JPH08139798A - Expanding method for electronic telephone directory - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To transmit and receive information mutually by transferring telephone directory information on a telephone set side to an information terminal and processing the information as specified together with telephone directory information on the information terminal side. CONSTITUTION: A portable information terminal PDA 10 has a touch panel 12 mounted on its liquid crystal display 11, and handwriting input or a menu displayed on the display 11 can be selected. The telephone directory information on the telephone set side is transferred to the PDA 10 and processed as specified including the retrieval processing for a telephone number together with the telephone directory information on the information terminal side. Here, the data processing system 20 of the PDA 10 is constituted including a CPU 21, a ROM 22 stored with its processing program, and a RAM 23, and connected through a bus 25 together with a timer 24 for time management. Then the touch panel 12 and a keyboard 13 are connected to the bus 25 through an interface 26, and the display 11 is connected through an interface 27. Then the processing result of the CPU 21 is displayed on the display 11.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for expanding an electronic telephone directory suitable for an information terminal which cannot be connected to a communication line.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, electronic notebooks have been widely used as personal information devices, but PDA (Pe
A portable information terminal device called rsonal Digital Assist) is also known. This PDA includes a keyboard and a touch panel for input, and a liquid crystal display for display,
Schedule management, address book or phone book (electronic phone book)
In addition to the above functions, it has a function of creating a message with a keyboard or a pen and a function of saving the message.

Many of such PDAs have a PCMCIA slot as an external interface terminal so that the functions of the memory and PDA can be expanded. By the way, "PCMCIA (Personal Compu
ter Memory Card International Association) ”
It is a standard for IC cards used in personal computers and the like, and defines pin arrangements for basic connection, signal lines, control commands, and the like.

[0004]

By the way, the above-mentioned PDA is provided with a modem function and is connected through a telephone line.
There are some that enable the transfer of messages and access to external databases. In this case, indoors, the PDA may be directly connected to the telephone line via the modular jack, the telephone directory function may be used to make a call, and the message may be transmitted to a desired party. Also, P
Even if the DA does not have a modem function, it is possible to similarly send a message indoors by connecting the PDA to the telephone line via the modem device.

In either case, the telephone number of the other party may be designated directly, or the user can connect without specifying the telephone number by designating the registered name or abbreviation of the other party. Auto dialing is also possible.

On the other hand, when the PDA is used outdoors, it cannot be connected to an ordinary telephone line. Therefore, in order to communicate with a desired party, for example, a mobile phone,
It is conceivable to connect a communication device using a wireless line to a PDA. In this case, the connection with the mobile phone is
The PCMCIA slot as described above is used, and required data and the like are sent from the PDA side to the mobile phone side through this slot.

As described above, when a mobile phone and a PDA are connected to each other, from the viewpoint of operability, it is usual to make a call based on the PDA-side phone book, and the mobile phone has a phone book function. Not used However, the contents of the PDA-side phonebook are not always the same as those of the mobile phone-side phonebook. In the above case, even if the PDA-side phonebook is registered in the mobile phone-side phonebook, There is a problem that it is not possible to easily communicate with the other party who is not registered in the telephone directory.

In view of the above point, an object of the present invention is to connect a portable information terminal, which cannot be connected to a communication line, to a telephone in a form capable of exchanging information with each other, and on the portable information terminal side, It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for expanding an electronic telephone directory so that the telephone directory information on the telephone side can be used together with the telephone directory information.

[0009]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the electronic telephone directory expansion method according to the present invention relates to an information terminal 10 which cannot be connected to a communication line when the reference numerals of the embodiments described later are made to correspond. , A connection is made to the telephone 30 via the interface 28 capable of exchanging information with each other, the telephone directory information on the telephone side is transferred to the information terminal, and a telephone number search process is carried out together with the telephone directory information on the information terminal side. A predetermined process including is performed.

