JP2002077434A - Mobile terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mobile terminal, having assisting functions, which can quickly cope with a caller. SOLUTION: This structure comprises a storage part which can store a plurality of procedure processing programs, associated with registerer information which can specify a caller of received information; and a control part, which when receiving the transmitter information indicating the caller from the transmitter, selects the procedure processing program associated with the registerer information, corresponding to the caller information to execute it.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] The present invention relates to a portable terminal. In particular, the present invention relates to a mobile terminal having an assistant function using incoming information such as a telephone number in a mobile phone or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, portable terminals such as portable telephones have been actively developed, and portable terminals have various functions. These functions include, for example, a telephone transmission / reception function, an electronic mail transmission / reception function, a web content access function, and the like. Further, the portable terminal includes a recording device such as a memory, and can hold various data such as a telephone number and an e-mail. As described above, the portable terminal is also used as an information storage device that allows the user to view personal information of the user. Therefore, the user can access these data as needed.

[0003] Conventionally, by using the above-mentioned telephone sending / receiving function,
The mobile phone displayed the caller's telephone number on the display. Also, when the telephone number of the user registered in the telephone directory of the mobile phone and the telephone number of the caller match, the mobile phone displays the registrant's name.

[0004]

However, even if the user can know the name and telephone number of the caller, there is a problem that it is difficult for the user to immediately recognize the caller.

[0005] Further, even if the user can know the name and telephone number of the caller, the user usually takes measures such as conversation corresponding to each caller. Therefore,
There is a problem that the user has to deal with each caller, and has spent a great deal of effort.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a portable terminal having an assistant function capable of promptly responding to a caller who can solve the above-mentioned problems. This object is achieved by a combination of features described in the independent claims. The dependent claims define further advantageous embodiments of the present invention.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, a portable terminal according to a first aspect of the present invention provides a procedure processing program associated with registrant information capable of specifying a sender of incoming information. A storage unit capable of storing a plurality of items, and a control for selecting and executing a procedure processing program associated with registrant information corresponding to the caller information when caller information indicating the caller is received from the caller And a unit.

[0008] The above summary of the present invention does not list all of the necessary features of the present invention, and sub-combinations of these features can also be invented.

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described through embodiments of the present invention. However, the following embodiments do not limit the claimed invention and have the features described in the embodiments. Not all combinations are essential to the solution of the invention.

In this embodiment, a portable terminal such as a cellular phone
A procedure processing program set by the user according to the received telephone number or the like is executed. For example, the mobile terminal may display a face image on a display so that the caller can be easily recognized for each incoming telephone number.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of the portable terminal of the present embodiment. The mobile terminal includes a transmission / reception switching unit 20, a transmission / reception unit 30, a codec unit 50, a voice unit 60, a power supply unit 70, a control unit 80, a storage unit 90, an operation unit 100, and a display unit 110. The mobile terminal includes an antenna 10, a speaker 12, a microphone 14, and a display 16.

The antenna 10 transmits and receives signals to and from other portable terminals and base stations. The transmission switching unit 20 switches the direction of signal transmission and reception in the mobile terminal.

The transmission / reception unit 30 includes a reception unit 32 and a demodulation unit 34
And a transmitting unit 36 and a modulating unit 38. The receiving unit 32
An incoming signal is received from outside through the antenna 10. The demodulation unit 34 demodulates the modulated incoming signal received by the reception unit 32. The modulator 38 modulates the encoded signal. The transmission unit 36 transmits the signal received from the modulation unit 38 via the antenna 10.

The codec 50 encodes or decodes the received signal. The audio unit 60 causes the speaker 12 to output the decoded signal. The audio unit 60 receives an audio signal from the user via the microphone 14.

The power supply unit 70 is used to turn on and off the power of the portable terminal.
The instruction of the FF is received from the user. The user may stop the processing of the mobile terminal by turning off the power.

