JP2008205798A - Information communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information communication terminal simply setting a schedule when date information is included in information received through a network. <P>SOLUTION: The information received through the network is displayed on a display means, and the date information is retrieved regarding the received information. When the date information is contained in the received information on the basis of the result of the retrieval of a received-information processing means, the information communication terminal is controlled so that a scheduling screen is displayed on the display means by starting a schedule-relevant application. The date information in the received information displayed on the display means is highlighted, and the information communication terminal is controlled so that the scheduling screen is displayed when the highlighted date information is selected by a user. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information communication terminal such as a mobile phone that can receive information via a network.

  Conventionally, as this type of information communication terminal, information such as WEB pages and mails can be received via a network and displayed on a display, and a scheduler for inputting a user's schedule for a specified date and an alarm at a specified date and time. A device that can start a schedule-related application such as an alarm to be output is known.

  However, in the above conventional information communication terminal, date information is described on the WEB page or the mail text displayed on the display, and when it is desired to set a schedule for a schedule related application such as a scheduler for the date information, the schedule related application is It was inconvenient because it was necessary to perform an operation to start.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an information communication terminal capable of easily setting a schedule when reception information received via a network includes date information. .

The present invention is an information communication terminal capable of receiving information via a network, and includes display means, storage means for storing schedule data set on a schedule setting screen of a schedule related application, and reception via a network. The received information is displayed on the display means, the received information processing means for searching the received information for date information, and the received information includes date information based on the search result of the received information processing means. And control means for starting the schedule-related application and controlling to display a schedule setting screen on the display means.
In the information communication terminal of the present invention, the date information is searched for the received information received via the network and displayed on the display means. If the received information includes date information, the schedule related application is automatically The schedule setting screen of the schedule related application is displayed on the display means. When the user sets a schedule on this schedule setting screen, the data of the set schedule is stored in the storage means. In this way, when date information is included in the received information, the schedule related application is automatically activated and the schedule setting screen is displayed, so that the schedule can be set easily.

  The “date information” may be date information, date information, or information including both date and time. Further, the “schedule related application” is an application that can set various operations or set various information in association with date information. For example, a scheduler application that can set or browse a user's schedule for an arbitrary date, an alarm application that can output a predetermined sound or display a predetermined image at a preset date and time, This is a television application for recording at a predetermined date and time set in advance. The “information communication terminal” is not limited to a mobile communication terminal such as a mobile phone, a personal computer as long as it has a function for receiving information such as a WEB page and mail and a function for starting the schedule-related application. Or other communication terminals such as PDA (Personal Digital Assistants).

  In the information communication terminal, the received information processing means highlights the date information portion of the received information displayed on the display means, and the control means uses the highlighted date information portion. It may be controlled to display the schedule setting screen when selected by a person. In this case, the date information included in the received information can be easily confirmed, and the user can arbitrarily select whether or not to display the schedule setting screen for the date information included in the received information. The highlighted display may be an anchor display that displays the link portion on the WEB page separately from the others.

  In the information communication terminal, the control means may automatically set date information searched by the reception information processing means as a date on the schedule setting screen. In this case, it is not necessary to select a date or input date data on the schedule setting screen, so that the schedule setting operation is further facilitated.

  In the information communication terminal, when the reception information includes date information, the reception information processing means acquires date-related information related to the date information from the reception information, and the control means The date related information acquired by the reception information processing means may be automatically set as a schedule item on the schedule setting screen. In this case, the work for inputting the schedule item on the schedule setting screen becomes shorter or unnecessary, and therefore the work for setting the schedule becomes easier.

  Further, in the information communication terminal, when the reception information includes date information, the control means displays an application selection screen for selecting any one from a plurality of schedule related applications, and the application The schedule related application selected on the selection screen may be activated to display the schedule setting screen. In this case, when a plurality of schedule-related applications can be activated, the schedule-related application arbitrarily selected by the user can be activated to display the application selection screen.