[0010]

With this configuration, the information terminal side can effectively use the telephone directory information on the telephone side as well as the telephone directory information, and the communication line and the portable information via the telephone can be used. Connection of terminals becomes easy.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment in which the method for expanding an electronic telephone directory according to the present invention is applied to a combination of a portable information terminal and a portable telephone will be described below with reference to FIGS.

First, a portable information terminal and a portable telephone to which the present invention is applied will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 to 6.

In FIG. 4, reference numeral 10 is a personal digital assistant (PD).
A) and 30 is a mobile phone, and when used outdoors as described above, in this embodiment, the PDA 10 connects the mobile phone 30 with the PCMCIA card 1 and the code 2.
, And various information such as data and commands can be exchanged with each other.

The PDA 10 is provided with a liquid crystal display 11, and a touch panel 12 is mounted on the display 11 so that handwriting input and a menu displayed on the display 11 can be selected. In addition, keyboard input is also possible. And PDA10
Then, in general, it is possible to register a personal name, an address, a telephone number, etc. in a format such as an address book, and display this on the display 11 to retrieve the telephone number of the other party.

The mobile phone 30 includes an antenna 31 for wireless transmission / reception, a receiver (speaker) 32, and a transmitter (microphone) 33, and also includes operation keys 34 such as dial keys and a liquid crystal display 35. The mobile phone 30 can also register the telephone directory information such as the personal name and the telephone number, but the data input method is limited only to the operation keys 34 such as dial keys.

As shown in FIG. 5, the data processing system 20 of the PDA 10 comprises a CPU 21, a ROM 22 in which its processing program is stored, and a RAM 23, and is connected through a bus 25 together with a timer 24 for time management. To be done. In this embodiment, a part of the RAM 23 is made non-volatile by backing up the battery, and the data such as the user's schedule and the telephone directory as described above is stored in this non-volatile area. The remaining area of the RAM 23 is used as a work area.

The bus 25 has an interface (I /
F) 26, touch panel 12 and keyboard 13
Is connected and through the interface 27,
A liquid crystal display 11 is connected for data input and control by handwriting and key operation, and a CPU
The results such as the data processed in 21 are displayed on the display 11
Displayed above.

Further, a PCMCIA interface 28 is connected to the bus 25, and an IC card having a memory or an arbitrary application is inserted thereinto,
The function of the PDA 10 can be expanded. Note that FIG.
As is clear from this, since the PDA 10 does not have a modem function, it cannot be directly connected to the telephone line.

As shown in FIG. 6, the mobile phone 30 includes a radio transmitting / receiving circuit 40, a reception signal processing system 50, a transmission signal processing system 60, and a control system 70.

The reception signal from the antenna 31 is supplied to the mixing circuit 42 through the RF amplifier 41 of the transmission / reception circuit 40 and mixed with the output of the PLL 43 to obtain the intermediate frequency (I
F) is converted to a signal. The PLL 43 includes, for example, a signal within the reception band of 935 to 960 MHz and a signal of 890 to 9
A control signal for channel setting within the transmission band of 15 MHz is supplied from the control system 70. Although not shown, the IF signal from the mixing circuit 42 is supplied to a detection circuit through an amplifier and is subjected to, for example, quadrature detection and converted into a baseband.

In the radio transmission / reception circuit 40, the signal converted to the base band is supplied to the data demodulation circuit (DEM) 52 through the AD converter 51 of the reception signal processing system 50. The output of the demodulation circuit 52 is multiplexed with data and voice, and a voice decoder (VC-DEC) 53 is provided.
And the data decoder (DT-DEC) 54 in common.

The audio decoder 53 performs audio conversion processing, and the output is passed through the amplifier 54 to the speaker 32.
Is supplied to. Further, the data decoder 54 performs a decoding process on the data, the output is supplied to the control system 70, is processed by the CPU 71, and the data for the user is displayed on the display 35.

