Telephone apparatus with calling line identification
AssigneeNokia Mobile Phones (U.K.) Limited
InventorT. J. Frain
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Abstract
A portable cellular telephone capable of recognizing a Calling Line Identifications (CLI) signal. The telephone comprises a memory for storing telephone numbers and a counter for storing the respective number of calls received from telephone numbers stored in the memory. Preferably the counter comprises for each number stored in the memory an associated portion (counter field) of the same memory. The telephone may be adapted to display, e.g. on LCD, the number of calls received from telephone numbers stored in the memory. Hence the user can review at a glance how many times a particular caller has made an incoming call.
Claims17
Telephone apparatus comprising means for responding to a signal conveying a number identifying the source of an incoming telephone call, the telephone apparatus comprising:
- a user programmable telephone number store with memory means having a plurality of numeric fields for storing numbers in encoded form, and
- means for selectively registering the respective number of incoming telephone calls received by the telephone apparatus that have identifying numbers corresponding to the encoded numbers stored in the numeric fields, the registering means registering an incoming telephone call only if the number identifying an incoming telephone call has been previously stored in the user programmable telephone number store.
Telephone apparatus comprising means for responding to a signal conveying a number identifying the source of an incoming telephone call, the telephone apparatus comprising
- a user programmable telephone number store with memory means having a plurality of numeric fields for storing numbers in encoded form, and
- means for automatically selectively registering the respective number of incoming telephone calls received by the telephone apparatus that have identifying numbers corresponding to the encoded numbers stored in the numeric fields, the registering means registering an incoming telephone call only if the number identifying an incoming telephone call has been previously stored in the user programmable telephone number store, and
- means for displaying the identifying number of an incoming call, said display means being adapted to display the number of calls received from identifying numbers stored in the numeric fields.
Telephone apparatus comprising means for responding to a signal conveying a number identifying the source of an incoming telephone call, the telephone apparatus comprising:
- a user programmable telephone number store with memory means having a plurality of numeric fields for storing numbers in encoded form;
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- means for registering, in individual counter fields, the respective number of incoming telephone calls received by the telephone apparatus that have identifying numbers corresponding to the encoded numbers stored in the numeric fields, the registering means including user actuated means for resetting the individual counter fields, wherein a user can reset the number of incoming telephone calls recorded in the counter fields for each of the individual encoded numbers stored in the numeric fields without changing the encoded numbers stored in the numeric fields.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.