Reservation telephone notice method for electronic device and apparatus thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9078110-B2
Application number	US-201313778054-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 26, 2013
Priority date	Mar 12, 2012
Publication date	Jul 7, 2015
Grant date	Jul 7, 2015

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a method for notifying a reserved call of an electronic device includes registering a schedule of at least one time period, acquiring an outgoing number when an incoming call is rejected, determining a time of notifying the reserved call associated with the outgoing number by referring to the schedule, and notifying the reserved call associated with the outgoing number when the determined time arrives.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method to notify a reserved call of an electronic device, the method comprising:
detecting a rejection of an incoming call;
determining a time to notify the reserved call associated with an outgoing number of the rejected incoming call by referring to at least one predefined schedule, wherein determining the time to notify the reserved call comprises:
determining a first time when the receiving call is rejected;
calculating a second time which comes after a threshold time elapses from the determined first time;
determining whether the calculated second time belongs to a time period of a schedule; and
if the calculated second time belongs to the time period of the schedule, determining an expiration time of the schedule as the time to notify the reserved call; and

notifying the reserved call associated with the outgoing number of the rejected incoming call when the determined time arrives.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determined time of notifying the reserved call associated with the outgoing number of the rejected incoming call is a time when the at least one schedule does not belong.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the time to notify the reserved call associated with the outgoing number of the rejected incoming call by referring to the at least one predefined schedule comprises:
if the determined first time does not belong to a time period of another schedule before the schedule, calculating a second time which comes after a threshold time elapses from the determined first time.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein determining the time to notify the reserved call associated with the outgoing number of the rejected incoming call by referring to the at least one predefined schedule comprises:
if the first time belongs to the time period of the other schedule before the schedule, determining an expiration time of the other schedule before the schedule as the time to notify the reserved call.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein determining the time to notify the reserved call associated with the outgoing number of the rejected incoming call by referring to the at least one predefined schedule comprises:
if the second time does not belong to the time period of the schedule, determining the second time as the time to notify the reserved call.

6. The method of claim 3 , wherein the time period of the schedule or the time period of the other schedule indicates at least one period.

7. A method to notify a reserved call of an electronic device, the method comprising:
detecting a rejection of a call;
determining a time to notify the reserved call associated with an outgoing number of the rejected incoming call by referring to at least one predefined schedule, wherein determining comprises:
determining a first time when the receiving call is rejected;
calculating a second time which comes after a threshold time elapses the determined first time;
determining whether the calculated second time belongs to a time period of a specific schedule;
if the second time belongs to the time period of the specified schedule, determining whether the specified schedule is pre-set to permit the reserved-call notification; and
when the specified schedule is pre-set to permit the reserved-call notification, determining the second time as the time of notifying the reserved call; and

notifying the reserved call associated with the outgoing number of the rejected incoming call when the determined time arrives.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein determining the time to notify the reserved call associated with the outgoing number of the rejected incoming call by referring to the at least one predefined schedule comprises:
if the second time does not belong to the time period of the specified schedule, determining the second time as the time of notifying the reserved call.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein determining the time to notify the reserved call associated with the outgoing number of the rejected incoming call by referring to the at least one predefined schedule comprises:
when the specified schedule is not pre-set to permit the reserved-call notification, determining an expiration time of the specified schedule as the time of notifying the reserved call.

10. The method of claim 7 , wherein the time period of the specified schedule indicates any one of the time period of one schedule for permitting the reserved-call notification, the time period of one schedule for denying the reserved-call notification, the time period of a plurality of continuous schedules for permitting the reserved-call notification, and the time period of a plurality of continuous schedules for denying the reserved-call notification.

11. An electronic device, the device comprising:
at least one processer;
a memory; and
at least one module stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the at least one processor,
wherein the module is configured to:
detect a rejection of an incoming call;
determine a time to notify a reserved call associated with an outgoing number of the rejected incoming call by referring to the at least one predefined schedule, wherein the module is configured to determine the time to notify the reserved call by:
determining a first time when the receiving call is rejected;
calculating a second time which comes after a threshold time elapses from the determined first time;
determining whether the calculated second time belongs to a time period of a schedule; and
if the calculated second time belongs to the time period of the schedule, determining an expiration time of the schedule as the time to notify the reserved call; and

notify the reserved call associated with the outgoing number of the rejected incoming call when the determined time arrives.

12. The device of claim 11 , wherein the determined time of notifying the reserved call associated with the outgoing number of the rejected incoming call is a time when the at least one schedule does not belong.

13. The device of claim 11 , wherein the module is configured to:
if the determined first time does not belong to a time period of another schedule before the schedule, calculate the second time which comes after a threshold time elapses from the determined first time.

14. The device of claim 13 , wherein the module is configured to:
determine an expiration time of the other schedule before the schedule as the time to notify the reserved call if the first time belongs to the time period of the other schedule.

15. The device of claim 13 , wherein the module is configured to:
determine the second time as the time of notifying the reserved call if the second time does not belong to the time period of the schedule.

16. The device of claim 13 , wherein the time period of the schedule or the time period of the other schedule indicates at least one time period.

17. An electronic device, the electronic device comprising:
at least one processor;
a memory; and
at least one module stored in the memory that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to:
detect a rejection of an incoming call;
determine a time to notify a reserved call associated with an outgoing number of the rejected incoming call by referring to at least one predefined schedule, wherein the at least one module, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to determine the time to notify the reserved call by:
determining a first time when the receiving call is rejected;
calculating a second time which comes after a thresh

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yoon Jong-Min

Classifications

• H04W4/16 Primary

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

• H04B1/40 Primary

  Circuits · CPC title