Mail reception notifying system and mail reception notifying method
AssigneeNtt Docomo, Inc.
InventorKoichi Sawai
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Abstract
When the telephone number of digital portable telephone A is notified to reception notifying apparatus 3 (S101), the telephone number is stored (S102), and is forwarded to digital portable telephone B (S103). Next, when digital portable telephone B transmits a CALL SETUP signal and a sending number to digital portable telephone A (S104, S105), digital portable telephone A transmits a CALL PROC signal and an ALERT signal to digital portable telephone B (S106-S109). After that, information indicating that the busy line display is ON is forwarded to reception notifying apparatus 3 (S110), and the telephone number is deleted (S111). Furthermore, reception notifying apparatus 3 transmits a voice guidance to digital portable telephone A (S114).
Claims18
A mail reception notifying system comprising:
- (a) a reception notifying apparatus that, when there is a mail to be delivered to a user, initiates a notifying call to a telephone number registered in relation to the user and, when the notifying call is answered, sends to the telephone number a message carrying information on the mail to be retrieved;
- (b) a communication network that determines whether the telephone number is receptive to a call and progresses, if it is determined receptive, the notifying call to the telephone number in order to convey the message to the telephone number;
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- (c) a portable telephone having the telephone number that is responsive to the notifying call while on-hook to visually notify the user that there is a mail to be retrieved and, when brought off-hook to answer the notifying call, acoustically notifies the user of the mail to be retrieved by reproducing the message by sound.
A mail reception notifying method using a portable telephone that can be communicated with over a communication network, comprising the steps of:
- (a) initiating a notifying call to the portable telephone when there is a mail to be delivered to a user who has the portable telephone;
- (b) determining at the communication network whether or not the portable telephone is receptive to a call;
- (c) progressing the notifying call to the portable telephone if it is determined receptive to a call;
- (d) in response to the notifying call, visually notifying the user at the portable phone while on-hook that there is a mail to be retrieved;
- (e) when the portable telephone is brought off-hook to answer the notifying call, sending to the portable telephone a message carrying information on the mail to be retrieved;
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- (f) acoustically notifying the user at the portable telephone of the mail to be retrieved by reproducing the message by sound.
A mail reception notifying method using a portable telephone that can be set unreceptive to calls from particular callers, comprising the steps of:
- (a) initiating a notifying call to the portable telephone when there is a mail to be delivered to a user who has the portable telephone;
- (b) in response to the notifying call, visually notifying the user at the portable telephone while on-hook that there is a mail to be retrieved;
- (c) discontinuing the notifying call if the portable telephone is set unreceptive to calls from a caller of the notifying call;
- (d) if the portable telephone is set receptive to calls from the caller of the notifying call, sending to the portable telephone a message carrying information on the mail to be retrieved when the portable telephone is brought off-hook to answer the notifying call;
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- (f) acoustically notifying the user at the portable telephone of the mail to be retrieved by reproducing the message by sound.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.