Portable communication terminal providing excitative indication service for incoming call reaching in absence of user's attention, method for producing excitative indication and computer program for the method
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorAtsushi Shibuya
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Abstract
A portable communication terminal has an active call-up device for a user who tends to leave it, frequently; when an in-coming call/mail reaches the portable communication terminal in the absence of the user, a data processor periodically activates the active call-up device so that the active call-up device gives rise to excitative indication such as vibrations, flicker and/or rumble; the excitative indication forces the user to pay the attention to the incoming call/mail not responded yet so that the user immediately responds to the call/mail after returning to the portable communication terminal.
Claims22
A portable communication terminal forming a part of a communication network, comprising:
- a transmitter-receiver receiving an in-coming signal and transmitting an out-going signal through a communication channel of said communication network;
- an active call-up device responsive to a first instruction for producing an excitative indication, and giving said excitative indication to an environment so as to force a user, if any, to pay an attention thereto;
- an interface to said user for at least accepting a response to said in-coming signal;
- an information processing system connected to said transmitter-receiver, said active call-up device and said interface, and producing said first instruction when said communication channel is broken before said user gives said response through said interface.
A method for outputting an excitative indication from a portable communication terminal, comprising the steps of:
- (a) receiving an in-coming signal relating at least one of a call and an e-mail;
- (b) determining whether or not a user has responded to said in-coming signal;
- (c) checking a lapse of time from the reception of said in-coming signal to see whether or not said lapse of time reaches a value when the answer at step (b) is given negative;
- (d) generating said excitative indication so as to force said user, if any, to pay an attention to said at least one of said call and said e-mail when the answer at step (c) is given affirmative;
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- (e) repeating said steps (b), (c) and (d) until the answer at step (b) is changed affirmative.
A computer program for realizing a method of outputting an excitative indication from a portable communication terminal, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) receiving an in-coming signal relating at least one of a call and an e-mail;
- (b) determining whether or not a user has responded to said in-coming signal;
- (c) checking a lapse of time from the reception of said in-coming signal to see whether or not said lapse of time reaches a value when the answer at step (b) is given negative;
- (d) generating said excitative indication so as to force said user, if any, to pay an attention to said at least one of said call and said e-mail when the answer at step (c) is given affirmative;
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- (e) repeating said steps (b), (c) and (d) until the answer at step (b) is changed affirmative.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.