JP2000013491A - Portable telephone set - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a portable telephone set equipped with a function for displaying registered telephone numbers while sorting them in the order of the number of times of call origination. SOLUTION: This device is provided with a storage part 6 equipped with a memory dial storage area for storing telephone numbers, call origination time register area for storing the number of times of call origination for the telephone numbers stored in the memory dial storage area and call origination time order sort area for storing the order of the number of times of call origination. Then, a control part 2 performs control so as to display memory dials on a display part 4 in order from the most or least number of times of call origination.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a portable telephone, and more particularly, to a portable telephone having a function of registering telephone number information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A portable telephone is provided with a storage unit for registering telephone numbers. Although the storage unit has increased in capacity and the number of registers that can be registered has been increasing year by year, the number is limited. The fact is that there is.

[0003] In addition, the only method for the user to confirm the registered telephone information on the display unit is in the order of the Iueo or the order of the registration number. hard.

[0004]

In the above-mentioned conventional portable telephone, when the user confirms the registered telephone information, the user has no choice but to display the information on the display section by sorting the information in the order of the Iueo or the registration number. There is room for improvement in terms of convenience and operability.

Further, in a conventional portable telephone, when the storage unit is full of registered telephone numbers and cannot be registered any more, for example, an operation of deleting the registration of a memory dial with a small number of calls is performed. When the number of registered phone numbers increases, it is necessary to perform an operation to find, for example, a memory dial with the least number of calls from among a large number of registered numbers, which is troublesome and time-consuming.
There is a problem that.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a portable telephone having a function of sorting and displaying registered telephone numbers in the order of the number of calls. It is in.

[0007] As a telephone having a function of adding the number of calls based on the telephone number and informing the user of the order of use frequency, reference is made to, for example, the description of Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 8-9014.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a memory dial storage area for storing telephone numbers, and a telephone number for each telephone number stored in the memory dial storage area. A storage unit including a call count registration area for storing the call count, and a call count order sort area for storing the order of the call count, and a memory dial on the display unit in the order of increasing or decreasing the number of calls. Displaying means.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a memory dial storage area (6 in FIG. 2) for storing telephone numbers is provided.
1), for each telephone number stored in the memory dial storage area, a call count registration area (62 in FIG. 2) for storing the number of calls made to the telephone number, and a caller for storing the order of the call count. A storage unit (5 in FIG. 1) having a call count order sorting area (63 in FIG. 2).

In the embodiment of the present invention, when a call is made, it is determined whether or not the calling telephone number is a registered telephone number. The number of times of calling at the location corresponding to the telephone number that made the call is updated, and when the user makes a call or from the operating unit (3 in FIG. 1), the order of searching the number of registered telephone numbers is input. In this case, the sorting area (63 in FIG. 2) is updated with the result of sorting in the order of the number of calls, and the memory dial is displayed on the display unit (4 in FIG. 1) in the order of the most or the least number of calls. indicate.

[0011]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of one embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, one embodiment of the present invention includes a radio unit 1 for transmitting and receiving to and from a base station, a control unit 2 for controlling the entire telephone set, and input means for making various input settings other than dialing. The operation unit 3, a display unit 4 including an LCD (liquid crystal display) or the like, a ROM (read only memory) 5 storing a program and data for executing control by the control unit 2, and an access by the control unit 2. The storage unit 6 includes

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the configuration of the storage unit 6 in one embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 2, the storage unit 6
Is a memory dial storage area 61 for storing a memory dial, a call count registration area 62 for registering the number of calls corresponding to the memory dial, and a call count order sort area forming a sort table arranged in the order of the call count. 63 is provided. The user can see the memory dial from the display unit 4 in the order of the number of calls.

FIG. 3 is a diagram specifically showing a configuration of the storage section 6 in one embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG.
It is assumed that the memory dial storage area 61 can store a total of 500 telephone numbers of memory dials No0 to No499. In each column of the memory dial storage area 61, the telephone number information of the other party is registered for each memory dial No.

The number-of-calls registration area 62 stores the number of calls for each memory dial No. for 500 memory dials registered in the memory dial storage area 61.

The call number sorting area 63 stores, for example, memory dial numbers sorted in descending order of the number of calls.

The number of calls stored in the number-of-calls registration area 62 is incremented each time a corresponding telephone number is called.

The number-of-calls sorting area 3 is updated when a user of the mobile phone makes a call or when the operation unit 3 performs a process of searching the number of calls of the memory dial.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to rearrange the memory dials in the order of the number of calls, and by displaying the memory dial on the display unit in the order of the number of calls, the user can, for example, make the number of calls. You can see the memory dials in the order of more or less.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the processing flow of one embodiment of the present invention. The operation of one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The process shown in FIG. 4 is performed by the control process of the control unit 2.