The storage unit 90 stores registrant information that can specify the sender of the incoming information. The user registers registrant information in the storage unit 90 in advance. The storage unit 90 stores a procedure processing program and procedure data associated with the registrant information. The storage unit 90 is a recording device that can store various data. The storage unit 90 includes, for example, an EP-R
A magnetic recording device such as an OM, a RAM, a buffer, and a hard disk may be used.

The data stored in the storage unit 90 may be information input or installed by the user on the portable terminal. The data stored in the storage unit 90 may be information pre-installed in the mobile terminal. Further, the data stored in the storage unit 90 may be information downloaded from outside the mobile terminal. For example, the storage unit 90 may store programs and image data received via the Internet. The storage unit 90 may include a plurality of EP-ROMs, RAMs, and the like. For example, a procedure processing program and procedure data may be stored in an EP-ROM, and image data downloaded via the Internet may be temporarily stored in a RAM.

The operation unit 100 receives an instruction for a portable terminal from a user. The display unit 110 causes the display 16 to display the received telephone number, image data, and the like.

The control unit 80 controls the codec unit 50, the storage unit 90, the operation unit 100, and the display unit 110. The control unit 80 receives the caller information received from the caller from the codec unit 50. The control unit 80 searches the storage unit 90 for registrant information corresponding to the caller information. The control unit 80 executes a procedure processing program corresponding to the searched registrant information.

As described above, by storing the procedure program in the storage unit 90, the user can quickly perform the procedure processing corresponding to each of the callers. The details of the control unit 80 and the storage unit 90 will be described in the next figure.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing details of the storage unit 90 and the control unit 80 of FIG. The storage unit 90 has a registrant information storage unit 92, a procedure processing storage unit 94, and a procedure data storage unit 96.

The registrant information storage unit 92 stores registrant information indicating a caller to whom the user has scheduled an incoming call in advance. The registrant information is, for example, information such as the caller's telephone number, e-mail address, and name.

The procedure processing storage unit 94 stores a procedure processing program set by the user in association with the registrant information. The procedure processing storage unit 94 may store a plurality of procedure processing programs. Here, the procedure processing program includes, for example, a computer program, an applet, and a CGI (Common Gateway inte
rface) and the like. The registrant information and the procedure processing program may be related one-to-one or one-to-many.

The procedure data storage section 96 stores procedure data used in the procedure processing program.
The procedure data is, for example, image data, audio data, character data, and the like. The procedure data may be installed from the portable terminal side as in the procedure processing program described above, or may be downloaded via the Internet.

The procedure processing program may be, for example, a program for displaying image data associated with a telephone number when a telephone number is received as sender information. If a caller calls you,
Image data of the caller's face is displayed on the display.
The display of the image data may be the image data alone or may be displayed together with the caller's telephone number and name.

As described above, when the face image of the caller is displayed according to the incoming telephone number, the user can immediately recognize the caller. In particular, when many telephone numbers and names are registered in the mobile terminal, the user can intuitively identify the caller. In addition, the user can take a quick response according to the caller.

The procedure processing program is, for example,
When a telephone number is received as caller information, the program may be recorded as a voice memo associated with the telephone number. When a call is received from a caller, the mobile terminal records the voice information of the caller over time for each caller as a voice memo.

As described above, if the voice memo can be recorded according to the caller, the user can quickly hear the information received from the specific caller for each caller. Also, if voice memos can be recorded for each registrant, the user can collectively listen to voice memos of a specific registrant and grasp the contents at a time. The user can repeatedly listen to the voice memo without having to write down the content.

The control section 80 has a detection section 82, a format change section 84, a comparison section 86, an execution section 88, and a registration section 89.

The detecting section 82 detects whether or not the information decoded by the codec section 50 includes caller information such as a telephone number. The detecting unit 82 extracts the detected caller information.

[0031] The format converter 84 receives the sender information from the detector 82. The format conversion unit 84
The caller information is converted into a format that can be compared with the registrant information stored in the registrant storage unit 92.

