JP2000253128A - Telephone book information calling device and its method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a telephone book information calling device and method for calling frequently called telephone book information first in a portable telephone or automobile telephone, even when calling operation is not operated by the portable telephone or automobile telephone. SOLUTION: Relating to a telephone book information calling device, having a storing means for storing plural telephone book information 1 including at least a telephone number, name, or designation and a calling means for calling telephone book information stored in the storing means, the number of times of calling how many the telephone book information is called in the past is stored in the storing means, and the telephone book information is called in the order of larger number of times of calling by the calling means.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to calling of telephone directory information in a portable telephone, a car telephone and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art At present, the number of registered telephone directory information (telephone number, name, etc.) in a portable telephone or a car telephone exceeds 500. Therefore, various devices have been devised so that a user can easily call up target telephone directory information. As a conventional telephone directory information calling method, there are an alphabetical order, a memory number order, and a group.

[0003] In these methods, telephone directory information that is not often used may be called up first, and it may take time to reach the telephone directory information that is actually used. Therefore, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-145485
As disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication, there is a method of rearranging the telephone directory information in the order of frequent calls.

[0004]

However, this prior art has the following problems. That is, when the telephone number of the other party is searched from the telephone directory information of the mobile phone or the car phone, and this phone number is used to make a call from a fixed phone other than the mobile phone or the car phone, Since the mobile phone or the car phone does not shift to the calling operation, the sorting of the telephone directory information is not performed. Then, even if it is frequently used telephone directory information, it is not always called first.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problem, and frequently-called telephone directory information is called first even when a calling operation is not performed by a portable telephone or a car telephone. A telephone directory information calling device and method are provided.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a storage means for storing a plurality of pieces of telephone directory information including at least a telephone number and a name, and a method for storing the telephone directory information stored in the storage section. In the telephone directory information calling device having a calling unit, the storage unit stores the number of times the telephone directory information has been called in the past, and the calling unit stores the telephone directory information in the number of calls. A telephone directory information calling device, which is called in order.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the telephone directory information includes the number of calls.
A telephone directory information calling device according to the item (1). The invention according to a third aspect is characterized in that there is provided a selecting means for selecting any one of a calling order for calling the telephone directory information in the descending order of the number of calls and another calling order. A telephone directory information calling device according to claim 1 or 2. According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the selecting means includes:
4. The telephone directory information calling device according to claim 3, wherein any one of the order of the number of calls, the order of the call, the order in which the telephone directory information is stored, and the order of the number of calls is selected.

The invention according to claim 5 is the telephone directory information calling device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the storage means rearranges the telephone directory information in the order of the number of times of calling. . The invention according to claim 6, wherein the storage means rearranges the telephone directory information in the changed calling order when the selection of the calling order is changed by the selecting means. 4 is a telephone directory information calling device.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided a telephone directory information calling method for storing a plurality of directory information including at least a telephone number and a name and calling the stored directory information. A telephone directory information calling method, characterized by storing the number of calls called in the past and calling the telephone directory information in descending order of the number of calls.

[0010]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 shows the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.
This will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of one piece of telephone directory information necessary for realizing a telephone directory information calling device or method for a mobile phone or a car phone according to the present invention. One piece of telephone directory information includes destination information 1 composed of a telephone directory number, a telephone number, a name, and the like, and a call count 2 indicating the number of times the telephone directory information has been called in the past. The number of calls 2 is a configuration added by the present invention. The telephone directory number is
A serial number assigned to each telephone directory information is assigned in the order of registration of the telephone directory information.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. S1 in the following sentence
S6 shows the steps of the flowchart. First, as an initial state, 500 pieces of telephone directory information are registered, none of the information has been called once, and therefore, the number of times 2 of any information is called “0”. It is assumed that these pieces of telephone directory information are called in the registration order in the initial state.

In the above initial state, when certain telephone directory information is called, the telephone directory information is called in the order of telephone directory numbers 1 to 500. (S1) For example, if the target telephone directory information is that of the telephone directory number 150, the call confirmation operation is performed by the user when the telephone directory number 150 is called. Then, the telephone directory information is stored in a random access memory built in the mobile phone or the car phone. (S
2)

Then, the number of calls 2 in the telephone directory information of the telephone directory number 150 is incremented to "1". (S3) When the calling operation is completed and the display screen of the telephone is switched to the normal screen (S4), the telephone directory information is rearranged in the order of the number of calls 2. That is, the telephone directory number 150
Is placed at the beginning of the calling sequence. (S5) In the next call of the telephone directory information, the telephone directory information includes the telephone directory numbers 150, 1, 2, ..., 149, 151,
.., Are called in the order of 500. (S6)

As another embodiment of the present invention, the telephone directory information can be replaced with a menu function setting. That is, by storing the number of times the function is set by the menu key, the order of calling the menu key can be rearranged. This makes it possible to rearrange the setting of each function in the order of frequent use.

[0015]

According to the present invention, the call order of the telephone directory information can be changed even if the telephone directory information stored in the portable telephone or the car telephone is only called and the calling operation is not performed. Sorted in descending order of the number of calls. Therefore, even when only the telephone directory information is called from a mobile phone or a car telephone, and a call is made from another fixed telephone or the like, the frequently used telephone directory information is used from among a large number of registered telephone directory information. The telephone directory information can be called quickly, and the call time of the telephone directory information can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of telephone directory information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Destination information (phonebook information) 2 Number of calls

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A telephone directory information calling device comprising: storage means for storing a plurality of telephone directory information including at least a telephone number and a name; and calling means for calling the telephone directory information stored in the storage means. A telephone directory information calling device, wherein the storage unit stores the number of times the telephone directory information has been called in the past, and the calling unit calls the telephone directory information in descending order of the number of calls. 2. The telephone directory information calling device according to claim 1, wherein the telephone directory information includes the number of calls. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a selection unit that selects one of a calling order for calling the telephone directory information in descending order of the number of calls and another calling order. 3. The telephone directory information calling device according to 2. 4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said selecting means selects any one of the order of the number of calls, the order of the call, the order in which the telephone directory information is stored, and the order of the number of calls.
2. The telephone directory information calling device according to 1. 5. The telephone directory information calling device according to claim 1, wherein the storage unit rearranges the telephone directory information in descending order of the number of calls. 6. The storage unit according to claim 3, wherein when the selection of the calling order is changed by the selecting unit, the storage unit rearranges the telephone directory information in the changed calling order. Phonebook information calling device. 7. A telephone directory information calling method for storing a plurality of telephone directory information including at least a telephone number and a name, and calling the stored telephone directory information, wherein the telephone directory information is called in the past. And calling up the telephone directory information in the descending order of the number of calls.