CN1878207A

CN1878207A - Method for realizing intelligent address list management applying Internet and its system and device

Info

Publication number: CN1878207A
Application number: CN 200510075671
Authority: CN
Inventors: 郭恒勋
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2005-06-10
Filing date: 2005-06-10
Publication date: 2006-12-13

Abstract

The invention discloses a managing method of intelligent address list based on internet, which is characterized by the following: building an address list service center; constituting managing system of address list through switching device of electronic account number, mobile phone and user interface of address list; proceeding switching, searching, managing and automate updating operation for address list data; authorizing sectional classification and group access for user; controlling the extent of power to check user relationship data strictly; protecting user privacy from invading; sending updated authorized user address list to user interface when user association data changes; sending and updating telephone number at short message to telephone directory of mobile phone; outputting self-defined address list to telephone directory or one EXCEL file through USB port.

Description

Method, system and device for realizing intelligent address book management by applying internet

Technical Field

The invention mainly relates to a mobile network short message technology, a technology for providing intelligent data service by applying the Internet and a technology for carrying out communication by utilizing infrared rays and a USB interface.

Background

In the modern society, everyone has an address book, and when people need to make a phone call to a certain friend or client or want to find an old classmate chat, the people generally turn over the address book;

the information technology is very popular today, and for clients or friends who often contact, a mobile phone is often opened to find a call, so that sometimes, the user can not turn over an address book; for old friends or old clients who do not have contact for a long time, the contact data which is often found out cannot be connected; moreover, as society develops, people move more and more frequently, even if the friends are contacted frequently, sometimes, you can find that the contact is not good, and because the friends have no time or are too hasty, the people have no way to inform every friend.

In addition, in social interaction, people exchange business cards, need to arrange business card folders after going back, sometimes need to copy to an address book, or input to a mobile phone or a computer, and waste time.

To this end, efforts have been made to reduce the amount of time we spend collating business cards, e.g.,

the invention of China publication No. CN1302024A (published 2001, 7/4) proposes a method for establishing a network business card system, in which each person inputs his own contact information into a network database, and then the people can use a browser to obtain the latest contact information on the network; the method also solves a part of problems, however, the method has an obvious defect that certain contact information of the user can be checked by all people or can not be checked by all people, and meanwhile, the card number (namely the account number) of the user is printed on a paper business card;

the invention with Chinese publication number CN1350394A (published 5/22/2002) also proposes to establish a database on the network, each person inputs own contact information into the database, then inquires the contact information of the client through the network, and receives and sends the name card by the short message of the mobile phone; the method provides convenience, namely, the business card is sent and received by the short message of the mobile phone, however, the method has the defects that the operation of sending the business card by the short message of the mobile phone is too complicated;

the invention with Chinese publication number CN1361483A (published: 2002, 7, 31) provides a device for exchanging electronic business cards, wherein, a user designs own business cards in the device and then can exchange electronic business cards with others through an infrared transmitter and a receiver of the device; the method solves the problem of name card exchange, but the method has an obvious defect that when the contact information is changed by a client, the contact information cannot be automatically updated in time, and the contact information in the device is useless; meanwhile, the address book in the text character format received by the device is relatively disordered during management, because everyone designs business cards with different arrangement sequences;

of course, the popularity of instant messaging systems (e.g., QQ, MSN) also provides convenience for people to communicate, but such systems are not intended to address the problem of people managing contact lists, are difficult to use to manage contact lists, and are also not able to address the problem of exchanging business cards;

although the above schemes have advantages, they have disadvantages, and it is difficult to really reduce the workload of organizing the address book. People call a new intelligent address book management system to serve the people, and light feeling is brought to the people.

Disclosure of Invention

Based on this, the invention aims to provide an intelligent address book system, which enables a user to maintain an address book with the least time and energy, keeps the high effectiveness of the address book, and simultaneously gives full play to the functions of a mobile phone, so that the user can quickly find the contact information of a contact person to be found by the user no matter where and when the user wants to find;

another object of the present invention is to provide a solution for automatically delivering the communication data changed by the user to the client without the user's own notification;

this object is achieved within the scope of the invention by means of an address book management system consisting of an address book service center, a device for exchanging electronic accounts, a mobile telephone with an electronic account exchange function, the internet, a mobile communication network, and an address book user interface, and a method for maintenance management of such a system.

The invention has the following advantages:

the client can check the effective contact data of the user according to the authorization of the user whenever and wherever the user provides a permanent account;

the contact information of the user is strictly controlled by the user, the user can authorize some clients to check certain contact information, and other clients cannot check the contact information, so that the user is prevented from being disturbed by irrelevant personnel;

after the user changes own contact information, the server can automatically update the address book of related personnel or the telephone book of the mobile phone, and the user does not need to inform clients and friends one by one;

in social interaction, the electronic exchange device or the mobile phone can be used for conveniently, quickly and completely exchanging the contact information of each other without recording by the user;

when the electronic exchange device of the invention is used for exchanging contact information, only the owner name (if the owner name is set) and the identification code are sent and received, but not the actual contact information, so that the data sending and receiving speed is very high;

the invention provides the service of automatically updating the telephone number of the mobile phone for the mobile phone user, so that the client and the friend can dial and connect the mobile phone at any time without changing the telephone number by surfing the Internet or informing the client and the friend one by one;

the invention provides the service of inquiring the customer data by the short message for the mobile phone user, so that the user can check the telephone numbers of the customer and the friend in real time through the mobile phone under the condition of not using a computer;

the method provides channels for potential customers to search and find users on the internet by filling in the service range and managing the product information by the users, and increases the service opportunities of the users;

the method has the advantages that the user fills in interests and hobbies and some personal data, channels for searching and discovering the user by potential friends on the internet are provided, and the opportunity of making new friends is increased;

providing more contact information for old clients or old friends who lose contact and know some specific information of the user;

