KR100596918B1 - method for selecting information from short-message - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention extracts data such as a phone number, date, time, and place included in a short message according to a user's selection, and executes a corresponding menu in which the extracted data is input. The present invention relates to a method of extracting specific information included in a short message, which can be easily stored (registered) in a message.

To this end, the present invention, in the method for extracting the specific information from the short message received from the other party, the selection window outputs an extraction information selection window including an extraction information list to select the information to be extracted by the user from the short message; An output step; An extraction information selection step of receiving an arbitrary item from a user in the extraction information list; And extracting information corresponding to the input item from the short message, and extracting information storing the extracted information to execute a corresponding menu. The extracted information list includes a phone number, a date, It provides a method for extracting specific information included in a short message, characterized in that it comprises at least one of time and place.

Short message, extraction information selection window, extraction information list, information extraction / registration module

Description

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1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of an apparatus for extracting specific information included in a short message according to the present invention.

2 to 4 are screen diagrams for explaining an embodiment of a method for extracting specific information included in a short message according to the present invention.

The present invention relates to a method for extracting specific information included in a short message.

In particular, by extracting the data such as phone number, date, time, location, etc. included in the short message according to the user's selection, by executing the corresponding menu that the extracted data is pre-populated, the specific data included in the short message can be easily added to the menu. The present invention relates to a method of extracting specific information included in a short message that supports storing (registration).

Short Message Service (SMS) is a service that allows mobile terminal users to send and receive short sentences without additional equipment.

As the spread of mobile terminals spreads rapidly, the proportion of SMS users is increasing rapidly, and unlike e-mail, it is more convenient because contents can be delivered almost simultaneously with the time of sending.

In particular, since the fee is low compared to the fee charged when talking to the other party using a mobile terminal, a short message is frequently used when asking and answering the other party's short information.

For example, a short message may be sent to the other party to ask the third party's phone number, and the other party may also inform the third party's phone number through the short message.

In such a case, when a short message containing the telephone number is received, the user must make several key operations to register the telephone number in the telephone directory.

For example, after recording or memorizing the telephone number in a memo sheet, a phone book menu is selected to input a third party's name and register the recorded or memorized telephone number.

In order to register the phone number included in the short message through the above process to the phone book, it is inconvenient in many aspects because it requires considerable time and key manipulation.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method for extracting specific information included in a short message received from a counterpart and easily registering it in a corresponding menu.

According to an embodiment of the present invention for realizing the above object, in a method of extracting specific information from a short message received from a counterpart, an extraction information list for selecting information to be extracted by the user from the short message A selection window output step of outputting an extraction information selection window including a; An extraction information selection step of receiving an arbitrary item from a user in the extraction information list; And extracting the information corresponding to the input item from the short message, and extracting information storing step of executing the corresponding menu in which the extracted information is input. The extract information list includes a phone number and a date. , Time, and place.

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When the telephone number is selected from the extraction information list, the extracting information storing step is characterized by extracting the telephone number by searching whether the short message contains 7 consecutive digits or more.

If a date or time is selected from the extraction information list, the extracting information storing step may be configured to extract the date or time by searching whether the short message includes data having the same format as a pre-registered date or time format. It features.

When a place is selected from the extraction information list, the extracting information storing step may extract the place by searching whether the same data as the data of the plurality of places previously registered is included in the short message. .

The embodiment may further include a selection window output setting step of setting whether or not the extraction information selection window is output when the short message is received.

These objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be more readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings and the following detailed description. In describing the present invention, if it is determined that a detailed description of a related known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the description thereof will be omitted.

1 is a configuration diagram of an apparatus for extracting specific information included in a short message to which the present invention is applied, and FIGS. 2 to 4 are specific information included in a short message according to the present invention. It is a screen diagram for explaining an embodiment of an extraction method.

As shown in FIG. 1, an apparatus to which the present invention is applied is an apparatus for extracting and registering specific information included in a short message received from a counterpart, and extracts / registers an information in a basic component of a mobile terminal. It includes more.

A brief description of the basic configuration of a mobile terminal is as follows.

It is composed of a plurality of numbers and function keys, the key input unit 10 for outputting the key data corresponding to the key selected by the user, the control unit 20 for performing the overall operation control of the terminal, and is transmitted and received through the antenna A radio frequency transmitter / receiver unit 30 that amplifies and filters radio frequency signals, and modulates / demodulates a signal, a display unit 40 that displays information signals generated during an operation and operation of a terminal, and a radio frequency transmitter / receiver unit ( Memory 50 for storing the data received through the 30 and the key data input through the key input unit 10, and the change of the voice signal input and output to the microphone and speaker in accordance with the operation control of the control unit 20 The voice processing unit 60 that performs / demodulation is included in the mobile terminal.

The mobile terminal having the above configuration is a representative example of a terminal capable of transmitting / receiving a short message, and specifies that the present invention can be applied to a terminal capable of transmitting / receiving a short message in addition to the mobile terminal.

The short message received from the other party may include various types of information. In particular, the short message may include information that can be registered in a menu such as a phone book or a scheduler.

