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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 06, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Satoru Maeda, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaru Nonogaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ; H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
455412 ; 455421 ; 455432 ; 379 671 ; 379 8822 ; 379 8815 ;
Abstract
A mobile communication subscriber apparatus such as a portable phone allows its user to make prompt contact with someone who places a call to a specific phone served as a local base station to the subscriber apparatus. The mobile communication subscriber apparatus is arranged to register its position to a base station when it is used at an external mode. This subscriber apparatus provides a mechanism for transmitting a control signal for indicating change of the settings of an answering function of the local base station.