JP4246649B2 - Mobile phone - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a so-called telephone directory in which a plurality of destination information such as telephone numbers related to communication partners are grouped and stored in a memory, and the destination information included in the group is read from the memory and displayed on a display according to a group designation. In particular, the present invention relates to improvement in operability when setting a group to which a communication partner belongs in such a telephone directory.

Currently, mobile phones having a telephone directory function that facilitates searching for desired destination information by dividing the communication partners into a plurality of groups according to the attributes of the communication partners and the like are widely used.
When grouping a plurality of communication partners already registered in the phone book, the user opens the phone book for each communication partner and sets one group that best matches the attributes of the communication partner.

  The group set as each communication partner in the phone book can set the ringtone and other operations (hereinafter referred to as "incoming operation") when there is an incoming call from the communication partner for each group. Therefore, the user can recognize the communication partner belonging to any group without checking the display of the mobile phone at the time of the incoming call, and can further perform an operation for setting the incoming operation for each communication partner. It can be omitted.

In addition, when a user sends the same mail to multiple communication partners (hereinafter referred to as `` broadcast transmission ''), it is possible to send a broadcast by specifying the group and specifying the group as the destination mail address. Is possible. (For example, see Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2)
By the way, the development of mobile phones has been remarkable in recent years, and the number of users who frequently change models is increasing as new models are sold one after another.

When changing the model, data in the mobile phone before the change can be transferred to the mobile phone after the change.
JP 2001-285450 A Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2000-078654

However, the data to be migrated does not include information on group settings, incoming call operation settings, etc., and the user must make group settings for each communication partner on the mobile phone after the model change. The greater the number of registrations, the more inconvenient for the user.
Furthermore, in the conventional mobile phone, when it is desired to set the same incoming call operation when receiving a call from a plurality of communication partners not belonging to the same group, the user cannot use the incoming call operation setting for each group, and the user cannot The trouble of setting the incoming call operation every time occurs.

Also, even when a mail is sent to the designated group as the destination, depending on the contents of the mail, the communication partner that the user wants to send the mail may not be completely included in the group designated as the destination. There is a problem that the group set in the phone book cannot be used.
The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to improve operability and convenience such as group setting in a mobile phone.

    In order to solve the above problem, the mobile phone according to the present invention is a mobile phone having a function of managing communication partners divided into groups, and stores group information representing one or more groups to which the communication partners belong for each communication partner. Storing means, communication partner selecting means for selecting a plurality of communication partners stored in the storage means, group receiving means for receiving input of one or more groups, and communication selected by the communication partner selecting means A group batch update unit that collectively executes the same update process based on the group received by the group reception unit with respect to the group information in the other storage unit.

According to this configuration, the user can reduce the time required for the group setting of each communication partner, and the overall number of group setting operations can be reduced. Even when there are many, it is possible to easily set a group.
Further, the mobile phone may accept designation of one or more groups in the communication partner selection means and select a communication partner in the storage means belonging to the designated group.

According to this configuration, since communication partners belonging to the group designated by the user can be narrowed down, it is possible to easily select a communication partner to execute the group update process.
Further, the mobile phone stores one of the groups represented by the group information in the storage means as a main group, and the mobile phone further executes when a communication request is received from a communication partner. An incoming call operation processing means for executing an incoming call operation corresponding to the main group when a communication request is received from a communication partner stored in the storage means. It is good.

According to this configuration, since the main group for determining the incoming operation to be executed when there is an incoming call from the communication partner is set to one of a plurality of groups to which the communication partner belongs, the user can execute By setting the same group as the main group for communication partners having the same incoming call operation, it is possible to reduce the trouble of setting the incoming call operation for each communication partner.
Further, the mobile phone has a function of broadcasting a mail addressed to a communication partner belonging to the group stored in the storage unit, and the storage unit further stores partner information regarding the communication partner. The mobile phone stores, in the storage unit, a partner information changing unit that changes the content of the partner information and a group that is a destination of mail transmission when the partner information is changed by the partner information changing unit. A destination selection unit that selects from the group that is selected, and a notification mail generation unit that generates a mail that notifies the communication partner belonging to the group selected by the destination selection unit of the change of the partner information. Also good.

According to this configuration, it is possible to select a group that needs to be broadcasted according to the purpose of the user and the content of the mail, and further, the destination information of the communication partner registered in the mobile phone can be selected by the user. When a change is made, a mail for notifying the contents of the change is automatically created, so that the user can omit the operation of creating the mail.
The program of the present invention is a program that can be executed by a computer including a CPU and a memory, and stores the group information representing one or more groups to which the communication partner belongs for each communication partner, and stores the information by the storage step. A communication partner selection step of selecting a plurality of communication partners, a group reception step of receiving input of one or more groups, and the group information of the storage step of the communication partner selected by the communication partner selection step, The computer is caused to execute a group batch update step for collectively executing the same update processing based on the group received in the group reception step.

