JP2003333172A - Mobile telephone set - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mobile telephone set in which a user is protected from an illegal action abusing an incoming history function by preventing an incoming history from being saved with respect to an incoming request from an undesired party. <P>SOLUTION: When the incoming request is not received continuously longer than a prescribed time, the incoming history based on the incoming request of the present time is not stored in an incoming history storage part 13. Thus, since the incoming history is not saved with respect to the incoming request such as a call cut off after only one ring back tone from the unwanted party, the user is protected from the illegal action abusing the incoming history function. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable telephone which stores an incoming call history based on the received incoming call request when receiving an incoming call request from an arbitrary partner station.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, mobile phones which are small and lightweight and are easy to carry have been widely spread. When a general mobile phone receives an incoming call request from an arbitrary partner station, it sounds a ring tone or vibrates the main body to notify the user of the incoming call. Further, the mobile phone is provided with a function of storing the incoming call history (hereinafter referred to as an incoming call history function). The incoming call history function is a function of storing, in a memory, incoming call history information in which a telephone number of a partner station (caller) transmitted with an incoming call request and a reception date and time when the incoming call request is received are associated with each other. The incoming call history information is stored in the memory regardless of whether the line with the partner station is connected.

[0003] A user of a mobile phone carries the main body of the mobile phone in a bag or a pocket of clothes. For this reason, the user (receiver) has to take time to remove the telephone body after recognizing that the call is received by the ring tone or vibration, The call may be stopped. In addition, the called party may intentionally not perform the connection operation when the call cannot be answered. Furthermore, there are cases where the user does not notice that the call has arrived.

The user can confirm the person who made a call and the date and time by using the incoming call history function, and can smoothly respond to the person who made a call, such as re-calling the person. be able to. Thus, the incoming call history function was effective as a function for improving the convenience of the user.

In addition, even if the manner mode (notification of incoming call by vibration) is set when an emergency requirement is received, a mobile phone that notifies the user with a ring tone (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-
No. 32125) or a mobile phone having an answering machine function that transmits an automatic response message when the call is not directly answered within a certain period of time and records the voice of the other party.
No. 18154), a communication terminal device having an automatic redial function and stopping an unnecessary automatic redial function on the way (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-341134), and an incoming operation (line connection operation with a called party). A device provided with various functions such as a mobile telephone device (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-261675) that automatically performs has been proposed.

[0006]

However, when the incoming call history function is configured to store incoming call history information based on the incoming call request, the incoming call history function of the mobile phone has recently been misused. The number of people who do unjust acts is increasing. The unfair act here is a so-called one-hanging action, which is an action of appropriately dialing a telephone number and disconnecting the telephone after one ring tone (several seconds). At this time, the incoming call history information is stored in the memory of the mobile phone of the called party. Then, the user (receiver) confirms the incoming call history, makes a call again, connects to a paid information service, and charges a high information fee to this person at a later date, a kind of fraudulent crime Is.

In response to the above-mentioned unfair acts, if a telephone number that the other party does not know is recorded in the incoming call history, it is called not to make a call again, but I wonder if it is an emergency call. Some users call back. For this reason, it has been impossible to prevent a person who performs the above-mentioned unjust acts from being constantly caught by the user of the mobile phone due to the unjust acts of fraudulent acts.

An object of the present invention is to prevent an incoming call request from a useless party from being recorded in the incoming call history.
An object of the present invention is to provide a mobile phone capable of protecting a user from an unlawful act of misusing the incoming call history function.

[0009]

The portable telephone of the present invention has the following structure in order to solve the above problems.

In a mobile telephone having an incoming call history storage means for storing an incoming call history based on an incoming call request sent from an arbitrary partner station, the incoming call request sent from an arbitrary partner station satisfies a predetermined condition. At this time, there is provided control means for permitting the storage of the incoming call history in the incoming call history storage means, and conversely prohibiting the storage of the incoming call history in the incoming call history storage means when the predetermined condition is not satisfied.

In this configuration, when the received incoming call request satisfies the predetermined condition, the control means permits the storage of the incoming call history based on the incoming call request, and when the predetermined incoming call request is not satisfied, the incoming call request is accepted. Prohibit storage of incoming call history based on

As the above-mentioned predetermined condition, for example, (1)
The incoming call request has been continuously received for a predetermined time or longer, (2) the telephone number of the partner station sent together with the incoming call request is stored in the telephone directory storage means, (3) the other party sent together with the incoming call request The condition is that the telephone number of the station is stored in the outgoing call history storage means, etc., so that a friend or acquaintance of the user of the mobile phone body can determine whether or not the call is an incoming call.

When the control means determines that the call is from a friend or acquaintance of the user of the mobile phone body, the control means allows the incoming call history storage means to store the incoming call history, and conversely, the friend of the user of the mobile phone body. If it is determined that the call is not made by an acquaintance, the storage of the incoming call history in the incoming call history storage means is prohibited.

As a result, even if there is an unjustified call request such as one-cut, the caller's telephone number is not recorded in the received call history, so that the user does not have to make a call again and the user is unjustly fraudulent. It is possible to reliably prevent you from being caught in such an act.

