Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Auxiliary data signaling
Reexamination Certificate
1999-06-01
2001-09-25
Hunter, Daniel (Department: 2684)
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Auxiliary data signaling
C455S556200, C455S575100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06295458
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a mobile wireless communications terminal, and particularly to a device for automatically generating an addressee number to which a short message is to be transmitted.
2. Description of the Prior Art
A mobile wireless communications terminal, such as a portable telephone, is provided with a function that allows transmission of a short message, which is a piece of character-based information. In general, when a short message is transmitted, in contrast to cases where an ordinary telephone call is originated, it is necessary to dial a country code (i.e. an international telephone code) before dialing the telephone number of the addressee to whom the short message is going, to be transmitted even for a domestic call. Thus, in a situation where short messages are transmitted frequently, entering the numbers of addressees takes too much time and trouble.
A conventional portable telephone has a function, such as an abbreviated dialing or one-touch dialing function, that allows one of previously stored numbers to be called up instantly by predetermined operation of keys. This makes it easy to originate a call to an addressee to whom calls are made frequently. However, to use an abbreviated dialing, one-touch dialing, or similar function, it is necessary to previously enter and register, in addition to the ordinary telephone numbers of addressees, also the numbers to which a short message is to be transmitted. Thus, registering the numbers of addressees takes extra time and trouble.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to provide a device that automatically generates an addressee number to which a short message is to be transmitted and that thereby simplifies the operation required to be performed to enter the addressee number.
To achieve the above object, according to one aspect of the present invention, a device for automatically generating an addressee number to which a short message is to be transmitted is provided with:
a first memory for storing the name of the country of the user;
a second memory for storing the telephone number of the addressee;
a third memory for storing a country code;
a reader for reading out data from the first and second memories;
a short message addressee number generator that, when the telephone number read out from the second memory is a telephone number for a domestic call, adds the country code to the telephone number to generate the addressee number to which the short message is to be transmitted, the short message addressee number generator extracting the country code from the third memory in accordance with the name of the country read out from the first memory.
According to another aspect of the present invention, a device for automatically generating an addressee number to which a short message is to be transmitted, is provided with:
a first memory for storing the name of the country of the addressee;
a second memory for storing the telephone number of the addressee;
a third memory for storing a country code;
a reader for reading out data from the first and second memories;
a short message addressee number generator that adds the country code to the telephone number read out from the second memory to generate the addressee number to which the short message is to be transmitted, the short message addressee number generator extracting the country code from the third memory in accordance with the name of the country read out from the first memory.
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Hunter Daniel
Nguyen Thuan T.
Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
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