JP3398931B2 - Method and system for transferring telephone directory data of mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a mobile phone, PHS.
Phonebook data recorded in mobile communication terminals such as mobile phones is uploaded and stored in a data center on a communication network including the Internet network and public telecommunications network, and then the phonebook data is transferred from the mobile communication terminals. On request, the data center relates to a method and system for transferring telephone directory data to a memory in a mobile communication terminal.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A mobile communication terminal such as a mobile phone or PHS is provided with a function of recording telephone directory data including a destination telephone number, a destination name and the like. When recording phonebook data on a mobile communication terminal, characters such as kana and kanji must be input by switching to input conversion mode. For this,
It takes a considerable amount of time to input a lot of phone book data.

In recent years, each mobile company has sold various types of mobile communication terminals, and the number of mobile communication terminals is innumerable. Further, due to the rapid progress of the service content of the mobile communication terminal, the user often buys a new mobile communication terminal depending on the service content and the design of the mobile communication terminal. If you buy a new mobile communication terminal, you cannot use the phonebook data that was input to the previous mobile communication terminal, and you must manually enter the phonebook data again into the newly purchased mobile communication terminal. did not become.

If the replaced mobile communication terminal belongs to the same mobile communication company as the previous mobile communication terminal, the telephone directory data of the previous mobile communication terminal is transferred to the newly purchased mobile communication terminal between the mobile communication terminals. , There is also a method of transferring, but if the replacement mobile communication terminal is from a mobile communication company different from the previous mobile communication terminal, there is no such transfer means and the user manually inputs the phone book data again. There was nothing else.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a mobile phone terminal, a PHS.
The phone book data recorded in the mobile phone terminal, etc. is uploaded to the data center on the communication network and saved, and the new phone book data is updated in response to a transmission request from the newly purchased mobile communication terminal. Method and system for transferring to a memory in a portable communication terminal.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, a method for transferring telephone directory data of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention comprises:
In a communication system in which a plurality of different mobile packet networks are connected to a communication network, the telephone directory data recorded in the mobile communication terminal is transferred to a data center via the mobile packet network and the communication network to which the mobile communication terminal is connected. Send. In the data center connected to the communication network, when the format of the received phonebook data of the mobile communication terminal and the format of the phonebook data of the datacenter are different, the format of the phonebook data of the mobile communication terminal is changed to the datacenter telephone. After converting to the phonebook data format, the converted phonebook data is stored in the memory of the data center, and when the phonebook data format of the mobile communication terminal and the datacenter phonebook data format are the same, the mobile communication terminal The phonebook data of is stored in the memory of the data center as it is. When there is a phone book data transfer request from the mobile communication terminal to the data center, the data center transmits the phone book data stored in the memory to the mobile communication terminal that requested the transfer, and the mobile communication terminal that requested the transfer When the telephone directory data is received from the data center, the telephone directory data is stored in the memory in the mobile communication terminal.

Further, the telephone directory data transfer system of the portable communication terminal of the present invention, in a communication system in which a plurality of different portable packet networks are connected to the communication network, carries the telephone directory data recorded in the portable communication terminal to the portable telephone terminal. A means for transmitting to the data center via the mobile packet network to which the communication terminal belongs and the communication network, and a data center connected to the communication network for receiving telephone directory data from the mobile communication terminal are provided. The data center has a comparator for comparing whether the format of the phone book data received from the mobile communication terminal is the same as the format of the phone book data of the data center, and the format of the phone book data received from the mobile communication terminal. And a converter for mutually converting the format of the telephone directory data of the data center, and a memory for storing the telephone directory data received from the mobile communication terminal. When the data center receives the phonebook data from the mobile communication terminal and the comparator outputs "No", the converter sets the format of the mobile communication terminal phonebook data to the datacenter phonebook data format. The data is converted into a format, the converted phonebook data is stored in the memory, and when the result of "same" is output from the comparator, the phonebook data of the mobile communication terminal is stored as it is in the memory of the data center. When a phonebook data transfer request is received from the same or different mobile communication terminal as the mobile communication terminal, the data center transmits the phonebook data stored in the memory to the mobile communication terminal that made the transfer request, and the transfer request is sent. Upon receiving the telephone directory data from the data center, the mobile communication terminal that has performed the above-mentioned operation stores the telephone directory data in the memory of the mobile communication terminal.

