Electronic device and call transfer control method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9565539-B2
Application number	US-201314431553-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 26, 2013
Priority date	Sep 28, 2012
Publication date	Feb 7, 2017
Grant date	Feb 7, 2017

Abstract

According to one of aspects, an electronic device, includes: a first communication unit configured to perform communication using a first communication scheme; a second communication unit configured to perform communication using a second communication scheme; and a control unit. When the first communication unit detects an incoming call, the control unit transfers the incoming call to which information linked with an incoming call number of the incoming call is added from the second communication unit to a specific electronic device.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electronic device, comprising:
a first communication unit configured to perform communication using a first communication scheme;
a second communication unit configured to perform communication using a second communication scheme; and
a control unit configured to,
when the first communication unit detects an incoming call,
add information linked with an incoming call number of the incoming call to the incoming call; and
transfer the incoming call with the added information from the second communication unit to another electronic device.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a storage unit configured to store therein the information linked with the incoming call number,
wherein the control unit is configured to acquire the information linked with the incoming call number from the storage unit.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein
the control unit is configured to acquire information relating to a notification mode for the incoming call as the information linked with the incoming call number.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein,
when the incoming call is originated from a telephone number set to be subjected to call block,
the control unit is configured to acquire information relating to the call block as the information linked with the incoming call number.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein
the second communication scheme is a short-range wireless communication scheme.

6. An electronic device, comprising:
a first communication unit configured to perform communication using a first communication scheme;
a second communication unit configured to perform communication using a second communication scheme; and
a control unit configured to,
when (i) the second communication unit detects an incoming call transferred by another electronic device, and (ii) information linked with an incoming call number of the incoming call is determined to have been added to the incoming call by said another electronic device which transfers the incoming call to the second communication unit,
process the incoming call according to the information.

7. The electronic device according to claim 6 , further comprising:
a notification unit,

wherein
the information linked with the incoming call number includes information relating to a notification mode of the incoming call, and
the control unit is configured to cause the notification unit to perform a notification in the notification mode according to the information.

8. A transfer control method performed by an electronic device including a first communication unit configured to perform communication using a first communication scheme and a second communication unit configured to perform communication using a second communication scheme, the transfer control method comprising:
detecting an incoming call by the first communication unit; and
when the first communication unit detects the incoming call,
adding information linked with an incoming call number of the incoming call to the incoming call; and then
transferring the incoming call with the added information from the second communication unit to another electronic device.

9. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein
the incoming call number of the incoming call is a predetermined incoming call number.

10. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein
when the first communication unit detects the incoming call, the control unit is configured to transfer the incoming call to the another electronic device during a predetermined time period.

11. The transfer control method according to claim 8 , wherein
the incoming call number of the incoming call is a predetermined incoming call number.

12. The transfer control method according to claim 8 , wherein
when the first communication unit detects the incoming call, the incoming call is transferred to the another electronic device during a predetermined time period.

Assignees

• Kyocera Corp

Inventors

• Bamba Hiroyuki
• Nomachi Nayu
• Sudou Tomohiro

Classifications

• H04M1/72412

  using two-way short-range wireless interfaces · CPC title

• H04W4/16 Primary

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

• H04M1/72527

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F17/30997

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04M3/54

  Arrangements for diverting calls for one subscriber to another predetermined subscriber {(based on the calling party profile H04M3/42059; based on location H04M3/42348; based on presence H04M3/42365; to voice mail H04M3/53308)} · CPC title