JP2003219014A - System for extracting telephone directory information and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system capable of properly extracting telephone directory information from a character string selected with a computer mouse or the like. <P>SOLUTION: An information terminal comprises: a display section 110; a storage section 130; an entry section 140; a line interface section 150; and a control section 160 for controlling a function of drawing a window on the display section 110 and controlling the entire information terminal. The storage section 130 captures a character string selected on a first window 111 of the display section, the display section applies comparison processing to the character string according to a searching condition and predetermined characters such as a telephone number, a TEL, an external line, and an extension or the like, displays a result of comparison on a corresponding column of a second window, awaits edit and registration instructions in the second window from the entry section 140, revises the selected character string to obtain proper character string information according to the edit instruction from the entry section 140, and stores the revised information to a telephone number column 122 of a telephone directory address storage section 121 according to the registration instruction. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information terminal device having a telephone directory, and particularly to an operating system for displaying a window screen (hereinafter abbreviated as OS).
The present invention relates to a method and a method for extracting telephone directory information such as a telephone number in an information terminal device having the information and registering it in the telephone directory.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a method for extracting arbitrary telephone number information displayed on a window of a word processing document or the like displayed by execution of an OS or on the screen of another window by a simple operation, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000- 92232.

FIG. 4 shows a block diagram of an information terminal 900 disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-92232.

In FIG. 4, the information terminal 900 is
The display unit 910, the storage unit 930, the input unit 940, the line interface unit 950, and the control unit 960 are provided.

The information terminal 900 further includes an address comparison memory unit 970. Address comparison memory unit 9
When a character string other than a numeral is included in the character string taken in as transmission information from the second window 112, the numeral 70 indicates the “address”, “ "Address", "prefecture",
It is determined whether or not a predetermined character string such as “city” or “Tokyo” is included, and if so, the character string other than the numeral is used as the address column of the telephone directory address storage unit 121. 1
22 to register as an address.

According to this information terminal 900, an area including a company name, an address, a telephone number, a FAX number, etc. described in a signature column at the end of the body of an electronic mail or an inquiry column on a home page is stored in a computer mouse or the like. You can grow your phone book just by selecting with.

[0007]

However, in the information terminal 900, an address can be registered only when a character string other than numbers includes a character string registered in advance.

When a plurality of matching candidates are found, all but one candidate are discarded.

Further, if the selected character string is ambiguous, such as if it cannot be determined whether it is a name or a place name, it may be forcibly extracted as a place name even though it is a name.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object thereof is to provide a method and method for appropriately extracting telephone directory information from a character string selected by a computer mouse or the like. To do.

[0011]

According to the present invention, the extraction means for extracting the contents of each item of the telephone directory information from the character string selected on the screen, and the extraction means for each item of the extracted telephone directory information. Display means for displaying the content in the editable area of the screen, edit accepting means for accepting editing of the content of each item of the phonebook information in the editable area, and content of each item of the edited phonebook information And a means for adding to the telephone directory, and a telephone directory information extraction method is provided.

The above-mentioned telephone directory information extraction method displays means for displaying the plurality of candidates on the screen when there are a plurality of candidates for the content of the same item of the telephone directory information. Selection accepting means for accepting which one of the plurality of candidates to be selected may be provided, and the adding means may add the selected candidate to the telephone directory as the content of the item.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an information terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, a personal computer or PDA (Personal Digita)
Information terminal 100 represented by
The display unit 110, the storage unit 130, the input unit 140, the line interface unit 150, the control unit 160, the telephone directory address storage unit 121, and the information extraction unit 180 are provided. The telephone directory address storage unit 121 also includes a telephone number field 122.

The control unit 160 has a function of drawing a window (first window 111, telephone directory window 112 and other windows) having a closed line segment as an outer edge on the display unit 110 and a function of controlling the entire information terminal 100. Have. Further, the control unit 160 fetches the character string selected by the user's operation of the input unit 140 on the first window 111 into the storage unit 130, and the character string and the predetermined information registered in the information extraction unit 180. The comparison process is performed according to the search condition such as prefix match or suffix match with the character string, and the comparison result is displayed in the phonebook window 1
Displayed in 12 corresponding columns (name column, company name column, etc.), the input unit 140 receives edit and registration instructions by the user in the telephone directory window 112, and the input unit 140 receives them as necessary. By the editing operation (selection from the candidate list, direct character operation, etc.), the contents displayed in each column are changed to an appropriate character string, and by the registration instruction (pressing the registration button) accepted by the input unit 140, The contents displayed in each column of the telephone directory window 112 and edited as necessary are stored in the telephone number column 122 of the telephone directory address storage unit 121.
To store.

