Patent ID: 8190214

Claim:
An in-vehicle handsfree apparatus comprising: a handsfree connection section configured to establish a handsfree communication protocol connection with a plurality of cellular phones simultaneously; a storage section configured to store attributes of the cellular phones with which the handsfree communication protocol connection is established simultaneously; and a control section configured to determine whether an incoming call is being received by a cellular phone included in the cellular phones with which the handsfree communication protocol connection is established simultaneously; the control section being further configured to, when it is determined that, of the cellular phones with which the handsfree communication protocol connection is established simultaneously, at least two cellular phones are receiving individual incoming calls, cause a notice section to give notice of incoming call information relative to the at least two cellular phones in individual notice manners, the individual notice manners being differentiated from each other based on individual attributes stored in the storage section with respect to the at least two cellular phones, cause the notice section not to give notice of the incoming call information relative to the second cellular phone, when, of the at least two cellular phones receiving the incoming calls, a first cellular phone has an attribute of a first ordered classification and an other cellular phone has an attribute of a second ordered classification.