WO2011156972A1

WO2011156972A1 - Method for displaying contacts in mobile terminal and mobile terminal thereof

Info

Publication number: WO2011156972A1
Application number: PCT/CN2010/074070
Authority: WO
Inventors: 郭晓涛; 蔡胜; 袁武
Original assignee: 宇龙计算机通信科技(深圳)有限公司
Priority date: 2010-06-18
Filing date: 2010-06-18
Publication date: 2011-12-22

Abstract

A method for displaying contacts in a mobile terminal is provided in the invention, and the method includes the following steps: obtaining the location area information that the user is interested in (101); searching for the contacts who are matching with said location area information in the contact database (102); and adding the searched contacts into the controllable item of the mobile terminal for display (103). Furthermore, a mobile terminal is also provided in the invention. The technical solution disclosed in the invention can display the contacts in combination with the location area that the user is interested in, thus improving the user experience.

Description

Method for displaying contact on mobile terminal and mobile terminal

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to a method for displaying a contact on a mobile terminal and a mobile terminal. Background of the invention

On the mobile terminal, a special application is generally provided to store and manage contact data. Use "Contacts" to store and manage all contact information records. When a contact is displayed, each contact information record is generally arranged in the alphabetical order of the initials. In addition, in some scenarios, the contact information record can also be arranged according to the frequency of communication, such as placing contacts with higher communication frequency at the top of the list.

However, in practical applications, the user may be more concerned with contacts in a certain location area. For example, when the user is in the A place, the contact person of the A place may be more contacted. At this time, the user may wish to give priority to the contact of the A place. display. For example, before the user goes to the B place, it may be necessary to communicate with the contact of the B place in advance, and the user may wish to display the contact of the B place preferentially. For example, when the user needs to contact relatives and friends of C frequently, he or she may wish to display the contact of the C place first.

However, in the contact display mode of the existing mobile terminal, it is not possible to perform flexible contact display in combination with the location area that the user cares about. Summary of the invention

In view of this, in one aspect of the present invention, a method for displaying a contact on a mobile terminal is provided, and on the other hand, a mobile terminal is provided to perform contact display in conjunction with a location area of interest to the user. The method for displaying a contact on a mobile terminal provided by the present invention includes: acquiring location area information that is of interest to a user;

Finding a contact that matches the location area information in the contact database; adding the found contact to the controllable object of the mobile terminal for display.

The mobile terminal provided by the present invention includes:

a location information obtaining module, configured to acquire location area information that the user cares about; a contact searching module, configured to search, in the contact database, a contact that matches the location area information;

A contact adding module is configured to add the found contact to the controllable object module; and the controllable object module is configured to display the added contact.

As can be seen from the foregoing solution, in the embodiment of the present invention, the location area information that the user cares about is obtained, and the contact that matches the location area information is searched for display, so that the contact display can be performed in combination with the location area that the user cares about. Thereby improving the user experience. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

1 is an exemplary flowchart of a method for displaying a contact on a mobile terminal in an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a flowchart of a method for displaying a contact on a mobile terminal in combination with a weather forecast application according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a display interface in the embodiment; FIG.

4 is a schematic diagram of still another display interface in the embodiment;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of still another display interface in the embodiment; FIG.

FIG. 6 is an exemplary structural diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. Mode for carrying out the invention

In order to make the objects, the technical solutions and the advantages of the present invention more comprehensible, the present invention will be further described in detail below with reference to the embodiments and drawings.

FIG. 1 is an exemplary flowchart of a method for displaying a contact on a mobile terminal in an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the method includes the following steps.

Step 101: Obtain location area information that the user cares about.

In this step, the location area information that the user cares about can be determined according to actual needs.

For example, the location area where the mobile terminal is located may be agreed in advance as the location area that the user cares about. In this step, the current location area information of the mobile terminal may be obtained. In specific implementation, it can be determined by positioning techniques such as GPS positioning or base station positioning.

For another example, the location area that the user cares about can be input by the user, and the location area information currently input by the user can be obtained in this step.

As another example, the location area that the user cares about can also be determined based on the application currently associated with the location area that the user is currently using. If the user is currently viewing the weather forecast of a certain city, the city information of the weather forecast information may be the location area currently of interest to the user; and if the user is currently performing a map query, the destination may be the location area currently of interest to the user. In this step, the location area information in the application related to the location area currently displayed by the user may be obtained.