In this case, the information extraction / registration module 70 extracts the information from the received short message and supports to directly register the extracted information in the menu.

The information extraction / registration module 70 outputs a selection window including a list of extraction information for allowing the user to select what information to extract from the short message.

The selection window may receive a short message and may be output immediately after the short message is received so that a user may select information to extract after checking the message.

Alternatively, a selection window may be output as the user inputs a key corresponding to 'information extraction' after checking the received short message.

Whether or not the selection window is output can be set in advance by the user.

When the above selection window is output, the user selects an item corresponding to the information to be extracted from the extraction information list.

When the user selects an item, the information extraction / registration module 70 causes the menu to be registered to be executed and includes the extracted information in the corresponding field.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to one embodiment.

Assume that the short message shown in FIG. 2 is received from the other party.

Short messages include the date, time, place, telephone number, and name of the meeting.

When a user inputs a key corresponding to 'extraction' in order to select information to be extracted from the short message, a selection window is output as shown in FIG. 3.

As shown in FIG. 3, the selection window includes a list of extraction information for selecting information to be extracted by the user, such as a telephone number or a date, time, and place.

The method of extracting a phone number, date, time, place, etc. from a short message is as follows.

Firstly, the telephone number is extracted.

The telephone number is generally 7 or more digits, and in the case of a mobile phone number may be 11 digits.

In other words, in order to extract the telephone number, it is necessary to extract 7 or more consecutive numbers from the short message.

A space or '-(hyphen)' may be included between the numbers, which is ignored.

Such algorithm is included in the information extraction / registration module 70.

In the selection window, the user selects' 1. In the case of selecting 'phone number', the information extraction / registration module 70 extracts information corresponding to the phone number from the corresponding short message according to the above algorithm.

When the information is extracted, the information extraction / registration module 70 executes a phone book which is a menu for registering the information.

When the phone book menu is executed, the information is previously included in a field in which the extracted information is registered among input fields of the phone book.

As shown in FIG. 4, when the phone book menu is executed, the extracted phone number is included in the 'mobile phone' input field, and the user may input corresponding information in the name or the remaining input fields in order to register the phone number in the phone book.

If the telephone number starts with '01', the telephone number is determined as the telephone number of the mobile terminal (mobile phone) and included in the 'phone' field in the phone book menu. The phone number may be determined as a home or work phone number, and the extracted phone number may be included in the 'home' or 'company' field of the phone book menu.

Second, how to extract the date, time, and place.

There are several ways to represent dates and times, but in general there are several ways to represent dates and times.

The date is usually expressed as 12/27, 2003/12/27, December 27, 12-27, 2003-12-27, and the time is generally 6:00 (00 minutes), 6:00, PM 6 (Hour), 18:00, etc.

In the selection window of FIG. Date, time, place ', the information extraction / registration module 70 searches whether the information corresponding to the above expression method is included in the short message.

Since the information of the place is not determined in general, a library in which a large number of data about the region, such as a famous place name and a station name, is prepared must be prepared in advance.

Therefore, 'place' searches for and extracts whether data existing in the library is included among the data included in the short message. The data of the library can then be updated.

Alternatively, since information indicating a place may be included in front of an investigation such as 'in', 'in', 'in front of', and the like, data in front of the survey may be determined as data corresponding to 'place'.

In the selection window of FIG. If 'date, time, place' is selected, one or more of the date, time, and place information is included in the short message.

When one or more pieces of information are extracted, the scheduler (schedule management) menu for registering the extracted information is executed. When the scheduler menu is executed, the extracted information is previously included (input) in the date, time, or place input field.

In addition to the information previously input in the scheduler menu, the user inputs an input field of an item to be additionally input, and then enters a key corresponding to 'save' to complete the schedule registration.

In addition to the above-described embodiment, it is obvious that other items may be added to the extraction information list, and the algorithm of the information extraction / registration module 70 may be changed to extract the added items.

The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, and various modifications and changes can be made by those skilled in the art, which are included in the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined in the appended claims.

As described above, in the present invention, when a user selects information to be extracted from a short message received from the other party, the information is extracted and a menu for registering the information is automatically executed, thereby registering the information included in the short message. In order to achieve the effect of simplifying the process of executing a separate menu.

Therefore, the number of key manipulations can be reduced, thereby increasing convenience of the user.

Claims (6)

In the method for extracting specific information from the short message received from the other party, A selection window outputting step of outputting an extraction information selection window including a list of extraction information for selecting one or more information among a date, a time, and a place in the short message; An extraction information selection step of receiving an arbitrary item from a user in the extraction information list; And extracting information corresponding to the input item from the short message, and extracting information storing step of executing the corresponding menu in which the extracted information is input. In the extracting information storing step, if a date or time is selected from the extracting information list, the date or time is extracted by searching whether data of the same format as a pre-registered date or time format is included in the short message, When a place is selected from the list of extraction information, specific information included in the short message is searched to find out whether the same data as the data of a plurality of registered places is included in the short message. Extraction method. delete delete delete delete The method of claim 1, And a selection window output setting step of setting whether or not the extraction information selection window is output when a short message is received from a user.

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