JP2001117883A - Portable telephone terminal for exchanging electronic conversion name card information by radio system and managing and utilizing collected name card information - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a portable telephone terminal by which name card information is automatically exchanged by the radio system of feeble electric wave or optical communication, etc., in place of exchanging the name cards, data such as a name, an address, a telephone number or an electronic mail address are retrieved from collected name card information, a telephone call is easily made and also an E-mail is easily transmitted by registering electronic conversion individual name card information in the portable telephone terminal coming to be a socially indispensable communication item. SOLUTION: Name card information of the owner of a portable telephone terminal is previously inputted and recorded in the terminal. Besides, same kind of name card information is received from an opposite party and recorded by adding reception date information. A name card exchange work is generally executed by permitting a person in front of oneself to be an object so that name card information is exchanged between the portable telephone terminals by the radio system through the use of feeble electric wave with a frequency band without hindrance in the normal usage of the portable telephone and within a narrow reception area or through the use of a light such as IR. The terminal is provided with a function for retrieving or designating the telephone number or the E-mail address of a communication destination from a company name or the name, etc., concerning the usage of collected name card information and also for directly performing access from the portable telephone terminal.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for registering digitized personal business card information in a portable telephone terminal, which is becoming a socially indispensable communication item. Automatic exchange of business card information by wireless method such as communication, and search for name, address, telephone number, e-mail address etc. from collected business card information, and at the same time make it easy to make calls and send e-mail It is to make.

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2. Description of the Related Art Business cards have hitherto generally been made of paper, and have been ordered and ordered from a printing company when newly making or adding business cards. On the other hand, the collected business cards had to be stored in dedicated files. Regarding the utilization of business card information, it is general and time-consuming to manually retrieve information from among such a huge number of business cards. Even when using the retrieved information, it could not be used without human intervention, such as transcription and storage, input to another information management system, etc., and these operations required time and made mistakes .

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According to the present invention, the business card information of the terminal owner is registered in the portable telephone terminal in advance, and the electronic business card information is used instead of the conventional paper at the time of greeting the business card exchange. By wirelessly exchanging paperless data, the management of collected business card information is automatically performed within the mobile phone terminal, thereby ensuring the portability of business card information, enabling business card information search anytime and anywhere. It is another object of the present invention to improve the convenience of business card information by enabling access to a searched telephone number or e-mail address directly from the mobile phone terminal.

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[Means for Solving the Problems] A mobile phone terminal is provided with a company name, affiliation name, post, name, address, telephone number, F
An application software for inputting and recording business card information such as an AX number and an e-mail address and a memory for storing the information. Further, the same business card information is received from the other party, and the reception date and time information is attached and recorded. Simple memo information, such as the purpose, can also be input, and application software that manages and records each item and a memory that stores such information is required. In addition, business card exchange work is generally performed not at a distant party but at the party at hand, so that weak radio waves in a frequency band that does not interfere with normal mobile phone use and a narrow reception area, or light such as infrared light The business card information is transmitted and received between the mobile phone terminals by the wireless method according to the above. With regard to the use of the collected business card information, it has a function of searching for a telephone number of a contact from a company name, a name, or the like, or specifying an e-mail address and directly accessing from a mobile phone terminal.

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FIG. 1 shows an image of a system configuration according to the present invention. The mobile phone terminal holder records his / her business card information in the transmission memory unit 3 in advance while watching the screen 2 via the input / output and search control unit 1 by operating the button of the mobile phone terminal. When exchanging business card information, the transmission control unit 4 and the reception control unit 5 are controlled by the button operation to start communication via the input / output and search control unit 1 while looking at the screen 2. The transmission control unit 4 and the reception control unit 5 automatically exchange business card information after establishing a protocol with the transmission control unit and the reception control unit of the other party. Information received via the reception control unit 5 is provided with reception date and time information.
Are stored in the receiving memory unit 6 at the same time. At this time, if necessary, addition of captured information via the input / output and search control unit 1 by button operation of the mobile phone terminal of the terminal holder is permitted. With respect to the search for the business card information, the information is searched from the reception memory unit 6 via the input / output and search control unit 1 and the result is displayed on the screen 2 by operating the button of the mobile phone terminal. Further, by selecting and specifying a telephone number or an e-mail address displayed as a search result via the input / output and search control unit 1 by operating buttons on the mobile phone terminal, the terminal can directly access these networks. Further, in order to copy the contents of the reception memory unit 6 to another information device, the information contents are transmitted from the reception memory unit 6 via the transmission control unit 4 via the input / output and search control unit 1 by operating a button of the mobile phone terminal. There is also a function that can be transferred to other information devices.

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According to the present invention, a business card made of paper can be eliminated from a business card exchange greeting. As a result, pulp resources can be saved, and there is no need to order and purchase business cards, thereby realizing cost reduction. Personal information necessary for communication is described in the business card information. By directly capturing such information in a mobile phone terminal as a communication terminal, information reliability, portability, and convenience are improved. Until now, registration of mobile phone terminal numbers has been a tedious task for those unfamiliar with it. These phone numbers can be easily registered by this function.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a business card information control unit in a mobile phone terminal of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an image diagram of a mobile phone terminal use situation of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an image diagram of a business card information item search screen according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 is an input / output and search control unit. 2 is the screen. 3 is a transmission memory unit. 4 is a transmission control unit. 5 is a reception control unit. 6 is a receiving memory section

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Claims (1)

[Claims] An electronic personalized business card information is stored in a mobile phone terminal, and the business card information is transmitted and received between mobile phone terminals using a weak radio wave or a wireless communication method such as optical communication. A mobile phone terminal that collects business card information instead of exchanging paper business cards.