Patent ID: 8369903

Claim:
A handsfree apparatus for use in a vehicle comprising: a handsfree call protocol connection unit for connecting a handsfree telephone call protocol that establishes a handsfree telephone call with a cellular telephone; a data transfer protocol connection unit for performing data transfer processing that enables reception of, from the cellular telephone, at least one of inbound call history data and missed call history data stored in the cellular telephone after performing an initial connection process of data transfer protocol with the cellular telephone; and a control unit for restarting, from a beginning, the initial connection process of the data transfer protocol by the data transfer protocol connection unit, to acquire one of the inbound call history data and the missed call history data of an inbound call, after shifting to a different communication condition from an inbound call receiving condition of the cellular telephone, if the cellular telephone has the inbound call in (a) a protocol connected condition of the handsfree telephone call protocol by the handsfree call protocol connection unit and (b) the initial connection process of the data transfer protocol by the data transfer protocol connection unit.