the electronic account exchange device provides the services of hanging and automatically locking the device for the user of the electronic account exchange device, so that the user can not use the lost device and does not worry about the theft of the device;

the invention provides loss reporting service for the mobile phone user, and automatically locks the mobile phone through short messages, so that the picker can not use the lost mobile phone and only can provide the user, and the user can not worry about the theft of the mobile phone;

through an address book interface program on a personal computer, a series of services such as convenient address book management, client or friend searching, client data checking, group authorization management, address book output, state of a control device and the like are provided for a user;

drawings

Other features, objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent upon reading the following detailed description and upon reference to the drawings by way of non-limiting example. The attached drawings are as follows:

figure 1 shows a system architecture diagram of an intelligent address book management system according to an embodiment of the present invention,

figure 2 shows a block diagram of an intelligent address book management system according to an embodiment of the invention,

figure 3a shows a flow chart of a client device identification upload process of a device of an embodiment of the invention,

figure 3b shows a flow chart of a client device identification upload process for a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the invention,

figure 4 shows a flow diagram of a device loss report process according to an embodiment of the invention,

figure 5 shows a flow diagram of a new device enabling process of an embodiment of the present invention,

figure 6 illustrates a flow diagram of a process for enabling a lost device according to an embodiment of the present invention,

figures 7a and 7b show screen shots of user contact profile settings according to an embodiment of the invention,

figures 8a and 8b show screen shots of customer group authorization management according to an embodiment of the invention,

figures 9a, 9b and 9c show screen shots of viewing customer contact details in accordance with one embodiment of the invention,

FIG. 10 shows a graph of the dependency relationship between the clients, client groups, and user contact information in the database generated by the group authorization process according to one embodiment of the present invention,

figure 11 illustrates a mapping of a user account number to a device or mobile phone according to one embodiment of the invention,

FIG. 12 is a data flow diagram illustrating the uploading of client device identification, adding a new client to the database and retrieving new client contact data,

figure 13 shows a screen shot of an old friend question setup of an embodiment of the present invention,

figure 14 shows a screenshot of a confirm old friend identity of an embodiment of the invention,

FIG. 15 is an event flow diagram illustrating the system automatically updating the client contact list interface and the client mobile phone after the user has changed contact information, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The following description and drawings are illustrative of the invention and are not to be construed as limiting the invention. However, no unnecessary detail is implied therefrom, and no portion of the well-known or common-sense knowledge is required.

From the user's perspective, the process of using the system of the present invention is such that:

the user has exchanged electronic accounts (i.e. the identification code of the device) with each other in social interactions with other people using the infrared device of the invention,

the user has registered a user account via the central Web page and has enabled the device with this account,

-connecting the device to a personal computer via a USB port, reading the electronic account numbers of the clients in the device by means of an address book interface located on the personal computer and sending these account numbers to a central address book application server, which then retrieves the detailed contact information of these clients from a database and sends it to the address book interface, which stores it in a local database. And the number of the first and second groups,

the user performs user data setting, group authorization management, client data query, address book output, device activation, etc. in the address book interface,

if the user owns the mobile phone of the invention, when the user has replaced his SIM card, the mobile phone automatically sends a short message to the directory service center, from which the center retrieves his phone number and updates it to the database, which automatically retrieves the relevant authorized client, marks the new phone number of the user under their account,

-when the address book interface of the clients connects to the address book application server, the server automatically sends the new phone number of the user to the address book interface, which informs the client. At the same time, the user can select the desired position,

if the customer also has the mobile phone of the invention, the server automatically sends the new phone number of the user to the customer's mobile phone in a short message, which updates the new phone number of the user to the phone book. In addition, the first and second substrates are,

if the user's electronic account switching device or mobile phone is lost, the user can log on to the Web page of the center, report the device lost, and,

if the device is a mobile phone according to the invention, the central server immediately sends the command to lock the mobile phone by short message, the mobile phone locks the phone and displays the message left by the user,

if the pick-up person changes the SIM card of the phone, the mobile phone automatically reports the phone number of the SIM card when the pick-up person is switched on, the server first records the phone number after acquiring the new phone number of the mobile phone, and then sends a lock command via a short message, the mobile phone locks the phone and displays the loss message of the user,

-if the user's device is picked up by another person, the address book interface knows from the server that the device has been missed when the device is connected to the address book interface, locks the device and informs the picker of the missed message,

if the user retrieves his device or mobile phone again, he can connect his device or mobile phone to the address book interface and then re-enable it.

The invention discloses an intelligent address book management system, which relates to a plurality of communication processes, namely:

(I) communication between a customized address book interface and the address book application server via the internet,

(II) communication between the Web browser and the Web application server,

(III) communication between the short message channel of the mobile phone and the short message application server,

(IV) communication between the mobile phone and the address book application server via the internet,

(V) communication between the application server and the database server via a high-speed local area network,

(VI) communication between the two electronic account switching devices via the infrared transmitting port and the receiving port, and,

and (VII) communication between the electronic account exchange device (or the mobile phone) and the address list interface is carried out through a USB (universal serial bus) port.

The invention is described in detail below by way of examples and figures:

A. system architecture

As a non-limiting example, fig. 1 is a system architecture diagram of the intelligent address book management system of the present invention, which includes an address book service center, an address book interface located on a personal computer, and an infrared device 132 or a mobile phone 131 for exchanging electronic accounts. Wherein,

generally, the personal computer may be a palm computer 121, a contact list computer 122 or a notebook computer 123, and the operating system thereon may be Windows, Mac OS or Linux.

Typically, the personal computer is connected to the internet 111 through a broadband network (e.g., ADSL), or may be connected to the internet 111 through a dial-up network, a dedicated data line (e.g., DDN), or a wireless lan.

The electronic account number exchange device is connected with a personal computer through a USB port, and the electronic account number exchange device can be a mobile phone 131 or a specially-customized infrared device 132.

The mobile phone 133 is connected to a short message server (not shown in fig. 1) of a mobile communication carrier through the mobile communication network 112; the short message server of the mobile communication operator is further connected with the short message application server 103 of the address list service center.

