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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2003
Mitsuji Hama, Higashiosaka, JP;
Mitsuji Hama, Higashiosaka, JP;
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka-Fu, JP;
Abstract
A telephone that includes: a storage unit; a transmission/reception unitfor, when an incoming call is received, acquiring a caller's phone number corresponding to the incoming call; a counting unitfor measuring a time period between a start of a reception of the incoming call and a disconnection of the incoming call; and a one-ring-call judgment unitfor, if the measured time period is shorter than a predetermined time period, instructing a general control unitto store the acquired phone number into the storage unitas a target for a connection rejection so that if an incoming call is received from a caller having the stored phone number thereafter, a connection thereto is rejected.