In actual applications, the location area that the user cares about may change at different times. Therefore, the location area information that the user cares about may be obtained in real time according to different situations. For example, the location area that the user may care about by default is the current location area of the mobile terminal. When the user inputs a new location area, the location area input by the user is updated to the location area of interest to the user. Of course, there are other applications, and here is no longer - enumerated.

Step 102: Find a contact in the contact database that matches the location area information.

In this step, the contact record in the contact database can include the location of the contact. Area information, such as the address of the contact, and/or the attribution of the number of the contact, and the like. In this step, the content included in the location area information may be matched according to the attribution of the contact number, or may be matched according to the address field of the contact. Alternatively, the location record information of the contact may not be included in the contact record in the contact database. In this step, the number of the contact number may be queried from the database server storing the correspondence between the number and the number, and then determined. A contact in the contact database that matches the location area information.

Step 103: Add the found contact to the controllable object of the mobile terminal for display.

In this step, the controllable object may be a user interface layer, and the controllable object may be a separate user interface layer, or may be superimposed on the standby interface or the current user interface according to a certain transparency, A certain transparency is superimposed on any interface of the mobile terminal, so that the user can view and obtain the contact with the user at any time. Further, in order to make full use of the interface space of the mobile terminal, the controllable object can also be activated or hidden by a specific command of the user, such as a set button or touch screen track.

In addition, the controllable object may also be an interface of an application related to the location area, such as an interface for weather prediction, or an interface for a map query.

When a contact is displayed, information such as the name or avatar of the contact can be displayed in the controllable object.

In addition, in this embodiment, in order to prevent too many contacts from being displayed, the maximum display quantity of the contact may be set in advance, that is, the quantity threshold is set, and when the number of contacts satisfying the condition is less than or equal to the threshold, the direct display is performed. These contacts; when the number of contacts satisfying the condition is greater than the threshold, the contacts may be displayed according to a preset rule, such as randomly selecting or selecting a number of contacts equal to the threshold according to the communication frequency. In a specific implementation, in step 102, a contact that is less than or equal to a preset threshold that matches the location area information may be searched according to a preset rule, and displayed directly in step 103; or, in step 102, Find all in The contact that matches the location area information, in step 103, selects all the contacts found in step 102 according to a preset rule, and selects a contact that is less than or equal to the preset threshold. In the same manner as other existing contacts, after the contacts in the controllable object in this embodiment are displayed, the corresponding operations of each contact, such as a call, a short message, or an email, can also be initiated, and the controlled object can be provided. The interface for each contact to operate accordingly.

In addition, in the embodiment, in the case that the controllable object is an interface of an application related to the location area, the contact associated with the application may be further performed on the contact added to the controllable object, so that the mobile can be implemented. The relevance of each application of the terminal, that is, different applications work together. For example, for adding a contact to a weather forecast interface, the weather forecast information may be shared with each contact, or other applications may be initiated by related information in the weather information; for adding a contact to the map query interface , the travel information can be notified to the corresponding contact, or other applications can be initiated by the relevant information in the map information.

In the following, an example of an interface in which the controllable object is a weather forecast is used as an example, and an application in this embodiment is exemplified.

2 is a flow chart of a method for displaying a contact on a mobile terminal in combination with a weather forecast application according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Figure 2, the process includes the following steps:

Step 201: Obtain city information in the weather forecast information.

Step 202: Find a contact in the contact database that matches the city information. Step 203: Add the found contact to the weather forecast information interface for display. FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a display interface in the embodiment. Among them, the displayed contacts are the 4 contacts with the most frequent contact, and the images of the contacts are displayed.

In addition to performing conventional operations on contacts displayed on the weather forecast information interface in this embodiment, operations related to weather forecasts may also be initiated for these contacts. For example, in Figure 4, the second contact is taken as an example to list the weather forecast-related operations that can be initiated on the contact. To make a gesture, including: sharing the weather with the daughter by SMS, sharing the weather forecast with the daughter by email, and checking the transportation to the daughter. FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of an operation interface after selecting a short message sharing weather forecast to a daughter.

The method for displaying a contact on a mobile terminal in the embodiment of the present invention is shown in detail in FIG. 6 is an exemplary structural diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 6, the mobile terminal includes: a location information acquiring module, Contact lookup module, contact add module, and controllable object module.

The location information obtaining module is configured to obtain location area information that the user cares about.

The contact lookup module is configured to look up contacts in the contact database that match the location area information.

