Telephone, telephone exchange system, storage medium and method incorporating suspend service
AssigneeNihon Medipack Co., Ltd.
InventorKuniyoshi Konishi
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Abstract
The user operates a hand-held telephone to set the telephone in the suspend mode in which call termination at that telephone is denied, and to set the time duration of the suspend mode. After they are set, the time elapsed after the mode is started is automatically calculated. When the telephone receives a call before the set suspend duration time elapses, a message indicating the remaining time until the suspend duration time elapses and that the telephone is in the suspend mode is sent back to the calling party.
Claims23
A communication service method for telephones, comprising the steps of:
- initially setting a telephone in a suspend mode in which incoming calls at the telephone are denied for a suspend duration time period;
- monitoring, until a call is initiated for the telephone, elapsed time of the suspend duration time period after the telephone was initially set in the suspend mode to calculate a remaining suspend time for which the suspend mode for the telephone is held until the suspend mode terminates on the basis of the elapsed time;
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- transmitting to a calling party a message including information which indicates the remaining suspend time, and information which indicates the telephone is in the suspend mode.
A telephone which can set a suspend mode in which a message indicating than said telephone is currently in the suspend mode is sent back to a calling party, comprising:
- a first switch which allows a user to initially set the telephone in the suspend mode for a suspend duration time period;
- means for monitoring, until a call is received, an elapsed time of the suspend duration time period since the suspend mode was initially set to calculate a remaining suspend time for which the suspend mode for the telephone is held until the suspend mode terminates on the basis of the elapsed time;
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- means for transmitting to the calling party the message including the remaining suspend time.
A storage medium, which stores a program that can be executed by a computer build in a telephone, comprising:
- first program code means for setting the telephone in a suspend mode upon operation of a first switch provided to the telephone by a user;
- second program code means for setting an initial time duration period of the suspend mode in response to an operation of the first switch;
- third program code means for monitoring, until a call is received, an elapsed time of the suspend duration time period after the telephone was initially set in the suspend mode to calculate a remaining suspend time for which the suspend mode for the telephone is held until the suspend mode terminates on the basis of the elapsed time;
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- fourth program code means for generating a message that informs a calling party that the telephone is in the suspend mode and of the remaining suspend time in order to transmit the message to the calling party.
A telephone exchange system comprising:
- means for receiving a request for placing a telephone in a suspend mode in which incoming call at the telephone are denied for a suspend duration time period;
- means, operatively connected to said receiving means, for setting, when the request is received, the telephone in the suspend mode;
- means for detecting, when a call is initiated for the telephone, an elapsed time after the telephone was initially set in the suspend mode until the call is initiated, and calculating a remaining suspend time for which the suspend mode for the telephone is held suspended until the suspend mode terminates on the basis of the detected elapsed time;
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- means for transmitting to a calling party of the call a message including information which indicates the remaining suspend time, and information which indicates the telephone is in the suspend mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.