Mobile radio terminal apparatus
View Patent ↗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.
1. A mobile radio terminal apparatus comprising:
a location detection unit configured to receive a signal from a GPS satellite periodically and to obtain location information in accordance with the signal;
a memory configured to store the location information obtained by the location detection unit in association with a time when the location information is obtained;
an operation unit configured to accept a request from a user;
a control unit configured, if the operation unit accepts the request from the user, to control the location detection unit to obtain the location information;
an e-mail composing unit configured to compose an e-mail including the location information and a time when the location information has been obtained if the location detection unit obtains the location information under control of the control unit, and to compose an e-mail including the location information stored in the memory and the time associated with the location information if the location detection unit fails to obtain the location information under control of the control unit; and
a transmitter configured to transmit the e-mail composed by the e-mail composing unit.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an accuracy detection unit configured to detect accuracy of the location information obtained by the location detection unit,
wherein the control unit composes an e-mail including accuracy information representing the accuracy of the location information detected by the accuracy detection unit.
3. A mobile radio terminal apparatus comprising:
a location detection unit configured to receive a signal from a GPS satellite and to obtain location information in accordance with the signal;
a reception unit configured to receive an e-mail via a radio network;
a control unit configured, if a preset character string is contained in the e-mail received by the reception unit, to repeat a preset number of times a process of controlling the location detection unit to obtain the location information at preset time intervals;
an e-mail composing unit configured to compose an e-mail including the location information and a time when the location information has been obtained if the location detection unit obtains the location information under control of the control unit, and to compose an e-mail indicating failure of positioning if the location detection unit fails to obtain the location information under control of the control unit; and
a transmitter configured to transmit the e-mail composed by the e-mail composing unit.
4. The apparatus according to claim 3 , further comprising:
an accuracy detection unit configured to detect accuracy of the location information obtained by the location detection unit,
wherein the control unit composes an e-mail including accuracy information representing the accuracy of the location information detected by the accuracy detection unit.
5. A mobile radio terminal apparatus comprising:
a location detection unit configured to receive a signal from a GPS satellite and to obtain location information in accordance with the signal;
an accuracy detection unit configured to detect accuracy of the location information obtained by the location detection unit;
a memory configured to store a determined location information;
a detection unit configured to compare information representing the location detected by the location detection unit with the location information stored by the memory, and to detect that the apparatus has moved away from a set location based on the determined location information;
a control unit configured, if the detection unit detects that the apparatus has moved away from the set location and if the accuracy detected by the accuracy detection unit is equal to or higher than a predetermined value, to compose an e-mail for a determined destination; and
a transmitter configured, after the control unit composes the e-mail, to transmit the e-mail.
6. The apparatus according to claim 5 ,
wherein the control unit composes an e-mail including accuracy information representing the accuracy of the location information detected by the accuracy detection unit.
7. A mobile radio terminal apparatus comprising:
a location detection unit configured to receive a signal from a GPS satellite and to obtain location information in accordance with the signal;
an accuracy detection unit configured to detect accuracy of the location information obtained by the location detection unit;
a memory configured to store a determined location information;
a detection unit configured to compare information representing the location detected by the location detection unit with the location information stored by the memory, and to detect that the apparatus has moved close to a set location based on the determined location information;
a control unit configured, if the detection unit detects that the apparatus has moved close to the preset location and if the level of accuracy detected by the accuracy detection unit is equal to or higher than a predetermined value, to compose an e-mail for a preset destination; and
a transmitter configured, after the control unit composes the e-mail, to transmit the e-mail.
8. The apparatus according to claim 7 ,
wherein the control unit composes an e-mail including accuracy information representing the accuracy of the location information detected by the accuracy detection unit.