  By executing this program on the mobile phone, the group batch update process having the above-described effects can be performed on the mobile phone.

(First embodiment)
<Appearance>
FIG. 1 is a front view showing an appearance of the mobile phone 100. FIG. FIG. 1 shows an antenna 10, a speaker 11, a display 12, a phone book activation key 13 for activating a phone book in which information of a communication partner in the operation unit 50 is stored, and a menu for activating each operation menu in the mobile phone 100. The arrangement of the start key 14, the cursor key 15, the numeric keypad 16, the off-hook key 18, and the on-hook key 19 is illustrated. The cursor key 15 distinguishes and detects operations performed on the upper, lower, left and right parts and the central part.
<Function>
FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the mobile phone 100. As shown in FIG.

The mobile phone 100 includes a radio unit 110, a modem unit 111, an audio processing unit 112, a microphone 113, a speaker 114, an operation unit 115, a display unit 116, a vibrator 117, a ringer 118, an antenna 119, a storage unit 130, and a control unit 200. Prepare.
Radio section 110 amplifies the received signal received by antenna 119, and modem section 111 demodulates the amplified received signal into a received voice signal and a received data signal. The voice processing unit 112 D / A converts the received voice signal and causes the speaker 114 to generate a sound. The control unit 200 performs predetermined processing (for example, e-mail processing) on the received data signal.

The voice processing unit 112 A / D converts the transmission voice signal acquired from the microphone 113. The modem unit 111 modulates the A / D converted transmission voice signal and the transmission data signal provided from the control unit 200 into a transmission signal, and the radio unit 110 amplifies the transmission signal and transmits it from the antenna 119.
Since the configuration for realizing transmission / reception of voice and data itself is not a characteristic part of the present invention, a general configuration conventionally used is appropriately adopted, and description thereof is omitted.

The display unit 116 is realized by a color liquid crystal panel, a DMD (digital mirror device), an organic EL panel, or a PDP (plasma display panel), and displays information related to a communication partner under the control of the control unit 200. .
The control unit 200 includes a CPU and a memory (ROM, RAM), and has a function of controlling each unit of the mobile phone 100 in accordance with a user operation performed through the operation unit 50.

The overall operation of the mobile phone 100 is controlled by the CPU executing a program stored in the ROM. The ROM stores a program for realizing an operation that is particularly characteristic of the present invention, that is, an operation of group batch update processing of each partner information corresponding to a plurality of communication partners. The RAM temporarily holds work data for the CPU to execute the program.
The control unit 200 includes a communication partner selection unit 201 and a group batch update processing unit 202 in terms of functions.

The communication partner selection unit 201 and the group batch update processing unit 202 represent that processing is executed by the CPU executing the program. Each of these functions may be realized as one module or one function of the program.
The communication partner selection unit 201 acquires the name of the communication partner from the partner information storage unit 132 and displays it on the display unit 116. The communication partner selection unit 201 selects a communication partner to execute update processing according to the operation by the user, and selects the selected communication. The partner group information is acquired from the partner information storage unit 131 and sent to the group batch update processing unit 202.

The group batch update processing unit 202 accepts input of one or more groups from the user, and executes the same update process collectively for the communication partner group acquired from the communication partner selection unit 201 based on the input group. It has a function to do.
Since the batch update process includes a case where only one group to which a communication partner belongs can be set and a case where a plurality of groups can be set, each update content will be described below.

When only one group to which the communication partner belongs can be set, the group of all communication partners selected by the communication partner selection unit 201 is replaced with one group to be updated received from the user.
In addition, when there are multiple groups to which each communication partner belongs, one or more groups to be updated received from the user are added to all communication partner groups selected by the communication partner selection unit 201 according to the user's specification. Add or delete one or more groups received from users.

The storage unit 130 is realized using a flash memory or the like, and holds it permanently until an update or delete operation is received from a user. The storage unit 130 includes a group storage unit 131 and a partner information storage unit 132.
The group storage unit 131 registers a group for grouping communication partners by a user operation and stores it together with a group identification number. The user operates the operation unit 50 to register a group used for grouping in advance.