The contact add module is used to add the found contacts to the controllable object module. The controllable object module is used to display the added contacts. Of course, in the same manner as existing contacts, the controllable object module also provides an interface for the corresponding operation of the contact.

In a specific implementation, similar to the method in the embodiment of the present invention, the location information acquiring module in this embodiment may include: a first acquiring module and/or a second acquiring module and/or a third acquiring module (not shown in FIG. 6) Out).

The first acquiring module is configured to obtain current location area information of the mobile terminal.

The second obtaining module is configured to acquire location area information currently input by the user.

The third obtaining module is configured to obtain location area information in an application related to the location area currently displayed by the user.

In a specific implementation, the controllable object module may include: a contact interface layer module (not shown in FIG. 6) superimposed on the standby interface or the current user interface according to a preset transparency. At this time, the controllable object module is further configured to be activated or hidden according to a user's command, in which the controllable The contact is displayed when the object module is activated.

Alternatively, the controllable object module may include: an interface module of an application related to the location area (figure

Not shown in 6). At this time, the controllable object module may be further configured to perform an operation associated with the application to the contact added to itself according to a user's command.

Similarly, when the mobile terminal is specifically implemented, the contact search module may search for a contact that matches the location area information and is less than or equal to a preset threshold according to a preset rule, and is directly added by the contact adding module. Alternatively, the contact search module may also search for all contacts that match the location area information, and the contact adding module selects all contacts found by the contact search module according to a preset rule, and selects less than or equal to a preset threshold. The number of contacts to add.

A person skilled in the art can understand that the drawings are only a schematic diagram of a preferred embodiment, and the modules or processes in the drawings are not necessarily required to implement the invention.

Those skilled in the art can understand that the modules in the mobile terminal in the embodiment may be distributed in the apparatus of the embodiment according to the embodiment, or may be correspondingly changed in one or more apparatuses different from the embodiment. The modules of the above embodiments may be combined into one module, or may be further split into a plurality of sub-modules.

Some of the steps in the embodiment of the present invention may be implemented by using software, and the corresponding software program may be stored in a readable storage medium, such as an optical disk or a hard disk.

The above is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. Any modifications, equivalents, improvements, etc., which are included in the spirit and principles of the present invention, should be included in Within the scope of protection of the present invention.

Claims

Claim

A method for displaying a contact on a mobile terminal, the method comprising: acquiring location area information of interest to a user;

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the obtaining the location area information that the user cares about includes:

Obtaining current location area information of the mobile terminal; or

Obtain the location area information currently input by the user; or

Obtain location area information in the application related to the location area currently displayed by the user.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the controllable object comprises: a contact interface layer superimposed on the standby interface or the current user interface according to a preset transparency.

The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the method further comprises:

Receiving a command for the user to hide the controllable object, hiding the controllable object;

The command to activate the controllable object is activated by the user, and the controllable object is activated.

The method of claim 1, wherein the acquiring location area information that is of interest to the user comprises: acquiring location area information in an application related to the location area currently displayed by the user;

The controllable object includes: an interface of the application related to the location area.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the method further comprises: performing an operation associated with the application on a contact added to the interface of the application associated with the location area.

The method according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the location area Off applications include: Weather forecast.

The method according to any one of claims 1-3, 5, 6, wherein the searching for a contact in the contact database that matches the location area information comprises: following a preset rule And searching, in the contact database, a contact that matches the location area information and is less than or equal to a preset threshold.

A mobile terminal, the mobile terminal comprising:

The mobile terminal according to claim 9, wherein the location information acquisition module comprises:

a first obtaining module, configured to acquire current location area information of the mobile terminal; and/or a second obtaining module, configured to acquire location area information currently input by the user; and/or a third obtaining module, configured to acquire a current display manner of the user Location area information in an application related to a location area.

The mobile terminal according to claim 10, wherein the controllable object module comprises: a contact interface layer module superimposed on the standby interface or the current user interface according to a preset transparency.

The mobile terminal according to any one of claims 9 to 11, wherein the controllable object module is further configured to be activated or hidden according to a user's command, and the controllable object module is activated When the contact is displayed.

The mobile terminal according to claim 9, wherein the location information acquisition module comprises: a third obtaining module, configured to acquire location area information in an application related to the location area currently displayed by the user;

The controllable object module includes: an interface module of an application related to a location area.

The mobile terminal according to claim 13, wherein the interface module of the application related to the location area is further configured to perform an operation associated with the application to a contact added to itself according to a command of the user. .