KR20070077418A - Method and apparatus for hiding a telephone number and an item related there to in a terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

An apparatus and a method for hiding a phone number stored in a terminal and an item relating to the phone number are provided to individually create the list of a phone number having a set password among phone numbers input to the terminal and allow the search of the list of general phone numbers. It is determined whether a password function is set with respect to an input phone number. The phone number is stored in a list of phone numbers having a set password if the password function is set. The phone number is stored in a list of general phone numbers if the password function is not set. The list of the general phone number is displayed. It is determined whether a preset password is input in order to display the list of the phone numbers having a password preset by a user. All lists of all phone numbers are displayed if the preset password is input.

Description

Method and apparatus for hiding a telephone number and an item related there to in a terminal}

Figure 1a is a block diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1B is a block diagram of a terminal telephone number according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a flow chart showing the phone number storage of the terminal according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart showing a telephone number list display of a terminal according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a view showing a list of phone numbers on a terminal screen according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a terminal, and in particular, to a method and apparatus for hiding a telephone number and a telephone number stored in an electronic phone book of a terminal.

Most terminals today have a built-in password function to protect the user's privacy, and the user can set the password arbitrarily for the desired menu list. The encryption function can be set in the terminal itself and can be set anywhere if the list contains a phone number such as a call list, voice message, text message, phone book, and the like.

In the conventional encryption function, the phone number is not visible to the list itself, thereby preventing other people from accessing it. Therefore, each time the user tries to view the list in the terminal, the user must enter the password one by one. In addition, in the case of setting the encryption function, it is successful to prevent the access of others, but it is to inform others that they are trying to hide something.

That is, when the conventional terminals use the privacy protection function, all the lists according to the phone number in which the password function is set in the terminal should be hidden and the password set whenever the user views the list in which the password function is set in the terminal. There was an uncomfortable problem to input.

The present invention, which was devised to solve this problem, provides a method and apparatus for generating a list of phone numbers with a password set separately from phone numbers input to a terminal to view only a list of general phone numbers until a password is input.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, in a method for hiding a password set a phone number in the terminal,

Determining whether an encryption function is set for the entered phone number;

When the encryption function is set, storing the phone number in a list of password-set phone numbers;

If the encryption function is not set, characterized in that it comprises the step of storing the telephone number in the general telephone number list.

According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, in a method of hiding a phone number-related item having a password set in a terminal,

Receiving a search request for phone number-related items;

Displaying phone number-related items corresponding to general phone numbers of which no password is set among all stored phone numbers;

Determining whether a preset password is input from the user;

And if the preset password is input, displaying telephone number related items corresponding to the entire telephone numbers including the telephone number having the password function set.

The device of the present invention is a device for hiding a telephone number set with a password,

A key input unit which receives at least one of a telephone number and a password corresponding to the telephone number;

A control unit for receiving the phone number and storing the phone number in a password-set phone number list or a general phone number list according to whether an encryption function is set for the phone number;

A memory unit for storing the general phone number list and the password-set phone number list;

And a display unit for displaying the telephone numbers included in at least one of the list of the general telephone number and the set of the encrypted telephone number under the control of the controller.

The foregoing has outlined rather broadly the features and technical advantages of the present invention in order that those skilled in the art may better understand the detailed description of the invention that follows.

Additional features and advantages of the invention will be described hereinafter which form the subject of the claims of the invention. Those skilled in the art should recognize that the disclosed concepts and specific embodiments of the invention may be readily used as a basis for modifying or designing other structures for achieving the same purposes of the present invention. Those skilled in the art should also recognize that structures equivalent to the invention do not depart from the spirit and scope of the broadest form of the invention.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In addition, detailed descriptions of well-known functions and configurations that may obscure the gist of the present invention will be omitted.

The main subject of the present invention is to separately manage the password set phone number list including the phone number set the password function among the phone numbers stored in the electronic phone book of the terminal, and enter the password for the password function, the password set phone number list Is displayed along with a list of common phone numbers that contain unencrypted phone numbers.

