JP2002247182A - Mobile phone with telephone number change notice function and program for the mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically and easily make a telephone number change notice to a destination when the telephone number of a mobile phone is changed due to a model change, etc. SOLUTION: When a telephone number of the mobile phone is changed, various settings are made to automatically send, at a set time, character messages to destinations stored in a memory and other desired destinations on change of the telephone number while viewing display of a display section (#1 to #4). Then the mobile phone automatically informs the set destinations about the telephone number change in terms of the character message and the display section displays the confirmation of the result of telephone number change notice (#6 to #9).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable telephone having a function of notifying the other party of a telephone number change when the telephone number is changed due to a change in the model of the portable telephone, and a program for the same. About.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a telephone number is changed in accordance with a change of a model of a mobile phone, a user of the mobile phone notifies the other party such as a friend or acquaintance of a telephone number change. Must be performed individually, and the operation is complicated. In addition, the side receiving the notification of the change of the telephone number also requires time and effort to manually change the telephone number in the telephone directory stored in the memory of the mobile phone. Therefore, in order to reduce the burden of operation on the side receiving the notification of the telephone number change, a character indicating the telephone number change is transmitted from the transmitting side in the text message, and the receiving side transmits the character in the received text message. There is a mobile phone that automatically rewrites the telephone number stored in the memory when the character is included (see, for example, Japanese Patent No. 3001523).

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned portable telephone, although the operation burden on the receiving side can be reduced, the operation for notifying the telephone number on the transmitting side can be facilitated. Is not intended.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problem, and it is possible to automatically and easily perform a telephone number change notification to a partner when a telephone number is changed in a case of changing a model of a portable telephone. It is an object of the present invention to provide a mobile phone and a program for the machine.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, there is provided a memory for storing a destination name and a telephone number, a destination name and a telephone number stored in the memory. And a display means for displaying a text message or the like to be transmitted, and a transmission means having a function of notifying the other party of the telephone number at the time of making a call and transmitting the text message or the like by mail. Number notification setting means for performing various settings for automatically notifying a text message relating to a telephone number change to a user's desired destination including the destination stored in the memory while watching the display on the display means at a set time; At the set time, a telephone number change is automatically notified by a text message to the destination set by the number notification setting means using the transmission means. A notification executing means for displaying the results of the change notification on the display unit, and has a function of automatically notifying collectively changing phone numbers to a plurality of destination.

In the above configuration, when the telephone number of the portable telephone is changed, the number notification setting means checks the display on the display means to the destination stored in the memory and the other destination desired by the user. Various settings are made to automatically notify a text message regarding a change in telephone number at a set time. Next, the notification executing means automatically notifies the set destination of the change of the telephone number by a text message using the transmitting means at the set time, and displays the result confirmation of the telephone number change notification on the display means. It goes without saying that the text message regarding the change of the telephone number includes the new telephone number after the change. In this way, the user can easily notify his or her own telephone number change to a plurality of called parties by a simple operation, and can confirm the notification result.

[0007] The mobile telephone that performs this number notification may be the telephone before the number change or the telephone after the number change. When operating on the telephone after the number change, the telephone directory data consisting of the destination name and the telephone number stored in the memory of the telephone before the change (old) is transferred to the memory of the telephone after the change (new). Just fine. If the set time for performing the change notification is adjusted to the change time of the telephone after the new telephone number is known, there is no time lag, which is convenient.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a portable telephone having display means for displaying the name of the called party and the telephone number, and transmitting means having a function of notifying the called party of the telephone number of the own apparatus when making a call. In, while watching the display on the display means,
Number notification setting means for performing various settings for automatically notifying a user of a change in telephone number to a desired destination, and automatic notification of a telephone number change using the transmission means to the destination set by the number notification setting means And a function for automatically notifying the other party of the change in the telephone number.

In the above arrangement, the number notification setting means performs various settings for automatically notifying the destination desired by the user of the change of the telephone number while watching the display on the display means. Next, the notification executing means automatically notifies the set destination of the telephone number change using the transmitting means. Thus, the user can easily notify his or her own telephone number change to a plurality of call destinations by a simple operation. The notification timing may be arbitrarily set.