Further, by configuring the user so that the predetermined time in the above (1) can be set, the convenience of the user can be further improved.

Further, until the received incoming call request is judged to satisfy a predetermined condition, notification by a ring tone or
It is better not to stop the notification by vibration, but to notify by the ring tone or by vibration during this period. This allows the user to promptly recognize that the incoming call has arrived, and does not make the caller wait.

[0017]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present invention. The mobile phone 1 of this embodiment includes a control unit 2 for controlling the operation of the main body, an operation unit 3 in which dial keys and function keys operated by a user are arranged,
A display unit 4 for displaying the operating state of the main body, a reception unit 5 equipped with a microphone and a speaker, and a wireless communication unit 6 for communicating with a communication terminal device such as another mobile phone via a wireless base station.
And are equipped with.

The control unit 2 is provided with a telephone directory storage unit 11, an outgoing call history storage unit 12, and an incoming call history storage unit 13. As shown in FIG. 2 (A), the telephone directory storage unit 11 is
A record in which the name of the partner station and the telephone number are associated with each other is stored. Registration in the telephone directory storage unit 11 can be performed by inputting the name, telephone number, etc. of the partner station on the operation unit 3. As shown in FIG. 2B, the outgoing call history storage unit 12 stores a record in which the name of the partner station that made the call, the date and time when the call operation was performed, and the phone number that made the call are associated with each other. As shown in FIG. 2C, the incoming call history storage unit 13 stores the name of the partner station that has requested the incoming call, the date and time when the incoming call is requested,
A record is stored that is associated with the telephone number of the person who has requested the call (caller).

Among the records stored in the outgoing call history storage unit 12 and the incoming call history storage unit 13, there is a record without the name of the partner station. The record without the name of the partner station is a record for which the name of the partner station could not be obtained from the telephone number. Specifically, for the outgoing call history or incoming call history when the called party or the called party is an unregistered person who is not registered in the phonebook storage unit 11, The name cannot be obtained and is blank.

The operation of the portable telephone 1 of this embodiment when receiving an incoming call will be described below. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the mobile phone of this embodiment when an incoming call is received. This incoming call operation is started when an incoming call request transmitted from an arbitrary station is received.

The following description will be made on the assumption that the telephone number (sender number) of the sender is transmitted together with the incoming call request. If the caller's phone number is not sent together with the incoming call request, the caller's phone number is not included in the incoming call history, so in this case there is no problem in unconditionally recording it in the incoming call history. , On the contrary, there is no problem if it is not recorded in the incoming call history.

When the wireless communication section 6 receives an incoming call request from an arbitrary station, the mobile phone 1 starts the processing shown in FIG. First, the timer for measuring the reception time of the incoming call request is started (s1) and the notification of the incoming call is started (s2). In s2, in the main body of the mobile phone 1,
At this time, the incoming call is notified in the mode set. For example, if the notification by the ringing tone is set, the ringing tone is output from the speaker provided in the receiving section 5, and if the notification by the vibration is set, the main body is vibrated.

At this time, if the telephone number of the partner station is notified together with the incoming call request, the notified telephone number is displayed on the display unit 4. Further, if the notified telephone number is the telephone number stored in the telephone directory storage unit 11, the name of the corresponding partner station is also displayed on the display unit 4.

When the mobile phone 1 starts notification of an incoming call in s2, is a line connection operation performed in the main body (s
3) or, whether or not the reception of the incoming call request in the wireless communication unit 6 is stopped before the line connection operation is performed (whether the incoming call request is interrupted) is monitored (s4). When the line connection operation is performed, the mobile phone 1 performs a connection process for connecting the line with the partner station that has transmitted the incoming call request (s5), and performs a call process until the connected line is disconnected (s6, s7).

When the line disconnection operation is performed or when it is determined that the incoming call request is interrupted in s4, the mobile phone 1 stops the timer started in s1 (s
9). When the line is not connected, the time measured by the timer is the time when the incoming request is transmitted. On the contrary, when the line is connected, the time measured by the timer is the time from the reception of the incoming request to the disconnection of the connected line.

Line connection processing in the mobile phone 1,
Since call processing and line disconnection processing are known,
The description is omitted here.

The mobile phone 1 determines whether or not the caller number transmitted with the incoming call request is a phone number registered in the phonebook storage unit 11 (s10). Since the telephone numbers registered in the telephone directory storage unit 11 are the telephone numbers of the user's friends and acquaintances, there is no problem in leaving them in the incoming call history. The mobile phone 1 uses the phone book storage unit 11 at s10.
If it is determined that the phone number is registered in, s13
Then, the incoming call history information based on the incoming call request this time is generated and stored in the incoming call history storage unit 13.

The mobile phone 1 is a telephone directory storage unit 1 in s10.
If it is determined that the telephone number is not registered in No. 1, s1
In step 1, it is determined whether the telephone number is stored in the outgoing call history storage unit 12. Since the telephone number stored in the outgoing call history storage unit 12 is the person the user has called in the past, that is, the friend or acquaintance of the user, there is no problem even if it is left in the incoming call history. When the mobile phone 1 determines in s11 that the phone number is registered in the outgoing call history storage unit 12, it creates incoming call history information based on the incoming call request of this time in s13, and stores this in the incoming call history storage unit 13. .