1A is a block diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1A, the control unit 110 receives a phone number from the key input unit 120 and displays it through the display unit 130, and receives an encryption function setting of the phone number through the key input unit 120. When the password function is set for the input phone number, the phone number is added to the password set phone number list of the memory unit 140, and if there is no password set phone number list stored in the memory unit 140, Generate the " password set telephone number list " including the telephone number;

When the control unit 110 receives a search command for the phone number list stored in the memory unit 140 from the key input unit 120, the control unit 110 only lists the general phone number until there is a password input. The display unit 140 is shown.

If a password is input through the key input unit 120 while displaying the list of general telephone numbers, the entire list including the list of the set telephone numbers and the list of general telephone numbers is displayed on the display unit 130.

The transmitter 150, the receiver 160, and the duplexer 180 are used to transmit and receive voice and messages, and the audio unit 170 is used to reproduce the received voice and the like.

1B is a view for explaining a telephone number list management of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The memory unit 140 stores the telephone number lists 140a and 140b. If the encryption function is not set for the input telephone number, the telephone number is sequentially stored in the general telephone number list 140a. On the other hand, if an encryption function is set for the entered phone number, the phone number is sequentially stored in the set phone number list 140b. As shown in FIG. 1B, the phone number is stored in any one list of the memory unit 140 according to the encryption function setting.

That is, the general phone number list includes phone numbers for which no password function is set, and the phone number set for encryption includes phone numbers for which the password function is set.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating the storage of a telephone number of a terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. When the telephone number is received in step 210, the terminal determines whether the telephone number is already stored in the electronic telephone book. 140). If the phone number is already stored, the information input for the phone number is omitted, but if there is no same number as the phone number, in step 230, the terminal provides information on the phone number, for example, name, group name, address. Get input etc. In step 240, the user selects whether to set a password function on the phone number. If the user does not set the password function, the terminal proceeds to step 260 to add the phone number to the general phone number list. Save it.

Here, the setting of the encryption function means that a password preset in the terminal is used for the entire telephone numbers, or a different password is set for each telephone number to be input.

On the other hand, if the encryption function is set to the phone number in step 240, the terminal proceeds to step 250 and searches for a list of the set phone number in the memory unit 140. If the password-set phone number list exists, proceed to step 280 to add the phone number to the password-set phone number list and store it. If the password-set phone number list does not exist, proceed to step 270. The list of encrypted telephone numbers is generated and the telephone number is stored in the generated encrypted telephone number list.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a telephone number list display of a terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

If the user presses a search key to find a desired phone number in the terminal (310), the terminal searches the phone book stored in the memory unit 140, and in step 320 to the memory unit 140 The stored general telephone number list is displayed on the display unit 130.

In operation 330, it is determined whether a ciphered telephone number list exists in the memory unit 140. If the ciphered telephone number list does not exist, only the general telephone number list is continuously displayed.

On the other hand, if the password-set phone number list exists, the process proceeds to step 340 where the terminal creates a complete list of the password-set phone number and the general phone number for the password input.

If the user inputs a predetermined password in step 350, the process proceeds to step 360 to display the entire list, and if the password is not input, the general phone number list is displayed. In this case, step 340 may be performed after step 350. In 350, the user inputs a predetermined password for privacy protection, for example, '1234' as '* 1234' along with a predetermined special key (for example, "*", "#", etc.). To display the entire list. In other cases, the user opens a password input window by pressing a specific function key on the screen where the list of general telephone numbers is displayed, and then inputs a preset password in the password input window to display the entire list.

On the other hand, the above described only the operation of hiding the password-set phone number on the phone number search screen, but as a further improved embodiment, the voice message or text message corresponding to the password-set phone number in the call list, voice message or text message receiving list Hides the call log (outgoing, incoming, missed reception) and the like, and displays the hidden message or the call log only when the user's password is input.

4 illustrates an example of displaying a list of telephone numbers on a terminal screen according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Here, an example of the case where the telephone number lists as shown in FIG. 1B described above are stored will be described.

In FIG. 4, when a user presses a search key of an outgoing call list, outgoing call items related to 37 phone numbers of a general phone number list are displayed as shown in (a). At this time, the total number of items is displayed as "37". On the other hand, the phone number 011-000-0000 of the set phone number list is not displayed, it is excluded from the total number of items. When the user inputs a password in the screen of (a), outgoing call items for the entire phone numbers of the password-listed phone number list and the general phone number list as shown in (b) are displayed on the terminal screen, and the total number of items is " 38 ".

