JP2001229085A - Communication terminal and its data sharing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily share data in groups by directly transmitting/receiving personal data and schedule data between portable telephones, etc., via a message transmitting means such as short mail. SOLUTION: A communication terminal 200 is provided with a receiving means 202 for receiving text data from an external communication terminal, a judging means 204 for judging whether a previously fixed character string exists is text data or not, a deciding means 204 for deciding a menu king corresponding to the character string when the existence of the character string is judged by the judging means and a generating means 206 for generating a menu screen comprising the menu king which is decided by the deciding means. Besides, a display means 208 for displaying the menu screen generated by the generating means is arranged. The terminal is also provided with a storing means 210 for storing data corresponding to the menu kind in a memory.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] The present invention relates to a communication terminal and a data sharing method thereof.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There are mobile phones such as portable phones and PHSs in which personal data and schedule data are stored in a memory in a main body. And
The personal data and schedule data stored in the main body as described above may need to have common data in a group or a group including a plurality of persons.

[0003]

However, conventional input from the operation keys of a main body of a mobile phone or the like is inferior in convenience particularly in character input such as a Chinese character input, and there is an obstacle to input of personal data and the like. Has become. There is also a method of connecting a dedicated keyboard to a mobile phone or the like, or using data transfer with a personal computer or the like with built-in personal data editing software to improve the convenience when entering character data. There is a problem that the external device is required and portability is impaired.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above problems, it is an object of the present invention to transmit and receive personal data and schedule data directly between portable telephones or the like via short mail, thereby enabling easy data sharing between groups. And a data sharing method therefor.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, in a communication terminal, a receiving means for receiving text data from an external communication terminal, and a predetermined character string exist in the text data. Determining means for determining whether or not the character string is present; determining means for determining a menu type corresponding to the character string; and determining the menu type determined by the determining means. Generating means for generating a menu screen including the type.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the communication terminal according to the first aspect, the communication terminal further includes a display unit for displaying the menu screen generated by the generation unit.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the communication terminal according to the second aspect, a selection means for selecting one of the menu types from the menu screen displayed by the display means, and a selection by the selection means. Storage means for storing data corresponding to the selected menu type in a memory.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the communication terminal according to any one of the first to third aspects, the text data includes data relating to personal data and / or schedule data. .

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the data sharing method of a communication terminal, a receiving step of receiving text data from an external communication terminal; and determining whether a predetermined character string exists in the text data. A determining step of determining whether the character string exists, and a determining step of determining a menu type corresponding to the character string; and determining the menu type determined by the determining step. Generating a menu screen including the menu screen.

The invention according to claim 6 is the data sharing method for a communication terminal according to claim 5, further comprising a display step of displaying the menu screen generated in the generation step.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the data sharing method for a communication terminal according to the sixth aspect, a selecting step of selecting one of the menu types from the menu screen displayed in the displaying step; Storing the data corresponding to the menu type selected in the selecting step in a memory.

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, in the data sharing method for a communication terminal according to any one of the fifth to seventh aspects, the text data includes data relating to personal data and / or schedule data. It is characterized by.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings, taking as an example a case where a mobile station of a mobile communication system is employed as a communication terminal.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of an external structure of a mobile device to which the present invention is applied, and conceptually shows only a portion related to the present invention in the external structure of the mobile device.

The mobile device 100 includes at least a display 102, function keys 104, ten keys 106, and an antenna 108.

The display 102 has a function of displaying information (for example, telephone numbers and texts of mails).
The function key 104 is a key for selecting a function such as a menu. The numeric keypad 106 is a key for inputting numbers and characters. The antenna 108 is an antenna for performing wireless communication with a base station.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of a hardware configuration of a mobile device to which the present invention is applied, and conceptually shows only a portion related to the present invention in the hardware configuration of the mobile device.

The mobile device 1100 includes at least a communication control unit 1102, a CPU 1104, and a memory 1106. The communication control unit 1102 has a function of performing wireless communication with a base station. The CPU 1104 has a memory 1106
Mobile device 1100 under the control of a program or the like stored in
Has the function of controlling the whole. The memory 1106 is
It has a function of storing program data, personal data, schedule data, and the like.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the mobile station shown in FIG. 11, and conceptually shows only those parts of the function of the mobile station that are relevant to the present invention. Here, each functional block described in FIG. 2 is realized by a program or the like executed by the CPU 1104 in the hardware configuration diagram of the mobile device described in FIG.

The mobile device 200 includes a short mail receiving unit 2
02, a property data interpretation unit 204, a menu screen generation unit 206, a menu screen display unit 208, and a memory storage unit 210. Short mail receiving unit 202
Has a function of receiving a short mail composed of text data from an external communication terminal. Here, in the text data transmitted from the external communication terminal, data to be shared between groups (for example, personal data and schedule data, etc.) is described in the form of “property name” and “property data”. deep. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a list of predetermined property names and corresponding property data. Here, the description order of the property names is as follows when the shared data is personal data. Name, 2. Phone number; In the order of e-mail, and when the data to be shared is schedule data: Start time, 2. 2. end time; This is the order of description.