Preferably, if the mobile phone 133 opens an internet service, it can be connected to the internet 111 through the mobile communication network 112 and then to the address book application server 101.

The address book service center is composed of a database server 100, an address book application server 101, a Web application server 102, and a short message application server 103. Of course, for performance and security, each server in the center may be clustered by multiple servers, even with a remote distributed server networking.

Meanwhile, the center should also have other related supporting devices, such as an access server, a gateway, a firewall, a switch, and the like.

B. Client device identification code upload process for device

Referring to fig. 2 and 3a, the process for uploading the client device identification code of the smart address book system of the present invention includes the following steps:

a) when an electronic account exchange device 232 is plugged into a USB interface of a computer, the address book interface 221 sends a "reader id" command to the device;

b) the device reads the local identification code and the serial number of the device and sends the local identification code and the serial number to an address list interface through a USB interface;

c) the address book interface sends the identification code and the serial number to the address book application server 201 through the internet to request verification;

d) if the state of the device in the database is normal, the address book application server sends a verification success message to an address book interface;

e) the address list interface sends a client identification code reading instruction to the electronic account exchange device;

f) the electronic account exchange device reads the identification codes of all client devices in the device and then sends the identification codes to an address list interface;

g) the address book interface 221 sends it to the address book application server 201;

h) the address book application server adds the identification codes of the client devices into a database, retrieves the contact data of the new clients from the database, and then sends the contact data of the new clients to an address book interface;

i) the address book interface stores the data into a local database and then sends a 'delete data' instruction to the device;

j) the device deletes the identification codes of all client devices stored therein, and ends.

Wherein, the processing method for adding the client device identification code into the database in the step h) refers to fig. 12; the result of the process of adding the client device identification code to the database is a correspondence in the database (see fig. 11).

C. Client device identification uploading process for mobile phone

Referring to fig. 2 and 3b, the process for uploading the identification code of the client device of the mobile phone of the smart address book system according to the present invention comprises the following steps:

1) the mobile phone connects the Internet from the STK menu and sends a request of uploading the identification code of the client device to the address list application server;

2) the address book application server judges whether the identification code of the mobile phone is lost, if so, the next step is executed, otherwise, the step 5) is executed;

3) the address book application server sends a 'loss report locking machine' instruction and a loss report message of the owner to the mobile phone;

4) the mobile phone sets the state mark as 'lost', then displays the lost message of the owner, and ends.

5) The address book application server sends a message of successful verification to the mobile phone;

6) the mobile phone reads the device identification codes of all clients in the mobile phone and sends the device identification codes to the address book application server through the Internet;

7) the address book application server adds the device identification codes of the clients into a database, retrieves the contact data of the new clients from the database, and then sends the contact data of the new clients to the mobile phone;

8) the mobile phone stores the contact information of the new clients in the user phone book, and then deletes the identification codes of all client devices stored in the mobile phone book, and the process is finished.

Wherein, the processing method for adding the client device identification code into the database in the step 7) refers to fig. 12; the result of the process of adding the client device identification code to the database is a correspondence in the database (see fig. 11).

D. Device loss reporting process

Referring to fig. 2 and 4, the device loss reporting process of the intelligent address book system of the present invention includes the following steps:

opening a user device list page of the Web application server 202 using the Web browser 222, the page listing a list of serial numbers of all electronic account switching devices or mobile phones owned by the user;

the user selects the electronic account exchange device item to be lost, and fills in the password and the lost message of the account;

if the password is correct, the Web application server 202 sets the status of the loss-reported device to a loss-reported status in the database 200, and records the identification code of the device and the loss-reported message. And the number of the first and second groups,

if the device reported lost is a mobile phone 233, then "send latch short message" is marked in the database;

the short message application server 203 sends a 'loss report locking machine' instruction and a loss report message of a user to the lost mobile phone;

after recognizing that the short message is a "lock machine loss report" command, the mobile phone 233 sets its status flag to "lock machine loss report", automatically sends the short message, notifies the short message application server 203 that "lock machine is successful", and displays the message left after the loss report of the owner.

The short message application server 203 sets the state of the mobile phone to 'locked up';

E. enabling procedure for a new device

Referring to fig. 2 and 5, the new device enabling process of the intelligent address book system of the present invention includes the following steps:

if the device's identification code is not enabled, the contact list application server 201 sends the message to the contact list interface 221;

the user fills in an account and a password, selects a group to which the user uploaded through the device belongs, and the address book interface 221 sends the group to the address book application server 201;

if the account and password are correct, the address book application server 201 records the identification code and serial number, and generates a record binding the identification code of the device with the user account and a record binding the identification code of the device with the group in the database, and then sends the details of the user and a "device activation success" message to the address book interface 221;

the contact list interface stores the details of the user in the local database 220 and sends a "store name" command to the device;

device 232 sets its status flag to "enabled" and stores the user's name in non-volatile memory;

F. enabling a lost device process

Referring to fig. 2 and 6, the process of enabling a loss-reported device of the smart address book system of the present invention includes the following steps:

the user selects to re-enable the device that has been reported to be lost, and the address book interface 221 requires the user to fill in the account and password used by the original owner of the device;

if the account and the password filled by the user are correct and the identification code also belongs to the account, the address book application server 201 sets the state of the device to be normal, and then sends a message of 'successful activation of the device' to an address book interface;

the address book interface 221 sends a "release loss report" instruction to the device, and then displays a "device activation success" message;

device 232 sets its status flag to "enabled";

G. process for automatically locking devices

Referring to fig. 2, the process of automatically locking the device in the intelligent address book system of the present invention includes the following steps:

when a device 232 or mobile phone 231 is plugged into the USB port of the pc, the address book interface 221 sends its identification code to the address book application server 201;

if the address book application server 201 confirms that the device has been lost, it sends a "loss report lock machine" instruction and a loss report message of the user to the address book interface 221;

the address book interface 221 sends a "lock machine" instruction to the device 232 or the mobile phone 231, and then displays the loss-reporting message of the user;

the device 232 or the mobile phone 231 sets its status flag to "loss-reported", and ends.