On the other hand, the audio signal from the microphone 33 is supplied to the audio encoder (VC-ENC) 62 through the amplifier 61 of the transmission signal processing system 60, converted into audio data, and supplied to the data modulation circuit (MOD) 63. At the same time, the data from the control system 70 is supplied to the data modulation circuit 63 through the data encoder (DT-ENC) 64, and the baseband digital signal of this data modulation circuit 63 is passed through the DA converter 65. It is converted into a baseband analog signal and supplied to the wireless transmission / reception circuit 40.

In the radio transmission / reception circuit 40, the baseband analog signal is converted into a carrier signal of an appropriate frequency by, for example, quadrature modulation in a modulation circuit (not shown). The carrier wave signal is supplied to the mixing circuit 44, mixed with the output of the PLL 43, converted into a high frequency signal of a predetermined channel, and radiated from the antenna 31 through the output amplifier 45.

The control system 70 includes a CPU 71, a ROM 72 in which a processing program is stored, and a RAM 73 as a work area, and a timer 74 for time management.
Together, they are connected through the bus 75.

In this embodiment, a partial area of the RAM 73 is made non-volatile by backing up the battery, and data set by the user is stored in this non-volatile area, and the remaining area of the RAM 73 is stored. Is used as a work area.

A keyboard 34 and a liquid crystal display 35 are connected to the bus 75 through an interface 76 for data input and control by key operation, and results such as data processed by the CPU 71 are displayed on the display 35. Is displayed. Further, the PDA 10 is connected to the bus 75 through the interface 77, and the mobile phone is connected to the GSM (Global System for
In the case of a mobile communication type digital cellular phone, the SIM 78 is connected.

By the way, SIM (Subscriber Identify
Module) is delivered to subscribers of the GSM system, I
This is a C card, which has a built-in CPU and can be used by subscribers for contract status and personal identification number (Personal I
dentify Number) etc. are remembered.

When this SIM is inserted into the terminal of the GSM system and the subscriber inputs the personal identification number, the personal identification number is verified inside the SIM. When another GSM terminal is used at the place of destination, the terminal performs location update to the base station according to the contents of the inserted SIM.
The SIM also provides communication encryption and a telephone directory function.

Next, referring also to FIG. 1 and FIG.
A phonebook selecting operation according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described.

As described above, with the telephone directory on the PDA 10 side,
Since the contents of the phone book on the side of the mobile phone 30 are not always the same, in this embodiment, P
On the DA10 side, both phonebooks are selected as follows. As shown in FIG. 4, the PCMCIA card 1 sends and receives commands and data necessary for this selection process.
And through code 2.

First, in step 101, a menu screen for selecting the type of telephone directory as shown in FIG. 2A is displayed on the display 11 on the PDA 10 side. In the next step 102, the user waits for a phonebook selection operation, and for example, "■" is displayed on the menu screen of FIG.
If there is a selection operation with the cursor as shown by, the process proceeds to step 103, and the selected telephone directory is PD.
It is checked whether it is installed in the A10 or the mobile phone 30.

If the telephone directory of the mobile phone 30 is selected in step 102, the process proceeds to step 104, and the telephone directory of the mobile phone 30 is read into the PDA 10 side. Then, in step 105, based on the data of the telephone directory selected in step 102, as shown in FIG. 2B, a menu screen for selecting the other party of the call is displayed on the display 11 of the PDA 10.

In the next step 106, the user
Waiting for the operation of selecting the other party, and if there is a selection operation, the process proceeds to step 107, and the selected telephone number is transferred from the PDA 10 side to the mobile phone 30 side. And mobile phone 30
On the side, based on the transferred telephone number, calling processing is performed by auto dialing, waiting for connection of the line and communication with the other party (step 108).
0 ends.

As described above, in this embodiment, the telephone directory in which the communication partner is registered is selected and displayed on the display of the PDA side, which is superior in operability, so that the telephone number of the desired partner can be easily selected. Can be recognized. Further, since the desired telephone number is transferred to the mobile phone side, the line connection with the other party can be easily made by auto dialing.
Therefore, from the PDA side, the telephone directory function is expanded.

Next, referring to FIG. 3 as well, the telephone directory automatic retrieval operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described.

