An availability-based telephonic transmission/reception calling service method is provided for communicating with a person who has a different lifestyle or who may not be available at a specific call time. When a receiver inputs the receiver's characteristic information and reception/communication availability information into a server, the server acquires and sets the reception/communication availability information. An originator fetches contact information in a memory medium within a device or contact information to be displayed in a separate service on the Internet and selects a receiver. When the contact information of the selected receiver is stored on the server, the server acquires the receiver's reception/communication availability information and displays whether the receiver can receive a call on a screen of an originator's communication device. Thus, the originator can be notified of whether a receiver can receive a call before the originator makes a telephone call via a cellular phone network or the Internet.

A method for automatic transmission of status information from a first communications terminal set up for speech communication to a second communications terminal set up for text communication is provided. The speech communication between communications terminals is processed over a speech communications server and the text communication between communications terminals over a text communications server. The speech communications server and the text communications server exchange messages over at least one converter device. The status information will be transmitted from the first communications terminal over the speech communications server, the converter device, and the text communications server to the second communications terminal.

A communications server comprises a data receiver configured to receive status data indicating, for each communication terminal of a set of communication terminals, a current device status of that communication terminal; a terminal manager configured to assign each communication terminal of the set of communication terminals to one or more communication terminal groups in dependence upon the respective status data for that communication terminal; and a communications controller to control the transmission of communications data to each of the set of communication terminals in dependence upon the respective communication terminal group to which that communication terminal is assigned by the terminal manager.

The present disclosure provides, among other things, methods of managing a whisper, the methods including: establishing a communication session; receiving a whisper request to provide the whisper to a first device associated with the communication session; retrieving environmental information; comparing the environment information to a rule; configuring the whisper based on the comparison; and providing the whisper based on the comparison.

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for scheduling a call to be automatically initiated between users. The program and method provide for receiving, from a first device associated with a first user, a request for a call to be automatically initiated, at a scheduled time, between the first device and a second device corresponding to a second user; providing, to the second device and in response to the receiving, an invitation to participate in the call; receiving, from the second device and in response to the providing, an acceptance of the invitation; and providing for automatically initiating the call between the first device and the second device at the scheduled time.

Disclosed are a call control method and apparatus, and a storage medium and a terminal device. The call control method comprises: receiving a call access request, the call access request carrying a user identifier of an incoming call user; obtaining the current operation mode of a terminal device according to the call access request; determining whether the operation mode is a night mode or not; and if yes, controlling the terminal device to perform call connection according to a preset white list and the user identifier.

The present invention relates to a method for operating a device characterized in that it comprises the following steps of, performed by a processing unit of the device: determining (a) that a notification is to be outputted through a user interface of the device during an unavailability time period; postponing (b) outputting said notification until after the occurrence of an event indicative of the availability of a user of the device.

This disclosure provides methods, services, and platforms that automatically prompt mobile phone users to add contact information to their phone book after a triggering event such as calling a phone number. The methods, services, and platforms allow mobile network operators to provide a service that allows businesses to potentially have their numbers added to the phonebook of a mobile phone after a disconnected call.

There is provided, in a vehicle capable of accommodating a plurality of passengers, a display system capable of providing a motivation to start a conversation among the passengers in view of conversation intentions of each passenger. The display system includes a control device, and at least one display device. The control device is configured to perform a conversation desire display process to display a conversation desire level of each of the passengers. Alternatively, the control device is configured to perform a conversation intention display process to display a conversation intention of each of the passengers for the other passengers. The conversation desire level and the conversation intention among passengers are input to the input device provided in the display system, by an operation of the passenger. Alternatively, they are estimated by the control device based on the passenger state information detected by the sensor provided in the display system.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to perform a process including acquiring a detection result of a state of a receiver who receives a call request at a receiver side terminal or a measurement result of a degree of concentration of the receiver measured from the detection result in a case where the call request is accepted from a caller side terminal, and notifying the receiver side terminal of the call request in a case where the degree of concentration measured from the acquired detection result or the degree of concentration that is the measurement result is decreased to a predetermined degree of concentration.