Receiving device, method for incoming call notification, and program
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsHiroyuki Nemoto, Shinichi Kashimoto, Michiaki Fri
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Abstract
An incoming call notification is performed based on a caller number extracted from a call-in signal and a user status stored in a user status storage unit, and thereby, the incoming call is notified adequately in accordance with the user status and a caller. For example, the contents of the incoming call notification is changed in accordance with a busyness of a user or an importance of the caller, and thereby, a flexible response by the user becomes possible.
Claims19
A receiving apparatus, comprising:
- a user status storage unit to store a user status;
- a call-in signal receiving unit to receive a call-in signal including a caller identification indicator to identify a caller;
- a caller identification indicator extracting unit to extract the caller identification indicator from the call-in signal received by said call-in signal receiving unit;
- and
- an incoming call notification unit to perform an incoming call notification based on the user status stored in said user status storage unit and the caller identification indicator extracted by said caller identification indicator extracting unit.
A receiving apparatus, comprising:
- a call-in signal receiving unit to receive a call-in signal;
- an audio output unit to output a ring tone based on a ring tone signal;
- an audio output terminal to output the ring tone signal;
- and
- a ring tone signal generation unit which generates the ring tone signal based on the call-in signal received by said call-in signal receiving unit, and outputs the ring tone signal to both said audio output terminal and said audio output unit, when an external audio output device is connected to said audio output terminal.
An incoming call notification method, comprising:
- receiving a call-in signal including a caller identification indicator to identify a caller;
- extracting the caller identification indicator from the received call-in signal;
- and
- notifying an incoming call based on a user status stored in a user status storage unit and the extracted caller identification indicator.
An incoming call notification method, comprising:
- receiving a call-in signal;
- generating a ring tone signal based on the received call-in signal;
- and
- outputting the generated ring tone signal to both an audio output terminal and an audio output unit when an external audio output device is connected to the audio output terminal.
A computer program product for operating a computer, comprising:
- a user status storage unit to store a user status;
- a call-in signal receiving unit to receive a call-in signal including a caller identification indicator to identify a caller;
- a caller identification indicator extracting unit to extract the caller identification indicator from the call-in signal received by said call-in signal receiving unit;
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- an incoming call notification unit to notify an incoming call based on the user status stored in said user status storage unit and the caller identification indicator extracted by said caller identification indicator extracting unit.
A computer program product for operating a computer, comprising:
- a call-in signal receiving unit to receive a call-in signal;
- an audio output unit to output a ring tone based on a ring tone signal;
- an audio output terminal to output the ring tone signal;
- and
- a ring tone signal generation unit which generates the ring tone signal based on the call-in signal received by said call-in signal receiving unit, and outputs the ring tone signal to both said audio output terminal and said audio output unit, when an external audio output device is connected to said audio output terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.