KR20060010443A - Method for phone-number searching in mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for using a wireless cellular phone, and more particularly, to a method for using a wireless cellular phone that enables integrated search in telephone number search. The present invention comprises the steps of selecting a character or number input mode in the telephone number search menu mode selected by the user from a shortcut key or an initial menu; A user inputting a desired search target in the selected letter or number input mode; The terminal controller checking a search target from a database; And displaying, by the terminal, the identified search target.

 Phone book, Personal cell phone, Search menu

Description

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1 is a block diagram illustrating a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

2 is a diagram showing the structure of a database according to the present invention.

3 is a flowchart showing a phone number search method according to the present invention.

The present invention relates to a method for using a wireless cellular phone, and more particularly, to a method for using a wireless cellular phone that enables integrated search in telephone number search.

Mobile communication terminals are rapidly spreading due to the convenience of portability, and thus service providers (terminal manufacturers) are competitively developing terminals having more special functions to secure a large number of users.                         

For example, a mobile communication terminal may include a phone book, a game, a scheduler, a short message, the internet, an e-mail, a morning call, and the like. It provides various functions. In particular, one of the most used functions in the mobile communication terminal is the "phone book".

In the prior art, looking at the phone book function of the terminal, the most frequently used is a search function that searches by name of a person and lists the search results by name. In addition, a search function using a shortcut number, a part of a phone number, a group classification, a storage time, etc. is provided.

Meanwhile, the user may press a separate search button to search for a phone number or find and search for a phone number search screen in an initial menu. Accordingly, when the phone number search screen is opened, the user may start a search by selecting a desired search item from the phone number search menu. That is, in the menu structure of a conventional telephone number, the telephone number search menu has a menu such as search by name, search by number, and speed dial search. If the user wants to change the selected search method, the user should return to the initial menu and select the desired search method again.

That is, in the prior art, when a user wants to search for a specific phone number in an idle state, the user can first select a phone book menu, and then go through a phone number search menu and finally search for a desired phone number. Accordingly, in the prior art, even when a simple telephone number search is performed, the process of reaching the telephone number input screen is not simple since the telephone number search is possible only after all the above steps are performed.

In addition, the prior art has a very low frequency of use of the user, as well as search by number or search by speed dial number in the phone number search menu, as well as the phone number search only for the selected search method. As a result, there is a problem in that the use of a frequently used phone number search function is inconvenient, which greatly impairs user convenience.

The present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems, the mobile phone by selecting the appropriate method according to the user's input to search. It is an object of the present invention to provide a user convenience and a method for shortening a phone number search time and steps.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a method comprising: selecting a character or number input mode in a phone number search menu mode selected from a shortcut key or an initial menu; A user inputting a desired search target in the selected letter or number input mode; The terminal controller checking a search target from a database; And displaying, by the terminal, the identified search target.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION A detailed description of preferred embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description of the present invention, if it is determined that a detailed description of a related known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted. The terms to be described below are terms defined in consideration of functions in the present invention, which may vary according to a user's intention or custom, and the definitions should be made based on the contents throughout the specification.

As described above, in the present invention, when a user selects a phone number search item from a phone book menu and opens a phone number search input window, an appropriate search is performed according to a format input by the user. That is, the above-described phone number search method can be applied to the phone number search input screen. For example, if an item input by a user is a string corresponding to a name, a name search is performed, and if a number is searched, a number search is performed. You can use it.

In the integrated phone number search input window, the user inputs a character string to search while switching between Korean and digits, and selects and searches a suitable search method according to the user input value in the database.

1 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention. In the following description, the mobile communication terminal includes a cellular phone, a personal communication system (PCS), a personal data assistant (PDA), an international mobile communication-2000 (IMT2000) terminal, and the like. The following description will be described with the general configuration of the above examples.

Referring to FIG. 1, a controller (MPU: Micro-processor unit) 100 controls the overall operation of the mobile terminal. For example, it performs processing and control for voice call and data communication. Therefore, in the following description, description about the process and control of the normal control part 100 is abbreviate | omitted.

The read only memory (ROM) 102 stores microcode and various reference data of a program for processing and controlling the control unit 100. Random Access Memory (RAM) 104 is a working memory of the controller 100. Stores temporary data generated during the execution of various programs. The flash ROM 106 may be referred to as a database that stores various updatable data for storage such as a phone book.

Key pad 108 includes 0 to 9 numeric keys, menu, cancel (clear), confirm, call (TALK), end (END), internet access, navigation keys (up / down / left). / Right) and a plurality of function keys, and provides key input data corresponding to the key pressed by the user to the controller 300. In particular, the four navigation keys are used as shortcuts to directly enter specific menu items (eg, message management (←), phone book (→), top menu list (↑), music box (↓)). As can be seen, a typical terminal has two keys (menu key, navigation key) for entering the top menu list.                     