When a call is made (step S1), subsequently, the memory dial storage area 62 is searched and
It is determined whether or not the calling telephone number has been registered (step S2), and the calling telephone number is stored in the memory dial storage area 6.
2 has already been registered, the number-of-calls registration area 62
, The number of calls is updated by adding "1" to the value of the number of calls held in the memory dial number of the called telephone number (step S3).

The memory dial number of the added call count registration area 62 is determined to be the order of the call count sort area, and the call count sort area 63 is updated (step S4).

According to one embodiment of the present invention, since the number of calls made so far can be known, for example, if the memory dial storage area 61 is full of registered telephone numbers and cannot be registered any more, The memory dials are rearranged in descending order of the number of calls, and the registration of the memory dial with the smallest number of calls can be deleted, so that limited memory dials can be effectively used.

In the above embodiment, an example was described in which the number of memory dial calls is updated and managed, and sorting is performed in the order of the number of calls. As a second embodiment of the present invention, the number of incoming memory dial calls is updated and managed. , The number of incoming calls may be sorted.

That is, in the second embodiment of the present invention, the storage unit 6 is provided with a memory dial storage area 61 for storing registered telephone number information,
2. Instead of the number-of-calls sorting area 63, a number-of-calls registration area for storing the number of calls of the telephone number stored in the memory dial storage area and a number-of-calls sorting for storing the result of sorting the number of calls. When the mobile phone receives an incoming call, it determines whether or not the outgoing telephone number information has been registered. If the information has been registered, the number of incoming calls corresponding to the outgoing telephone number held in the incoming call number registration area is determined. The number of incoming calls is updated by adding “1” to the value, and the values are sorted in order of the number of incoming calls. Then, the result of sorting the order of the number of incoming calls is large or small, and the result is displayed on the display unit 4.

[0026]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Memory dials can be sorted and displayed in descending order of the number of calls, and if the memory dial storage area is full with registered telephone number information and it is not possible to register any more, the memory dial with a small number of calls is deleted. Therefore, there is an effect that limited memory dial can be effectively used.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a mobile phone according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a storage unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of specific contents of a storage unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a processing flow of an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 Radio unit 2 Control unit 3 Operation unit 4 Display unit 5 ROM 6 Storage unit 61 Memory dial storage area 62 Call count registration area 63 Call count count area

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A memory dial storage area for storing a telephone number, a call count registration area for storing the number of calls to a telephone number stored in the memory dial storage area, and a sort order of the number of calls. A mobile phone comprising: a storage unit having a call count order sorting area for storing the result of the call; and a means for displaying a memory dial on a display unit in an order of increasing or decreasing the number of calls. 2. A portable telephone comprising a radio unit, storage means for registering telephone number information, operation means, control means, and display means, wherein each of the telephone number information registered in the storage means is provided. A call count storage unit for storing and managing the number of calls to the telephone number; a sort table storage unit for storing a result of sorting the registered telephone number information in the order of the number of calls;
The control means determines whether or not the calling telephone number is registered telephone number information at the time of calling, and if the registered telephone number is a registered telephone number, calls are made in the calling number storage unit. The number of calls corresponding to the telephone number for which the call was made is updated, and when the user makes a call, or when the number of calls of the registered telephone number is searched from the operation means, the order of the number of calls is Updating the sort table storage unit with the result of the sorting. 3. The portable telephone according to claim 2, wherein said control means displays the registered telephone number information on said display means in an order of increasing or decreasing the number of calls. 4. A call count registration area for storing a call count of a telephone number stored in a memory dial storage area, and a call count order sort area for storing a result of sorting in the order of the call count. Means for displaying a memory dial on the display unit in an order of increasing or decreasing the number of calls. 5. A memory dial storage area for storing a telephone number, an incoming call number registration area for storing the number of calls to the mobile phone for each telephone number stored in the memory dial storage area, A mobile phone, comprising: a storage unit including a sorting area for storing the result of sorting in order of the number of incoming calls; and a means for displaying a memory dial on a display unit in an order of increasing or decreasing the number of incoming calls. 6. A portable telephone comprising a wireless unit, storage means for registering telephone number information, operation means, control means, and display means, wherein each of the telephone number information registered in the storage means is provided. An incoming call number storage unit for storing and managing the number of incoming calls to the mobile phone; a sort table storage unit for storing the result of sorting the registered telephone number information in the order of the number of incoming calls;
The control means, when receiving an incoming call, determines whether or not the outgoing telephone number information is a registered telephone number, and if the registered telephone number is a registered telephone number, the control means corresponds to the outgoing telephone number in the number of incoming calls storage unit. The number of incoming calls is updated, and when the user makes a call, or when the search operation of the registered telephone number in the order of the number of incoming calls is input from the operation means, the sorting table storage unit is sorted in the order of the number of incoming calls. A mobile phone to be updated. 7. A portable telephone according to claim 6, wherein said control means displays the registered telephone number information on said display means in an order of increasing or decreasing the number of incoming calls.