H. User registration procedure

Referring to fig. 2, the user registration process of the intelligent address book system of the present invention includes the following steps:

the user enters a user registration page of the Web application server 202 through the Web browser 222, and fills in relevant personal data such as names, passwords, nicknames (nicknames), photos, interests, self-introduction and the like according to the prompting of registering user accounts;

appointing a language as a local language (native language) so that the address book application server can automatically search the contact information of the client in the local language when searching the contact information of the client (if the client has the contact information of English, the contact information is also sent to the address book interface together);

the Web application server 202 sends the account number and password registered by the user to the EMAIL of the user.

Typically, the user will choose to download the address book interface program in its native language version.

I. User device management procedure

The user device management process of the intelligent address book system comprises the following functions:

the user enters a user device management interface from the address book interface, which displays the device type, device serial number, and current phone number (if the device is a mobile phone);

the user may select a device and then log off the device (if the user decides not to use a device);

the user may change the customer group of the device (if the customers that the user wishes to collect using the device all become members of a certain customer group when added to the database, rather than members of the default "new customer" group);

J. user contact data setup process

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 7a, and fig. 7b, the user profile setting process of the intelligent address book system of the present invention includes the following steps:

the user enters a user profile setting interface from the address book interface 221 and then selects a unit (such as basic contact data, home 1, home 2, company 1, company 2, etc.);

for the company contact data, the user needs to set the language (fig. 7b), for different languages, only the "user name", "job", "company name", "company address" need to be filled in, and other data automatically use the setting of the local language;

the right side of the user data setting interface lists the detailed contact information of the unit, if the contact information has data, the contact information is filled, otherwise, the contact information is cleared; then, selecting other units to fill in until all the contact data of the user are finished;

the address book interface 221 updates the address book interface into the local database 220 and sends the address book interface to the address book application server 201;

the address book application server 201 updates the changed data to the database 200;

typically, the user uses contact information in two languages, namely a local language (e.g., Chinese PRC) and English, and the user can add contact information in multiple languages if the user so desires;

K. process for searching customers

The process of searching for clients from a central server of the intelligent address book system comprises the following steps:

if the user clicks 'find customer' in the address book interface, the following steps are executed:

the address book interface displays a search client interface, and the page requires filling in a service keyword to be searched and selects classified search conditions (i) language, (ii) country/region, (iii) province/city, (iv) service type and the like;

the address book interface sends the service key words, the search conditions and the client searching request to an address book application server;

the address book application server sends all the records meeting the conditions to an address book interface according to the account number, the name, the company name and the company homepage link of the client;

if the user wants to check the company condition of a certain client, the user only needs to click the company name of the client, and the address book interface opens a browser to enter the company homepage of the client;

if the user wants to check the detailed contact information of a certain client, the user only needs to click the name of the client, and the address book interface sends the account number of the client to the address book application server;

the address book application server retrieves the client detailed data of the account and sends the client detailed data to an address book interface;

if the user needs to reserve the client, the address book interface displays a group joining interface only by clicking a group joining button, and the interface enables the user to select a target group for the client and fill in a message sent to the client;

the address book interface stores the left message and the client account into a local database, and then sends the left message and the client account to an address book application server;

the address book application server adds the customer account into the database under the customer account, simultaneously adds the customer account into the database under the customer account, and adds the user message into the message list of the customer;

l, Process of searching for friends

The process of searching friends from the central server of the intelligent address book system comprises the following steps:

if the user clicks 'find friend' in the address list interface, the following steps are executed:

the address book interface displays a friend finding interface, and the page requires filling in names of friends to be searched and selecting classification search conditions of (i) language, (ii) country/region, (iii) province/city, (iv) sex, (v) age range, (vi) height range, (vii) weight range, (viii) occupation, (ix) hobby and the like;

the address book interface sends the names and the search conditions of the friends to an address book application server;

the address book application server sends all records meeting the conditions to an address book interface;

displaying friend names with links in a list form on an address book interface;

if the user wants to check the detailed contact information of a friend, the user only needs to click the name of the friend, and then the address book interface sends the account number of the friend to an address book application server;

the address book application server sends the detailed data to an address book interface;

if the user needs to keep the friend, the address book interface displays a group joining interface only by clicking a group joining button, and the interface enables the user to select a target group for the friend and fill in a message sent to the friend;

the address book interface stores the left message and the friend account number in a local database and then sends the left message and the friend account number to an address book application server;

the address book application server adds the friend account into the database under the user account, simultaneously adds the user account into the friend account in the database, and adds the user message into the message list of the friend;

m, authorization process of group

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 8a and fig. 8b, the group authorization process of the intelligent address book system of the present invention includes the following steps:

the user enters a group authorization interface from the address list interface 221 and then selects a group;

the group authorization interface lists all contact ways of the user, and if the user allows members of the group to access a certain contact way, the contact way is selected; and the number of the first and second groups,

if the user changes the related telephone number, whether to send short message to update the telephone directory of the mobile phone of the member;

it should be noted that if the authorized client can view the contact address of "company name", the contact information, such as the position of the user in the company, the address, the zip code, (switchboard) phone, the fax, the homepage of the company, etc. which are not listed in the interface, will also be authorized to the authorized client (refer to fig. 8a, 8b, 9a, 9 b);

the result of the group authorization is a dependency in the database (see fig. 10).

