US 6,411,198 B1 · Portable terminal device · patentgrep

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Abstract

A portable terminal device of a calling party individually sets a sounding pattern to be used for reporting an incoming call, and a called party is informed of the thus-set sounding pattern beforehand. As a result, when the terminal device of the called party makes the thus-set sounding pattern, the terminal device enables the user to immediately specify the calling party. In addition to sound, blinks of light, vibration of a vibrator, or the color of backlight can be used solely or in combination two of more. Further, so long as the portable terminal device is provided with display means capable of displaying characters, in addition to the incoming call reporting means, a simple message can be indicated on the portable terminal device. Consequently, the called party can immediately ascertain the nature of the call without directly talking with the calling party through the portable terminal device.

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Dependent claims

A portable terminal device comprising:

receiving means for receiving a signal waveform transmitted from a portable terminal device of a calling party, wherein said signal waveform contains received sound data;
sounding means which has at least two sound patterns and is capable of reporting an incoming call;
and
notification control means for extracting said received sound data from said signal waveform, said notification control means also using said received sound data for controlling said sounding means and which controls the sound pattern of said sounding means according to said received sound data.

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A portable terminal device comprising:

receiving means for receiving a signal waveform transmitted from a calling party, wherein
said signal waveform contains received sound data and received blink data;
sounding means which has at least two sound patterns and is capable of reporting an incoming call;
light emission means which has at least two blink patterns and is capable of reporting an incoming call;
and
notification control means for extracting said received sound data and said received blink data from said signal waveform, said notification control means using said received sound data for controlling said sounding means, and also using said received blink data for controlling said light emission means.

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A portable terminal device comprising:

receiving means for receiving a signal waveform transmitted from a calling party;
wherein said signal waveform contains received sound data, and received vibration data;
sounding means which has at least two sound patterns and is capable of reporting an incoming call;
vibration means which has at least two vibration patterns and is capable of reporting an incoming call;
and
notification control means for extracting said received sound data and said received vibration data from said signal waveform, said notification control means using said received sound data for controlling said sounding means and also using said received vibration data for controlling said vibration means and further wherein said control means controls the sounding pattern of said sounding means according to said received sound data and also controls the vibration pattern of said vibration means according to said received vibration data.

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A portable terminal device comprising:

receiving means for receiving a signal waveform transmitted from a calling party, wherein said signal waveform includes received sound data and received illumination color data;
sounding means which has at least two sound patterns and is capable of reporting an incoming call;
display means which has at least two colors of backlight and is capable of reporting an incoming call;
and
notification control means for extracting said received sound data and said received illumination color data from said signal waveform, said notification control means also using said received sound data for controlling said sounding means and also using said received illumination color data for controlling the color of backlight of said display means.

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A portable terminal device comprising:

receiving means for receiving a signal waveform transmitted from a calling party, said signal waveform including received sound data, received blink data, received vibration data, and received illumination color data;
sounding means which has at least two sound patterns and is capable of reporting an incoming call;
light emission means which has at least two blink patterns and is capable of reporting an incoming call;
vibration means which has at least two vibration patterns and is capable of reporting an incoming call;
display means which has at least two colors of backlight and is capable of reporting an incoming call;
and
notification control means which extracts said received sound data, said received blink data, said received vibration data, and said received illumination color data;
from said signal waveform, said notification control means further controlling
the sound pattern of said sound means according to said received sound data;
the blink pattern of said light emission means according to said received blink data;
the vibration pattern of said vibration means according to said received vibration data;
and
the color of the backlight of said display means according to said received illumination color data.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/226,731Filed 7 Jan 1999
Priority: JP 10-0026858 Jan 1998
Granted: 25 Jun 2002
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04M 3/42051
Notifying the called party of information on the calling party: where the notification is included in the ringing tone
H04M 19/041
The ringing-current being generated at the substations: encoding the ringing signal, i.e. providing distinctive or selective ringing capability
H04M 1/57
Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers: arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called…
H04M 19/047
The ringing-current being generated at the substations: vibrating means for incoming calls

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