KR100844494B1 - Method and apparatus for data management of particular person in mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for managing data according to each of particular persons in a mobile communication terminal and a device therefor are provided to store data related to particular persons as adding information data to the data when the data is stored, thus a user can collectively extract the data related to the particular persons, consequently the data can be easily managed. It is confirmed whether a particular person is registered as a data storage request is inputted(S210,S220). If so, it is confirmed whether data is related to the particular person(S230,S240). If so, the data is stored while information on the particular person is added to the data(S250,S260). If a data processing request for the selected particular person is inputted, only the data added with the information on the particular person is extracted and processed.

Description

Method and apparatus for data management of particular person in mobile communication terminal

1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a specific person registration process according to a specific person data management method of the present invention.

3 is a diagram showing a registration screen that is specific to a mobile communication terminal according to the present embodiment;

4 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a data storage process according to a specific person data management method of the present embodiment.

5 and 6 are views showing a pop-up message window of the mobile communication terminal according to the present embodiment.

7 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a process of processing data related to a specific person according to a specific person-specific data management method of the present invention.

8 is a diagram schematically illustrating a specific selection screen of a mobile communication terminal according to the present embodiment.

9 is a diagram schematically showing a data display screen of a mobile communication terminal according to the present embodiment.

10 is a diagram schematically showing a data structure to which information data is added according to the present embodiment.

The present invention relates to a specific person data management method and apparatus of a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, specific person data of a mobile communication terminal capable of collectively managing data associated with a specific person among data stored in the mobile communication terminal. It relates to a management method and apparatus.

In general, a mobile communication terminal is a personal mobile communication service terminal (Personal Mobile Communication Services Terminal), a personal digital assistant (PDA), a smart phone (Smart Phone), the next-generation mobile communication terminal (International Mobile Telecommunication 2000: IMT ?? 2000), and refers to a terminal that can be implemented by a person, such as a wireless LAN terminal, and implement various functions using application programs including wireless communication.

The mobile communication terminal is not only compact and lightweight due to steady development, but also has emerged as a multi-communication terminal with various functions such as mp3, camera and navigation, and is already becoming a necessity of modern man.

As the mobile communication terminal includes various functions as described above, various information and numerous data are always stored in the mobile communication terminal, and the user easily uses the stored data as needed.

Data stored in the mobile communication terminal is very diverse, mainly the content data is stored and used. In recent years, users of mobile communication terminals have not only general content data but also generate and store content data (eg, photo files, video files, messages, etc.) for various people with whom they are familiar. It is very active. And, because of this, the data stored and used in the mobile communication terminal is constantly increasing.

However, the conventional mobile communication terminal uses a very simple data management method. That is, a method of sequentially storing data in a time sequence and classifying and retrieving data by using a stored time, a file name, a stored folder, or the like is used. Such a conventional data management method has a disadvantage in that it is very inconvenient to classify or retrieve data according to a person who is familiar with a user.

Therefore, there is a need for a more efficient data management method capable of managing data stored in a mobile communication terminal for each person.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, and to provide a data management method and device for a specific person of the mobile communication terminal that can manage the data stored in the mobile communication terminal for each specific person registered by the user. It's there.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a data management method for a specific person in a mobile communication terminal, when the data storage request is input, the data storage process of adding and storing the specific person information to the data if the data is related to the specific person; And a data extraction process of extracting and processing only the data to which the specific person information is added when there is an input of a data processing request for the selected specific person.

In addition, the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention for achieving the above object is an information data adding unit for adding the specific person information to the data when the data storage request is input, if the data related to the specific person, and for the selected specific person When there is an input of a data processing request, it characterized in that it comprises a specific data processing unit for extracting and processing only the data to which the specific information is added.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In describing the embodiments, descriptions of technical contents which are well known in the technical field to which the present invention belongs and are not directly related to the present invention will be omitted. In addition, detailed description of components having substantially the same configuration and function will be omitted.