Each client must belong to a client group, and only then, the client can check the contact information of the user, as shown in fig. 10, the request of the client for checking the contact information of the user can trigger the application server to retrieve the client group to which the client (also a user of the address book system) belongs, and then retrieve the contact information of the user according to the authorized condition of the group;

generally, the database of the address book service center of the present invention may be pre-established with some client groups, such as: strangers, new clients, old clients, important clients, visitors, classmates, new friends, old friends, club friends and the like, but the user can add a user-defined client group according to needs and can arrange the members of the client group by himself;

typically, for customers joining the database using infrared devices, their default group is the "new friends" group, and for customers joining the database using mobile phones, their default group is the "new customers" group, but the user can change himself or herself according to his or her own arrangement;

n, Process of viewing customer data

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 9a and fig. 9b, the process of viewing the client data in the smart address book system of the present invention includes the following steps:

the user opens the group where the client is located from the address book interface 221 and selects the name of the client;

the right side of the view client profile interface lists all the contact addresses that the client authorizes the user to view, and the interface does not prompt the user as if the contact addresses that the client does not authorize the user to view do not exist at all (refer to fig. 8a, 8b, 9a and 9 b);

the user may select a different language version of the customer contact material (see FIG. 9 c);

o, Process for automatically recognizing identity

Referring to fig. 2, 13 and 14, the process of automatically recognizing identity of the smart address book system of the present invention includes the following steps:

firstly, a user enters an old friend question setting interface from an address list interface 221;

the user fills in questions identifying the old friend and asks the user to provide for each question: (i) a full answer, (ii) a simple answer, (iii) a group name to which the question should be attributed after answering correctly;

the address book application server updates the changed data to the database 200;

thereafter, if a new client views the user's contact information in the address book interface 221, the user is found to be an old friend before, and selects to view more contact information;

the address book interface 221 sends a request for identifying old friends to the address book application server 201;

the address book application server retrieves the old friend problem set by the user from the database and then sends the problem to an address book interface;

the address book interface 221 opens a welcome old friend interface which presents the questions of the old friends listed longitudinally, and an edit box for answering the questions is provided below each question;

after the client fills in the answer, the address book interface 221 sends the answer to the address book application server 201;

the address book application server compares the complete answer and the simple answer which are preset for the question by the user, if one of the complete answer and the simple answer is matched with the simple answer, the client is added into a friend group which is preset by the user and can answer the question, then the contact way which can be checked by the members of the user group is searched from a database, and the contact way is sent to an address book interface;

the address book interface 221 displays the new contact data of the user on the screen of the client;

p, address list output process

The process of outputting the address book of the intelligent address book system comprises the following steps:

the user selects the function of outputting the address list, and the interface of the address list enters the interface of selecting the client and the group;

the interface for selecting the client and the group displays a mixed list of the client and the group list, and the user enters the interface for the address list after selecting the client and the group which want to list;

the user selects a contact address to be output, and simultaneously selects whether to output the address book to (i) the EXCEL form file or (ii) the mobile phone;

the address book interface retrieves the corresponding contact information of the selected client and the group members from the local database, generates an address book temporary file, judges whether the user selects to output to an EXCEL form file, if so, lets the user fill in the file name and output to the file named by the name, and then the process is finished; if not, then,

if the user selects to output the address list to the mobile phone, the address list interface sends the address list to the mobile phone through the USB port, and the mobile phone stores the address list in the nonvolatile memory; it is worth mentioning that there should be a specification that ensures that the outputted address book entries correspond to the entries of the phone book in the mobile phone.

Q, electronic account number exchange process

The process of using the device of the intelligent address book system to exchange the electronic account number comprises the following steps:

when a power switch of the device is turned on, detecting whether a state mark of the device is in a locking state, if so, ending, otherwise, entering a receiving state;

if two users want to exchange electronic accounts with each other, the two users respectively hold one device by hands, turn on the power switch of the device, within a distance not exceeding 24 cm, make the infrared ray transmitting/receiving ends of the devices in their hands face to face, then,

the user 1 presses a 'sending' key on the device, the device of the user 1 sends out an identification code and a owner name (if set) of the device through an infrared transmitter, and then enters a receiving state;

the device of the user 2 receives the data sent by the device of the user 1, stores the data in a nonvolatile memory in the device, then sends the identification code and the owner name (if set) of the device through an infrared transmitter, and then enters a receiving state;

the device of user 1 receives the identification code and the owner name (if received) sent by the device of user 2, stores them in a non-volatile memory in the device;

if the user's device has an LCD display screen, displaying the received owner name or sequence number (if the owner name is not received);

the device in the exchange process can be an infrared device or a mobile phone;

r, process for inquiring customer details in real time

Referring to fig. 2, the process of instant query of client details in the intelligent address book system of the present invention includes the following steps:

the user enters a customer list interface for electronic account exchange from the STK menu of the mobile phone 233, which lists the customer's name or sequence number in chronological order (if the customer has not yet set a name);

the user selects the customer name (or sequence number) that wants to query for details, and then selects "view details";

the user's mobile phone 233 sends the client device's identification code and a request for "view details" to the short message application server 203 in a short message;

the short message application server 203 retrieves the client-related contact information of the device identification code from the database 200 and sends it to the user's mobile phone 233 in a short message;

the mobile phone 233 of the user analyzes the contact data and account number of the client from the short message, stores them in the phone book, and then displays the phone book data; it is worth proposing that there should be a specification that ensures that the customer account corresponds to the customer account of the phone book in the mobile phone.

S, Process for automatically updating telephone number

Referring to fig. 2, the process of automatically updating the phone number of the mobile phone of the smart address book system of the present invention includes the following steps:

after the mobile phone 233 completes the power-on self-test and the mobile network registration, the mobile phone detects whether its status flag is "enabled", if so, it sends the identification code to the short message application server 203 by short message, otherwise, it ends;

the short message application server 203 parses the phone number and body identification code of the phone from the short message, and then,

judging whether the mobile phone is lost, if not, comparing the phone number with the phone number corresponding to the identification code in the database 200, and if not, updating the phone number to be a new phone number; and (6) ending.

