EP1338137A2 - Terminal de communication dote d'une memoire pouvant etre configuree par l'utilisateur - Google Patents

Terminal de communication dote d'une memoire pouvant etre configuree par l'utilisateur

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EP1338137A2
EP1338137A2 EP01995555A EP01995555A EP1338137A2 EP 1338137 A2 EP1338137 A2 EP 1338137A2 EP 01995555 A EP01995555 A EP 01995555A EP 01995555 A EP01995555 A EP 01995555A EP 1338137 A2 EP1338137 A2 EP 1338137A2
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communication terminal
user
terminal according
memory
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Peter Jung
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Infineon Technologies AG
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M19/00—Current supply arrangements for telephone systems
    • H04M19/02—Current supply arrangements for telephone systems providing ringing current or supervisory tones, e.g. dialling tone or busy tone
    • H04M19/04—Current supply arrangements for telephone systems providing ringing current or supervisory tones, e.g. dialling tone or busy tone the ringing-current being generated at the substations
    • H04M19/041—Encoding the ringing signal, i.e. providing distinctive or selective ringing capability
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/72—Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
    • H04M1/724—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
    • H04M1/72448—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H2219/00—Legends
    • H01H2219/002—Legends replaceable; adaptable
    • H01H2219/0026—Legends replaceable; adaptable having outer surface of housing of electronic apparatus programmable as display and/or input device
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/72—Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
    • H04M1/724—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
    • H04M1/72403—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
    • H04M1/72442—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality for playing music files
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M19/00—Current supply arrangements for telephone systems
    • H04M19/02—Current supply arrangements for telephone systems providing ringing current or supervisory tones, e.g. dialling tone or busy tone
    • H04M19/04—Current supply arrangements for telephone systems providing ringing current or supervisory tones, e.g. dialling tone or busy tone the ringing-current being generated at the substations
    • H04M19/048—Arrangements providing optical indication of the incoming call, e.g. flasher circuits