The groups stored in the group storage unit 131 are displayed on the display unit 116 by the group batch update processing unit 202 as groups to be batch updated. Further, when a user registers a communication partner group in the partner information storage unit 132, the group is used to refer to the group stored in the group storage unit 131 and select a group to be registered.
The partner information storage unit 132 stores information on communication partners such as telephone calls and mails and groups to which the communication partners belong together with identification numbers. The user registers the partner information by operating the operation unit 50 in advance.

The other party information stored in the other party information storage unit 132 is used to specify the telephone number of the communication partner using at least one of the other party information when the user of the mobile phone 100 makes a call to a communication partner. Used as a phone book.
<Data>
The group stored in the group storage unit 131 and the partner information stored in the partner information storage unit 132 will be described.

FIG. 3 (a) shows a table configuration and content example of the partner information regarding the communication partner, and shows a case where a plurality of groups to which each communication partner belongs can be set.
The partner information 1000 includes a number, a name, a reading, a telephone number, a mail address, a group, and a memo. For example, “001” for the number, “Yamamoto” for the name, “Yamamoto” for the reading, “090123456” for the phone number, “yamamoto@xxx.xx.xx” for the email address, “Friend” for the group, “Cooking class” "The memo represents a blank.

If the group is blank, it is set to a group that represents a set of communication partners that do not belong to any group.
FIG. 3B shows a table configuration and content example of a group that uses communication partners for grouping. As an example, “Company A” is shown in the group 2000.
<Group batch update process (1)>
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation of the mobile phone 100 according to Embodiment 1. Hereinafter, with reference to FIG. 4, FIG. 5, FIG. 6 and FIG. 7, for batch update of the group in the mobile phone 100, processing for batch update of the group after selecting a communication partner to be updated (hereinafter referred to as “group batch update processing ( 1) ”).

First, a group for grouping communication partners is stored in the group storage unit 131 in advance according to the operation of the operation unit 50 by a user, and the partner information regarding the group to which the communication partner belongs and the partner information regarding the communication partner is stored. To remember.
Next, when performing a batch update process on a group of communication partners stored in the partner information storage unit 132 by an operation from the operation unit 50 of the user, the communication partner selection unit 201 reads from the partner information storage unit 202. The partner information is acquired, and the names of communication partners are displayed on the display unit 116 in the order of reading (FIG. 4) (step S10).

The communication partner selection unit 201 selects the name of the communication partner to add or delete the same group from among the communication partners displayed in step S10 in accordance with the operation of the operation unit 50 by the user. The communication partner group information is transmitted to the unit 202 (step S11).
Next, the group batch update processing unit 202 acquires a group from the group storage unit 201 and displays a list of groups on the display unit 116 (step S12).

Subsequent to step S12, the group batch update processing unit 202 receives a group input operation by the user and selects a group according to the user operation (step S13).
After the group is selected in step S13, when the user selects “add”, the group batch update processing unit 204 collectively adds the group received in step S13 to the group information of all communication partners acquired from step S11 ( Step S15).

If the user selects “delete” after accepting the group input in step S13, the group batch update processing unit 204 batch-selects the group selected in step S13 from the group information of all communication partners acquired in step S11. Delete (step S16).
<Specific example>
FIG. 5 shows a specific example of the group batch update process (1).

FIG. 5A shows a communication partner selection screen for group batch update processing executed by an operation from the operation unit 50 by the user.
In the name display screen of the communication partner in Fig. 5 (a), "Aida" to "Okamoto" are displayed on the line A. Scroll by operating the top and bottom of the cursor key 15 Move the cursor to the position. If there is a name outside the screen, the name after “Okamoto” is displayed by scrolling. Further, when displaying a line other than the line A, the ten key 16 assigned from the line A to the line A is pressed to switch the line A to the line A.

  In this example, when the middle part of the cursor key 15 is pressed in each of the lines “Aida” and “Ueda” that are scrolled, the check boxes corresponding to “Aida” and “Ueda” are checked. And “Ueda” is selected, and when the communication partner selection unit 201 accepts an operation to end the communication partner selection from the user, the group update processing of the group information of “Aida” and “Ueda” Notify unit 202.

Next, the group batch update processing unit 202 that has received the group information of “Aida” and “Ueda” selected by the communication partner selection unit 201 displays all the groups in the group storage unit 131 (FIG. 5B). In this example, “Company A” to “English conversation” are displayed, indicating that “friend” is selected by the same operation as when the communication partner is selected.
After adding the “friend” group input, when adding “friend” to the group information of “Aida” and “Ueda”, selecting “add” by operating the cursor key 15, the group batch update processing unit 202 Update the group information of “Aida” and “Ueda” by adding “friend”.