The property data interpreting unit 204 determines whether or not a property name, which is a predetermined character string, exists in the text data of the received short mail with the property name shown in FIG. It has a function of retrieving and determining a list of property data corresponding to the property data, and extracting a property data corresponding to the property name from the text data when the property name exists. For example, the short mail is “& NAME. Ichiro Yamada <Yamadaichirou>& T
EL. In the case of “09012345678”, the property data interpretation unit 204 determines that the name is “Ichiro Yamada”, the pseudonym is “Yamadaichirou”, and the telephone number is “09012”.
3456768 ". In addition, the content of the short mail text data is "& DS
TART. 20000222000 & DEND. 20
000201330 & DESC. Sales Department Meeting (No. 1
Conference room) ", the property data interpretation unit 204
Indicates that the start time is "10:00 on February 1, 2000"
It is interpreted that the end time is the schedule data of “13:30 on February 1, 2000” and the description is “sales department meeting (first meeting room)”.

The menu screen generating unit 206 has a function of determining the type of the received mail of the text data interpreted by the property data interpreting unit 204 and generating a menu screen including the corresponding menu type. For example, if the received mail is personal data, select "Save personal data"
Generate a menu screen containing In the case of schedule data, a menu screen including “schedule storage” in the menu type is generated.

The menu screen display unit 208 has a function of displaying the menu screen generated by the property data interpreting unit 204 on a display.

When the user selects “save personal data” or “schedule” from the menu screen displayed by menu screen display section 208,
It has a function of storing the corresponding “personal data” or “schedule” in the memory.

Next, an example of the operation of the mobile device thus configured in the present embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the mobile device according to the present embodiment.

First, the mobile station communicates with the short mail receiving section 2
02, a short message mail is received by an external communication terminal (step S402).

Next, as shown in detail in FIG. 5, the message type of the received mail is determined (step S40).
4).

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing details of the received message type determination.

First, the first character string of the mail message is determined (step S500). The first character string is "& D
START. Is determined, the character string of the continuing message is determined (step S502). "Or"& DSC
R. Is included, the message is determined to be schedule data (step S504), and if these character strings are not included, the message is determined to be a normal mail message (step S506). In step S500, the first character string of the mail message is “& NAME. Is determined, the character string of the message to be continued is determined (step S508).
If the character string of the continuing message includes “& TEL.”, It is determined that the message is personal data (step S510). If the character string is not included, the message is a normal mail message. Is determined (step S506). In step S500, the first character string of the mail message is "& DST
ART. "Or"& NAME. Otherwise, it is determined that the message is a normal mail message (step S506).

If it is determined in step S404 that the received message is schedule data, the menu screen generation unit 206 generates a menu screen to which a menu type of "schedule storage" is added, and the menu screen display unit 208 To display this menu screen on the display (step S408).

Next, when the user selects the menu type of "schedule storage" by moving the cursor and operating the execution key or the like, each item of the schedule data is extracted (step S410), and the memory is stored in the memory storage unit 210. (Step S412).

If it is determined in step S404 that the received message is personal data, the menu screen generation unit 206 generates a menu screen to which a menu type of "save personal data" is added, and the menu screen display unit This menu screen is displayed on the display by means of 208 (step S414).

Next, when the user selects the menu type of "save personal data" by moving the cursor and operating the execution key or the like, the individual data items are extracted as shown in FIG. 6 (step S416). Then, the data is stored in the memory by the memory storage unit 210 (step S41).
8).

FIG. 6 is a flow chart showing in detail the process for corresponding each item of property data and personal data.

First, in the text data of the message,
It is determined whether the character string “& EMAIL.” Is included (step S600). In step S600, "&
EMAIL. Is determined to be included, “& NAME. ”And“ & TE
L. “& TEL.” As the property data of the telephone number. "And"& EMAIL. "And"& EMAIL. "As property data of the e-mail. Extract the character string after ".

In step S600, "& EM
AIL. "&NAME." Is not included as the property data of the name. ”And“ & TE
L. “& TEL.” As the property data of the telephone number. Extract the character string after ".

Next, "<" is added to the name property data.
And whether or not “>” is included (step S6).
06). In step S606, “<” and “>”
If it is determined that the character string is included, a character string excluding “<” and “>” is extracted as property data of the name, and a character string in “<” and “>” is extracted as property data of the pseudonym ( Step S608).

If it is determined in step S606 that "<" and ">" are not included, a character string as it is is extracted as name property data (step S610).

<First Embodiment Case of Personal Data> An example of sharing personal data between communication terminals according to a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 7 and 8. FIG. First, the mobile device as a communication terminal receives the short mail displayed on the display screen as shown in FIG.

Next, the communication terminal transmits the character strings "NAME:" and "TE" in the text data of the short mail.
L: ", the message type of the short mail is determined to be" personal data ", and a menu screen including" save personal data "in the menu type is displayed on the display (see FIG. 8).