For the same reason, some components in the accompanying drawings are exaggerated, omitted, or schematically illustrated, and the size of each component does not entirely reflect the actual size.

1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the mobile communication terminal 100 according to the present embodiment includes a wireless communication unit 130, an audio processing unit 140, a key input unit 160, a display unit 150, a storage unit 170, and a controller ( 190).

The wireless communication unit 130 performs a function of transmitting and receiving corresponding data for wireless communication of the mobile communication terminal 100. The wireless communication unit 130 may include an RF transmitter for upconverting and amplifying a frequency of a transmitted signal, and an RF receiver for low noise amplifying and downconverting a received signal. In addition, the wireless communication unit 130 may receive data through a wireless channel, output the data to the controller 190, and transmit data output from the controller 190 through a wireless channel.

The audio processor 140 may be configured as a coder (Coder / Decoder), and the codec may include a data codec for processing packet data and an audio codec for processing an audio signal such as voice. Therefore, the audio processor 140 converts the digital audio data received by the controller 190 through the wireless communication unit 130 into an analog audio signal through an audio codec and outputs the speaker to the speaker, and the analog audio signal input from the microphone. Is converted into digital audio data through an audio codec and provided to the controller 190.

The key input unit 160 receives a user's operation signal for controlling the mobile communication terminal 100 and transmits it to the controller 190. To this end, the key input unit 160 includes a control key (not shown) for controlling the operation of the mobile communication terminal 100 and a plurality of numeric keys (not shown) for inputting letters and numbers.

The display unit 150 displays data output from the controller 190 on the screen. Herein, the liquid crystal display (LCD) may be applied to the display unit 150. In this case, the display unit 150 may include an LCD controller, a memory capable of storing data, and an LCD display device. In this case, when the LCD is implemented using the touch screen method, the screen of the display unit 150 may be operated as an input unit.

The storage unit 170 includes a program memory and data memories. The program memory stores programs for controlling general operations of the mobile communication terminal 100. Data generated during program execution is stored in the data memory. In addition, the storage unit 170 according to the present embodiment stores content data transmitted by the user to the mobile communication terminal 100 and a specific database (hereinafter, referred to as a specific DB) 172.

The specific person DB 172 is a database in which information of a person registered as a specific person by the user of the mobile communication terminal 100 is stored. The specific ID field into which an identification number is inputted and a relationship with the user (eg, a lover, a friend, a younger brother) Etc.) and a name field into which a specific person's name (eg, Hong Gil-dong, Yoo Kwan-soon, etc.) is input.

The controller 190 performs an overall control operation of the mobile communication terminal 100. In addition, the controller 190 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes an information data adding unit 192 and a specific person data processing unit 194 for processing data related to a specific person.

If the data requested to be stored in the storage unit 170 is data related to a specific person registered by the user, the information data adding unit 192 adds the specific person's information to the data. In this embodiment, information of a specific person added to the data in this process is called information data. However, it is not limited thereto.

The specific person data processing unit 194 extracts the corresponding data from the user and processes the data according to the request of the user when requested.

Next, a specific person data management method according to the present invention will be described in detail by way of examples. The configuration of the above-described mobile communication terminal 100 will also be clearer from the following description of the specific person-specific data management method.

2 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a specific registration process of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

1 and 2, a specific registration process according to the present embodiment will be described.

In operation S110, the user manipulates the key input unit 160 to input a specific registration request. The controller 190 recognizes this and displays a specific registration screen on the display unit 150 in step S120.

3 is a diagram illustrating a specific registration screen of the mobile communication terminal 100 according to the present embodiment. Referring to this, the specific registration screen is stored in a phone book (not shown) of the mobile communication terminal 100. A list A is displayed. And, in addition, it comprises an input field (B) for inputting a person not stored in the phone book.

In step S130, the user finds and selects a specific person through a list (A) of the phone book. In addition, the user may input a new specific person through the input field B. FIG. In this process, when the user wants to register several specific persons, the user selects all names of the desired persons sequentially using the list A.