FIG. 6 (a) is an excerpt of the number, name, reading and group data corresponding to “Aida” and “Ueda” in the partner information (FIG. 3 (a)) in the partner information storage unit 132. FIG. 6B shows that “friends” are collectively updated in the group of “Aida” and “Ueda” after the update process by the operation of FIG.
FIG. 7A shows a case where “Sato” and “Okada” are selected in the communication partner selection unit 201 as communication partners from which the group is deleted, and “Sato” and “Okada” in the partner information 1000 (FIG. 3A). Fig. 7 (b) is an excerpt of the data, number, name, reading, and group data before the group batch update process of Fig. 7 (b) shows the groups of "Sato" and "Okada" when "English conversation" is selected as the group to be deleted. This means that “English conversation” has been deleted at once.
(Modification)
Next, the operation of the group batch update process (2) will be described as an example in which the communication partner selection procedure is different from that of the above-described embodiment.

<Group batch update process (2)>
FIG. 8 is a flowchart when the group batch update process (2) is executed by the mobile phone 100 according to the present embodiment.
In response to the operation of the operation unit 50 by the user, the group batch update processing unit 202 acquires all the groups from the group storage unit 131 and displays them on the display unit 116 (step S20).

The group batch update processing unit 202 receives the input operation of the group to be updated from the group displayed in step S20 from the user, selects the group according to the user operation, and finishes the selection operation by the user operation. When the signal is received, the selected group is transmitted to the communication partner selection unit 201 (step S21).
Next, the communication partner selection unit 201 extracts communication partners belonging to the group selected in step S21 from the partner information storage unit 132 and displays them on the display unit 116 (step S22).

Subsequently, the communication partner selection unit 201 activates a menu (hereinafter referred to as a “group update menu”) indicating a type of update (hereinafter referred to as a “menu activation signal”) in accordance with the operation of the operation unit 50 by the user. Is sent to the group batch update processing unit 202 (step S23).
The group batch update processing unit 202 that has received the menu activation signal in step S23 displays a group update menu on the display unit 116 and accepts a menu selection operation from the user (step S24). The group update menu consists of (1) Add communication partner (Add M), (2) Add group (Add G), and (3) Delete group (Delete). Select one of the menus through part 50.

<Select additional M>
When the group batch update processing unit 202 receives “addition M” in step S24, a signal is sent to the communication partner selection unit 201, and the communication partner selection unit 201 belongs to the group selected in step S21. The communication partner that is not connected is acquired from the partner information storage unit 132 and displayed on the display unit 116 (step S25).

Subsequently, in response to the operation of the operation unit 50 by the user, the communication partner selection unit 201 selects a communication partner to be added to the group selected in step S21, and receives a selection operation end signal by the user's operation. Then, the group information of the selected communication partner is sent to the group batch update processing unit 202 (step S26).
The group batch update processing unit 202 adds the group selected in step S21 to the communication partner group information acquired from step S26 and updates it (step S27).

<Select additional G>
In addition, when the group batch update processing unit 202 receives “additional G” by the user's operation in step S24, the communication partner selection unit 201 performs an operation for selecting the communication partner displayed in step S22 by the user. When the communication partner is selected according to the user's operation and a selection operation end signal is received, the group information of the selected communication partner is sent to the group batch update processing unit 202 (step S28).

Upon receiving the group information at step S28, the group batch update processing unit 202 acquires all groups from the group storage unit 131 and displays them on the display unit 116 (step S29), and selects a group according to the user's operation. (Step S30).
Subsequently, when the group batch update processing unit 202 accepts an operation for ending the selection operation by the user, the group selected in step S30 is collectively added and updated to the communication partner group information received in step S28 (step S31).

<Delete>
When the group batch update processing unit 202 receives “delete” by the user's operation in step S24, the user accepts an operation for selecting the communication partner displayed in step S22, and according to the user's operation. When a communication partner is selected and a selection operation end signal is received, group information of the selected communication partner is sent to the group batch update processing unit 202 (step S32).

When the group batch update processing unit 202 receives the signal indicating the end of the selection operation in step S28, the group selected in step S21 is collectively deleted from the group information of the communication partner selected in step S32 and updated (step S33).
<Specific example>
A specific example of the group batch update process (2) will be described with reference to FIGS. 9, 10, 11, and 12. FIG.

FIG. 9 shows an example of the contents of the group update menu.
FIG. 10 shows an example when “Add M” is selected from the group update menu.
FIG. 10A shows a group display screen in the group batch update process executed by the user's operation. The group batch update processing unit 202 displays all the groups acquired from the group storage unit 131 by step S20. ing.

