Patent ID: 8301206

Claim:
An in-vehicle apparatus with a handsfree function for a vehicle, the apparatus comprising: means for connecting several communications protocols simultaneously with a cellular phone to establish concurrent connection, the several communications protocols including first-type communications protocols, each of the plurality of first-type communications protocols belonging to a classification to have an arrival notification function that is a function of notification from the cellular phone to the in-vehicle apparatus when an arrival of transmission, which comes from a communications network, occurs at the cellular phone, the plurality of first-type communications protocols corresponding to different types of transmissions and having different types of arrival notification functions for the different types of transmissions, respectively; means for controlling connection and disconnection of a communications protocol between the connecting means and the cellular phone; and means for determining an occurrence of a disconnection request of a communications protocol, which is connected with the cellular phone by the connecting means, wherein, in case that the determining means determines that a disconnection request to disconnect one of a plurality of first-type communications protocols has occurred during a duration while concurrent connection with respect to the plurality of first-type communications protocols is established with the cellular phone by the connecting means, the controlling means is further configured to disconnect an other of the plurality of first-type communications protocols except the one of the plurality of first-type communications protocols, in conjunction with having disconnected the one of the plurality of first-type communications protocols, the disconnection request of which has occurred.