US 8,300,576 B2Granted

Radio communication apparatus

AssigneePanasonic Corporation

InventorYutaka Suwa

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Abstract

A base unit of a radio communication apparatus of the present invention includes a controller that discriminates whether or not company identifying information transmitted from a cordless handset is specific information in connecting a line in a Bluetooth (BT) communication mode, performs communication in another radio communication standard (company's own mode) on determining that the company identifying information is the specific information, and performs the communication in a BT standard on determining that the company identifying information is not the specific information, and a registering unit for registering an ID peculiar to the apparatus. This simple structure allows long-distance communication at higher sound quality with the other apparatus capable of performing CDL communication in the company's own mode using an error handling function, and sound communication at usual sound quality in a BT data format allowing short-distance communication even when the company identifying information is not the specific information.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A communication method of a base station radio apparatus for communicating with a mobile radio apparatus, the communication method comprising:

registering the mobile radio apparatus with the base station radio apparatus by:
a) establishing communication between the base station radio apparatus and the mobile radio apparatus using a first communication mode implementing a first data format;
b) transmitting identifying information and function information from the mobile radio apparatus to the base station radio apparatus, the identifying information identifying the mobile radio apparatus, and the function information indicating whether or not the mobile radio apparatus supports a second communication mode implementing a second data format;
and c) storing and associating in the base station radio apparatus, both the identifying information of the mobile radio apparatus and the respective function information of the mobile radio apparatus;
the base station radio apparatus identifying and communicating with the mobile radio apparatus after registration steps a-c by:
d) receiving, by the base station radio apparatus, the identifying information of the mobile radio apparatus by using the first communication mode;
e) selecting, by the base station radio apparatus, the second communication mode based on the stored function information associated with the identifying information when:
the identifying information received in said receiving step d) and the identifying information stored in said storing step c) are identical, and the stored function information indicates that the mobile radio apparatus supports the second communication mode;
f) selecting, by the base station radio apparatus, the first communication mode when:
the identifying information received in said receiving step d) and the identifying information stored in said storing step c) are identical, and the stored function information indicates that the mobile radio apparatus does not support the second communication mode, or the identifying information received in said receiving step d) and the identifying information stored in said storing step c) are different;
and g) communicating, between the base station radio apparatus and the mobile radio apparatus using the selected communication mode.

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A base station radio apparatus for communicating with a mobile radio apparatus using a first communication mode implementing a first data format or communicating with the mobile radio apparatus using a second communication mode implementing a second data format, the radio apparatus communicating with the mobile radio apparatus by a method comprising:

registering the mobile radio apparatus with the base station radio apparatus by:
a) establishing communication between the base station radio apparatus and the mobile radio apparatus using a first communication mode implementing a first data format;
b) transmitting identifying information and function information from the mobile radio apparatus to the base station radio apparatus, the identifying information identifying the mobile radio apparatus, and the function information indicating whether or not the mobile radio apparatus supports a second communication mode implementing a second data format;
and c) storing and associating in the base station radio apparatus, both the identifying information of the mobile radio apparatus and the respective function information of the mobile radio apparatus;
the base station radio apparatus identifying and communicating with the mobile radio apparatus after registration steps a-c by:
d) receiving, by the base station radio apparatus, the identifying information of the mobile radio apparatus by using the first communication mode;
e) selecting, by the base station radio apparatus, the second communication mode based on the stored function information associated with the identifying information when:
the identifying information received in said receiving step d) and the identifying information stored in said storing step c) are identical, and the stored function information indicates that the mobile radio apparatus supports the second communication mode;
f) selecting, by the base station radio apparatus, the first communication mode when:
the identifying information received in said receiving step d) and the identifying information stored in said storing step c) are identical, and the stored function information indicates that the mobile radio apparatus does not support the second communication mode, or the identifying information received in said receiving step d) and the identifying information stored in said storing step c) are different;
and g) communicating, between the base station radio apparatus and the mobile radio apparatus using the selected communication mode.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/033,979Filed 20 Feb 2008 · continuation
Priority: JP 2001-2713247 Sep 2001
Published: US 2008/0146271 A119 Jun 2008
Granted: 30 Oct 2012
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04W 88/06
Terminal devices: adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals
H04M 1/72505
With one base station connected to a single line: radio link set-up procedures
H04M 2250/02
Details of telephonic subscriber devices: including a Bluetooth® interface
H04W 60/00
Affiliation to network

Family

Application10/238,814Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Sep 2002
US 2008/0146271 A1Pre-grant publication · published 19 Jun 2008
US 7,372,827 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2003/0095518 A1Published application
US 8,300,576 B2This patent

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