Further, the method and system for transferring the telephone directory data of the portable communication terminal according to the present invention instructs the portable communication terminal to erase all or part of the telephone directory data stored in the data center, and based on the instruction. The data center erases all the telephone directory data stored in the data center or a part of the data.

[0009]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiment 1. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a system for transferring telephone directory data according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 1 is a communication network including an internet network, a public telecommunications network, etc., 2, 3 and 4 are mobile packet networks of respective mobile communication companies, 5 is a data center, 10, 11 and 12 are mobile communication terminals, 20, 30, 4
0 is a server for connecting to the communication network 1, 21 and 22 are base stations in the mobile packet network of the mobile communication company A, and 31 and 32 are mobile communication company B, respectively.
Of the mobile communication network of the mobile communication company C, 50 is a control device for controlling each device in the data center 5, 51 is a mobile communication terminal that receives the data. A comparator for comparing the format of the telephone book data with the format of the telephone book data of the data center, 52 is a converter for mutually converting the format of the telephone book data of the mobile communication terminal and the format of the telephone book data of the data center, and 53 is A memory for storing telephone directory data, and a common bus 54 for connecting each device in the data center 5.

The transfer of telephone directory data will be briefly described with reference to FIG. The telephone directory data recorded in the mobile communication terminal 10 is uploaded to the data center 5 via the base station 21 and the server 20 in the mobile packet network 2 and the communication network 1. In the data center 5, the format of the telephone book data transmitted from the mobile communication terminal 10 is compared with the format of the telephone book data in the data center 5, and if different, the format of the received telephone book data is converted. At 52, it is converted into the format of the telephone directory data in the data center 5, and the memory 53
To record.

On the other hand, the newly purchased mobile communication terminal 11 transmits a telephone directory data transfer request to the data center 5, and when the data center 5 receives this request,
The telephone directory data recorded in the memory 53 is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 11 via the communication network 1, the server 40 in the mobile packet network 4 and the base station 41. The telephone directory data received by the mobile communication terminal 11 is the mobile communication terminal 11
It is recorded in the memory inside.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a format of telephone directory data in each mobile communication company. 2A shows the format of the telephone directory data in the mobile communication company A, FIG. 2B shows the format of the telephone directory data in the mobile communication company B, and FIG. 2C shows the format of the mobile communication company. The format of the telephone directory data in C is shown in FIG.
(D) is a diagram showing a format of telephone directory data in the data center 5.

As shown in FIGS. 2 (a) to 2 (c), the format of the telephone directory data stored in the mobile communication terminal differs depending on each mobile communication company. Need to record. For example, the format of the telephone directory data in the mobile communication company A in FIG. 2A is "name", "reading", "home T".
It has fields of "EL", "company TEL", and "mobile TEL", and the format of the telephone directory data in the mobile communication company B of FIG. 2B is "name", "Yomi", "home phone", " The fields of "company phone" and "mobile phone" are included, and the format of the telephone directory data in the mobile communication company C of FIG. 2C is "name", "furigana", and "home T".
It has fields of "EL" and "company TEL". 2D, the above-mentioned FIG. 2A to FIG.
It includes all of the fields in (c), for example, "Name", "Reading", "Home TEL", "Company TE".
It has fields of "L" and "mobile TEL".

As described above, in each format,
For the same name, different field names such as "Name", "Name", and "Name" are given, and for the same reading,
Since different field names such as "Reading", "Yomi", and "Furigana" are attached, if the field names are not converted, store the telephone directory data of different mobile communication companies in the memory of the data center 5. I can't.

