Patent ID: 7941183

Claim:
A telephone, which is characterized in comprising: a telephone book data memory part for storing a name of a telephone user, a telephone number, and specific date information specifying a specific date and an incoming call sound used exclusively for the specific date for the user; a detecting part for detecting a telephone number of a caller when an incoming call is received; a notification part for emitting an incoming call sound; and a control part, which refers to said telephone book data memory part and identifies the caller from said user name on the basis of the telephone number of the caller as detected by said detection part, which determines whether the specific date information for the specific date is the same date as the date when the incoming call is received is detected, and which controls said notification part so that notification is performed by switching the incoming call sound to the incoming call sound used exclusively for the specific date when the specific date information for the specific date is the same date as the date the incoming call is received is detected.