[0010] The content set by the number notification setting means may be a text message relating to notification of telephone number change, or a voice message responding to a message memo of the other party's machine.

When the telephone has a mail transmission function, the number notification setting means and the notification execution means may have a function of setting and notifying a change of the mail number.

The invention of claim 5 is a portable telephone memory having display means for displaying the name and telephone number of a called party, and transmitting means having a function of notifying the called party of the telephone number of the own apparatus when making a call. A number notification setting function for making various settings for automatically notifying a user's desired destination of a change in telephone number while watching the display on the display means in a computer-readable program stored in the It realizes a notification execution function of automatically notifying a destination set by the notification setting function of a telephone number change using the transmission means. By storing this program in the memory of the mobile phone, the same operation as the first aspect can be obtained.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A portable telephone according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a mobile phone. The mobile phone 1 (hereinafter referred to as a telephone) has a function of automatically notifying a plurality of destinations of a change in telephone number at a time. Telephone 1
Is a transmitting / receiving circuit 2, a receiver 3, a transmitter 4, and an LCD
A display unit 5 (display means) composed of the above, an operation unit 6 having various keys, a CPU 7 for controlling the telephone, a ROM 8 and a RAM 9 (hereinafter, referred to as a memory) storing a system program are provided. The RAM 9 stores telephone directory data 9a including a destination name and a telephone number, a telephone number automatic notification program 9b, mail transmission / reception data 9c, and the like.

The display unit 5 displays the destination name and telephone number stored in the memory 9 and the text message to be transmitted. In the telephone 1, the CPU 7 operates in accordance with programs in the ROM 8 and the RAM 9 based on a user's operation instruction from the operation unit 6. The CPU 7 has a function of notifying the other party of the telephone number of the apparatus itself when transmitting using the transmission / reception circuit 2 and a function of transmitting a text message or the like by mail (transmission means).

When the telephone number is changed due to a model change of a telephone owned by the user, the telephone 1 causes the CPU 7 to execute the automatic telephone number notification program 9b according to a user's instruction. The notification can be set, and the notification can be automatically performed. The CPU 7 and the program 9b constitute number notification setting means and notification execution means.

FIGS. 2 (a) and 2 (b) show processing procedures of a telephone number notification setting operation by the telephone number automatic notification program 9b in the CPU 7 and an automatic notification operation. The user operates the keys of the operation unit 6 while watching the display on the display unit 5 of the telephone 1 at the stage when the new changed telephone number is found, and sets the telephone number notification setting. First, the user calls the telephone directory 9a in the memory 9, and sets the telephone number of the notification destination to be contacted from the destinations stored therein (# 1). Further, a telephone number of a destination desired by the user not stored in the memory 9 is set (# 2). Then
When setting / notifying the telephone set before the change, a new telephone number and a change time are input (# 3). With the settings in # 1 to # 3, a text message relating to the change is automatically created. Next, set the time for automatic notification (#
4). Thus, the number notification setting is completed.

At the set time, the telephone 1 lists the telephone numbers set by the telephone number notification setting described above (# 6), and automatically uses the transmitting / receiving circuit 2 for all telephone numbers in this list. Notify the phone number change and the time of the change by sending a text message by e-mail (#
7). Thereafter, the transmission result of the telephone number change notification is confirmed (# 8), and displayed on the display unit 5 (# 9). After confirming the number, the destination whose transmission result is NG may be set and notified again.

The mail transmission from the telephone 1 is performed by automatically making a call to a plurality of destinations via a text message center. A display as shown in FIG. 3 is displayed on the other party's mobile phone that has received the notification. That is, the display unit 5 of the telephone 101 displays the caller's name, the old telephone number, and the new telephone number as a telephone number change notification as a text message.

Further, the present invention is a telephone number automatic notification program 9b itself stored in the memory 9 of the telephone 1, and includes a computer readable program.

