Telephone with network-type sorting

Details Telephone with network-type sorting Telephone with network-type sorting

1999-02-08

2001-07-03

Kuntz, Curtis (Department: 2643)

Telephonic communications

Supervisory or control line signaling

Substation originated

C379S093230, C379S093170

Reexamination Certificate

active

06256382

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a telephone and in particular to a telephone adapted to sort the telephone network type of each telephone number based on the telephone number and retain the telephone numbers and telephone network types if more than one telephone number is registered for one registration name.
In a telephone directory function of a telephone, it is known a telephone having a display section for displaying the registered telephone number at which a large number of calls have been originated in a different color from the color of other telephone numbers (for example, JP-A-8-51474). A telephone having a function of sorting the counts of the number of outgoing calls according to time band is also known (for example, J-PA-7-182372). Furthermore, when telephone number information is deleted from a telephone directory, a telephone having a function of extracting the least used telephone number information as the information to be deleted is known (for example, JP-A-7-240781) When the last time at which each registered telephone number was used is retained and a telephone number is deleted, a telephone having a function of extracting the telephone number not referenced for a given time as the telephone number to be deleted is known (for example, JP-A-8-242278). Further, to originate a call at the number registered in a telephone directory as a facsimile telephone number, a telephone having a function of determining whether the own telephone is a facsimile machine or a terminal intended only for voice conversation and not originating the call if the telephone is not a facsimile machine is known (for example, JP-A-4-302250).
However, in the related art as described above, a case where more than one telephone number is registered for one registration name is not taken into consideration. In the determination function as to the communication model type of the own telephone depending on the telephone number at which a call is originated, connection of a machine such as a modem other than a facsimile is not considered either.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is therefore an object of the invention to provide a telephone having at least any of the functions of, if more than one telephone number is registered in one registration name, sorting the telephone network types corresponding to the telephone numbers based on the telephone numbers and retaining or displaying the telephone numbers and telephone network types; prioritizing telephone numbers in one registration name based on user's intention, the number of times originating a call has succeeded, the user-specified time, or the charge difference; enabling the user to select the priority information; when a call is originated at a registered telephone number and normal telephone conversation connection cannot be made, enabling a call to be originated at the registered telephone number assigned a next lower priority to the telephone number used for calling; if the telephone is called and is informed of the calling party telephone number, when the telephone number is registered, determining the telephone network type for the telephone number; when a telephone number is registered, if an available memory area is insufficient to register the telephone number, deleting the telephone number corresponding to the minimum number of originated calls or the telephone number corresponding to the oldest reference time; and assigning an attribute indicating a facsimile or data communication telephone number to the corresponding registered telephone number and inhibiting originating a call at the telephone number having the data communication attribute when a data terminal equipment such as a facsimile or a modem is not connected to the telephone.
According to the invention, there is provided a telephone comprising: a communication control section for performing communication control as a telephone; a telephone number registration section for enabling at least one telephone number to be registered for one registration name according to operation of an operation section; a telephone network type determination section for determining the communication network type for a telephone number when the telephone number is registered in the telephone number registration section; a telephone network type information retention section for retaining the determination result of the telephone network type determination section; a telephone number retrieval section for retrieving a telephone number registered in the telephone number registration section; and a display section for displaying at least one telephone number and the telephone network type information based on the telephone network type information retained in the telephone network type information retention section as a result of retrieving from the telephone number registration section according to operation of the operation section. Accordingly, if more than one telephone number is registered for one registration name, the telephone network types corresponding to the telephone numbers can be sorted based on the telephone numbers and the telephone numbers and telephone network types can be retained.
Further, according to the invention, there is provided a telephone comprising: a communication control section for performing communication control as a telephone; a telephone number registration section for enabling at least one telephone number to be registered for one registration name according to operation of an operation section; a telephone number retrieval section for retrieving a telephone number registered in the telephone number registration section according to operation of the operation section; a telephone network type determination section for determining the communication network type for the found telephone number as a result of the retrieval of the telephone number retrieval section; and a display section for displaying the telephone network type information based on the determination result of the telephone network type determination section. Accordingly, if more than one telephone number is registered for one registration name, the telephone network types corresponding to the telephone numbers can be sorted based on the telephone numbers and the telephone numbers and telephone network types can be displayed.
Furthermore, the telephone according to the invention further comprising: a telephone number priority information retention section for adding priority information to at least one registered telephone number for one registration name according to operation of the operation section and retaining the priority information, and in that the display section displays at least one telephone number in the descending order of priorities based on the priority information retained in the priority information retention section and the registration name for the retrieval result from the telephone number registration section according to operation of the operation section. A plurality of telephone numbers in one registration name can be prioritized as intended by the user.
Furthermore, the telephone according to the invention further comprising a number-of-originated-calls retention section for retaining the number of times originating a call has succeeded in line connection for each telephone number based on information from the communication control section, and in that the display section displays at least one telephone number in the descending or ascending order of the number of originated calls retained in the number-of-originated-calls retention section. A plurality of telephone numbers in one registration name can be prioritized based on the number of times originating a call has succeeded.
Furthermore, the telephone according to the invention further comprises a priority time information retention section for adding priority time information indicating priority display time applied when a telephone number is retrieved and a call is made to at least one registered telephone number for one registration name according to operation of the operation section, and

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