The display 110 displays status information generated during the operation of the mobile communication terminal, a limited number of characters, a large amount of video and still images, and the like. The display unit 100 may use a color liquid crystal display (LCD).

The codec (Coder-Decoder) 112 connected to the control unit 100 and the speaker 116 and the microphone 114 connected to the codec 112 are voice input / output blocks used for phone calls and voice recording. . The codec 112 converts the PCM data provided from the controller 100 into an analog voice signal and transmits the same through the speaker 116 and converts the voice signal received through the microphone 114 into PCM data. Provided to the controller 100.

In addition, the RF unit (Radio Frequency unit) (120) is the frequency of the radio frequency signal received via the antenna 118 is provided to the baseband processing unit 122 by lowering the frequency, the baseband signal from the baseband processing unit 122 The frequency is raised and transmitted through the antenna 118. The baseband processor 122 processes a baseband signal transmitted and received between the RF unit 120 and the controller 100.

For example, in the case of transmission, channel coding and spreading of data to be transmitted are performed, and in the case of reception, the function of despreading and channel decoding of a received signal is performed. . That is, the baseband processor 122 is a block for demodulating various channels (calling channel, traffic channel, etc.) received from the base station or generating various channels (access channel, traffic channel, etc.) transmitted to the base station. .

2 is a view showing an example of the structure of a database according to the present invention. An example of the structure of a database according to the present invention is as follows. As shown in the figure, up to 1000 records can be stored, and one record can be implemented to contain data such as name, phone number, email, and the like.

If the user input is numeric only, for example, searching for "016", the database application uses the name and phone number of the table address of the record that matches the search term entered by the user. The database is queried for five fields, and the database returns the table address of the matching record to the application.

In the conventional structure, the name search is performed only on the name field, and the number search is performed only on the number field. In the database search according to the present invention, both the name and number fields are checked and searched. Return the corresponding table address to the application.

In this case, if the user's input is an ASCII code value consisting only of numbers, only the number field can be searched for the efficiency of the search. Otherwise, only the name field can be searched to increase the search efficiency. .

3 is a flowchart illustrating a phone number search method according to the present invention. First, the user selects a phone number search menu from the initial screen of the mobile phone (S10). In general, the phone number menu is provided so that a phone number search window is opened by a single button input with a separate phone number search key, but the user may find and select a phone number search menu from the initial screen.

When the phone number search window is opened according to the phone number search menu selection, the user first selects whether to enter letters or numbers. This can be selected by a pop-up window that is a separate selection screen that appears at the bottom of the phone number search window (S20).

When the user inputs a search target on the selection screen (S30), the controller performs a search for the search target from the database. At this time, the search target input by the user is a letter or number selected by the user. As described above, the database search by the controller is performed by the ASCII code value of the letter or number input by the user (S40).

According to the input value, the controller first searches for a name item or a number item in the database. That is, the control unit may determine that the user's input ASCII code value is a number when searching for a phone number, '#' 35, '*' 42, and '0' to '9' (48 ~). 57), if only a combination of 'p' (112) is used, database search is performed by number, and in other cases, search is performed by name.

Even when a name and a number are combined, the search is performed by the same method as described above. That is, regardless of the input value, the controller searches whether there is data corresponding to the input ASCII value from the database. If the matched data exists as a result of the search, the searched information is output to the user through the display unit (S50). If the matched data does not exist as a result of the search, a message “There is no corresponding object” is output to the user through the display unit. In the case of a wrong input during the search process, the user can cancel the input by pressing the cancel button, which is one of ordinary functions, and newly input or return to the previous menu.

The technical spirit of the present invention has been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but this is by way of example only and not intended to limit the present invention. In addition, it is obvious that any person skilled in the art can make various modifications and imitations without departing from the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

According to the present invention, the mobile phone selects and retrieves an appropriate method according to a user input. The user can process the phone book search in a fast step and speed, thereby increasing user convenience.

Claims (6)

In the method of using a wireless mobile phone to enable integrated search in the phone number search, Selecting a character or number input mode in a phone number search menu mode selected from a shortcut key or an initial menu; A user inputting a desired search target in the selected letter or number input mode; The terminal controller checking a search target from a database; And The terminal comprises the step of displaying the identified search target wireless cell phone using method. The method of claim 1, wherein the selecting of the character or number input mode comprises selecting whether to input Korean or English characters. The method of claim 1, wherein the checking of the search target from the database comprises: the terminal controller confirming the search target by an ASCII code value. The method of claim 3, wherein the terminal controller checks only a text field of a database when a text is input to identify a search target. The method of claim 3, wherein the terminal controller checks a search target by searching only a numeric field of a database when a number is input. The method of claim 3, wherein the terminal controller checks a search target by searching both a character and a number field of a database when a combination of letters and numbers is input.

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