history information stored in the reception history memory is read out and displayed on a display device.

2 more elements

A caller ID utilization method comprising:

a caller ID detecting step of detecting a caller ID that is given at the time of a call reception in an automatic answering mode operation;
a reception history updating step of storing, in a reception history memory, reception history information correlating at least the caller ID detected by the caller ID detecting step and the number of times of reception of calls from a caller of the caller ID, the reception history updating step incrementing the number of times of call reception in a piece of reception history information already stored in the reception history memory if the caller ID detected by the caller ID detecting means coincides with a caller ID of the piece of reception history information, and generating new reception history information having the caller ID detected by the caller ID detecting means and additionally storing it in the reception history memory if the caller ID detected by the caller ID detecting means does not coincide with the caller ID of the piece of reception history information;
and
a reception history display step of reading out one of pieces of reception history information stored in the reception history memory and displaying it on a display device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/201,851Filed 1 Dec 1998
Priority: JP P09-34350915 Dec 1997
Published: 9 Aug 2001
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04M 15/06
Recording calls , or communications in printed, perforated or other permanent form: recording class or number of calling , i.e. A-party or called…
H04M 1/2745
With provision for storing more than one subscriber number at a time , e.g. using toothed disc: using static electronic memories, e.g. chips
H04M 1/575
Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set: means for retrieving and displaying…
H04M 1/6505
Recording arrangements for recording a message from the calling party: storing speech in digital form