Patent ID: 7929957

Claim:
A mobile phone capable of transmitting and receiving calls via wireless communication, which, by pre-registering a forwarding destination phone number to a call forwarding service center, receives a call forwarding service provided by the call forwarding service center in which an incoming call, made when reception thereof was impossible, is forwarded to a telephone having the registered forwarding destination phone number, the mobile phone comprising: a wireless communication section that performs wireless communication including transmitting and receiving calls; a close-range wireless communication section that performs close-range wireless communication with other mobile phones; a forwarding destination storage section that stores a forwarding destination list in which numbers of one or more telephones capable of accepting forwarding are recorded; a close-range wireless communication monitoring section that causes the close-range wireless communication section to perform close-range wireless communication and monitors establishment of close-range wireless communication with a forwarding acceptance telephone having a phone number that matches any of the phone numbers in the forwarding destination list stored in the forwarding destination storage section; a forwarding destination notification section that causes the wireless communication section to notify the phone number of the forwarding acceptance telephone with which close-range wireless communication by the close-range wireless communication section has been established to the call forwarding service center as a forwarding destination phone number; and a forwarding destination adequacy judgment section that determines a cumulative value according to weighting by the intensity of a radio wave with a forwarding acceptance telephone with which close-range wireless communication by the close-range wireless communication section has been established, and that judges, based on the cumulative value, adequacy of the forwarding acceptance telephone as a forwarding destination, wherein the forwarding destination notification section causes, upon reception of a judgment made by the forwarding destination adequacy judgment section to the effect that the forwarding acceptance telephone with which close-range wireless communication by the close-range wireless communication section has been established is adequate as a forwarding destination, the wireless communication section to notify the phone number of the forwarding acceptance telephone to the call forwarding service center.