When the user selects all the specific persons desired, the user manipulates the key input unit 160 to register the selected specific persons in step S140, and accordingly, the controller 190 stores the records of the selected specific persons in the specific database DB 172 of the storage unit 170. ) To complete the registration process.

When the at least one specific person (eg, related order) record is registered in the specific person DB (172) through the above process, all data stored in the mobile communication terminal 100 afterwards are registered with the registered specific person (eg, related order). It is saved while checking the relatedness. Referring to the data storage process of the present invention in detail as follows.

4 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a data storage process according to a specific person data management method of the present embodiment.

In the data storage process according to the present embodiment, a process of receiving a data storage request is first performed in step S210. The data storage request is input by the user, and the data may be transmitted through various paths such as the Internet or a PC.

Here, the data according to the present embodiment means general content data. That is, it refers to all content that can be played through the content player. Therefore, the data according to the present exemplary embodiment may not only include audio content such as MP3 and WMA, video contents including AVI, WMV, ASF, etc., but also all content data such as still image data (photo) and text data (message, memo). Include.

When a data storage request is input, the controller 190 checks whether a specific person is registered in the DB 172 which is a specific part of the mobile communication terminal 100 in step S220. If a specific person is not registered, the controller 190 stores the data according to a general conventional data storage process (S260).

However, if a specific person is registered in step S220, the process proceeds to step S230, the information data adding unit 192 of the controller 190 displays a pop-up message window on the display unit 150.

5 and 6 are diagrams illustrating a pop-up message window of the mobile communication terminal 100 according to the present embodiment. First, when the pop-up message window is displayed as shown in FIG. The process of selecting one of 'specific data' and 'general data'. FIG. 5 illustrates a case in which 'Yu-Gwan-Soon' is registered as a specific person, and thus, 'specific-related data' is displayed as' Yu-Su-related data.

If the data that the user wants to store is data related to a specific person (eg, related order), the user selects 'related data related'. On the other hand, if the data is not related to a specific person, the user selects 'general data'.

If the user selects 'general data', the information data adding unit 192 stores the corresponding data in the same manner as in the conventional method (S260). However, when the user selects 'relevance related data', the information data adding unit 192 enters the process S250 described later.

Here, the pop-up message window shown in FIG. 5 shows a pop-up message window that is displayed when only one specific person (related order) is registered in the specific person DB 172. However, when the user has registered several specific persons in the specific DB 172, the information data adding unit 192 displays the popup message window shown in FIG. The pop-up message window of FIG. 6 displays all the specific persons registered by the user. Therefore, in this case, the user selects a specific person related to the data to be stored in the popup message window.

As such, in step S240, when the user selects 'specific related information' through a popup message (in case of FIG. 5) or selects a specific person related to data to be stored currently (in case of FIG. 6), the information data adding unit 192 It is recognized that the data to be stored is data related to a specific person.

The information data adding unit 192 proceeds to step S250 and performs the process of adding the information data to the data to be stored. 10 is a diagram schematically showing a data structure to which information data is added according to the present embodiment.

Referring to this, the information data I is data including information indicating a specific person related to the data, and is added to the end of the data D requested to be stored by the user. The information data I according to the present embodiment may include a name of a specific person, and an ID number stored in a specific ID field of the specific DB 172 may be input. In addition, any data including information that can be distinguished by a specific person, such as using a method of differently generating the length of the information data I added for the specific person, may be used in various ways.

Meanwhile, in order to indicate that the data D is data D related to a specific person, other methods may be used in addition to the above-described information data adding method. For example, a specific information database (not shown) may be constructed in the mobile communication terminal 100 to store and use specific information and information related to the data. In this case, it is preferable that information (eg, storage location, data name, data size, storage date, etc.) of the corresponding data and information (eg, specific name, specific ID, etc.) of a specific person match and store with each other.

