Patent ID: 8280397
Filing Date: 2012-10-02
Classification: H04B,H04M

Abstract:
1. A mobile phone including a broadcast receiving unit that receives a broadcast, comprising: a storage unit operable to store position information of a base station in correspondence with a receiving frequency of a broadcast station receivable in an area indicated by the position information; a position information acquisition unit operable to acquire position information of a base station; a judgment unit operable to judge whether the acquired position information of the base station is stored in the storage unit; a receiving control unit operable to, in response to a receiving instruction from a user, read the receiving frequency stored in correspondence with the acquired position information from the storage unit, and have the broadcast receiving unit receive a broadcast of a broadcast station at the read receiving frequency; a reading time recording unit operable to, each time the receiving frequency is read by the receiving control unit, record a last reading time of the receiving frequency in correspondence with the position information corresponding to the receiving frequency in the storage unit; a monitoring unit operable to monitor the last reading time corresponding to the position information at a constant time interval; and a recording deletion unit operable to delete the recorded receiving frequency corresponding to the position information from the storage unit for which no less than a predetermined time period has passed since the last reading time of the receiving frequency.