JP2002111899A - Portable information terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a portable information terminal which can easily backup data in a memory. SOLUTION: A CPU 11 compiles telephone book data stored in a RAM 13 into the text file of a previously decided system. When the function key of an operating part 16 is depressed at the time of generating an electronic mail, the text file is attached to the electronic mail and the file is transmitted with the operation of electronic mail transmission.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a portable information terminal having an electronic mail transmitting / receiving function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, portable telephone terminals as portable information terminals have become widespread, and some of them have a function of transmitting and receiving electronic mail.

In such a portable telephone terminal, hundreds of telephone numbers can be registered in the memory as a telephone directory, and since an electronic mail function is provided, an electronic mail address and the like can be stored together with the telephone number. You can now register.

[0004]

However, in such a conventional portable telephone terminal, there is no method for easily backing up a list of telephone numbers registered as a telephone directory. When the contents disappear, there is a problem that hundreds of telephone numbers in the registered telephone directory are lost.

The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide a portable information terminal capable of easily backing up data in a memory.

[0006]

A portable information terminal according to the present invention is a portable information terminal having an electronic mail transmission / reception function, and has a structure in which information stored in a memory is edited into a text file. With this configuration, the information stored in the memory is edited into a text file.

Here, the text file may be transmitted as an electronic mail. Thereby, the text file in which the information in the memory has been edited is transmitted to another terminal as an e-mail.

Further, the contents of the attached file of the received electronic mail may be taken into a memory. As a result, the content edited by another terminal is loaded into the memory.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 and 2 are views showing an embodiment of a mobile phone terminal as a mobile information terminal according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, a mobile phone terminal according to the present embodiment has a CPU (Central Processing Unit)
OM (Read-Only Memory) 12, RAM (Random Acces)
s Memory) 13, communication unit 14, display unit 15, operation unit 1
6. The audio input / output unit 17 is connected via the bus 20.

The CPU 11 controls each section of the apparatus according to a program stored in the ROM 12 to execute a predetermined operation of the mobile phone terminal. RAM 13
It stores various information such as driving conditions and management data of each unit of the apparatus, and also stores data necessary for operation.

The communication unit 14 demodulates radio waves received by the antenna 18 and outputs the demodulated radio waves to the CPU 11.
Is modulated and transmitted from the antenna 18. The display unit 15 has a liquid crystal display and displays a telephone number, a state of a received radio wave, reception of an e-mail, and the like. The operation unit 16 includes ten keys and various function keys, and performs various operations on the terminal. The audio input / output unit 17 includes a speaker and a microphone, and performs audio input / output.

In such a portable telephone terminal, the RAM
A list of data such as names, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses in the telephone directory is stored in a unique format that allows easy search, addition, deletion, and editing of e-mails. And the like, and the CPU 11 edits the name, telephone number, e-mail address, and the like stored in the telephone directory into a text file by pressing a function key of the operation unit 16.

Specifically, when the CPU 11 receives a notification that the text file editing function button has been pressed from the operation unit 16, the CPU 11 reads out data one by one from the telephone directory data, and reads out the data therein, for example, a name and a telephone number. And e-mail addresses are converted to character data if they are not character data, and a text file of a predetermined format created in the RAM 13 is stored in a text file in a predetermined format, for example, in the order of name, telephone number, and e-mail address, with "," And edit so that one line is one line. When all data in the telephone directory has been edited, the CPU 11 outputs a message “edited to a text file” on the liquid crystal display of the display unit 15, for example.

The text file edited in this way can be transmitted as an attached file of an e-mail by pressing a function key of the operation unit 16. Specifically, when the CPU 11 receives a notification that the function button for attaching a text file is pressed from the operation unit 16 during the well-known transmission e-mail creation process, the CPU 11 adds the data of the well-known format to the e-mail being created. To attach the text file in the RAM 13 as an attached file. Thereafter, the CPU 11 transmits the created e-mail data from the communication unit to a preset mail server by a well-known e-mail transmission operation.

The portable telephone terminal stores the contents of the attached file attached to the received e-mail in the RAM 1.
3 can be imported into the telephone directory data. Specifically, when the attached file is attached to the received e-mail, the CPU 11 displays the attached file symbol 32 together with the mail arrival symbol 31 on the liquid crystal display of the display unit 15 as shown in FIG. Notify that there is an attachment.

When the CPU 11 receives a notification that the function button for taking in the telephone directory data from the attached file is pressed from the operation unit 16 while displaying the attached file symbol 32, the CPU 11 reads out the contents of the attached file, for example, as described above. As a file in the same format as the text file, the name from the beginning of one line to the delimiter "," is a telephone number from the next to the next ",", and the e-mail address from the next to the end of the line is 1 The line is registered as one telephone directory data. When all the data is registered in the telephone directory, the CPU 11 outputs a message “registered in the telephone directory” on the liquid crystal display of the display unit 15, for example. If the attached file is not in the text file format described above, the CPU 11 outputs, for example, a message “The file format is different” to the liquid crystal display of the display unit 15 and ends the processing.

As described above, the portable telephone terminal of the present embodiment edits the telephone directory data in the RAM 13 into a text file, so that the telephone directory data can be easily edited.
Further, since the text file is transmitted as an attached file of the e-mail, it is possible to easily back up the telephone directory data. Also, since the attached file of the received e-mail is included in the telephone directory data, it is possible to easily retrieve the backup telephone directory and the telephone directory edited from the telephone directory data.

In this embodiment, the edited text file is attached to the electronic mail as an attached file. However, the present invention is not limited to this. The text file may be directly inserted into the electronic mail.

In the present embodiment, the number of text files to be edited is one. However, the present invention is not limited to this. A plurality of text files can be edited and displayed in a list when attached to an e-mail so as to be selected. It doesn't matter.

In this embodiment, the attached file has the same format as the edited text file. However, the present invention is not limited to this format. RAM as it is
The data may be in a format that becomes telephone directory data simply by writing the data into the address book 13.

[0022]

As described above, the present invention has an excellent effect that information stored in a memory can be easily backed up by editing the information stored in the memory into a text file. An information terminal can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing one embodiment of a mobile phone terminal as a mobile information terminal according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a display example of the display unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 11 CPU 12 ROM 13 RAM 14 Communication unit 15 Display unit 16 Operation unit 17 Voice input / output unit 18 Antenna 20 Bus 31 Mail arrival symbol 32 Attached file symbol

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A portable information terminal having an e-mail transmission / reception function, wherein information stored in a memory is edited into a text file. 2. The portable information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the text file is transmitted as an electronic mail. 3. The portable information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the contents of the attached file of the received e-mail are taken into a memory.