Patent ID: 7783328

Claim:
A cellular phone control apparatus comprising: a transceiver for exchanging a signal with a cellular phone, the transceiver being configured to exchange the signal with plural cellular phones; a call destination determination unit in the transceiver for determining a call destination number based on an input of a user; a memory in the transceiver for storing a relationship between the call destination number and a cellular phone; a cellular phone determination unit in the transceiver for determining the cellular phone for placing a call based on the relationship stored in the memory; a call placement unit for placing a call to the call destination number determined by the call destination determination unit by controlling the cellular phone determined by the cellular phone determination unit, a connection examination unit for examining that the cellular phone determined by the cellular phone determination unit is being connectable to the transceiver; a connection search unit for determining that another cellular phone is connectable to the transceiver when the cellular phone determined by the cellular phone determination unit is determined as not connectable by the connection examination unit; and a call placement inquiry unit for inquiring of the user a call placement by using the another cellular phone that is different from the cellular phone determined by the cellular phone determination unit when a connectable condition of the another cellular phone is determined by the connection search unit, wherein the call placement unit places a call to the call destination number determined by the call destination determination unit by controlling the another cellular phone upon having an affirmative answer for the inquiry by the call placement inquiry unit to the user.