In the present invention, for example, as described above, in the data center 5, "name", "reading", "home TEL", "company TEL", "portable TE".
The field name is defined as "L", the field name of the telephone directory data of each mobile communication company and the field name of the telephone directory data of the data center 5 are compared by the comparator 51, and if they are different, the format is used. The phonebook data is stored in the memory 53 of the data center 5 as it is without performing the format conversion.

Since the telephone directory data of the mobile communication terminal shown in FIG. 2A has the same format as the telephone directory data of the data center 5 shown in FIG. 2D, the data center 5 does not need any conversion. Can be stored in the memory 53. On the other hand, since the phonebook data of the mobile communication terminal shown in FIG. 2B is different from the phonebook data format of the data center 5 shown in FIG. 2D, all the field names are converted. It can be stored in the memory 53 of the data center 5. In addition, the phonebook data of the mobile communication terminal shown in FIG. 2C is different from the phonebook data format of the data center 5 shown in FIG.
Since the field names of "Name" and "Furigana" are different,
By converting only these field names, they can be stored in the memory 53 of the data center 5.
In addition, the "Furigana""SatoUsaburo" has been converted to "Sato Saburou" in accordance with the format of the telephone directory data of the data center 5, but this data has not been converted to the previous "Sato Usaburo". May be used as is.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a procedure for transmitting the telephone directory data recorded in the mobile communication terminal to the data center and recording the telephone directory data in the memory of the data center. In FIG. 3, on the screen of the mobile communication terminal, for example, on the i-mode (registered trademark) screen of Docomo (registered trademark), it is detected whether or not the item of "send telephone directory data" is selected by the user (step S10). ), "Transmit Phonebook Data" is selected, it is detected in step S11 whether or not the user inputs necessary items such as an ID and a password. In step S10, if "send telephone directory data" is not selected, the process is stopped after a predetermined time has elapsed. Further, also in step S11, if necessary items such as the ID and password are not input, the process is stopped after a predetermined time has elapsed.

When necessary items such as a telephone number are input in step S11, an instruction to "send all phonebook data" or "send some phonebook data" is given in step S12. To detect. This instruction is given by the user on the screen of the mobile communication terminal. When the instruction of "transmit all phonebook data" is detected in step S12, all phonebook data recorded in the mobile communication terminal are selected in step S13, and all phonebook data are selected in step S15. Is transmitted to the data center 5 via the base station 21, the server 20 and the communication network 1. On the other hand, in step S12, "send some phonebook data"
Is detected, a part of the telephone directory data recorded in the mobile communication terminal is selected by an instruction from the user in step S14. Some of the telephone directory data selected above are transmitted to the data center 5 via the base station 21, the server 20 and the communication network 1 (step S1).
5).

The data center 5 receives the telephone directory data transmitted from the mobile communication terminal 10 (step S1).
6) It is checked whether the received ID, password, etc. are correct (step S17). When the received ID, password, etc. are correct (Y in step S17), it is detected whether the format of the received telephone directory data is the same as the format of the telephone directory data in the data center 5 (step S18). ). When the format of the received telephone directory data is the same as the format of the telephone directory data in the data center 5 (Y in step S18), the received telephone directory data is directly recorded in the memory 53 without being converted. (Step S20). On the other hand, when the format of the received telephone directory data is different from the format of the telephone directory data in the data center 5 (N in step S18), the received telephone directory data is converted to the data format of the data center 5 in step S19. After the conversion, it is stored in the memory 53 (step S20).

FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing a procedure for transferring the telephone directory data recorded in the data center 5 to a new mobile communication terminal. In FIG. 4, the newly purchased mobile communication terminal 11 displays a “phone book data transfer request” on the screen of the mobile communication terminal, for example, the i-mode screen.
It is detected whether or not the item has been selected by the user (step S30), and when the "phone book data transfer request" is selected, whether or not the user inputs necessary items such as an ID and a password in step S31. To detect. If the "phone book data transfer request" is not selected in step S30, the process is stopped after a predetermined time has elapsed.
Further, also in step S31, if necessary items such as the ID and password are not input, the process is stopped after a predetermined time has elapsed.

When necessary information such as a telephone number is input in step S31, a "transfer request signal" is sent from the new mobile communication terminal 11 to the base station 41 of the mobile communication network 4 and the server 40 in step S32. And transmitted to the data center 5 via the communication network 1.

In the data center 5, step S3
When the "transfer request signal" from the mobile communication terminal 11 is received in step 3, it is checked whether the received ID, password, etc. are correct (step S34). Received ID,
If the password or the like is correct (Y in step S34), the memory 53 in the data center 5 in step S35.
Read the phonebook data stored in. Step S3
At 6, it is checked whether or not the format of the read telephone directory data is the same as the format of the telephone directory data of the portable packet network 4 of the transmission destination. If the format is the same, the telephone read at step S38 is read. The book data is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 11 via the communication network 1, the server 40, and the base station 41. If the format of the read phonebook data is different from the format of the phonebook data of the mobile packet network 4 of the transmission destination, the format conversion is performed in step S37 to convert the phonebook data of the mobile packet network 4 of the transmission destination. The telephone directory data converted into the same format as the format is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 11 via the communication network 1, the server 40, and the base station 41 (step S38).

The mobile communication terminal 11 receives the telephone book data in step S39, and writes the telephone book data received in step S40 in the memory of the mobile communication terminal 11.

According to the present invention, it is possible to upload and download telephone directory data using two or more mobile communication terminals used in the same mobile packet network 2. Also, different mobile packet networks (eg 2 and 4)
You can also upload and download phonebook data using the mobile communication terminal used in. As described above, according to the present invention, since the telephone directory data can be transferred between different mobile packet networks, when a mobile communication terminal of a different mobile phone company is purchased, the mobile phone of another mobile phone company that was previously owned is used. The phone book data recorded in the communication terminal can be used without being lost, and the labor of re-inputting the phone book data required when purchasing a new mobile communication terminal can be eliminated.

Embodiment 2. In the first embodiment,
The phonebook data recorded in the mobile communication terminal is transmitted to and stored in the memory 53 of the data center 5, and when a transfer request is made later from the mobile communication terminal, the phonebook data stored in the memory 53 is requested. Although the method and system for writing to the memory of the existing mobile communication terminal have been described, the second embodiment will describe a method and system for erasing the telephone directory data transferred to the memory 53 and recorded as necessary.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a procedure for deleting the telephone directory data recorded in the data center 5 in response to a request from the mobile communication terminal. In FIG. 5, on the screen of the mobile communication terminal, for example, the screen of i-mode,
It is detected whether or not the item "delete phonebook data" is selected by the user (step S50), and when "delete phonebook data" is selected, the user inputs necessary items such as ID and password in step S51. Detects whether or not input. If "delete phonebook data" is not selected in step S50, the process is stopped after a predetermined time has elapsed. Also in step S51, the ID,
When necessary items such as a password are not entered, the process is stopped after a predetermined time has elapsed.

If necessary items such as the ID and password are input in step S51, step S52
In, it is determined whether to delete all the phone book data or only a part of the phone book data. When erasing all the telephone directory data, all the telephone directory data to be erased are selected in step S53, and a telephone directory data erasing request signal is transmitted to the data center 5 together with information of the telephone directory data to be erased. Yes (step S5
5). When deleting only a part of the phone book data, a part of the phone book data to be deleted is selected, and a phone book data delete request signal is transmitted to the data center 5 together with the information of the phone book data to be deleted. Yes (step S55).