The comparing unit 86 receives the format-converted sender information from the format converting unit 84. The comparing unit 86 compares the converted sender information with the registrant information in the registrant information storage unit 92. The comparing unit 86 selects registrant information corresponding to the sender information. Note that not all registrant information is associated with the procedure processing program.

The execution unit 88 executes a procedure processing program associated with the registrant information received from the comparison unit 86.

The registration unit 89 sets and cancels a procedure processing program associated with registrant information. For example,
The registration unit 89 may perform setting for associating registrant information with a plurality of procedure processing programs stored in the ROM. The registration unit 89 may cancel some settings of a plurality of procedure processing programs associated with the registrant information. Further, the registration unit 89 may newly register a procedure processing program. For example, the registration unit 89
May download a procedure processing program from a personal computer and store it in an EP-ROM or the like. The registration unit 89 may delete the procedure processing program associated with the registrant information. Note that the registration unit 89 may set, cancel, register, and delete procedure data as in the procedure processing program.

As described above, the user can freely set and cancel the procedure processing program for the registrant. Therefore, the user can immediately take an appropriate response to the caller who intends to receive the call.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a list of registrant information, a procedure processing program, and the like stored in the storage unit of the portable terminal. The personal information list 120 contains the telephone number 12
2, a name 124, a procedure processing program 126, and procedure data 128. The personal information referred to here is, for example, information including a telephone number 122, a name 124, a procedure processing program 126, and procedure data 128. Of these, the telephone number 122 and the name 124 are registrant information.

The telephone number 122 is the telephone number of the caller as registrant information. The registrant information is not limited to a telephone number, but may be an e-mail address or the like.

The name 124 is a registrant's name, a nickname, or the like displayed in correspondence with the telephone number 122. However, the name 124 need not always be included in personal information. Note that a plurality of procedure processing programs 126 and procedure data 128 may correspond to each telephone number 122.

The procedure processing program list 130 has a procedure processing program 126. The procedure program 126 is, for example, a voice memo or a voice reading program, a related list display program, a related image display program, a related operation reproducing program, or the like. The voice reading program is, for example, a program that responds with voice information set for each registrant when a telephone number is received. By responding to each subscriber in this way,
The trouble of responding to each caller can be reduced. The related list display program is, for example, a program for displaying character information set for each registrant when a telephone number is received. The character information may include, for example, information such as the registrant's address and birthday. The related operation reproduction program is, for example, a program for performing a batch process set for each registrant when a telephone number is received. For example, the face image data of the registrant corresponding to the telephone number may be displayed, and a response message dedicated to the registrant may be sent. Note that a plurality of procedure processing programs may be used in combination.

The user operates the procedure processing program 126
Can be freely set and canceled in association with the registrant's telephone number 122. In addition, the user may set a plurality of procedure processing programs for one telephone number 122. In this case, the user may set the order of the procedure processing programs to be activated. The execution unit 88 controls the order of the procedure processing programs to be executed.

As described above, by associating various data with the telephone number 122, the user can appropriately respond to the caller of the received telephone number.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for relating a procedure processing program to personal information. The registration unit 89 of the control unit 80 searches for personal information including registrant information corresponding to the sender information received from the comparison unit 86. (S1
0). If the registration unit 89 cannot find the personal information (S
20), the registration unit 89 performs a registration process of personal information in response to a request from the user (S30). If the personal information is unnecessary, the process ends (S25). After registering the personal information, the registration unit 89 searches for a procedure processing program desired by the user (S70). If there is a procedure processing program desired by the user, the registration unit 89 sets the procedure processing program in association with the registrant information (S
70). Further, the registration unit 89 may register by inputting a new procedure processing program or the like (S7).
0).

On the other hand, if the registration unit 89 finds personal information (S20), the registration unit 89 searches for a procedure processing program corresponding to the personal information (S40). If there is no procedure processing program (S40), the registration unit 89 searches for a procedure processing program desired by the user (S70). If there is a procedure processing program desired by the user, the registration unit 89 sets the procedure processing program in association with the personal information (S70). The registration unit 89
May be registered by inputting a new procedure processing program or the like (S70).