If the password is re-entered in the screen of (b), or goes back to the upper menu and returns, the general telephone number list is displayed again as shown in (c) of FIG. 4. This is for the convenience of the user by avoiding repeated password input.

Meanwhile, in the detailed description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. As an example of the modification, the present disclosure has described only the example of the mobile communication terminal, but the present invention is a personal computer (PC), a personal digital assistant (PDA), an electronic notebook, etc., which are all kinds of electronic devices that store telephone numbers without significant modification. It can be easily applied.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the scope of the following claims, but also by those equivalent to the scope of the claims.

The present invention generates a list consisting of a general phone number and a password-set phone number separately for the privacy function, and usually displays the list of normal phone numbers, but if a password is entered, the list according to the set phone number By showing together with the general telephone number list, it is possible to more effectively protect a specific telephone number.

The present invention as described above can easily enter the password for the privacy, there is an advantage that can be released.

Claims (12)

In the method of hiding the password-set phone number in the terminal, Determining whether an encryption function is set for the entered phone number; When the encryption function is set, storing the phone number in a list of password-set phone numbers; If the encryption function is not set, characterized in that it comprises the step of storing the phone number in the general phone number list, a method for hiding a phone number. The method of claim 1, After the storing, if the search request of the phone book is input, Displaying the list of general telephone numbers; Determining whether a preset password for displaying the password-set phone number list is input from a user; And when the preset password is input, displaying all the phone numbers of the entire list including the password set phone number and the general phone number. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing of the encrypted phone number list comprises: Determining whether the password-set phone number list exists; If the password-set phone number list does not exist, generating the password-set phone number list and storing the phone number; And if the encrypted phone number list exists, adding the phone number to the encrypted phone number list and storing the phone number. A method for hiding password-related phone number items in a terminal, Receiving a search request for phone number-related items; Displaying phone number-related items corresponding to general phone numbers of which no password is set among all stored phone numbers; Determining whether a preset password is input from the user; And displaying a phone number related item corresponding to all the phone numbers including a phone number having a password function set when the preset password is input. The method of claim 4, wherein the determining comprises determining whether the preset password is input together with a special key to protect privacy. The method of claim 4, wherein the phone number related items, A method for hiding a telephone number related item, characterized in that it comprises at least one of a telephone number, a voice message, a text message, and call logs. The method of claim 4, wherein if the preset password is not input, Displaying the number of phone number related items corresponding to general phone numbers of which no password function is set among all the stored phone numbers as a total number; And when the preset password is input, displaying the number of phone number related items corresponding to the entire phone numbers including the set phone number as a total number as the total number. How to hide an item. In a device for hiding a password-protected phone number, A key input unit which receives at least one of a telephone number and a password corresponding to the telephone number; A control unit for receiving the phone number and storing the phone number in a password-set phone number list or a general phone number list according to whether an encryption function is set for the phone number; A memory unit for storing the general phone number list and the password-set phone number list; And a display unit for displaying telephone numbers included in at least one of the list of general telephone numbers and the set of encrypted telephone numbers under the control of the control unit. The method of claim 8, wherein the control unit, When the phone number and the password are input, it is determined whether the list of the set phone number exists, and if the list of the set phone number does not exist, the list of the set phone number is generated and the list of the set phone number is set. A device for hiding a telephone number comprising adding the telephone number. The method of claim 8, wherein the control unit, A device for hiding a telephone number, including determining whether a preset password is input with a special key for privacy. The method of claim 8, wherein the control unit, When the password is input, a device for hiding a phone number comprising displaying the phone number, voice messages, text messages, call records, which are phone number related items corresponding to the set phone number list on the display unit. The method of claim 8, wherein the display unit, If the preset password is not input, the number of phone numbers included in the general phone number list is displayed as the total number. If the preset password is input, the number of all phone numbers including the phone number with the password function is set. A device for hiding a telephone number, characterized by displaying as a total number.

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