If the mobile phone is lost, the phone number is taken as the contact phone of the finder and recorded in the database, and then the short message is used for sending the 'loss report locking machine' instruction and the loss report message of the user to the phone number used by the lost mobile phone;

after analyzing the "lock machine loss report" command in the short message, the mobile phone 233 sets its status flag to "loss report", and then automatically sends the short message to notify the short message application server 203 that "lock machine is successful", and at the same time, displays the message left by the owner of the short message.

After that, when the mobile phone completes the power-on self-test, only the loss message of the owner can be displayed, and other functions can not be used;

t, Process for automatically updating the Address book interface of the client

Referring to fig. 2 and 15, the process of automatically updating the address book interface of the client in the intelligent address book system according to the present invention includes the following steps:

p) after updating a contact data of the user, the database server 200 immediately retrieves all groups authorized to view the contact data of the user from the database, retrieves the client accounts of the group members, and then marks that the user has updated the contact data under the client accounts;

q) if the user changes the telephone number of the mobile phone, the authorized clients also have enabled the mobile phone, and the group to which the clients belong is selected by the user as the option of sending short messages, marking the short messages needing to be sent to the clients for updating the telephone number under the mobile phones of the client accounts; after that time, the user can select the desired position,

r) if the contact list interface 221 of the clients sends connection requests, the contact list application server 201 sends the updated contact data of the user to the contact list interface 221 of the client;

s) the client's contact list interface 221 alerts the client that the user's contact data has changed;

u, procedure for automatically sending new contact data to customer's mobile phone

Referring to fig. 2 and 15, the process of automatically sending new contact information to the mobile phone of the client of the smart address book system of the present invention includes the following steps:

if the short message application server 203 finds that the mobile phone of a certain client account has a short message sending mark, the telephone number of the client mobile phone is retrieved from the database, and then the updated telephone number of the user is sent to the mobile phone 233 in a short message;

after the mobile phone 233 of the client analyzes the new phone number and the user account number of the user in the short message, the phone number of the user is updated to the phone book; it is worth proposing that there should be a specification that ensures that the customer account corresponds to the customer account of the phone book in the mobile phone.

V, procedure for enabling a new mobile telephone

Referring to fig. 2, the new mobile phone enabling process of the smart address book system of the present invention includes the following steps:

the mobile phone 233 enters the "new mobile phone enabled" function from the STK menu;

the user fills in the account number and the password, and the mobile phone sends the account number and the password to the short message application server by using a short message;

if the account number and password are correct, the sms application server 203 records the identification code and serial number, and generates a record binding the identification code of the mobile phone with the user account number and a record binding the identification code of the mobile phone with the "mobile phone client" group in the database 200, and at the same time,

a new contact means, which may automatically update the telephone number, is generated in the database 200 for the user account, and a record is made binding the identification code of the mobile phone to the contact means, which, in turn,

short message application server 203 sends an "enable successful" short message to mobile phone 233;

the mobile phone 233 sets its status flag to "enabled";

w is a device for exchanging electronic account number, which comprises a sending key, a low-power infrared transmitting unit (the effective coverage range of the infrared transmitting unit is 24 cm), an infrared receiving unit, a USB interface control unit, a lock control unit, a nonvolatile memory and at least one central processing unit.

The design and manufacture of the device should be made with reference to the full functionality of the system of the present invention to meet the needs of the address book system of the present invention.

X, a mobile phone comprising all communication functional units of the mobile phone, also comprising all functional units as a means for exchanging electronic accounts, and further comprising: the system comprises a client device identification code uploading control unit, a short message analysis and processing unit, an automatic short message sending unit, an infrared sending control unit and an infrared receiving control unit.

The design and manufacture of the mobile phone should refer to all functions of the system of the present invention, and the functions of the original mobile phone are expanded to meet the requirements of the address book system of the present invention.

It is worth proposing that the use of the identification code and serial number of the device or mobile phone of the invention is different, the identification code is always invisible to the user, it is only present as an index in the database, and the serial number is displayable to the user, such as the IMEI number of the mobile phone, the user can view himself as "# 06 #". The identification code and serial number are both solidified in the device and mobile phone.

The present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments described above, but includes all modifications that are consistent with the inventive concept thereof.

Claims

1. A method for realizing intelligent address book management by applying internet, which exchanges, searches, manages and automatically updates the communication data by establishing an address book data center and by means of an address book management system composed of a device for exchanging electronic accounts, a mobile phone and an address book user interface, is characterized in that the method comprises a process of uploading the identification code of a client device in the device, and comprises the following steps:

a) when an electronic account exchange device is inserted into a USB interface of a computer, the address list interface sends a 'reader identification code' instruction to the device;

b) the electronic account exchange device reads the local identification code and the serial number and sends the local identification code and the serial number to an address list interface through a USB interface;

c) the address book interface sends the identification code and the serial number to an address book application server through the Internet to request verification;

d) if the state of the device is normal, the address book application server sends a verification success message to an address book interface;

g) the address book interface sends the address book interface to an address book application server;

j) the device deletes all client device identification codes and client names (if any) stored therein.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising a device loss reporting process comprising the steps of:

the browser opens a user device list page of the Web application server, and the page lists serial number lists of all electronic account switching devices or mobile phones owned by the user;

if the password is correct, the Web application server sets the state of the loss reporting device in a database as a loss reporting state, and records the identification code of the device and the loss reporting message; and

if the reported device is a mobile phone, then mark "send lock short message" in the database;

the short message application server sends a 'loss report locking machine' instruction and a loss report message of a user to the lost mobile phone;

after recognizing that the short message is a command of 'lock machine for loss report', the mobile phone sets the state mark as 'lock machine for loss report', automatically sends the short message, informs the short message application server of 'lock machine success', and displays the left message of loss report of the owner;

the short message application server sets the state of the mobile phone to "locked".

