Mobile radio terminal apparatus

Abstract
When a holder of a cellular telephone operates a specific-key, the cellular telephone composes an e-mail containing a location-name, location-information, positioning-accuracy and positioning-time and sends the e-mail to a mail-address registered in a location-notification-address-table. In addition, when the cellular telephone receives an e-mail from the address registered in the location-notification-address-table, the cellular telephone composes an e-mail containing a location-name, location-information, positioning-accuracy and positioning-time, and sends the composed mail to a sender of the received e-mail. Moreover, when a departure-notification-time registered in a notification-location-table has come, the cellular telephone executes positioning, discriminates whether or not the holder exists in the vicinity of the location-name corresponding to the departure-notification-time, and sends an e-mail to a mail-address registered in the location-notification-address-table to notify whether or not the holder has departed from the location.
Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of the specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention, and together with the general description given above and the detailed description of the embodiments given below, serve to explain the principles of the invention.



FIG. 1 shows an illustration of a configuration of a mobile communications system according to an embodiment of the present invention;



FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of a configuration of a cellular telephone employed in the mobile communications system shown in FIG. 1;



FIG. 3 shows a location notification address table to be stored in a memory unit of the cellular telephone shown in FIG. 2;



FIG. 4 shows a location information table to be stored in a memory unit of the cellular telephone shown in FIG. 2;



FIG. 5 shows a notification place table to be stored in a memory unit of the cellular telephone shown in FIG. 2;



FIG. 6 shows a flowchart of operations of controlling an easy location mail function of the cellular telephone shown in FIG. 2;



FIG. 7A shows a flowchart of operations of controlling a location notification mail function of the cellular telephone shown in FIG. 2;



FIG. 7B shows a flowchart of operations of controlling the location notification mail function of the cellular telephone shown in FIG. 2;



FIG. 7C shows a flowchart of operations of controlling the location notification mail function of the cellular telephone shown in FIG. 2;



FIG. 8 shows a flowchart of operations of controlling a location notification mail function of the cellular telephone shown in FIG. 2; and



FIG. 9 shows a flowchart of operations of controlling a departure/arrival notification mail function of the cellular telephone shown in FIG. 2.


Claims
  • 1. A mobile radio terminal apparatus comprising: location detection unit configured to receive a signal from a GPS satellite and to obtain a location information in accordance with the signal;operation unit configured to accept a request from a user;control unit configured, if the operation unit accepts the request from the user, to compose an e-mail including the location information obtained by the location detection unit; andtransmitter configured, after the control unit composes the e-mail, to transmit the e-mail.
  • 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising accuracy detection unit configured to detect an accuracy of the location information obtained by the location detection unit, wherein the control unit composes an e-mail including an accuracy information representing the accuracy of the location information detected by the accuracy detection unit.
  • 3. A mobile radio terminal apparatus comprising: location detection unit configured to receive a signal from a GPS satellite and to obtain a location information in accordance with the signal;reception unit configured to receive an e-mail via a radio network;control unit configured, if a preset character string is contained in the e-mail received by the reception unit, to compose the e-mail, the e-mail containing information representing the location information and being to be sent for a sender of the e-mail; andtransmitter configured, after the control unit composes the e-mail, to transmit the e-mail.
  • 4. The apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising accuracy detection unit configured to detect an accuracy of the location information obtained by the location detection unit, wherein the control unit composes an e-mail including an accuracy information representing the accuracy of the location information detected by the accuracy detection unit.
  • 5. A mobile radio terminal apparatus comprising: location detection unit configured to receive a signal from a GPS satellite and to obtain a location information in accordance with the signal;memory configured to store a determined location information;detection unit configured to detect that the apparatus has moved away from a set location based on the determined location information;control unit configured, if the detection unit detects that the apparatus has moved away from the set location, to compose an e-mail for a determined destination; andtransmitter configured, after the control unit composes the e-mail, to transmit the e-mail.
  • 6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the detection unit compares information representing the location detected by the location detection unit with the location information stored by the memory, and detects that the apparatus has moved away from a set location based on the determined location information.
  • 7. The apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising accuracy detection unit configured to detect an accuracy of the location information obtained by the location detection unit, wherein the control unit composes an e-mail including an accuracy information representing the accuracy of the location information detected by the accuracy detection unit.
  • 8. A mobile radio terminal apparatus comprising: location detection unit configured to receive a signal from a GPS satellite and to obtain a location information in accordance with the signal;memory configured to store a determined location information;detection unit configured to detect that the apparatus has moved close to a set location based on the determined location information;control unit configured, if the detection unit detects that the apparatus has moved close to the preset location, to compose an e-mail for a preset destination; andtransmitter configured, after the control unit composes the e-mail, to transmit the e-mail.
  • 9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the detection unit compares information representing the location detected by the location detection unit with the location information stored by the memory, and detects that the apparatus has moved close to a set location based on the determined location information.
  • 10. The apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising accuracy detection unit configured to detect an accuracy of the location information obtained by the location detection unit, wherein the control unit composes an e-mail including an accuracy information representing the accuracy of the location information detected by the accuracy detection unit.
Priority Claims (1)
Number Date Country Kind
2006-091167 Mar 2006 JP national