The operation of the information terminal 100 shown in FIG. 1 will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

Among the contents displayed in the first window 111 (window for displaying electronic mail, window for displaying home page, window of word processor, etc.), the user describes, for example, at the end of the body of the electronic mail. If you recognize that the information that can be taken into the phonebook is described in the signature column, the inquiry column on the homepage, etc., select that column using the computer mouse or keyboard and right Click the button.

Then, the control unit 160 extracts the contents of each item of the telephone directory information from the selected character string, the text box 112-1 for displaying the selected character string, and the extracted item. A phonebook window 112 having text boxes 112-2 to 112-7 for displaying the contents is pop-up displayed, and the selected character string is displayed in the text box for displaying the selected character string and extracted. The content of each extracted item is displayed in the text box for displaying the content of each extracted item.

The control unit 160 controls the telephone directory window 112.
When executing the extraction before displaying, the content of each item is extracted according to the extraction condition prepared by default.

For example, a group of character strings before or after "(shares)" (character strings separated by a space before or after) and "(shares)" is extracted as a character string of a company name. , A group of character strings in front of "corporation" and "corporation" is extracted as a character string of the company name.

A character string following the character string recognized as the company name character string is extracted as a belonging character string. Or
A group of character strings including “department”, “department”, and “section” are extracted as belonging character strings.

A group of character strings including character strings such as “President”, “Executive Managing Director”, “Executive Managing Director”, “Manager”, “Manager” and “Manager” is extracted as a character string of a post.

A group of character strings before or after the character string of a position is extracted as a character string of a name.

"Telephone ##-####-#####",
"Telephone ####-####-#####", "TEL ##-
######-#####, '' TEL ####-#####
"###-######-####" or "####-#" of the character string of "##"("#" represents any one number)
"##-####""is extracted as a character string of a telephone number.

[Facsimile ##-######-####
# "," Facsimile ####-####-#### ",
`` FAX ##-#####-##### '', `` FAX ####-
"####-####" (where "#" represents any one number) "or"########"or"######"#-####""is extracted as a character string of the facsimile number.

"*" In the character string of "extension *"("*" represents the number of arbitrary values consecutive by an arbitrary number) is extracted as an extension number.

Among the character strings of “〒 ####-####” (“#” represents an arbitrary number), “####-####”
# "Is extracted as a postal code.

"Tokyo", "Osaka Prefecture", "Kyoto Prefecture",
A group of character strings including "Hokkaido" and "prefecture" is extracted as an address. A group of character strings including "city", "ward", "town", and "village" is extracted as an address.

It is also possible to add an arbitrary extraction condition input by the user to the default extraction condition and use this extraction condition to extract the contents of each item. In the extraction condition input by the user, (1) item name, (2) character string to be compared, (3) forward match, backward match, partial match, or the like is designated.

The order of items displayed in the telephone directory window 112 may be changed by user designation.

The items displayed in the telephone directory window 112 may be added or deleted. To add an item, the user adds an extraction condition corresponding to it, and to delete an item, the user deletes the extraction condition corresponding to it. It may be specified whether or not to display each item without adding / deleting the extraction condition.

Further, it may have a function of printing the items displayed in the telephone directory window 112 on the refill of the system notebook.

The extracted contents of each item displayed in each text box 112-1 to 112-7 of the telephone directory window 112 can be edited. The user checks whether or not the content of each item displayed in each text box is correct, and if the content is incorrect, inputs the correct content in the text box.

When the user confirms that the contents of all items are correct and presses the registration button 112-8, the control unit 1
60 adds the content displayed in the text box when the registration button is pressed to the telephone directory address storage unit 121.