  According to the present invention, there is an effect that a schedule can be easily set when date information is included in received information received via a network.

Hereinafter, an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a mobile phone (mobile communication terminal) as an information communication terminal will be described.
FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing an example of a communication system for WEB access and mail transmission / reception using the mobile phone according to the present embodiment. This communication system includes a plurality of mobile phones 10 and a mobile phone communication network 20 as a mobile communication network managed by a mobile communication carrier. The mobile phone communication network 20 includes a base station 201 and a switch (not shown) (circuit switch, packet switch), etc., and is connected to the mobile phone communication network 40 by the Internet 30 or other mobile communication carriers via a gateway server (not shown). Has been. In addition, the mobile phone communication network 20 and the mobile phone communication network 40 include various mail servers 21 and 41 that process mail for mobile phones such as electronic mail and short message service (SMS), and a WEB server 22 that provides a WEB service. , 42 are connected to the Internet 30, and a mail server 31 for processing electronic mail and a WEB server 32 for providing a WEB service are connected to the Internet 30. Via these mail servers 21, 31 and 41, the mobile phone 10 can send and receive electronic mails and SMS mails to and from various communication terminals. For example, the user A's mobile phone 10A transmits / receives mail to / from a mobile phone contracted with the same mobile communication carrier via the mobile phone communication network 20, or contracts with another mobile communication carrier. It is possible to send and receive e-mails to and from the mobile phone 10B that is being operated via the mobile phone communication network 40. User A's mobile phone 10 </ b> A can also send and receive e-mails to and from a personal computer via the Internet 30. In addition, the mobile phone 10 can access the WEB server 22 on the mobile phone communication network 20 and the WEB server 32 on the Internet 30 to receive information on a desired WEB page.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a schematic configuration of the mobile phone according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a front view showing an example of an external configuration of the mobile phone. The cellular phone 10 according to the present embodiment includes a main control unit 120 serving as a control unit, an internal memory 121 serving as a storage unit, a wireless communication unit 122 serving as a communication unit that performs communication via the cellular phone communication network 20, and an antenna 112. A display unit 125 as a display unit, a key operation unit 126 as an operation unit, a clock unit 127, and an application execution management unit 128.

  The main control unit 120 includes, for example, a CPU, a cache memory, a ROM, a system bus, and the like, and executes a predetermined OS and a control program so as to communicate with each unit such as the internal memory 121 and the wireless communication unit 122. Data is transmitted and received, and each unit such as the display unit 125 is controlled. The main control unit 120 is connected to a microphone 108 as a sound input unit and a speaker 109 as a sound output unit via a sound signal processing unit 123. Further, a display unit 125 is connected to the main control unit 120 via a display control unit 124 as a display control unit. Further, the main control unit 120 is also connected with a key operation unit 126 and a clock unit 127 operated by a user when instructing various processes or inputting various data. The main control unit 120 exchanges various data and commands with the application execution management unit 128 as described later.

  The main control unit 120 incorporates an application of the scheduler 130 that is a date-related application having an alarm function as an application program on the native side of the mobile phone 10 (hereinafter referred to as “application”). This scheduler can be activated by the main control unit 120 on the native side, for example, by the user selecting it on the main menu screen, for example, displaying a monthly calendar display screen or a schedule setting screen for one day. Can do. In each schedule setting screen, the schedule title, time zone, alarm type, output time, and the like can be set. Schedule data such as an alarm set by a user input on the schedule setting screen of the scheduler is stored in the internal memory 121. The main control unit 120 compares the alarm time setting data with the current time data output from the clock unit 127 at a predetermined timing, and outputs a preset alarm when it is determined that the alarm time has arrived. Control. Alarms to be output include sound effects, music, light of a predetermined color, etc., message balloon images, etc., output of preset character voices, predetermined movements of characters ( It is possible to display images of movements of limbs and jumps.

