Electronic device for performing call reservation and method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10015313-B2
Application number	US-201615013527-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 2, 2016
Priority date	Feb 2, 2015
Publication date	Jul 3, 2018
Grant date	Jul 3, 2018

Abstract

An electronic device and a method thereof area provided. The electronic device includes a communication circuit configured to communicate with at least one or more external electronic devices as a call reservation target, a processor electrically connected with the communication circuit, and a memory electrically connected with the processor. The processor determines a type of a call reservation request from information inputted through a user input requesting a call reservation and controls the communication circuit to perform at least one of transmitting schedule information of the electronic device to the at least one external electronic device and transmitting a request for schedule information of the at least one external electronic device, based on the type of the call reservation request.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic device comprising:
a communication circuit configured to communicate with at least one external electronic device as a call reservation target;
a processor connected with the communication circuit; and
a memory connected with the processor,
wherein the processor is configured to:
determine a type of a call reservation request from information inputted through a user input requesting a call reservation,
control the communication circuit to perform at least one of transmitting schedule information of the electronic device to the at least one external electronic device and transmitting a request for schedule information of the at least one external electronic device, based on the determined type of the call reservation request,
register an event regarding the call reservation request in the schedule information, if the call reservation request is confirmed, and
reject a call coming from an external electronic device that does not correspond to the registered event, during a time corresponding to the registered event.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the communication circuit is configured to perform at least one of transmitting the schedule information of the electronic device to the at least one external electronic device and transmitting the request for schedule information of the at least one external electronic device further based on a number of one or more external electronic devices.

3. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein an operation the communication circuit is configured to transmit the schedule information of the electronic device when the type of the call reservation request is an automatic scheduling type and there is one external electronic device.

4. The electronic device of claim 3 , wherein the processor is configured to control the communication circuit to receive an automatically scheduled call reservation scheduled event from the at least one external electronic device.

5. The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein the communication circuit is configured to request the schedule information of the at least one external electronic device when the type of the call reservation request is an automatic scheduling type and there is a plurality of external electronic devices.

6. The electronic device of claim 5 , wherein the processor is further configured to control the communication circuit to receive the schedule information of the plurality of external electronic devices, perform automatic scheduling using the schedule information of the plurality of external electronic devices and schedule information of the electronic device, and allow the communication circuit to transmit the automatically scheduled call reservation scheduled event to the plurality of external electronic devices.

7. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein when the type of the call reservation request is a manual scheduling type, the processor is further configured to prevent the electronic device from transmitting schedule information to the at least one external electronic device and from transmitting, to the external electronic device, a request for schedule information of the at least one external electronic device.

8. The electronic device of claim 7 , wherein the processor is further configured to control the communication circuit to transmit a call reservation request regarding a call reservation scheduled event inputted through the user input to the at least one external electronic device.

9. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the communication circuit is further configured to communicate with a management server that stores a schedule of the electronic device and a schedule of the at least one external electronic device, and
wherein the processor is further configured to control the communication circuit to transmit the call reservation request to the management server when there is a plurality of external electronic devices.

10. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein when the type of the call reservation request is a place scheduling type and there is one external electronic device, the processor is further configured to control the communication circuit to transmit place information, which a user designates, to the external electronic device.

11. A method performed on an electronic device, the method comprising:
receiving a user input requesting a call reservation with respect to at least one external electronic device;
determining a type of a call reservation request from information inputted through the user input;
transmitting to the at least one external electronic device, at least one of schedule information of the electronic device and a request for schedule information of the external electronic device, based on the type of the call reservation request;
registering an event regarding the call reservation request in the schedule information, if the call reservation request is confirmed, and
rejecting a call coming from an external electronic device that does not correspond to the registered event, during a time corresponding to the registered event.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the transmission of at least one of the schedule information of the electronic device to the external electronic device and the request for the schedule information of the external electronic device is performed further based on a number of one or more external electronic devices.

13. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
determining a call reservation scheduled event without transmitting the schedule information of the electronic device to the external electronic device when the type of the call reservation request is a manual scheduling type.

14. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
determining a call reservation scheduled event without using the schedule information of the external electronic device when the type of the call reservation request is a manual scheduling type.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having an instruction recorded thereon that is executed by at least one processor, causing the processor to perform a method comprising:
receiving a user input requesting a call reservation with respect to at least one external electronic device;
determining a type of a call reservation request from information inputted through the user input;
transmitting to the at least one external electronic device, at least one of schedule information of the electronic device and a request for schedule information of the external electronic device, based on the type of the call reservation request;
registering an event regarding the call reservation request in the schedule information, if the call reservation request is confirmed, and
rejecting a call coming from an external electronic device that does not correspond to the registered event, during a time corresponding to the registered event.

Assignees

• Song Moon Bae
• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Song Moon Bae

Classifications

• H04M3/487 Primary

  Arrangements for providing information services, e.g. recorded voice services or time announcements · CPC title

• H04M1/72566

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M3/432

  Arrangements for calling a subscriber at a specific time, e.g. morning call service · CPC title

• H04M1/72519

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W4/16

  Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold · CPC title