If there is a procedure processing program (S4
0), the registration unit 89 checks whether or not the program is a procedure processing program desired by the user (S50). If it is not the procedure processing program desired by the user (S50), the registration unit 8
9 may delete the procedure processing program. Also,
The registration unit 89 may cancel the setting of the procedure processing program for personal information. Therefore, when the setting is released, the procedure processing program itself is not deleted. Subsequently, the registration unit 89 searches whether there is a procedure processing program desired by the user (S70). If there is a procedure processing program desired by the user, the registration unit 89
Sets a procedure processing program in association with personal information (S70). Further, the registration unit 89 may register by inputting a new procedure processing program (S70). If it is the procedure processing program desired by the user (S50), the registration unit 89 ends the processing such as registration.

By performing the above processing, the user registers and deletes a desired procedure processing program with respect to personal information. Therefore, it is possible to set an appropriate program according to the caller, and to take an appropriate response according to the caller.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for starting the procedure processing program of the portable terminal according to the present embodiment. The mobile terminal waits for incoming information from the caller (S110). If there is an incoming call (S110), the detecting unit 82 of the control unit 80 detects the telephone number data of the caller from the incoming call information (S12).
0). If the detecting unit 82 cannot detect the telephone number data (S120), the process ends. On the other hand, if the detecting section 82 can detect the telephone number data, the format converting section 84
Converts the telephone number data into a predetermined format (S130). Subsequently, the comparing unit 86 searches for the registrant's telephone number data corresponding to the converted telephone number data (S140).

If the comparing unit 86 cannot find the matching registrant's telephone number data (S150), the process is terminated. If the comparing section 86 finds a matching registrant's telephone number data (S150), the comparing section 86 searches for a procedure processing program corresponding to the registrant's telephone number data (S160). If the comparing unit 86 cannot find the procedure processing program (S160), the process ends. If the comparing unit 86 finds the procedure processing program (S16
0), the execution unit 88 executes the procedure processing program (S170). Operation unit 1 during execution of procedure processing program
When the stop command is received from the user through the process 00, the execution unit 88 stops the process (S180). In addition,
The processing may be automatically stopped by setting the processing time as a program. For example, the image data of the registrant's face may be displayed for a certain period of time.

In the above, the activation of the procedure processing program corresponding to the received telephone number data has been described. However, the user can instruct selection, activation, stop, etc. of the procedure processing program even without an incoming call. The user selects a desired procedure processing program from a plurality of registered procedure processing programs. For example, when the user selects a program for displaying image data, the execution unit 88 performs the processing. This allows the user to view the image data. Further, the user may be able to make a telephone call to a registrant by selecting image data.

As described above, the portable terminal sets the procedure processing program for each registrant corresponding to the telephone number.
Therefore, the user can perform a desired procedure for each caller, thereby reducing the user's telephone response effort.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiment, the technical scope of the present invention is not limited to the scope described in the above embodiment. Various changes or improvements can be added to the above embodiment. It should be noted that such modified or improved embodiments may be included in the technical scope of the present invention.
It is clear from the description of the claims.

[0051]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a portable terminal having an assistant function capable of promptly responding to a caller.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a portable terminal according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing details of a storage unit 90 and a control unit 80 in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a list of registrant information, a procedure processing program, and the like stored in a storage unit of the mobile terminal.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart relating a procedure processing program to personal information.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for activating a procedure processing program of the mobile terminal of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 80 control unit 82 detection unit 84 format conversion unit 86 comparison unit 88 execution unit 89 registration unit 90 storage unit 92 registrant information storage unit 94 procedure processing storage unit 96 procedure data storage unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A storage unit capable of storing a plurality of procedural processing programs associated with registrant information capable of specifying a sender of incoming information, and receiving sender information indicating the sender from the sender. And a control unit for selecting and executing the procedure processing program associated with the registrant information corresponding to the caller information when the caller information is received.