Patent ID: 7430416

Claim:
A notification system for notifying information about a mobile station capable of using international roaming service, comprising: an information storing unit that stores information about a mobile station which belongs to a first network in a first country, said information including a fact whether said mobile station is moved to a second country and registered as a visitor station in said second country or not; a notification unit that refers to said information storing unit when said mobile station is called by a caller terminal within said first network to detect whether said mobile station is registered as said visitor station in said second country or not, and notifies said caller terminal of the registration of said mobile station before a connection between said caller terminal and said mobile station is established, when said mobile station is registered as said visitor station in said second country; a location obtaining unit that obtains location of said mobile station; a visitor registration unit that registers said mobile station as a visitor station in said second country to have said mobile station capable of establishing a connection via a second network in said second country when said mobile station moves to said second country and requests for the registration; a reporting unit that reports said registration of said mobile station to said location obtaining unit; a retaining unit that temporarily retains establishing a connection between said caller terminal and said mobile station; and a mode changing unit that changes a mode of a connection between said caller terminal and said mobile station from a conversation mode to a text-based mail sending mode upon receiving a request from said caller terminal, wherein the conversation mode includes a translation mode, and when the user of said caller terminal selects said changing the mode to the translation mode, said retaining unit restarts said connection, between said caller terminal and said mobile station after preparation for the translation is executed, wherein after the retaining unit temporarily retains establishing the connection between said caller terminal and said mobile station, said mode changing unit that-changes from the conversation mode to the text-based mail sending mode upon receiving the request from said caller terminal, the notification system allows said caller terminal to write and send a text-based mail message to said mobile station, and wherein said location obtaining unit stores information about said registration of said mobile station in said information storing unit.