JPH08298541A - Telephone - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] To be able to know that there is an incoming call even if no response operation is performed when absent. [Structure] A telephone configured to store time information based on an incoming call such as a time at which the incoming call is received or a time zone when the other party hangs up without receiving any response to the incoming call.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a telephone, and is a telephone capable of recording the arrival of an incoming call when the user is absent.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventional telephones do not keep a record of an incoming call if the other party hangs up before answering the incoming call.

Further, in a telephone having an answering machine, if no response operation is made to an incoming call, the telephone automatically answers and records a message from the other party and displays the total number of recorded messages. There is.

[0004]

However, in the case of the above-mentioned conventional example, if there is an incoming call when the user is absent, no record is left, so it is not possible to know later that there is an incoming call. .

Also, in the case of the above-mentioned conventional example, if the other party hangs up the telephone before the telephone automatically answers, no record is left, which is the same as in the case of the user's absence when there is an incoming call. If there is, you cannot know later that there was an incoming call.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve the problems of the prior art, and when the other party hangs up without any response to the incoming call, the time or time of the incoming call. The time information based on an incoming call such as a band is stored.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a mobile phone showing an embodiment of the present invention, which includes a CPU 1, a memory 2, a liquid crystal display unit 3, a speaker 4, a microphone 5, a clock function circuit 6, an operation unit 7, and a wireless unit 8.
Consists of A missed call is an incoming call when the other party hangs up without receiving any response at the time of incoming call. The memory 2 is configured to store the time at which there was a missed call (missed call time), the number of missed calls at that time, and the cumulative number of missed calls stored regardless of the missed call time. The liquid crystal display unit 3 displays the current time and the total number of missed calls when the telephone is on standby, and the stored missed call time and the number of missed calls at that time are read from the memory 2 by a predetermined operation. indicate.

In this portable telephone, when the call signal from the base station is received, the CPU 1 sounds the speaker 4 to notify the incoming call and the clock function circuit 6 sends the incoming time (XX).
(Time XX minutes) is read and stored once, and the user waits for a response operation using the operation unit 7. The response operation is
Any key other than the power key can be pressed to improve operability.

At this time, when the user performs a response operation on the operation unit 7, a response signal is transmitted from the wireless unit 8 and the user starts a call.

When the user is absent and the other party hangs up without receiving a response operation and the reception of the ringing signal disappears, that is, when the incoming call cannot be detected, the CPU 1
Is the incoming time (XX hour XX minute) and the memory 2
The latest missed call time stored in (△△ hour △△ minute) is compared, and if they are different, the incoming call time (XX hour XX minute) is the new missed call time. Also, the number of corresponding missed calls is stored in the memory 2 as 1.
If they are the same, the missed call time is kept unchanged and the number of missed calls is incremented by 1 and stored in the memory 2. In addition, 1 is also added to the stored total number of missed calls, which is displayed on the liquid crystal display unit 3 together with the current time. Although the above embodiments have been described with respect to a mobile phone, the present invention is not limited to this, and can be applied to any phone such as a cordless phone or a wired phone. In the above embodiment, when there are a plurality of missed calls within the same time, the missed call time in the memory is left unchanged and only the number of missed calls at that time is updated. Is not limited to this. For example, a missed call may be stored as the missed call time each time it occurs, and each missed call time may be stored together with the number of times indicating the missed call. . FIG. 2 shows an example of this case, which is an example of the display of the liquid crystal display unit 3 of FIG.
This shows that the missed call for the second time was at 7:15.

In the case of a telephone having an answering machine,
When the other party hangs up before the telephone automatically answers, it is natural that the incoming call is regarded as a missed call, the time and the number of the incoming call are stored, and the notification is given later by a display or the like.

Further, in the above embodiment, the time when the incoming call is first detected is stored as the missed incoming call time, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the time when the incoming call cannot be detected. Any time information based on an incoming call may be used.

[0013]

Since the user can know the time of the incoming call when he was absent, he has the following effects. It becomes easy to identify the person who made the call based on the time when the call arrived. If there are many incoming calls in a short time, it can be estimated that the call was highly urgent. You can know when there are many incoming calls and conversely when there are few incoming calls.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing notification of a missed call time in the mobile phone of FIG. 1 in an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1: CPU 2: Memory 3: Liquid crystal display part 4: Speaker 5: Microphone 6: Clock function circuit 7: Operation part 8: Wireless part

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. When a missed call occurs in which the incoming call is not detected without being answered when the call arrives, the time information based on the incoming call is stored in the storage means as the missed call time, and the missed call time stored by the predetermined operation is A telephone characterized by being notified. 2. When a plurality of missed calls occur within the same time, only one corresponding missed call time is stored in the storage means and the number of missed calls occurring within the same time is stored. 2. The telephone according to claim 1, wherein a notification is made together with a corresponding missed call time by a predetermined operation. 3. Each time the missed call occurs, the time is stored as a missed call time in the storage means, and the number of times indicating the occurrence of the missed call is stored in the storage means, and the predetermined number is stored. 2. The telephone according to claim 1, wherein the notification is made together with the corresponding missed call time by the operation of.