3. The method of claim 1, prior to said step d), further comprising a process for enabling a new device, comprising the steps of:

if the identification code of the device is not enabled, the address book application server sends the message to an address book interface;

the user fills in an account and a password, selects a group to which the user belongs and uploads the group through the device, and the address book interface sends the group to the address book application server;

if the account number and the password are correct, the address book application server records the identification code and the serial number, generates a record for binding the identification code of the device and the user account number and a record for binding the identification code of the device and the group in a database, and then sends the details of the user and a 'device starting success' message to an address book interface;

the address book interface stores the details of the user to a local database and sends a 'name storage' instruction to the device;

the device sets its status flag to "enabled" and stores the user's name in non-volatile memory.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising a process for enabling a reported loss device, comprising the steps of:

the user selects to start the device again, and the address book interface requires the user to fill in the account and the password used by the original owner of the device;

if the account and the password filled by the user are correct and the identification code also belongs to the account, the address book application server sets the state of the device to be normal and then sends a message of 'successful activation of the device' to an address book interface;

the address list interface sends a 'report loss removing' instruction to the device, and then displays a 'device starting success' message;

the device sets its status flag to "enabled".

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising, after said step c), a process of automatically locking the device, comprising the steps of:

if the address book application server confirms that the device is lost, sending a 'loss report locking machine' instruction and a loss report message of a user to an address book interface;

the address list interface sends a 'locking' instruction to the electronic account exchange device, and then the lost message of the user is displayed;

the electronic account exchange device sets the status flag to' lost, and ends.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising a group authorization process comprising the steps of:

a user enters a group authorization management interface from an address list interface and then selects a group;

the group authorization management interface lists all contact ways of the user, and if the user allows members of the group to access a certain contact way, the contact way is selected; and

if the user changes the allowed related telephone number, whether to send short message to update the telephone directory of the mobile phone of the member;

the address book interface updates the changed data to a local database and then sends the data to an address book application server;

and the address book application server updates the changed data to the database.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising a process for automatically recognizing the identity of the client, comprising the steps of:

firstly, a user enters an old friend problem setting interface from an address list interface;

the user fills in questions identifying the old friend and asks the user to provide for each question: (i) a full answer, (ii) a simple answer, (iii) a group name to which a client who can answer the question correctly should belong;

the address book interface updates the address book interface into a local database and sends the address book interface to an address book application server to be stored in the database;

later, if a new client checks the contact information of the user in the address book interface, the user is found to be a previous old friend, and more contact information is selected to be checked;

the address book interface sends a request for identifying old friends to an address book application server;

opening a welcome old friend interface on the address book interface, wherein the interface presents the old friend questions listed longitudinally, and an edit box for answering the questions is provided below each question;

after the client writes the answer, the address book interface sends the answer to the address book application server;

the address book interface displays the new contact data of the user on the screen of the client.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising a process of exporting the address book, comprising the steps of:

the address book interface retrieves the corresponding contact information of the selected client and the group members from the local database, generates an address book temporary file, judges whether the user selects to output to an EXCEL form file, if so, lets the user fill in the file name and output to the file named by the name, and then the process is finished; otherwise

If the user chooses to output the address book to the mobile phone, the address book interface sends it to the mobile phone through the USB port, and the mobile phone stores it in the non-volatile memory.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising a process for electronic account exchange using the device, comprising the steps of:

when a power switch of the device is turned on, detecting whether a state mark of the device is' lost, if so, ending, otherwise, entering a receiving state;

user 1 presses the "send" button on his device, user 1's device sends out its own identification code and name (if set up), through the infrared emitter, then enters the receiving state;

the device of the user 2 receives the data sent by the device of the user 1, stores the data in a nonvolatile memory in the device, then sends out the identification code and the name (if set) of the local device through an infrared transmitter, and then enters a receiving state;

the device of user 1 receives the identification code and name (if received) sent by the device of user 2, stores it in a non-volatile memory within the device;

the received customer name is displayed if the user's device has an LCD display screen, or the customer's serial number in the device is displayed if the name has not been set (automatically generated by the device).

10. The method of claim 1, wherein when the electronic account switching device is a mobile phone, further comprising a process of querying customer details in real time, comprising the steps of:

the user enters a customer list interface of the electronic account exchange from an STK menu of the mobile phone, and the interface lists the names or sequence numbers of the customers according to time sequence (if the names are not set by the customers);

the mobile phone of the user sends the identification code of the client device and the request of 'checking details' to the short message application server by using a short message;

the short message application server retrieves the client-related contact data of the device identification code from the database and then sends the client-related contact data to the mobile phone of the user in a short message;

the mobile phone of the user analyzes the contact data and the account number of the client from the short message, stores the contact data and the account number in a telephone book and then displays the telephone book data.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein when the electronic account switching device is a mobile phone, further comprising a process of automatically updating a phone number of the mobile phone, comprising the steps of:

x) when the mobile phone completes power-on self-test and mobile network registration, the mobile phone detects whether the status flag is enabled, if so, the mobile phone sends the identification code to the short message application server by using a short message, otherwise, the mobile phone ends;

y) the short message application server analyzes the telephone number and the body identification code of the telephone from the short message; then, the user can use the device to perform the operation,

and judging whether the mobile phone is lost, if not, comparing the phone number with the phone number corresponding to the identification code in the database, and if not, updating the phone number to be a new phone number.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising a process of automatically locking the mobile phone after said step y), comprising the steps of:

after resolving the 'loss report locking machine' instruction in the short message, the mobile phone sets the state flag to 'loss report', then automatically sends the short message to inform the short message application server that the locking machine is successful, and simultaneously displays the loss report message of the owner;