  The wireless communication unit 122 and the antenna 112 as the communication means perform wireless communication with a base station of the mobile phone communication network 20 when mail is transmitted / received or a web service is used.

  The internal memory 121 is constituted by a memory such as a RAM or a ROM, for example, and stores a control program executed by the main control unit 120 and various data. As these storage means, instead of the internal memory 121, a storage medium such as a memory card or an IC card that can be attached to and detached from the mobile phone body may be used.

  The internal memory 121 is not only a means for storing received information such as a WEB page or mail data, but also a means for storing schedule setting data input by the user operating the key operation unit 126. Also works. The schedule setting data can be stored in units of year, month, year, month, day, or year, month, hour, minute, for example. For example, when setting a schedule within the year, the year information may be omitted.

  The display control unit 124 controls to display an image on the display unit 125 based on the drawing data sent from the main control unit 120. The display unit 125 is configured by using a display 110 including a liquid crystal panel and displays various images based on image data stored in the internal memory 121.

  The speaker 109 receives an analog signal converted from a digital signal by the sound signal processing unit 123 and outputs a voice during a call, or outputs a ringtone of a mail, a ringing tone of a telephone, music, an alarm, etc. To do. The sound generation means including the speaker 109 and the sound signal processing unit 123 reproduces and outputs a sound effect and music (song, melody) using an attached file attached to the received mail. Can be controlled.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the speaker 109 is configured by separately providing a receiver speaker (receiver) 109a for listening to a voice during a call and an external output speaker 109b for outputting a ring tone or music. Alternatively, a single speaker may be used so that both the speaker for the receiver and the speaker for external output can be used together.

  The key operation unit 126 includes a data input key (ten key, * key, # key) 103, a call start key 104, a call end key 105, a scroll key 106, a multi-function key 107, and the like. This is used when instructing talk, menu selection, switching display modes, etc., or inputting information. The key operation unit 126 also functions as means for inputting the alarm setting data when operated by the user.

  The microphone 108 converts the user's voice into an electrical signal (analog signal). An audio electrical signal (analog signal) output from the microphone 108 is input to the sound signal processing unit 123 and converted into a digital signal.

  The clock unit 127 is configured using an RTC (real time clock) or the like, and functions as a means for outputting current time data. The current time data output from the clock unit 127 can be used for displaying date and time information on the display unit 125 including the liquid crystal display (LCD) 110, or used for alarm control of the scheduler.

  The application execution management unit 128 includes a system bus, a CPU, a RAM, and the like, and manages the execution of various applications downloaded by a user from a download server on the network and stored in a predetermined folder. In this embodiment, a menu screen of a user registration application is displayed, and a browser 140 application for browsing a WEB page downloaded from a predetermined download server by a user and a mailer 141 application for sending and receiving mail are selected. Can be executed. The application execution management unit 128 is also called a virtual machine, and corresponds to a central “program execution environment” in the software structure of FIG. The application execution management unit 128 provides software such as a class library, an execution environment management library, and application management used for an application program developed by object-oriented programming, and manages the execution environment of the application program. Here, the application program can be used by calling a class library such as a function in the program execution environment via a class library API (application interface). The call history of the class library such as this function is held until the virtual execution environment (virtual machine VM) of the application program is terminated. The execution environment management library in the program execution environment can be used by calling the telephone platform library in the native telephone platform via the telephone platform API.

  The application of the browser 140 is executed on the application execution management unit 128 to acquire WEB page data (for example, an HTML file) as received information from various WEB servers 32 and display the data on the display unit 125. In addition to this, it also functions as reception information processing means for retrieving date information for the WEB page. As the WEB page for searching for this date information, there are a WEB page of an auction in which an end time notification is displayed, a WEB page of a search result after searching for the time of transportation such as a train or a bus.