When the user selects "save personal data", the name "Ichiro Suzuki" and the phone number "09012345678" are stored in the memory of the main unit.

<Second Embodiment In the Case of Schedule Data> An example of a case where schedule data is shared between communication terminals according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 9 and FIG. First, a mobile terminal as a communication terminal is shown in FIG.
Receive the short mail displayed on the display screen as shown in.

Next, the communication terminal transmits the character strings "START:" and "DE" in the text data of the short mail.
SC: ", the message type of the short mail is determined to be" schedule data ", and a menu screen including" schedule storage "in the menu type is displayed on the display (see FIG. 10).

If the user selects "schedule storage", the start time is "January 1, 2000".
7:30 on the 5th ”, with the description“ meeting (first meeting room) ”
To the memory inside the main unit.

(Other Embodiments) In the above-described embodiment, an example has been described in which a mobile terminal of a mobile phone system is used as a communication terminal, but the present invention is not limited to this case. If data can be shared with other communication terminals by any communication means, PHS
It is obvious to those skilled in the art that the present invention can be implemented using any communication terminal such as a terminal or a pager terminal.

In the above-described embodiment, the case where each embodiment is realized independently has been described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to this case. It is obvious for those skilled in the art that the embodiments can be implemented in appropriate combinations.

[0047]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, a receiving means for receiving text data from an external communication terminal, and a determination as to whether or not a predetermined character string exists in the text data. Determining means for determining the presence of a character string, determining means for determining a menu type corresponding to the character string, and generating a menu screen including the menu type determined by the determining means. With this arrangement, necessary information can be automatically extracted from the text data, and the menu screen can be automatically generated accordingly.

Further, according to the present invention, a display means for displaying the menu screen generated by the generating means is further provided, so that the menu screen generated automatically by the user can be displayed on the display.

Further, according to the present invention, selecting means for selecting one menu type from the menu screen displayed by the display means, and storing means for storing data corresponding to the menu type selected by the selecting means in the memory. , The transmitted data can be selectively stored in the main body.

Still further, according to the present invention, the text data includes data relating to personal data and / or schedule data, so that personal data can be directly transmitted between portable telephones or the like via a message transmission means such as a short mail. By transmitting and receiving the schedule data, data sharing between groups can be facilitated.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of an external structure of a mobile device to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a functional block diagram of a mobile device to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a list of predetermined property names and corresponding property data.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the mobile device according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing details of a received message type determination.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing in detail a process for corresponding each item of property data and personal data.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a display screen display of the mobile device in the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a display screen display of the mobile device in the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a display screen display of the mobile device in the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a display screen display of a mobile device according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of a hardware configuration of a mobile device to which the present invention is applied.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 100 mobile device 102 display 104 function key 106 numeric keypad 108 antenna 200 mobile device 202 short mail receiving unit 204 property data interpreting unit 206 menu screen generation unit 208 menu screen display unit 210 memory storage unit 1100 mobile device 1102 communication control unit 1104 CPU 1106 memory

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Yuko Kawamoto 2-10-1 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo NTT Mobile Communications Network Co., Ltd. F-term (reference) 5B089 GA25 GB04 HA11 JA31 JB01 KA04 KB06 KB11 KC32 KC53 LB04 LB14 5K027 AA11 BB01 CC08 FF22 5K067 AA21 BB04 BB21 DD53 EE02 FF02 FF23 HH22 HH23 5K101 KK02 LL12 NN02 NN03 NN18 NN21 TT06

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A communication terminal, comprising: receiving means for receiving text data from an external communication terminal; determining means for determining whether or not a predetermined character string is present in the text data; When it is determined that the character string is present, there are provided: a determining unit that determines a menu type corresponding to the character string; and a generating unit that generates a menu screen including the menu type determined by the determining unit. A communication terminal characterized in that: 2. The communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a display unit that displays the menu screen generated by the generation unit. 3. The communication terminal according to claim 2, wherein said selecting means selects one of said menu types from said menu screen displayed by said display means, and corresponds to said menu type selected by said selecting means. And a storage means for storing data to be stored in a memory. 4. The communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the text data includes personal data and / or data related to schedule data. 5. A data sharing method for a communication terminal, comprising: a receiving step of receiving text data from an external communication terminal; a determining step of determining whether a predetermined character string exists in the text data; When it is determined by the determining step that the character string exists, a determining step of determining a menu type corresponding to the character string; and generating a menu screen including the menu type determined by the determining step. And a data sharing method for a communication terminal. 6. The data sharing method for a communication terminal according to claim 5, further comprising a display step of displaying the menu screen generated in the generation step. 7. The data sharing method for a communication terminal according to claim 6, wherein: a selection step of selecting one of the menu types from the menu screen displayed in the display step; Storing the data corresponding to the menu type in a memory. 8. The data sharing method for a communication terminal according to claim 5, wherein said text data includes data relating to personal data and / or schedule data. Data sharing method.