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising a process for automatically updating the client contact list interface after the user has changed his or her contact details, comprising the steps of:

p) after updating a contact data of a user, the database server immediately searches all groups authorized to view the contact data of the user from the database, searches the client accounts of the group members, and marks that the user has updated the contact data under the client accounts;

q) if the user changes the telephone number of the mobile phone, the authorized clients also have enabled the mobile phone, and the group to which the clients belong is selected by the user as the option of sending short messages, marking the short messages needing to be sent to the clients for updating the telephone number under the mobile phones of the client accounts; in this way, the start-up of the device,

r) if the address book interfaces of the clients send connection requests, the address book application server sends the updated contact data of the users to the address book interfaces of the clients;

s) the address book interface of the client alerts the client that the contact data for the user has changed.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising a process of automatically sending new contact information to the client's mobile phone after said step q), comprising the steps of:

if the short message application server finds that the mobile phone of a certain client account has a short message sending mark, the short message application server retrieves the phone number of the client mobile phone from the database, and then sends the updated phone number of the user to the mobile phone by a short message;

after the mobile phone of the client analyzes the new phone number and the user account number of the user in the short message, the phone number of the user is updated to the phone book.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising a mobile phone client device identification uploading process when the mobile phone has the internet connection enabled, comprising the steps of:

1) the mobile phone is connected with the Internet from the STK menu and sends an identification code and a request of uploading a client device identification code to the address book application server;

2) the address book application server judges whether the identification code of the mobile phone is lost, if so, the next step is executed, otherwise, a verification success message is sent to the mobile phone, and the step 5 is executed);

4) the mobile phone sets the state mark as 'lost', then displays the lost message of the owner, and ends;

5) the mobile phone reads the device identification codes of all clients in the mobile phone and sends the device identification codes to the address book application server through the Internet;

6) the address book application server adds the device identification codes of the clients into a database, retrieves the contact data of the new clients from the database, and then sends the contact data of the new clients to the mobile phone;

7) the mobile phone stores the contact information of these new clients in the user's phone book and then deletes the identification codes of all client devices stored therein.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising a process for enabling a new mobile phone, comprising the steps of:

the mobile phone enters the function of 'starting new mobile phone' from the STK menu;

if the account number and the password are correct, the short message application server records the identification code and the serial number, and generates a record for binding the identification code of the mobile phone with the user account number and a record for binding the identification code of the mobile phone with a 'mobile phone client' group in a database; at the same time, the user can select the desired position,

generating a new contact way capable of automatically updating the telephone number and a record for binding the identification code of the mobile phone with the contact way for the user account in a database; then, the user can use the device to perform the operation,

the short message application server sends the 'successful activation' short message to the mobile phone;

the mobile phone sets its status flag to "enabled".

17. A method according to claim 3 or 16, wherein one user account may enable multiple electronic account switching devices or mobile phones.

18. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 17, wherein the method is applicable to an instant messaging system for managing the address book data of its users and exchanging user accounts.

19. A system for realizing intelligent address book management by applying the Internet comprises:

the database server is used for storing and managing all user data and device data and providing data query service for the application server;

the address book application server is used for providing communication connection service for the user terminal, receiving and processing a service request of the user terminal and sending a control instruction and data to the user terminal; wherein,

the user terminal is an address list interface or a mobile phone with an opened internet function;

the Web application server is used for providing communication connection service for the Web browser and receiving and processing a data service request sent by a user from the Web browser;

in addition, the Web application server also provides a user downloading service, so that the user can select to download the address book interface program of the language version according to the language used by the user;

the short message application server is used for receiving and processing the short message sent by the mobile phone and sending the short message to the mobile phone;

the address book interface is connected with the address book application server through the Internet, is connected with the electronic account switching device or the mobile phone through a USB port and is used for providing the states of a user for retrieving client information from the address book application server, maintaining user contact information, starting the device, searching clients or friends, checking the client information, automatically updating the client contact information, managing client group authorization, outputting an address book, reading the information in the device, writing the information into the device and controlling the device;

electronic account exchange device, which is used to exchange the identification code and the owner name (if set) with other electronic account exchange device or mobile phone through infrared transmitting and receiving port; and

the USB interface is connected with a personal computer through a USB port, receives and processes instructions and data sent by the address book interface, and sends client data to the address book interface;

mobile phone, which is used to exchange the identification code and the owner name (if set) with other electronic account exchange device or mobile phone via infrared transmitting and receiving port;

is connected with a personal computer through a USB port, receives and processes instructions and data sent by an address book interface, sends client data to the address book interface,

sending data to the short message application server through the short message, and receiving and processing the short message instruction and the data sent by the short message application server; and

for the mobile phone with the opened internet function, the mobile phone can also be connected with the internet, send data to the address book application server, and receive and process the data and instructions sent by the address book application server through the internet.

20. An apparatus for exchanging electronic accounts, comprising:

a sending key for starting the electronic account exchange program of the active sending device identification code and the owner name;

a low-power infrared emission unit with effective coverage within 24 cm for sending the identification code and the name of the owner (if set);

an infrared receiving unit for receiving the identification code and the owner name (if set) transmitted from another device;

a USB interface control unit for receiving the instruction or data from the USB port and sending the data to the computer through the USB port;

a lock control unit for locking/unlocking the lost device to make it lose/recover normal use function;

a nonvolatile memory for storing local data and data received through the USB port or the infrared receiving port;

at least one central processor for controlling the processing key, data access, infrared transmission/reception and USB transmission/reception.

21. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the material transmitted through the infrared transmission port is only an owner's name visible to the user (if set), and an identification code of the apparatus invisible to the user, wherein,

the identification code of the device is fixed in the device at the time of manufacture at the factory and is not modifiable by the user.

22. A mobile phone comprising the functional units of the apparatus of claim 20, further comprising:

the client device identification code uploading control unit is used for controlling connection and transmission of the Internet, sending a client device identification code in the device to the address book application server, and receiving and processing client detailed data sent by the address book application server;

the short message analysis unit is used for analyzing and processing the control instruction and the data sent by the short message application server;

the automatic sending information unit is used for automatically sending the identification code to the short message application server;

an infrared transmission control unit for enabling/disabling the infrared transmission key to avoid accidental pressing of the transmission key;

and the infrared receiving control unit is used for enabling/disabling the infrared receiving function so as to avoid the electronic account number exchange by the object which does not want to exchange data.