In the data center 5, step S5
When the "telephone book data deletion request signal" is received from the mobile communication terminal 10 or 11 in step 6, it is checked whether the received ID, password, etc. are correct (step S5).
7). If the received ID, password, etc. are correct (Y in step S57), it is determined whether or not all the telephone directory data should be deleted. When deleting all the telephone directory data (in the case of Y in step S58), step S
At 59, all the phonebook data stored in the memory 53 is erased. When erasing a part of the telephone directory data (in the case of N in step S58), the telephone directory to be erased, which is received from the mobile communication terminal 10 among the telephone directory data stored in the memory 53 in step S60. Only part of the phonebook data selected based on the information in the data is deleted.

[0029]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The phone book data recorded in the mobile phone terminal, PHS mobile phone terminal, etc. is uploaded to the data center on the communication network and saved, and the phone book data is requested to be sent from the newly purchased mobile communication terminal. Accordingly, it can be transferred to the memory in the new mobile communication terminal.

Further, since all or part of the telephone book data transferred and recorded in the memory of the data center can be erased as necessary, the telephone book data can be safely managed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a system for transferring telephone directory data according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a format of telephone directory data in each mobile communication company.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a procedure for transmitting telephone book data recorded in a mobile communication terminal to a data center and recording the same in the data center.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a procedure for transferring telephone directory data recorded in a data center to a mobile communication terminal.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a procedure for deleting telephone directory data recorded in a memory of a data center in response to a request from a mobile communication terminal.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... communication network, 2, 3, 4 ... packet network, 5 ...
Data centers, 10, 11, 12 ... Mobile communication terminals, 2
0, 30, 40 ... Server, 21, 22, 31, 32, 4
1, 42 ... Base station, 50 ... Control device, 51 ... Comparator, 5
2 ... Converter, 53 ... Memory, 54 ... Common bus

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Claims (10)