Subsequently, when the information data I is added to the data D in step S250, the controller 190 stores the data DI to which the information data I is added in the storage unit 170 in step S260. Terminate the data storage process.

If the above data storage process is repeated, the mobile communication terminal 100 stores a plurality of data. In the conventional case, it is not easy to extract and use only data related to a specific person among the plurality of data. However, according to the process of processing the data of a specific person according to the present invention, it is possible to extract only the specific data of a specific person very easily. The specific data processing process for each specific person is described in detail as follows.

7 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a process of processing data related to a specific person according to a method for managing data for a specific person according to the present invention. 8 is a diagram schematically showing a specific selection screen of the mobile communication terminal 100 according to the present embodiment, and FIG. 9 is a diagram schematically showing a data display screen of the mobile communication terminal 100 according to the present embodiment. to be.

1 to 9, when a user wants to manage only data according to a specific person in the mobile communication terminal 100 in a standby state in step S10, the user requests specific person management through the key input unit 160. Accordingly, a management request specific to the mobile communication terminal 100 is received (S11).

The specific data manager 194 of the controller 190 checks whether there is one or more specific persons registered in the specific DB 172. If only one specific person (eg, related order) is registered, the specific person data manager 194 enters the process S15 and displays a management screen for the specific person.

However, when two or more specific persons are registered in the specific DB 172, the specific data manager 194 enters the process S13 and displays the specific selection screen as shown in FIG.

Referring to FIG. 8, the specific person selection screen lists and displays all the specific people registered by the user. When the user selects a specific person (eg, related order) in step S14, the specific person data manager 194 displays a management screen for the specific person selected in step S15.

When a specific person is selected through the above-described processes S11 to S15 and a management screen is displayed on the display unit 150, the user inputs various processing commands for data related to the specific person (hereinafter related). In this embodiment, a user inputs an entire data display command and an entire data deletion command for data related to 'relevant order' and thus processes the corresponding command. However, various treatments are possible in addition to this.

First, in step S16, when a delete command for the selected 'relevant order' related data is input by the user, the specific data processor enters the process S51 and searches for and extracts all data related to the 'related order'. In this case, the specific data processor searches only the data to which the information data (I of FIG. 10) is added through the S250 process of FIG. 3. When there is only one specific person registered in the specific person DB 172, all the data to which the information data is added are data related to the specific person. Therefore, the specific data management unit 194 extracts all data to which the information data is added. In this case, the specific data manager 194 may extract the corresponding data very quickly.

However, when a plurality of specific persons are registered in the specific persons DB 172, the specific persons data management unit 194 may search for and extract data corresponding to the specific persons (eg, related order) among the data to which the information data is added. .

Next, the data management unit 194 specific to the process S52 deletes all the data retrieved and extracted at once. In operation S53, the related information information stored in the specific DB 172 is deleted. As described above, according to the present invention, all data related to a specific person can be collectively deleted by only a request for deleting a data related to a specific person, unlike the conventional method of directly checking and deleting all data one by one.

On the other hand, if the request to display the 'relevant order' related data in step S16 is not input in step S16 and the 'relevant order' related data display request in step S17 is input, the specific data manager 194 enters the process in step S18 and the data related to the 'relevant order' Extract all At this time, the process of extracting data is performed in the same manner as the above-described process S51. Therefore, description thereof is omitted.

If all data is extracted in step S18, the specific data management unit 194 enters the process S19 and displays all the extracted data. At this time, the extracted data are classified and displayed by data type. That is, as shown in FIG. 9, sound source data (Sound), video data (Video), still image data (Image), message data (Message), etc. are classified by the same type and displayed in a folder format.

When the extracted data is displayed, in step S20, the user searches for and selects a desired data file, and executes the corresponding data by inputting an execution request for the selected data as necessary.