In FIG. 10A, “English conversation” from “Company A” is displayed on one screen, and the user operates the cursor key 15 to select a group to execute the group batch update process.
In this example, “English Conversation” is selected, and the group batch update processing unit that accepts pressing of any key of the operation unit 50 (hereinafter referred to as “selection operation end key”) to which the user has selected the end of the selection operation. 202 notifies the communication partner selection unit 201 of “English conversation”, and the communication partner selection unit 201 extracts “Okada” and “Tamura” belonging to the “English conversation” group from the partner information storage unit 132 and displays them on the screen. (FIG. 10B).

Next, when the user presses down the menu activation key 14, the group batch update processing unit 202 displays the group update menu shown in FIG. 9 on a screen (not shown) and accepts the selection of the group update menu by the user. .
When the user selects “Add M”, the group batch update processing unit 202 notifies the communication partner selection unit 201 and displays the names of communication partners not belonging to “English conversation” in the order of readings. In FIG. 10C, “Aida” to “Okamoto” are displayed, indicating that “Ikeda” and “Ueda” are selected as communication partners to additionally register the “English conversation” group.

The display of the communication partner or group displayed outside the screen, the switching operation from line A to line, and the selection operation of the communication partner or group are the same as in the previous embodiment, so the description of the operation method is omitted. To do.
When the communication partner selection unit 201 accepts the pressing of the selection operation end key by the user, the communication partner selection unit 201 sends the group information of “Ikeda” and “Ueda” to the group batch update processing unit 202 to perform group batch update processing. The unit 202 adds and updates “English conversation” to the acquired group information of “Ikeda” and “Ueda”.

FIG. 11 shows an example of selecting “Addition G” in the group update menu, and FIGS. 11A and 11B are the same as the screens of FIGS. 10A and 10B described above. Is omitted.
When the selection of “addition G” in the group update menu is accepted by the user's operation, the communication partner selection unit 201 sets the check boxes corresponding to “Okada” and “Tamura” displayed on the screen of FIG. Accept input. FIG. 11C shows that “Okada” and “Tamura” are selected by the user's operation, and the communication partner selection unit 201 receives the press of the selection operation end key by the user. The group information of “Okada” and “Tamura” stored in the storage unit 132 is sent to the group batch update processing unit 202.

  Next, the group batch update processing unit 202 acquires all the groups from the group storage unit 131 and displays them on the screen. In FIG. 11 (d), “Company A” to “English conversation” are displayed on the screen, indicating that “friend” is selected. When the group batch update processing unit 202 accepts the pressing of the selection operation end key from the user, the group batch update processing unit 202 adds and updates “friend” to the group information of “Okada” and “Tamura”.

Next, FIG. 12 shows an example of selecting “Delete” from the group update menu, and FIGS. 12A and 12B are the same as the screens of FIGS. 10A and 10B described above. Therefore, explanation is omitted.
When the selection of “delete” in the group update menu is accepted by the user's operation, the communication partner selection unit 201 accepts input of check boxes corresponding to “Okada” and “Tamura” displayed on the screen. In this example, “Okada” and “Tamura” are selected as shown in FIG. 12C, and when the user presses the selection operation end key, the other party information storage unit 132 stores it. The group information of “Okada” and “Tamura” is sent to the group batch update processing unit 202, and the group batch update processing unit 202 collectively deletes “English conversation” from the group information of “Okada” and “Tamura” and updates it. .
(Second embodiment)
The mobile phone according to the second embodiment sets a main group that executes an incoming call operation in one of a plurality of groups to which a communication partner belongs, and corresponds to the main group when an incoming call is received from the communication partner to the mobile phone. This is different from the mobile phone according to the first embodiment in that a function for executing the incoming operation is added.

Hereinafter, the mobile phone according to the second embodiment will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. Note that the external appearance of the mobile phone is the same as that described in the first embodiment, and a description thereof will be omitted.
<Functional block>
FIG. 13 is a functional block diagram of the mobile phone 100 in this embodiment.

Except for the control unit 210, the functional configuration of the mobile phone 100 in the first embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment, and a description thereof will be omitted.
The control unit 210 includes the communication partner selection unit 201 and the group batch update processing unit 202 described above in terms of functions, and further includes an incoming call operation processing unit 203.
Similarly to the communication partner selection unit 201 and the group batch update processing unit 202, the incoming call operation processing unit 203 represents that the CPU executes the program to execute the process. Each of these functions may be realized as one module or one function of the program.

The function of the incoming call operation processing unit 203 will be described below on the assumption that the setting of the incoming call operation when the mobile phone 100 receives an incoming call is previously stored for each group in the group storage unit 131 according to the user's operation. .
When the mobile phone 100 receives an incoming call from the communication partner, the incoming call operation processing unit 203 performs the incoming call operation according to the group set as the main group in the communication partner group stored in the partner information storage unit 131. Has the function to execute. If there is only one group to which the communication partner belongs, that group becomes the main group.

  The main group, for example, allows the user to select either the last updated group or the first updated group among the groups in the partner information storage unit 132, and sets the main group according to the user's selection Alternatively, the order of the groups in the partner information storage unit 132 may be rearranged by the user's operation, for example, the group registered at the top may be set as the main group. In addition, the groups in the partner information table may be registered in advance in the fields of the main group and other groups.

<Data>
As the incoming call operation, there are a ringtone of a phone call, call reception restriction, etc. FIG. 14 (a) illustrates the types of incoming call operations that can be set by the ringtone 3001 and the call reception restriction 3002. FIG. 14 (b) An incoming call operation setting example 3003 for each group is shown.
As an example, the ringing tone in the incoming call operation setting 003 corresponding to the group “Company A” is the ringing tone 1 and the call reception restriction is set to always receive.

<Incoming call processing>
FIG. 15 is a flowchart when the mobile phone 100 performs the incoming call operation process.
The following description is based on the assumption that the communication partner that requests communication with the mobile phone 100 is an incoming call from the communication partner stored in the partner information storage unit 132.
When there is a communication request from the communication partner and the incoming call operation processing unit 203 receives an incoming call notification (step S40), the incoming call operation processing unit 203 receives the communication partner group information from the other party information storage unit 131, and the group is registered. It is determined whether or not (step S41).

If the incoming call operation processing unit 203 determines that the group is registered in step S41, the incoming call operation corresponding to the main group of the communication partner is executed (step S42).
If the incoming call operation processing unit 203 determines that the group is not registered in step S41, a predetermined incoming call operation is executed (step S43).
(Third embodiment)
When it becomes necessary to edit partner information of a communication partner, the mobile phone according to the third embodiment selects a group to which the communication partner belongs, sets it as a destination, and automatically creates a mail notifying the editing contents It differs from the mobile phone in the first embodiment in that a function for executing processing is added.

Hereinafter, the mobile phone according to the third embodiment will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. Note that the external appearance of the mobile phone is the same as that described in the first embodiment, and a description thereof will be omitted.
<Functional block>
FIG. 16 is a functional block diagram of the mobile phone 100 in this embodiment.

Except for the control unit 220, the functional configuration of the mobile phone 100 in the first embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment, and a description thereof will be omitted.
The control unit 220 includes the communication partner selection unit 201, the group batch update processing unit 202, and the incoming call operation processing unit 203 described above in terms of functions, and further includes a partner information change processing unit 204, a destination selection unit 205, a notification An email creation unit 206 is included.

The other party information change processing unit 204, the destination selection unit 205, and the notification mail creation unit 206 are executed by the CPU in the same manner as the communication partner selection unit 201, group batch update processing unit 202, and incoming call operation processing unit 203, respectively. This indicates that the process is executed. Each of these functions may be realized as one module or one function of the program.
Hereinafter, functions of the partner information change processing unit 204, the destination selection unit 205, and the notification mail creation unit 206 added in this embodiment will be described.

  When the partner information change processing unit 204 needs to change the partner information of the communication partner stored in the partner information storage unit 132, the partner information change processing unit 204 receives the partner information from the partner information storage unit 132 according to the user's operation. Extract, send the partner information before the change (hereinafter referred to as “pre-change information”) to the memory, change the partner information by user operation and notify the changed partner information (hereinafter referred to as “change information”) The data is sent to the creating unit 206, and a signal indicating the end of the change process by the user is notified to the destination selecting unit 205.

Upon receiving the change processing end notification by the user's operation, the destination selection unit 205 acquires the group in the pre-change information from the memory, and accepts an operation for the user to select a group to be set as the destination from the acquired groups. The group selected by the user's operation is sent to the notification mail creating unit 206.
The notification mail creation unit 206 acquires the communication partner's mail address associated with the group received from the destination selection unit 205 from the partner information storage unit 131, sets the mail address as the notification mail destination, Based on the change information received from the change processing unit 204 and the pre-change information stored in the memory, a notification mail subject and text are automatically created.

<Data>
FIG. 17A is an excerpt of the partner information (FIG. 3) before the change of the communication partner for which the notification mail is to be created. As an example, the partner information 710 has the number “001” and the name “Yamamoto”. , “Yamamoto” for phonetic, “090123456” for phone number, “yamamoto@xxx.xx.xx” for email address, “friends, cooking class” for group, and “” for memo.

(B) in the figure is an excerpt of the partner information 711 after changing the partner information 004 of the communication partner in the figure (a). Items other than the telephone number are the same as those in the figure (a). This indicates that the number has been changed to “090654321”.
FIG. 17C is a diagram illustrating the contents of the notification mail created by the notification mail creating unit 206. The notification mail 712 includes a mail address, a mail subject, and a mail text.

The e-mail address 713 shows a case where the “friend” group is selected from “friends” and “cooking class” included in the group of FIG.
The mail subject 714 is set to extract “Yamamoto” included in the name of FIG. 5B and display it at the head of “About Mr. data update”.
The mail text 715 compares the data in FIG. 10A and FIG. 10B, and the data “090654321” in the field name “telephone number” and the telephone number field different from FIG. Is extracted and displayed after “update content:”.

<Notification email creation process>
FIG. 19 is a flowchart when notification mail creation processing is executed by the mobile phone 100.
In response to an operation by the user of the mobile phone 100, the partner information change processing unit 204 displays the name of the communication partner stored in the partner information storage unit 131 on the display unit 116 (step S50). An operation for selecting the name of the communication partner whose information content is to be changed is accepted, and the communication partner is selected in accordance with the operation of the user (step S51).

Subsequently, the partner information of the selected communication partner is acquired from the partner information storage unit 131, the acquired partner information is sent to the memory (step S52), and the acquired partner information is changed according to the user's operation. Information is sent to notification mail creating section 206 (step S53).
The destination selection unit 205 acquires the group of information before change from the memory and displays it on the display unit 116 (step S54), selects a group to be set as the notification mail destination according to the user's operation, and selects the selected group Is sent to the notification mail creating unit 206 (step S55).

Next, the notification mail creation unit 206 extracts the mail address of the communication partner belonging to the group received from step S55 from the partner information storage unit 131, and sets the mail address corresponding to the extracted communication partner as the destination of the notification mail. (Step S56).
Subsequently, the notification mail creating unit 206 compares the change information with the pre-change information stored in the memory (step S57), and the notification mail based on the partner information and the change information of the changed part extracted by the comparison in step S57. Is created (step S58).

The notification mail creation unit 206 determines whether or not to send the notification mail created in step S58 to the destination set in step S56 (step S59), and if a mail transmission signal is received by the user's operation The created notification mail is transmitted (step S60).
If transmission of the notification mail from the user is not accepted in step S59, the process ends without transmitting the notification mail. If mail is not transmitted, the notification mail may be discarded according to the user's selection, or the notification mail may be stored in the storage unit 130 and terminated.

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Although the present invention has been described based on the above embodiment, it is needless to say that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. The following cases are also included in the present invention.
(1) In the first embodiment described above, a group table for grouping communication partners is stored in the group storage unit 131, and the group to which the communication partner belongs is selected from the groups stored in the group storage unit 131. However, the user may directly input a group to be added to or deleted from the communication partner selected on the display unit.

Further, the setting of the group to which the communication partner belongs may be stored in the group storage unit 131 instead of the partner information storage unit 132 in association with the group to which the communication partner belongs.
(2) In the first embodiment described above, when a communication partner belongs to a plurality of groups and a group change of a plurality of communication partners is executed, the group batch update process (2) is performed in the group update menu of FIG. When the “Change” menu is added and the user selects the “Change” menu, the group of the communication partner selected in the communication partner selection unit is replaced with the group accepted by the group reception unit by the user's operation. You may go by.

  If the same change process is executed in the group batch update process (1), after selecting the communication partner to execute the change process, the change source group is selected from the common group to which all the selected communication partners belong. Alternatively, the user may select the change destination group after the selection, and the change source group may be replaced with the change destination group. With this method, the group can be changed in a single process.

(3) In the third embodiment described above, the group that is the destination of the notification mail to be selected by the user in the destination selection unit 206 is a group that is associated with the communication partner that is the target of the partner information change process. However, a group to which the communication partner does not belong may be selected.
FIG. 18A is a diagram in which the partner information whose name is “East” is extracted from the partner information table of FIG. 3, and the mail address of the partner information 720 is similar to the mail address of the partner information 721 of FIG. In the third embodiment, the destination selection unit 205 selects a group to be set as the destination from “Company A” and “Company A sales department” in FIG. When the user wants to notify the other group to which “east” does not belong the change content of “east”, the user may further display the other group and accept the group selection operation from the user. In Fig. 3 (c), when the "In-house" group is selected from Fig. 3 (b), the email addresses of "Sasaki", "Kimura" and "Aida" belonging to "In-house" in Fig. 3 (a) are addressed. Indicates that it is set.

  This method can be transmitted when it is necessary to notify the communication partner belonging to the group to which the communication partner does not belong the information of the communication partner to be changed.

It is a figure which shows the external appearance of the mobile telephone which concerns on embodiment of this invention. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing functions of the mobile phone according to the first embodiment. It is the figure which illustrated the table of the other party information and group in embodiment of this invention. FIG. 6 is a processing flowchart of group update processing (1) in the first embodiment. It is an example at the time of displaying group update process (1) on a display. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing before and after the change when batch addition update is performed in the group update process (1). FIG. 10 is a diagram showing before and after change when batch deletion update is performed in group update processing (1). FIG. 10 is a processing flowchart of group update processing (2) in the first embodiment. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the contents of a group update menu in group update processing (2). FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a display example when “addition M” is selected in the group update process (2). FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a display example when “addition G” is selected in the group update process (2). FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a display example when “Delete” is selected in the group update process (2). FIG. 6 is a diagram showing functions of a mobile phone according to a second embodiment. It is the figure which illustrated the kind of operation at the time of an incoming call, and incoming call operation setting. FIG. 10 is a flowchart of incoming call operation processing in the second embodiment. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing functions of a mobile phone according to a third embodiment. It is the figure which illustrated notification mail creation contents at the time of performing notification mail creation processing. It is the figure which illustrated notification mail creation contents at the time of performing notification mail creation processing. FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a notification mail creation process in the third embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

12 display
13 phone book
14 Menu start key
15 cursor keys
100 mobile phone
130 storage
131 group storage
132 partner information storage
201 Communication partner selector
202 Group Batch Update Processing Department
203 Incoming call processor
204 Partner information change processing section
205 Destination selector
206 Notification email generator
1000 partner information
2000 groups

Claims (5)

A mobile phone having a function of managing communication partners in groups,
Storage means for storing, for each communication partner, group information representing one or more groups to which the communication partner belongs;
A communication partner selection means for selecting a plurality of communication partners stored in the storage means by performing an operation of selecting one communication partner a plurality of times;
A group reception means for receiving input of one or more groups;
A group batch updating unit that collectively executes the same update process based on the group received by the group receiving unit with respect to the group information in the storage unit of the communication partner selected by the communication partner selecting unit. ,
When there are a plurality of the groups represented by the group information, the storage means stores one of the groups as a main group,
The mobile phone further includes:
The incoming operation that is executed when there is a communication request from the communication partner is stored for each group,
When there is a communication request from a communication partner stored in the storage means, and the main group is stored for the communication partner, an incoming operation processing means for executing an incoming operation corresponding to the main group is provided. mobile telephone, characterized in that it comprises. The communication partner selection means includes
2. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein designation of one or more groups is accepted and a communication partner in the storage means belonging to the designated group is selected. The mobile phone further has a function of broadcasting a mail addressed to a communication partner belonging to the group stored in the storage means,
The storage means further stores partner information regarding the communication partner,
The mobile phone further includes:
Partner information changing means for changing the content of the partner information;
A destination selecting means for selecting a group to be a destination of mail transmission from the group stored in the storage means when the partner information is changed by the partner information changing means;
2. The mobile phone according to claim 1, further comprising: a notification mail creating means for creating a mail for notifying a change of the partner information addressed to a communication partner belonging to the group selected by the destination selecting means. In the mobile phone comprising a CPU and a memory, a program for executing control processing,
A first storage step of storing, for each communication partner, group information representing one or more groups to which the communication partner belongs;
A communication partner selection step of selecting a plurality of communication partners stored in the first storage step by performing an operation of selecting one communication partner a plurality of times;
A group reception step for receiving input of one or more groups;
A group batch update step for collectively executing the same update process based on the group received in the group reception step with respect to the group information of the first storage step of the communication partner selected in the communication partner selection step; To the CPU ,
In the first storage step, when there are a plurality of the groups represented by the group information, one of the groups is stored as a main group,
Furthermore,
A second storage step of storing, for each group, an incoming call operation that is executed when a communication request is received from a communication partner;
When there is a communication request from the communication partner stored in the first storage step, and the main group is stored for the communication partner, an incoming operation process for executing an incoming operation corresponding to the main group Step and
Is executed by the CPU . The mobile phone further includes
Comprising display means for displaying a plurality of communication partners stored in the storage means;
The communication partner selection means selects a plurality of communication partners from the communication partners displayed on the display means,
The group batch update means collectively executes group addition processing accepted by the group reception means as the update processing.
The mobile phone according to claim 1.

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