(57) [Claims] 1. In a communication system in which a plurality of different mobile packet networks are connected to a communication network, the telephone book data recorded in the mobile communication terminal is connected to the mobile packet network and the communication network to which the mobile communication terminal is connected. Via a data center connected to the communication network,
When the format of the received phonebook data of the mobile communication terminal and the format of the phonebook data of the data center are different, after converting the format of the phonebook data of the mobile communication terminal to the format of the phonebook data of the data center, The phonebook data is stored in the memory of the data center, and when the format of the phonebook data of the mobile communication terminal and the format of the phonebook data of the data center are the same, the phonebook data of the mobile communication terminal is directly used as the data. When the data is stored in the memory of the center, and the same or a different mobile communication terminal makes a phone book data transfer request from the data center, the data center requests the transfer of the phone book data stored in the memory. Send to mobile communication terminal and request the transfer Band communication terminal receives the phone book data from the data center, telephone directory data transfer method of a mobile communication terminal, characterized by storing the telephone directory data in a memory in the mobile communication terminal. 2. The phonebook data transfer method for a mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein when a phonebook data transfer request is made from the mobile communication terminal to the data center, the data center calls the phonebook of the data center. When the data format and the phonebook data format of the mobile communication terminal that made the transfer request are different, the phonebook data format of the data center is converted to the phonebook data format of the mobile communication terminal that made the transfer request. After that, the telephone book data is transmitted to the portable communication terminal that has made the transfer request via the communication network, and the format of the telephone book data of the data center and the format of the telephone book data of the portable communication terminal that has made the transfer request are transmitted. If the same, the phonebook data stored in the data center is saved in the communication network. The mobile communication terminal that has transmitted the transfer request via a network, and the mobile communication terminal that has made the transfer request stores the telephone directory data received from the data center in a memory of the mobile communication terminal. And a method for transferring phonebook data from a mobile communication terminal. 3. The phonebook data transfer method for a mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the phonebook data stored in the mobile communication terminal is all transmitted to a data center or a part thereof is transmitted. Is selected with the mobile communication terminal, the telephone book data transfer method for the mobile communication terminal. 4. The phonebook data transfer method for a mobile communication terminal according to claim 3, wherein when the mobile communication terminal makes a transfer request of the phonebook data to the data center, all the phones stored in the data center. A phonebook data transfer method for a mobile communication terminal, wherein the mobile communication terminal selects whether or not to transfer the book data. 5. The method for transferring telephone data of a mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising: an instruction to delete all or part of the telephone directory data stored in the data center. According to the deletion instruction, the data center deletes all the phone book data stored in the data center or a part of the data, and a method for transferring the phone book data of the mobile communication terminal. 6. In a communication system in which a plurality of different mobile packet networks are connected to a communication network, the telephone directory data recorded in the mobile communication terminal is transferred via the mobile packet network and the communication network to which the mobile communication terminal belongs. And a data center connected to the communication network for receiving phonebook data from the mobile communication terminal, wherein the data center has a format of the phonebook data received from the mobile communication terminal. A comparator for comparing whether or not the format of the telephone directory data of the data center is the same, and a conversion for mutually converting the format of the telephone directory data received from the mobile communication terminal and the format of the telephone directory data of the data center. And a device for storing phonebook data received from the mobile communication terminal. When the data center receives phonebook data from the mobile communication terminal, the converter outputs the phonebook data of the mobile communication terminal when a result of “No” is output from the comparator. Is converted to the format of the telephone book data of the data center, the converted telephone book data is stored in the memory, and when the result of "same" is output from the comparator, the telephone of the mobile communication terminal is converted. The book data is stored in the memory of the data center as it is, and thereafter, when a phone book data transfer request is received from the same or different mobile communication terminal as the mobile communication terminal, the data center stores the phone data stored in the memory. The book data is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal that made the transfer request, and the mobile communication terminal that made the transfer request is the data center. A phonebook data transfer system for a mobile communication terminal, which stores the phonebook data in a memory in the mobile communication terminal when receiving the phonebook data from the mobile phone. 7. The phonebook data transfer system for a mobile communication terminal according to claim 6, wherein when a phonebook data transfer request is made from the mobile communication terminal to the data center, the comparator causes the phonebook of the data center to be accessed. The converter compares the data format and the phonebook data format of the mobile communication terminal that has made the transfer request, and when the result of the comparator is "NO", the converter compares the phonebook data of the data center. The format of the phonebook data of the mobile communication terminal that has made the transfer request, and then transmits the phonebook data to the mobile communication terminal that has made the transfer request via the communication network, and the result of the comparator Is “same”, the telephone directory data stored in the data center is directly transferred via the communication network. A mobile communication terminal that transmits to a mobile communication terminal that makes a request, and the mobile communication terminal that makes the transfer request stores the telephone directory data received from the data center in the memory of the mobile communication terminal. Book data transfer system. 8. The phonebook data transfer system for a mobile communication terminal according to claim 6, wherein the mobile communication terminal further transmits all the phonebook data stored in the mobile communication terminal to a data center. Or, a telephone directory data transfer system for a mobile communication terminal, which has a means for selecting whether to transmit a part of the data. 9. The method for transferring phonebook data of a mobile communication terminal according to claim 8, wherein the mobile communication terminal further makes a transfer request of the phonebook data from the mobile communication terminal to a data center. A phonebook data transfer system for a mobile communication terminal, comprising means for selecting whether to transfer all the phonebook data stored in the center to the mobile communication terminal or a part thereof. . 10. The telephone data transfer system for a mobile communication terminal according to claim 6, wherein the mobile communication terminal further stores all or part of the telephone directory data stored in the data center. The data center further includes means for issuing an erase instruction, and the data center further erases all or part of the telephone directory data stored in the data center based on the erase instruction from the mobile communication terminal. A telephone directory data transfer system for a mobile communication terminal, comprising: