Patent ID: 7986978

Claim:
A hands-free apparatus for establishing a hands-free call of a portable communication device through one of a wireless and a wired connection comprising: an interrupting call determination unit that determines whether an interrupting call is incoming when a current call is the hands-free call; an operation determination unit that displays call partner information of the interrupting call on a display unit and determines whether a user operation is an indication of a switch of the current call to the interrupting call or an indication of a rejection of a connection request of the interrupting call when the interrupting call is determined to be incoming by the interrupting call determination unit; and a first display control unit that (a) puts the current call on hold to switch the hands-free call to the interrupting call and (b) displays on the display unit a currently active condition of the interrupting call without displaying the call partner information of the interrupting call once the operation determination unit has determined that the user operation is an indication of the switch of the hands-free call from the current call to the interrupting call.