First, in step 111, the user waits for the input of the other party's name. When the other party's name is input, the process proceeds to step 112, and the telephone directory of the mobile phone 30 is read into the PDA 10 side. Then, in step 113, the entered name is retrieved from the phone books on the PDA 10 side and the mobile phone 30 side.

In the next step 114, it is judged whether or not this search is successful. If it is not successful, the process proceeds to step 115, the failure is displayed on the display 11 on the PDA 10 side, and the process ends.

If the input name is successfully searched in step 114, the process proceeds to step 116, where it is checked whether a plurality of names have been searched. When a plurality of names are retrieved, the plurality of names are displayed on the display 11 on the PDA 10 side (step 117) and the user waits for the operation of selecting the other party (step 11).
8).

In both of the case where there is an operation for selecting the other party in step 118 and the case where a single name is searched for in step 116, the process proceeds to step 119 and the PDA 1
The result is displayed on the display 11 on the 0 side, and the routine 110 ends.

When communicating with the retrieved partner, the retrieved telephone number is transferred to the mobile telephone 30 side as shown in steps 107 and 108 of FIG. The calling process may be performed based on the transferred telephone number.

As described above, in this embodiment, by simply inputting the name of the other party of communication, the telephone directories of both the mobile phone side and the PDA side are automatically searched and displayed on the display of the PDA side. Therefore, even if the contents of both telephone directories are different, the telephone number of the desired destination can be easily known. Therefore, from the PDA side, the telephone directory function is expanded.

If the contents of both telephone directories are different,
On the PDA side, create disagreement information and integrated information of the phone book,
By transferring the required information to the mobile phone side, the contents of the mobile phone phonebook can be supplemented.

[0044]

As described above, according to the present invention, the information terminal which cannot be connected to the communication line is connected to the telephone through the interface capable of exchanging information with each other, and the telephone on the telephone side is connected. The book information is transferred to the information terminal side, the telephone number search processing is performed together with the telephone directory information on the information terminal side, and the telephone call processing is performed on the telephone side based on the searched telephone number. Therefore, the telephone directory information on the telephone side can be effectively used, and the connection to the communication line via the telephone becomes easy.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing the configuration of an embodiment of an electronic telephone directory expansion method according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram for explaining the operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram for explaining the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram for explaining the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram for explaining the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 PCMCIA Card 10 PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) 20 Data Processing System 21 CPU 28 PCMCIA Interface 30 Mobile Phone (Digital Cellular Phone) 40 Radio Transmitter / Receiver Circuit 50 Received Signal Processing System 60 Transmitted Signal Processing System 70 Control System 71 System Control Circuit (CPU) )

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[Procedure amendment]

[Submission date] December 19, 1994

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[Name of item to be corrected] Claim 1

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[0004]

The object of the invention is to be Solved by the way, is as described above PDA, equipped with a modem function, through the telephone line
Of, some of which was such as allowing access to the message transfer and the external database. In this case, indoors, the PDA can be directly connected to the telephone line via the modular jack, the telephone directory function can be used to make a call, and a message can be transmitted to a desired party. Also, P
Even if the DA does not have a modem function, it is possible to similarly send a message indoors by connecting the PDA to the telephone line via the modem device.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An information terminal which cannot be connected to a communication line,
It connects to a telephone through an interface that can exchange information with each other, transfers the telephone directory information on the telephone side to the information terminal, and includes telephone number search processing together with the telephone directory information on the information terminal side. A method for expanding an electronic telephone directory in which predetermined processing is performed. 2. The method of expanding an electronic telephone directory according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined process includes a calling process based on the telephone number retrieved by the retrieval process. 3. The method of expanding an electronic telephone directory according to claim 2, wherein the retrieved telephone number is transferred to the telephone side, and the calling process is executed on the telephone side. 4. The method of expanding an electronic telephone directory according to claim 1, wherein the information terminal is a mobile information terminal and the telephone is a mobile telephone.