KR100425707B1 - Telephone number searching method for portable telephone - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a technology for retrieving a telephone number using a specific number such as a unique number or an area code assigned to a mobile phone service company when making a call. In the present invention, when entering an area code or a unique number assigned to a mobile phone service provider to make a call to the other party, the phone number and each name are read together from the phonebook memory area in which the phone numbers are stored in advance. Displaying a first process; A second process of attempting a call to the selected telephone number when selecting one of the displayed telephone numbers; If the phone number is not displayed on the screen, or if the user ignores the displayed phone number and continues to enter the remaining number, it is achieved by a third process of attempting a call to the inputted phone number.

Description

How to find your phone number {TELEPHONE NUMBER SEARCHING METHOD FOR PORTABLE TELEPHONE}

The present invention relates to a technology for searching and dialing a phone number of a counterpart in a mobile phone. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for easily searching a desired phone number using a specific number such as a unique number or an area code assigned to a mobile phone service provider. It relates to a telephone number search method.

There are several ways to enter a phone number to dial a call, ie dialing. As the most classic method, there is a method of dialing directly by looking at the other party's telephone number recorded on a memo paper or memorizing the telephone number and then dialing directly.

In the case of using such a classic dialing method, it is not only troublesome to input a phone number but also takes a long time.

Recently, a dialing method using a shortcut key has been proposed, which stores a phone number in a memory and reads and dials a phone number of a corresponding address when a corresponding key is pressed by a user.

However, in the case of such a speed dialing method, the number of telephone keys is limited, which makes it difficult to target many telephone numbers, and there is an inconvenience of memorizing each of the shortcut keys.

Recently, a method of dialing using a search mode has been proposed. This is a method of dialing a phone number displayed in the screen by inputting the name (all or part) of the counterpart or the address in the search mode.

When dialing using the search mode as described above, there is a hassle in inputting the name of the other party due to the characteristics of the mobile phone, and there is also a hassle in entering the address.

Another conventional technique is a method of dialing using a recent call list. This is a method of remembering several recently called telephone numbers and displaying the telephone numbers when the user requests them, and the user selects and dials a desired telephone number from among them.

As such, when dialing using a recent call list, a phone number not used recently is excluded from the recent call list, and thus has a very limited defect.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to enter a specific number such as a unique number or area code assigned to a mobile phone service provider to display the phone numbers on the screen to search for a phone number of the mobile phone to find the desired number In providing.

1 is a signal flow diagram of a phone number search method of a mobile phone according to the present invention;

2 is an example of display of a retrieved telephone number.

** Description of symbols for the main parts of the drawing **

S1-S7: steps 1-7

In the phone number search method of the mobile phone according to the present invention, if the user makes the area code of the counterpart phone or the unique number assigned to the mobile phone service provider, the phone numbers are respectively stored in the phonebook memory area where the phone numbers are stored. Reading a name of the first and displaying the name on the screen; A second process of attempting a call to the selected telephone number when selecting one of the displayed telephone numbers; If the phone number is not displayed on the screen, or if the user ignores the displayed phone number and continuously inputs the remaining number, a third process of attempting a call to the inputted phone number is performed. When described in detail with reference to the accompanying Figures 1 and 2 as follows.

When a user calls someone, the area code (e.g. 02, 031,032, Or enter a unique number (eg, 011,016,017,019) assigned to the mobile phone service provider (S1).

In other words, if the other party's phone is a regular phone, the area code is input followed by the phone number. If the phone is a mobile phone, the phone number is input after the mobile phone service provider's unique number.

In this case, the control unit (not shown in the drawing) for controlling the phone or the mobile phone reads the corresponding phone numbers from the memory area (eg, Phone Book) in which the phone numbers are stored in advance and displays them on the screen (S2, S3).

For example, when a user enters a mobile phone service provider's unique number (for example, "019") to make a call with a mobile phone, the phone number having "019" is read and displayed on the LCD screen. However, since the telephone numbers that can be displayed on the screen at a time are limited, it is necessary to give priority to telephone numbers that satisfy certain conditions.

To this end, in the initial setting mode, the user can give priority to the order of recent call time, or give priority to the order of telephone numbers with high frequency of calls for a certain time (for example, 1 month). Of course, in case of scrolling display, all the read phone numbers can be displayed.

In addition, there may be a variety of methods for displaying a phone number on the screen, such as simply displaying only the phone numbers in order of priority, or displaying a name or a recent call time as shown in FIG.

In the state of displaying the phone numbers having the corresponding area code or the unique number of the mobile phone service provider as described above, when the user selects a desired phone number using the arrow keys, the user attempts to call the selected phone number (S4, S5). )

However, in the state of displaying the phone numbers having the area code or the unique number of the mobile phone service provider as described above, if the user does not select any one of the phone numbers and continues to enter the remaining numbers, the phone number is entered. Attempt to call (S6, S7)

Of course, if there is no phone number having a corresponding area code or a unique number of a mobile phone service provider in the phone book, the phone numbers cannot be displayed as described above. In this case, the user can continue to dial the remaining numbers. It becomes possible.

As described in detail above, the present invention displays specific phone numbers, such as unique numbers or area codes assigned to mobile service providers, and displays the corresponding phone numbers on the screen so that the user can select and dial a desired phone number. It is effective to enable simple and quick dialing.

Claims (5)

A first step of reading a corresponding phone number and each name from a phonebook memory area in which phone numbers are stored, when a local number or a unique number assigned to a mobile phone service company is input to the user, and displaying the same together on a screen; If the user selects any one of the displayed phone numbers, attempting to call the selected phone number; If the phone number is not displayed on the screen or ignores and continues to enter the remaining number of the phone number search method of the mobile phone characterized in that it comprises a third step of attempting a call to the input phone number. The method of claim 1, wherein when the corresponding phone numbers are read from the memory area and displayed on the screen, a predetermined number of phone numbers are selected and displayed in order of recent call time. The mobile phone number search of claim 1, wherein when the corresponding phone numbers are read from the memory area and displayed on the screen, a predetermined number of phone numbers are selected and displayed in order of a high frequency of calls during a predetermined time period. Way. delete delete