In general, when extraction is performed, there may be a plurality of candidates for the content of the same item. In such a case, an item having a plurality of candidates is specially displayed on the telephone directory window 112. The special display includes, for example, display in a color different from other items, blinking display, and the like.

FIG. 3 shows a case where there are a plurality of telephone number content candidates. The item name "phone number" is displayed in a different color from other items.

When the user recognizes the special display and holds the computer mouse over the item name "telephone number" on the special display, a message "There is a candidate. Please click." Is displayed as shown in Fig. 3. Show 11
4 is displayed. When the user clicks on the computer mouse, a window pops up showing multiple suggestions for the contents of the phone number. When the user selects a candidate judged to be correct with the keyboard or the computer mouse, the pop-up window disappears and the selected candidate is substituted in the text box of the telephone number.

When a plurality of candidates are displayed in the pop-up window, priorities may be set according to the extraction conditions corresponding to the respective candidates, and the candidates may be displayed in descending order of priority. .

The control section 160 can also be realized by the computer reading and executing a program for causing the computer to function as the control section 160.

[0040]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Since the contents of each item extracted according to the extraction conditions can be edited, it is possible to prevent incorrect contents from being registered in the telephone directory.

Further, according to the present invention, when there are a plurality of candidates having the same item contents, the user can select a candidate judged to be correct from the candidates, so that the wrong contents can be selected. Can be prevented from being registered in the phone book.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a first diagram showing a screen displayed by the information terminal shown in FIG. 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a second diagram showing a screen displayed by the information terminal shown in FIG. 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an information terminal according to a conventional telephone directory information extraction method.

[Explanation of symbols]

100 Information Terminal 110 Display 111 First window 112 Phonebook window 121 Phone Book Address Storage 122 Phone number field 130 storage 140 Input section 150 line interface section 160 control unit 180 Information extraction unit

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Yoshikazu Kobayashi             2-6-1 Kitamikata, Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture             No. NCI Inn Frontier Stock Association             In-house F-term (reference) 5K036 DD11 DD32 DD46 DD48 JJ02                       JJ13                 5K101 NN01 NN17 NN21 PP03

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. Extraction means for extracting the contents of each item of the phonebook information from the character string selected on the screen, and the contents of each item of the extracted phonebook information displayed in the editable area of the screen. Display means, edit accepting means for accepting editing of the contents of each item of the phonebook information in the editable area, and addition means for adding the contents of each item of the edited phonebook information to the phonebook, A telephone directory information extraction method comprising: 2. The phonebook information extraction method according to claim 1, wherein when there are a plurality of candidates for the contents of the same item of the phonebook information, a means for displaying the plurality of candidates on the screen. Selection accepting means for accepting which one of the plurality of candidates displayed on the screen to be selected, the adding means adds the selected candidate to the telephone directory as the content of the item. Phone book information extraction method. 3. An extraction step of extracting the contents of each item of the phonebook information from the character string selected on the screen, and the contents of each item of the extracted phonebook information displayed in the editable area of the screen. A display step, an edit accepting step for accepting editing of the content of each item of the phonebook information in the editable area, and an adding step of adding the content of each item of the edited phonebook information to the phonebook, A method for extracting telephone directory information, comprising: 4. The phonebook information extraction method according to claim 3, wherein when there are a plurality of candidates for the content of the same item of the phonebook information, the plurality of candidates are displayed on the screen. A selection accepting step of accepting which one of the plurality of candidates displayed on the screen to be selected, the adding step adding the selected candidate to the telephone directory as the content of the item. How to extract phone book information. 5. An extraction step of extracting the contents of each item of the phonebook information from the character string selected on the screen, and the contents of each item of the extracted phonebook information displayed in the editable area of the screen. A display step, an edit accepting step for accepting editing of the content of each item of the phonebook information in the editable area, and an adding step of adding the content of each item of the edited phonebook information to the phonebook, A program for causing a computer to execute a telephone directory information extraction method, comprising: 6. The program according to claim 5, wherein the method displays the plurality of candidates on the screen when there are a plurality of candidates for the content of the same item of the telephone directory information. A selection accepting step of accepting which one of the plurality of candidates displayed on the screen to be selected, the adding step adding the selected candidate to the telephone directory as the content of the item. And the program.