When the mobile phone 1 determines in s11 that the phone number is not registered in the outgoing call history storage section 12, it determines in s12 whether the time measured by the timer is equal to or longer than a predetermined time. When the mobile phone 1 determines in s12 that it is longer than the predetermined time, it generates the incoming call history information based on the incoming call request of this time in s13, and stores it in the incoming call history storage unit 13. On the contrary, when it is determined in s13 that the time is less than the predetermined time, the present process is terminated without storing the incoming call history information based on the incoming call request of this time in the incoming call history storage unit 13.

Here, in the case of the user's friend or acquaintance, it is considered that the transmission is not normally stopped within a few seconds (1 to 2 seconds) after the transmission. In addition, the call may be temporarily stopped within a few seconds (1 to 2 seconds) after making a call due to some trouble, but in such a case, the caller makes a call again later. There is no particular problem even if no incoming call history is left. On the other hand, in the case of one-off, it takes a few seconds after the caller makes a call (before the user performs the receiving operation)
Since the outgoing call is stopped, if the time measured by the timer is less than the predetermined time, the incoming call history based on the incoming call request does not remain in the incoming call history storage unit 13. As a result, it is possible to prevent the user from being caught in an unjust act such as a cut. Further, since the one-cut incoming call history is unnecessary information for the user, no problem occurs by not leaving the incoming call history based on the incoming call request in the incoming call history storage unit 13.

Further, even when the line is connected, the above s
Since the determination of 10 to s12 is performed to determine whether or not the incoming call history is stored in the incoming call history storage unit 13, when the user's incoming call operation is in time for the one-off incoming call request (the incoming call request is (When receiving a call before it is interrupted)
Also, the incoming call history that is unnecessary for the user is the incoming call history storage unit 1
Since it does not remain in No. 3, it is possible to almost certainly prevent the user from being caught in an unjust act such as cutting one.

The predetermined time used for the determination in s12 may be set freely by the user on the operation unit 3. In this way, each user can set the condition of not storing the incoming call history according to his / her convenience, and the convenience of the user can be further improved.

The order of the determinations of s10 to s12 need not be the order described in the above embodiment.

[0035]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to protect a user from a person who is planning an unjust act,
This can give the user a sense of security and prevent the user from being caught in an unjust act and suffering damage.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a phonebook storage unit, an outgoing call history storage unit, and an incoming call history storage unit of the mobile phone according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an incoming call operation of the mobile phone according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1-mobile phone 2-Control unit 3-Operation part 4-Display 5-earpiece 6-Wireless communication unit 11-phone book storage 12-Call history storage unit 13-Incoming call history storage section

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An incoming call history storage unit for storing an incoming call history based on an incoming call request sent from an arbitrary partner station, a telephone directory storage unit for storing a name and a telephone number of the partner station in association with each other, In a mobile phone provided with a call history storage means for storing a call history including a telephone number of a partner station that has originated from a station, (1) an incoming call request transmitted from an arbitrary partner station continues for a predetermined time or longer. (2) The telephone number of the partner station transmitted with the incoming call request is stored in the telephone directory storage means. (3) The telephone number of the partner station transmitted with the incoming call request is When any of the above conditions (1) to (3) stored in the outgoing call history storage means is satisfied, storage of the incoming call history based on the received incoming call request to the incoming call history storage means is permitted. , On the contrary, 1) When neither satisfied any condition to (3), a mobile phone having a control means for inhibiting storage of incoming call history based on the incoming request received to the call history storage means. 2. In a mobile phone having an incoming call history storage means for storing an incoming call history based on an incoming call request sent from an arbitrary partner station, the incoming call request sent from an arbitrary partner station satisfies a predetermined condition. A mobile phone provided with a control means that, when satisfied, permits the storage of the incoming call history in the incoming call history storage means, and conversely prohibits the storage of the incoming call history in the incoming call history storage means when the predetermined condition is not satisfied. Telephone. 3. The control means permits storage of an incoming call history in the incoming call history storage means when an incoming call request transmitted from an arbitrary partner station is continuously received for a predetermined time or longer. Mobile phone described in. 4. The mobile phone according to claim 2, further comprising setting means for setting the predetermined time. 5. A telephone directory storage means for storing the name and telephone number of the partner station in association with each other, wherein the control means has the telephone number of the partner station transmitted together with the incoming call request. The mobile phone according to any one of claims 2 to 4, wherein the storage of the incoming call history in the incoming call history storage means is permitted when it is stored in the. 6. A call history storage means for storing a call history including a telephone number of a partner station that originates from the own station, wherein the control means is the telephone number of the partner station transmitted together with the incoming call request. The mobile phone according to any one of claims 2 to 5, which permits storage of an incoming call history in the incoming call history storage means when the incoming call history is stored in the history storage means.