The present invention is not limited to the configuration of the above embodiment, and various modifications are possible. For example, in the above, the case where the notification setting and the notification operation are performed from the telephone before the number change has been described. However, if the equivalent automatic notification program is stored in the telephone after the change, the notification setting and the notification operation are performed on the telephone after the change. Should be performed. In this case, by transferring the data in the telephone directory stored in the memory of the telephone before the change to the telephone after the change, it is not necessary to input the telephone numbers of a plurality of notification destinations one by one. The data in the telephone directory may be temporarily backed up in a memory in the personal computer and then transferred to a new telephone.

In the above description, the case where a text message is transmitted has been described. However, a voice message responding to the message memo of the destination telephone may be set and transmitted. Further, in the above description, the case of the notification of the change of the telephone number has been described, but the same notification can be made in the case of the change of the address of the mail. In the above description, the execution time of the automatic notification is set, and the notification operation is performed when the set time is reached. However, even if the notification operation is performed immediately after the setting, the individual notification destination may be further set. May be transmitted sequentially.

[0022]

As described above, according to the first and fifth aspects of the present invention, various settings for automatically notifying a text message relating to a telephone number change to a user's desired destination at a set time are performed. The phone number change is automatically notified to the other party at a set time by text message, and the result of the phone number change notification is confirmed and displayed. Can be easily performed without any troublesome operation.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, various settings for automatically notifying the user of the change of the telephone number to the desired destination are performed, and the change of the telephone number is automatically notified to the set destination. Notification of telephone number change can be easily made to a plurality of call destinations.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIGS. 2A and 2B are flowcharts showing a procedure of a telephone number notification setting and an automatic notification process of the telephone.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display example of a mobile phone that has received a notification.

[Explanation of symbols]

Reference Signs List 1 mobile phone 5 display unit (display unit) 6 operation unit 7 CPU (transmission unit, number notification setting unit, notification execution unit) 9 RAM (memory) 9a telephone directory 9b automatic notification program (number notification setting unit, notification execution unit)

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Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A memory for storing a destination name and a telephone number of a called party, a display means for displaying the destination name and a telephone number stored in the memory, a text message to be transmitted, and the like; A mobile phone having a function of notifying a telephone number to a destination and a transmission unit for transmitting a text message or the like by mail, a user including a destination stored in the memory while watching a display on the display unit Number notification setting means for performing various settings for automatically notifying a text message relating to a telephone number change to a desired destination at a set time, and setting using the transmission means to the destination set by the number notification setting means Notification execution means for automatically notifying the telephone number change at a time by a text message and displaying the result of the telephone number change notification on the display means. Mobile phone, characterized in that it has a function for automatic notification collectively to change the phone number to more than one destination. 2. A portable telephone comprising: a display unit for displaying a call destination name and a telephone number; and a transmitting unit having a function of notifying a telephone number of the own device to a destination when making a call. A number notification setting means for making various settings for automatically notifying a user of a change of a telephone number to a destination desired by the user while watching the display; and calling the destination set by the number notification setting means using the transmission means. A mobile phone comprising: a notification executing means for automatically notifying of a number change; and a function of automatically notifying a partner of a change in telephone number. 3. The contents set by the number notification setting means include a text message relating to notification of a telephone number change,
The mobile phone according to claim 2, wherein the mobile phone is a voice message responding to a message memo of the other party's machine. 4. When the telephone has a mail sending function,
3. The mobile phone according to claim 2, wherein the number notification setting unit and the notification execution unit have a function of performing setting and notification of a mail number change. 5. A mobile phone having a display means for displaying a name of a called party and a telephone number, and a transmitting means having a function of notifying a called party of a telephone number of the apparatus at the time of making a call. In a computer-readable program, a number notification setting function for performing various settings for automatically notifying a change of a telephone number to a destination desired by a user while watching a display on the display means, and setting by the number notification setting function. A program for a mobile phone that realizes a notification execution function of automatically notifying a specified destination of a telephone number change using the transmission unit.