Definitions

  • the invention relates to a communication terminal, in particular a cell phone, according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • the invention relates in particular to the problem of optical or acoustic identifiability and recognizability of communication terminals by their associated users.
  • a fundamental problem of the communication terminals such as mobile phones available on the market today is that, because of their optical appearance or their acoustic signaling, such as ringing signaling, they are not very distinctive from one another, so that they cannot be quickly identified by their users on the basis of optical or acoustic features Most other devices can be identified.
  • the external optical distinguishing features are often determined by technical features of the devices, which many users do not immediately orientate themselves to.
  • the acoustic distinguishing features are currently limited to a number of different, more or less monotonous signal melodies that are called up during the ringing signaling. Since most manufacturers only offer a few different ring signals, the identifiability based on these acoustic signals is also limited.
  • the present invention is based on the essential idea that a communication terminal according to the invention should be made optically and / or acoustically distinguishable from other devices in a manner defined by the user himself.
  • the optical and / or acoustic distinguishing features determined and selected by the user are stored on the user side in a device-internal memory, from where they can be called up if necessary by a control unit such as a microprocessor.
  • the distinguishing features are stored in the form of a file in the memory.
  • both optical and acoustic distinguishing features are stored in the form of a file in two different memory areas of the memory. If necessary, however, there can also be two different memories for storing optical and acoustic features.
  • a communication terminal in particular a cell phone, has a control unit, in particular a microprocessor, and at least one memory in which a file can be stored by the user and can be called up and executed by control commands from the microprocessor, the file being such that that their execution enables user identification of the communication terminal by means of optical and / or acoustic identification features.
  • the communication terminal is thus designed so that it can do justice to the problem situations described at the beginning.
  • the file stored in the memory can represent an acoustic tone sequence. ren, the tone sequence being emitted as a ring tone signal when the file is called in the event of a call reaching the communication terminal.
  • the user can determine the file to be loaded into the memory and thus the acoustic tone sequence himself and preferably assign the selected file to the memory automatically by means of a menu-controlled sequence control.
  • the great advantage here is that the file can in principle have any format, for example an MP3 format. The user is therefore not restricted to selecting only a selection from certain predefined, more or less monotonous tone sequences for the ringing tone signaling.
  • the communication terminal can feed an MP3 file from the Internet or from an MP3 player via suitable interfaces to the communication terminal, where it is then loaded into the memory under the control of the microprocessor.
  • the MP3 file or a file of another format can be transmitted to the communication terminal in various ways from different sources.
  • the transmission can be wired, for example via a direct Internet connection of the cell phone or wirelessly, for example via IrDA, Bluetooth, or, in the case of a cell phone, via the data transmission of a cell phone standard.
  • the communication terminal has suitable software and hardware for playing the MP3 file. The user can thus store an MP3 file in his communication terminal, select this file as a ring tone and thus establish the identifiability of his communication terminal.
  • the file can represent optical information relating to the appearance of the device housing.
  • the device housing must also be designed in such a way that by processor-controlled call of the file on at least a section of the housing surface an optical change can be brought about. It is therefore assumed that the housing of the communication terminal is such that a software-based change in appearance is possible.
  • the housing could permit a voltage or temperature-dependent color change.
  • the housing can also have surface sections on which image files can be displayed in a manner similar to that of a conventional display.
  • the housing can also have only certain point-shaped or extended light sources such as LEDs of a given color or given different colors or a corresponding matrix-like arrangement (array) of such lighting sources.
  • the user determines the device appearance via menu control, for example by selecting a predefined or user-defined image file.
  • This can be in a specific format, for example a BMP format, and can have been stored in the memory of the communication terminal, for example via the SIM card, via radio or by wire.
  • a corresponding device which has a display unit, for example a liquid crystal display unit, in a manner known per se.
  • the user-defined file stored in the memory represents optical information relating to the image information to be displayed on the display unit. This image information can then be displayed on the display unit by calling the file.
  • the user himself controls the user interface of the device formed by the display unit. Either predefined or user-defined pictograms (icons) can be used, for example, as the optical information contained in the file.
  • the selection and the range of functions of the user menus are determined by the user himself, for example by allowing or suppressing them Options, determined.
  • the corresponding image file can also be in a BMP format in this exemplary embodiment.
  • the invention provides that the corresponding communication terminals or their control units are equipped or programmed in terms of hardware and software in such a way that they enable the file transmitted from an external source to the communication terminal to be received and subsequently stored in the memory ,
  • a basic requirement is that the memory is large enough to hold files of the type described.
  • the corresponding sound file in particular MP3 file
  • the corresponding sound file is only called up by the microprocessor when a call is present and the ringing tone signaling is to be activated.
  • the call of the sound file and thus the playback of the sound sequence contained in it can be brought about by pressing the user as required.
  • the user can call up and execute the corresponding image file by pressing a key, for example in situations in which he has his device together with other devices at a storage location leaves behind so that he can then identify his device again without a relatively large search effort.

Abstract

La possibilité d'identifier un terminal de communication, en particulier un téléphone portable, à l'aide de caractéristiques acoustiques et / ou optiques est facilitée du fait qu'un appareil de ce type possède une mémoire pouvant être configurée par l'utilisateur. Un fichier, qui peut être stocké par l'utilisateur dans ladite mémoire, peut être appelé et exécuté par l'intermédiaire d'instructions de commande produites par une unité de commande telle qu'un microprocesseur. Ledit fichier est ainsi conçu que son exécution permet une identification du terminal par l'utilisateur à l'aide de caractéristiques d'identification acoustiques et / ou optiques.
EP01995555A 2000-11-30 2001-11-27 Terminal de communication dote d'une memoire pouvant etre configuree par l'utilisateur Withdrawn EP1338137A2 (fr)

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DE10059524 2000-11-30
DE10059524A DE10059524A1 (de) 2000-11-30 2000-11-30 Kommunikationsendgerät mit benutzerseitig konfigurierbarem Speicher
PCT/DE2001/004509 WO2002045388A2 (fr) 2000-11-30 2001-11-27 Terminal de communication dote d'une memoire pouvant etre configuree par l'utilisateur

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CN (1) CN1478354A (fr)
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