Portable communication device for domestic and international communications and automatic calling method for domestic and international calls
US7120469B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 13, 2000 |
| Grant date | Oct 10, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 29, 2022 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04M1/724
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An internal memory has an address book table for registering data regarding a communication destination party, a telephone number, and a country flag indicative of a country where the communication destination party is present, in a manner that they are shown corresponding to one another. A calling processor compares a country flag attached to a communication destination party selected using a memory dial function, and information obtained from an RF module regarding a country where the communication circuit can be established. When the flag information and the information from the Rf module coincide, the calling processor determines that the ongoing call is a domestic call, and thus dials the telephone number as registered in the address book table and, when they do not coincide, the calling processor determines that the ongoing call is an international call, and thus dials international access and country codes prior to the telephone number registered in the address book table. Using a portable communication device having the above arrangement, the user can automatically place a call to a party in or out of the country where the user is present even when the destination party inf…
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