  Examples of the format of the date information to be searched include “YYYY year NN month”, “YYYY year NN month DD day”, “YYYY year NN month DD day HH hour”, “YYYY year NN month DD day HH hour MM” Various formats such as “minute” can be set. In the above format example, “/” may be set instead of “Year”, “Month”, “Hour”, “Minute”, or “Heisei YY Year” using the year instead of the Western calendar part. May be set. All of these various formats may be set, or one or any of them may be selected and set.

  The application of the mailer 141 is executed on the application execution management unit 128 to acquire mail data as reception information from the mail servers 21, 31, 41, and display mail data such as a mail text. In addition to the function displayed on the screen, it also functions as received information processing means for searching for date information for the data of the mail text. As the mail body for searching for this date information, for example, there is a mail body including a waiting time.

  FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an example of processing when the alarm registration of the scheduler is performed from the WEB page including date information (information including date, time, and date) displayed by the browser in the mobile phone 10 having the above configuration. First, when the user operates the mobile phone 10, a browser application is selected from the application registration screen for user registration and activated (S1). Then, a desired URL is designated on the browser screen, the WEB site designated by the URL is accessed, and a desired WEB page including date information is received and displayed (S2). After this WEB page is received and displayed, a search for date information is started for the WEB page (S3), and it is determined whether the entire WEB page or a predetermined range includes date information. (S4). Here, when the date information is not included (No in S4), the WEB page is displayed based on the tag information of the received HTML file.

  If date information is included in the WEB page in step S4 (Yes in S4), the date information portion is changed to anchor display (S5). Instead of the anchor display, the display may be changed to a highlight display that emphasizes the date information portion. Then, an alarm registration confirmation screen for inquiring whether or not to set a scheduler alarm for the retrieved date information is displayed (S6). Here, when the user operates the mobile phone 10 to instruct alarm registration for the date information (Yes in S7), the native scheduler application is automatically started (S8), and specified by the date information. A schedule (alarm) setting screen for the set date is displayed (S9). When the user completes the schedule (alarm) setting by inputting a desired alarm time, subject, etc. on this schedule (alarm) setting screen, the set data is stored and registered in a predetermined folder of the internal memory 121. (S10). When the storage registration of the schedule (alarm) setting data is completed, the screen of the original WEB page displayed on the browser is returned.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an example of processing when alarm registration of the scheduler is performed from the mail text including date information (information including date and time) displayed by the mailer in the mobile phone 10 having the above configuration. In this case, when the user operates the mobile phone 10, the mailer application is selected from the user registration application list screen and activated (S <b> 1). Then, a desired mail is designated on the screen of the mailer's received mailbox, and the text of the mail is displayed (S2). After the mail text is displayed, a search for date information is started for the mail text (S3), and it is determined whether the date information is included for the entire mail text (S4). Here, when the date information is not included (No in S4), the received mail text is displayed as it is.

  If date information is included in the mail text in step S4 (Yes in S4), the date information portion is changed to anchor display (S5). Instead of the anchor display, the display may be changed to a highlight display that emphasizes the date information portion. Then, an alarm registration confirmation screen for inquiring whether or not to set a scheduler alarm for the retrieved date information is displayed (S6). Here, when the user operates the mobile phone 10 to instruct alarm registration for the date information (Yes in S7), the native scheduler application is automatically started (S8), and specified by the date information. A schedule (alarm) setting screen for the set date is displayed (S9). When the user completes the schedule (alarm) setting by inputting a desired alarm time, subject, etc. on this schedule (alarm) setting screen, the set data is stored and registered in a predetermined folder of the internal memory 121. (S10). When the storage registration of the schedule (alarm) setting data is completed, the screen returns to the original mail text screen displayed by the mailer.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, date information is searched for received information such as a WEB page or a mail text received via the network and displayed on the display unit 125, and the received information includes date information. The scheduler application is automatically started, and the scheduler schedule setting screen is displayed on the display unit 125. When the user sets a schedule on this schedule setting screen, the set schedule data is stored in a predetermined folder in the internal memory 121. As described above, when the date information is included in the reception information such as the WEB page or the mail text, the scheduler is automatically activated and the schedule setting screen is displayed, so that the schedule can be easily set.

  Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above, various modifications can be made to the disclosed embodiments within the scope of the technical matters described in the claims without departing from the scope or spirit of the present invention. Can be added.

  For example, although the case where the schedule-related application is a scheduler has been described in the above embodiment, the present invention can be applied to a case where the schedule-related application is an application that reserves recording / recording or viewing of a TV broadcast or radio broadcast program. The same applies. In this case, reception information such as a WEB page or mail including date information on which a television broadcast or radio broadcast program is broadcast is displayed on the display unit, and date information is searched for the reception information. When the received information includes the date information of the program, the application for reserving recording / recording or viewing is automatically started and a reservation schedule setting screen is displayed.

  In the above embodiment, when a plurality of date information is included in the screen of one reception information to be searched, the user can select all of the plurality of date information by moving the cursor. Highlighting such as the anchor display may be performed. In this case, when the user selects a desired date information portion and performs a click operation, a schedule related application such as the scheduler is automatically started, and a schedule setting screen is displayed for the date information selected by the user. Like that.

  Further, the present invention is not limited to a mobile phone and can be applied to various mobile communication terminals capable of sending and receiving mail. That is, as the “mobile communication terminal” in the present invention, a PDC (Personal Digital Cellular) system, a GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) system, a TIA (Telecommunications Industry Association) system mobile phone, an IMT (International Mobile Telecommunications) system, etc. -2000 standard mobile phone, TD-SCDMA (MC: Multi Carrier) mobile phone, one of TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access), PHS (Personal Handyphone System), automobile phone And a telephone having a call function such as a fixed telephone.

  The control and processing in the mobile communication terminal can also be realized by executing a predetermined program on a computer provided in the mobile communication terminal. Delivery of the program used in the computer may be performed using a recording medium such as an FD or a CD-ROM in which the program is recorded as digital information, or may be performed using a communication network such as a computer network.

The schematic block diagram which shows an example of the communication system of WEB access and mail transmission / reception using the mobile telephone which concerns on embodiment of this invention. The block diagram which shows an example of schematic structure of the mobile phone. The front view which shows an example of the external appearance structure of the mobile phone. The flowchart which shows an example of the software structure of the mobile phone. The flowchart which shows an example of the schedule setting process from a WEB page. The flowchart which shows an example of the schedule setting process from a mail text.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Mobile phone 20, 40 Mobile phone communication network 30 Internet 21, 31, 41 Mail server 22, 32, 42 WEB server 120 Main control part 121 Internal memory 124 Display control part 125 Display part 126 Key operation part 127 Clock part

Claims (5)

An information communication terminal capable of receiving information via a network,
Display means;
Storage means for storing schedule data set in the schedule-related application;
Received information processing means for displaying received information received via the network on the display means and searching for date information for the received information;
Control means for controlling to start the schedule-related application and display a schedule setting screen on the display means when date information is included in the received information based on a search result of the reception information processing means When,
An information communication terminal comprising: In the information communication terminal according to claim 1,
The reception information processing means highlights the date information portion of the reception information displayed on the display means,
The information communication terminal, wherein the control means controls to display the schedule setting screen when the highlighted date information portion is selected by a user. In the information communication terminal according to claim 1 or 2,
The control means automatically sets the date information retrieved by the received information processing means as the date on the schedule setting screen. In the information communication terminal according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
The reception information processing means acquires date related information related to the date information from the reception information when the reception information includes date information;
The information communication terminal characterized in that the control means automatically sets the date related information acquired by the reception information processing means as a schedule item on the schedule setting screen. In the information communication terminal according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
The control means displays an application selection screen for selecting any one of a plurality of schedule related applications when date information is included in the received information, and the schedule related selected on the application selection screen is displayed. An information communication terminal characterized by starting an application and displaying a schedule setting screen.

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