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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:
Aug. 22, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2003
Applicants:
Yuichi Taneya, Osaka, JP;
Masae Morioka, Osaka, JP;
Hiroomi Kashu, Moriguchi, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Moriguchi, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a portable telephone comprising an openable/closable casing having a display, a magnetic sensorfor detecting whether the casing is opened or closed, and a control circuit. When a message is received with the casing closed, the control circuitdisplays the contents of the received message on the display. When the casing in an opening state is thereafter detected, the control circuitdisplays on the displaya reply-message-preparation screen for preparing a reply message to be sent to a sender of the received message.