Patent ID: 7203530
Filing Date: 2007-04-10
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A folding portable terminal that operates responsive to contents of an incoming communication when being transferred from a folded condition into an opened condition, comprising: a first part with an upper surface; a second part with an upper surface; a hinge hinging the first part to the second part and providing a first, closed folded position where the upper surfaces of the first and second parts are adjacently facing each other and a second, opened unfolded position where the upper surfaces of the first and second parts are not facing each other and are exposed to a user; a first circuit detecting the first and second parts being opened from the closed folded position to the opened unfolded position; a selector determining a specific communication mode of the incoming communication from plural alternative communication modes that the terminal is capable of receiving, the determination being a data analysis of a contents data type of the incoming communication; and an activation part that, upon the first circuit detecting the first and second parts being opened from the closed folded position to the opened unfolded position, activates the terminal for outgoing communications in the specific communication mode determined by the selector, so that the user may immediately conduct out-going communications in the specific communication mode upon opening the first and second parts to the open unfolded position; a button, user operable in the closed folded position during an initial reception of the incoming communication and prior to the activation part activating the terminal for out-going communications, enabling the user to open the terminal for immediate out-going communications and to trigger the portable terminal to suppress operation of the activation part so that the activation does not cause the terminal to operate responsive to the contents of the incoming communications upon opening the first and second parts from the closed folded position to the opened unfolded position, wherein, in the closed folded position the terminal is inactive for out-going communications and the terminal must be opened to the opened unfolded position to initiate outgoing communications, the data analysis of the selector causes the activation part to activate the terminal for out-going communications in the specific communication mode so that the user may immediately conduct out-going communications in the specific communication mode upon opening the first and second parts to the open unfolded position, and the user operating the button results in the portable terminal being immediately available for out-going communications but not operating responsive to the contents of the incoming communications when being transferred from a folded condition into an opened condition and the activation part not activating the terminal for out-going communications in the specific communication mode determined by the selector.