The method and apparatus for managing data for a specific person in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention performed through the above process adds and stores information data to data related to a specific person. Therefore, the user can easily extract and manage data related to a specific person, and can be deleted in a batch. For example, when a user's lover is registered and used as a specific person, the user may collectively manage various data such as video data of the lover, pictures taken with the lover, and a message transmitted from the lover.

In the present embodiment, an example of adding information data to all data for each specific person is described. However, the present invention is not limited thereto and may be applied to manage data according to various criteria such as a specific place, or a specific day, rather than a specific person.

In addition, the specific person data management method and apparatus of the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention are not limited to the embodiments, and various modifications are possible by those skilled in the art within the technical idea of the present invention.

For example, in the present embodiment, a method of adding information data to the end of the data is used, but not limited thereto. The information data may be added to the front of the data or a separate specific information database may be constructed as described above. Can also be used. In addition, in the present embodiment, only the process of adding information data to the stored data has been described, but the process of deleting the added information data may be performed at the request of the user. The information data deletion process may be performed by selecting and requesting data that the user wants to delete from among the data displayed in the above-described step S19.

In addition, the present embodiment describes an example in which the mobile communication terminal manages data for each specific person. However, any electronic device that stores various data can be widely applied.

As described above, the method and apparatus for managing data for a specific person in a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention adds and stores information data to data related to the specific person during data storage. Therefore, the user can extract the data related to a specific person in a batch and can easily manage the data. In particular, when only one person is registered, the data can be extracted and displayed very quickly. In addition, even if it is desired to delete data related to a specific person, the convenience of deleting the corresponding data is provided in a batch.

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A setting process for checking whether or not a specific person is registered according to an input of a data storage request; A data confirmation process of confirming whether or not the data is related to a specific person when the specific person is registered; A data storing process of adding and storing the specific person information in the data if the data is related to the specific person; And a data extraction process of extracting and processing only the data to which the specific person information is added when there is an input of a data processing request for the selected specific person. The method of claim 1, wherein the data storage process comprises: An information generating process of generating information data indicative of the specific information, and And storing the information related to the specific person by adding the generated information data to the specific person related data. The method of claim 2, wherein the data checking process comprises: And a message displaying process of displaying a pop-up message window inquiring whether the data is related to the specific person. The method of claim 2, wherein the storing of the information comprises: And adding and storing the information data at the end of the specific person related data. The method of claim 2, wherein the information data, And data including at least one of an identification number for identifying the specific person or a name of the specific person. The method of claim 1, wherein the data extraction process comprises: A specific person selection process of selecting at least one specific person, A management screen displaying process of displaying a management screen corresponding to the selected specific person; And a data processing process of extracting and processing the data to which the specific information is added according to a request input through the management screen. The method of claim 6, wherein the data processing process, When a data display request is input through the management screen, the process of extracting and displaying all of the data to which the specific information is added, characterized in that the method for managing specific data of the mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 6, wherein the data processing process, If a data deletion request is input through the management screen, the data management method for each specific person of the mobile communication terminal, characterized in that the process of extracting and deleting all the data to which the specific information is added. The method of claim 6, wherein the specific selection process, Receiving a specific management request, Displaying a specific selection screen if there are two or more predetermined specific persons from the request; And a step of selecting at least one specific person on the specific person selection screen. The method of claim 1, And a specific person registration process of registering the specific person. The method of claim 10, wherein the specific registration process, Displaying a specific person registration screen according to the specific person's registration request; And registering at least one specific person through the specific person registration screen. The method of claim 11, wherein registering the at least one specific person comprises: And a process of registering the specific person using a list stored in a phone book. A controller for checking whether a specific person is registered according to an input of a data storage request; An information data adding unit which checks whether the data is related to a specific person when the specific person is registered, and adds the specific person information to the data if the specific person is related to the specific person; and And a specific data management unit configured to extract and process only the data to which the specific information is added when there is an input of a data processing request for the selected specific user. The method of claim 13, And a specific person database in which the specific person is registered and stored.

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