KR20040095832A - Method for searching information in hand held terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for retrieving information in a portable terminal is provided to add a comment view function interworked with a telephone directory function to record information on a specific person, and to display the recorded contents by interworking with a telephone directory, so that a user can conveniently retrieve specific information. CONSTITUTION: A system displays a telephone directory screen. The system displays details about a retrieved telephone directory. The system confirms whether a comment view button is pressed on the telephone directory screen. If so, the system displays detailed information on a comment view screen interworked with the details about the retrieved telephone directory. When pressing the comment view button, the system inputs specific detailed information, and stores the inputted information in a storage area of the telephone directory. The system selects a deletion of the specific detailed information, and deletes the detailed information from the storage area of the telephone directory.

Description

METHOD FOR SEARCHING INFORMATION IN HAND HELD TERMINAL}

The present invention relates to a portable terminal, and more particularly, to an information retrieval method.

Portable terminals, in particular mobile communication terminals, have been rapidly spread in size and weight due to the development of communication technology.

The mobile communication terminal has a phone book function for storing a contact of a specific person so that a user can search for a name and a phone number as needed.

A brief description of a conventional phonebook input method is as follows.

First, when the user selects the phone book input button on the terminal menu screen, the terminal controller displays the phone book input screen.

Accordingly, the user selects a desired item by using a keypad on the phonebook input screen and inputs corresponding information. In this case, if you select the 'Name' item, switch to the Hangul character keypad and enter the name. If you select the 'Mobile Phone', 'Home', 'Company', 'Fax' and 'Birthday' items, switch to the numeric keypad. If you select the 'Email' item, switch to the alphabetic or numeric keypad as needed and enter the alphabetic or numeric characters.

In the same manner as described above, a name, a mobile phone number, a home phone number, an e-mail address, a fax number, and the like are input as shown in the example of FIG. 1, and then the corresponding information is stored in the memory of the terminal by pressing the save button.

Then, if necessary, the phone book search button is selected on the terminal menu screen to search for a desired phone number, e-mail address, etc. in the phone book for the specific person as shown in the example of FIG.

However, in the related art, there is a limitation in that only an item set on the input menu can be stored.

Therefore, in the related art, it is not possible to input information other than a fixed item, which is inconvenient to memo or store the information.

Accordingly, the present invention records the information on a specific person in order to improve the inconvenience of the conventional and the information of the portable terminal invented to give the user the convenience of searching for a specific information by allowing the recorded information to be displayed in conjunction with the phone book The purpose is to provide a search method.

1 is an exemplary view of a conventional phone book detail screen.

Figure 2 is an exemplary view of a phone book detail screen in an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an information retrieval process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a method of displaying a phone book screen by a user's key input, displaying a phone book history of a specific person searched by a user, and displaying a comment content button on the phone book detail screen. The step of checking whether it is pressed, and if the button to view the comment content is pressed in the above, characterized in that it performs the step of displaying detailed information on the comment content view screen linked to the corresponding phone book details.

To this end, each phone book screen has a comment content view button, and if the comment content view button is pressed, the corresponding comment content is configured to be displayed on the screen.

The comment content is input on the corresponding comment input screen displayed by the selection of a specific key on the menu screen, and is stored in the database by pressing the save button.

The comment content viewing step may include storing information input after the information input button is pressed on the comment content view screen in a database of the corresponding screen, and information selected after the information deletion button is pressed on the comment content view screen. It includes the step of deleting from the database of the screen.

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

According to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in the operation flowchart of FIG. 3, the method may include checking whether a phone book button is selected on a menu screen, displaying a phone book screen when the phone book button is selected, and calling the phone. Displaying the phone book details of the specific person searched by the user on the phone book screen; checking whether the view comment content button is pressed on the phone book history screen; and if the view comment content button is pressed, the link is linked to the corresponding phone book history. And displaying the comment content view screen.

Referring to Figure 2 the operation and effects of the embodiment of the present invention configured as described above are as follows.

In order to provide the comment content view screen to the user as in the present invention, a process of storing the corresponding information details is required.

First of all, to input comment contents, display the comment contents input screen directly without moving to the phone book screen on the menu screen according to the user's key input.If the user inputs specific information by using the keypad, the information details are displayed on the screen.

When the user presses the save button while the specific information is input, the input information is recorded in the database area in which the phone book details of the specific person associated with the information are stored.

The specific information stored as described above may be moved directly to the comment content viewing screen from the menu screen to retrieve the information history.

In addition, the specific information stored as described above can be retrieved from the phone book details screen of the specific person associated with the information, which will be described below.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the process of storing the phone book history is made in the same process as in the prior art, so a detailed description thereof will be omitted and only the comment content viewing process will be described.

The user presses a menu button to display a menu screen on the main screen of the portable terminal and presses a phone book button on the menu screen to display a phone book screen.

Then, the user selectively enters all or a part of a specific person's information, for example, name, phone number (home, office, mobile phone), and e-mail address, on the phone book screen to search for the phone book history of the specific person. .

Then, when all the phone book details list included in the input is displayed on the screen, the user searches for the desired phone book details list.

Subsequently, if a user searches for a desired phonebook list and presses a confirmation button, the corresponding phonebook list is displayed on the terminal screen. At this time, the phone book details displayed on the screen is the same as the example of FIG.

Accordingly, the user can check the phone number, e-mail address, pass number or date of birth of the mobile phone, home, company, etc. of the specific person.

In addition, if you want to check whether there is a specific information record history for the particular person after checking the phone book details, the view the comment content button is selected on the example screen of FIG. Here, the specific information is everyday information that is not included in the phone book details such as family matters and appointment times.

Accordingly, when there is no specific information on a specific person, a message "No content is currently recorded" is displayed on the terminal screen, and when there is information on a specific person, information on the currently stored information is displayed on the terminal screen. At this time, the comment content view screen is the same as the example of FIG.

Meanwhile, specific information can be entered, stored, or deleted on the comment content view screen.

To this end, the comment content view screen includes an information input button, a save button, and a delete button.

First, when the user enters the comment content view screen and searches for specific information, and wants to record arbitrary information, the user presses the information input button and then switches to the character keypad and numeric keypad as necessary and inputs the information. When the input of the information is completed, the save button is pressed to save the current information into the database.

If there is information that needs to be deleted when searching the comment content view screen, the user places the cursor on the information and presses the delete button to delete the information from the database.

As described in detail above, the present invention has an effect of providing a convenience of allowing a user to record additional information of a specific person by displaying a menu of viewing comment contents that can be recorded and deleted in association with the phonebook details.

That is, conventionally, the phone book function can store only predetermined information such as name, mobile phone number, e-mail, home phone number, and ringtone designation for each individual. However, the present invention provides a comment content view function that works with the phone book function. In addition, the user's detailed information can be stored together to provide convenience to the user.

Claims (4)

In the information retrieval method, Displaying the phone book screen; Displaying the history of the specific phone book the user searched for; Confirming whether a button for viewing comment contents is pressed on the phonebook history screen; And displaying detailed information on a comment content view screen linked with the corresponding phone book details when the comment content view button is pressed. The method of claim 1, wherein viewing the comment content Entering specific details on the comment contents view screen and saving them in the storage area of the phone book; And deleting the specific detailed information from the view of the comment contents and deleting the corresponding detailed information from the storage area of the phone book. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the comment content view screen is configured to directly enter the main menu screen. The method of claim 3, wherein the comment content view screen comprises a button for inputting detailed contents, a button for storing current input detailed information, and a button for deleting specific detailed information currently recorded. Information retrieval method of the portable terminal.