Patent ID: 7324839

Claim:
A communications control method comprising: setting a reception range for a communications suppressing signal transmitted using a wireless transmission interface to form a communications suppressing area, wherein said reception range for said communications suppressing area is set remotely by a content server via a communications network, said communications suppressing signal has area information indicating a type of place of said communications suppressing area, and said wireless transmission interface is adapted to communicate with a first wireless interface of a wireless telephone device; and performing an automatic response by automatically sending a notification message generated by a respective wireless telephone device to a caller without any assistance from a user when the respective wireless telephone device receives an incoming call from the caller using a second wireless interface that performs communications via a base station and when said respective wireless telephone device receives said communications suppressing signal through said first wireless interface, in which said notification message provides an indication of the type of place in which said respective wireless telephone device is currently located based on the area information obtained from the communications suppressing signal.