KR100693750B1 - Method for storing and method for searching telephone number by multilevel classification in mobile commnication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for storing telephone numbers after classifying the numbers in multiple stages in a mobile communication terminal and a searching method therefor are provided to be capable of separately setting phone books by dividing the phone books according to each large classification item, and of designating classification items within the phone books to classify/store the designated items in multiple stages, thus user's convenience is provided when the user searches telephone numbers. A user selects a phone book on a menu item of a mobile communication terminal, and the terminal extracts phone book addresses and phone book names stored in a memory to display the extracted information on a screen(S100-S130). The user selects a particular phone book name, and the terminal displays a management menu for managing the corresponding phone book on the screen(S140,S150). The user selects a new number registration menu on the management menu, and the terminal displays an input blank capable of the user inputting names, telephone numbers, and classification items on the screen(S160,S170). The user inputs data on the input blank and presses a save key, so that the data are stored in the corresponding phone book(S180,S190).

Description

Method for storing and method for searching telephone number by multilevel classification in mobile commnication terminal}

1 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal of the present invention.

2 is a diagram schematically showing a system structure for multi-level phone number classification of a mobile communication terminal of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a flow chart illustrating an embodiment of a phone number multi-level classification storage method of a mobile communication terminal of the present invention.

4A to 4D are screens sequentially showing a display unit according to a method for storing phone number multilevel classifications of a mobile communication terminal of the present invention.

Figure 5 is a flow chart illustrating an embodiment of a phone number multi-level classification search method of a mobile communication terminal of the present invention.

6A and 6B illustrate screens of a display unit according to a method for searching phone numbers in a multi-level classification of a mobile communication terminal of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

100: controller 110: memory

120: RF unit 130: modem

140: ring generator 150: display unit

160: key input unit 170: telephone call unit

The present invention relates to a multi-level classification storage method and a retrieval method of a telephone number of a mobile communication terminal. More specifically, the mobile communication terminal to establish and manage a separate database for each major category in the phone book of the mobile communication terminal, and to store for each major category when entering the phone number, and to specify and store the category even within the major category The multi-level classification of the telephone number of the storage method and a search method.

Recently, as the mobile communication terminal becomes more common, more data is managed using the mobile communication terminal, and among these data, the telephone number data is most frequently used.

In the conventional mobile communication terminal, when a user requests to store a phone number, the mobile terminal receives a name with the corresponding phone number and stores the name in an empty storage address of the memory. At this time, the storage address where the phone number is stored is used as a shortcut for the corresponding phone number and an index to search for a phone number or to make a call using the shortcut key.

The address where the phone number is stored is the previous address among the empty addresses in the memory or any address designated by the user. Usually, the phone number is sequentially stored in the memory in the order in which the user stores.

As a method of searching a phone number stored in a mobile communication terminal, there are a method of directly searching a storage address of a memory and a method of searching using a name stored together with a phone number.

A method of directly searching a storage address is a method of sequentially searching from address 1 to a stored address using a navigation key (left, right, up, down) provided in a mobile communication terminal.

The search method using a name is a method of searching for a phone number stored with the name by inputting a name corresponding to the phone number the user wants to find.

In this case, when the mobile terminal normally inputs the first letter of the name and presses the search key, the names having the first letter as the first letter are displayed in the order of their storage addresses. The user searches sequentially the displayed names using the navigation keys. Find the phone number by searching the stored address to the phone number you want to find.

This method of storing the phone numbers sequentially in the memory in the order of phone number input and searching the phone number using the address or name can be used without a lot of inconvenience when the number of phone numbers stored in the memory is small. There is a problem that takes a long time to retrieve the phone number.

To solve this problem, when a user stores a phone number, the user receives and stores a specific keyword (classification item) for classifying and searching the phone numbers together with the phone number. When the phone number corresponding to the keyword is displayed, the user can search for the phone number by using the classification item in addition to the search using the name or the storage address.

That is, when storing a phone number, the name, phone number, and classification items are stored in correspondence with each other. In addition to the search method using the storage address and the search method using the name, the search method using the classification item is added to the user. Selecting a search method enables searching by category.

An example of a telephone number database for this purpose is shown in Table 1 below.

address name Phone number Category One Hong Gil Dong 111-111-1111 friend 2 Janggilsan 222-222-2222 company 3 Lim Kwak Jung 333-333-3333 club ... ... ... ...

In this way, a name, phone number, classification items, and the like are stored in correspondence with one phone book so that the classification items can be searched.

However, this method stores all the phone numbers sequentially in the order in which they are entered in one phone number storage space provided in the memory, and allows the user to search for a phone number even by the category by inputting one more category. As a result, there is still a problem that the search takes a lot of time.

That is, when the user selects a search method for each category and inputs a category corresponding to the phone number to be searched, the mobile terminal displays the phone numbers of the corresponding category in the order of their storage addresses. The navigation key allows the user to find a desired telephone number from among the displayed telephone numbers.

However, if there are a lot of phone numbers stored as the corresponding category, a large number of phone numbers are displayed on the screen, and the user still has to operate a navigation key several times in order to find a desired phone number.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to construct and manage a database for each major category in a phone number storage space in a mobile communication terminal, and store each major category when entering a phone number, but specify and store a category even within the major category. To provide a phone number multi-level classification storage method and a retrieval method of a mobile communication terminal for the convenience of phone number search.

In an embodiment of the method for storing a phone number multilevel classification of a mobile communication terminal of the present invention, a user selects a phone book from a menu item of a mobile communication terminal, extracts a phone book address and a phone book name stored in a memory, and displays the name on a screen. And displaying a management menu for managing a corresponding phone book by selecting a specific phone book name among the phone book names, and selecting a new number registration menu from the management menu. And displaying a text box for inputting a phone number and a category item on a screen, and storing the data in a corresponding phone book by a user inputting data in the text box and pressing a save key. do.

In an embodiment of the method for searching phone number multi-level classification of a mobile communication terminal of the present invention, a user selects a phone book from a menu item of a mobile communication terminal, extracts a phone book address and a phone book name stored in a memory, and displays them on the screen. And selecting, by the user, a specific phone book name among the phone book names, displaying a management menu for managing the corresponding phone book on the screen, and the user selecting a search menu from the management menu, And displaying the entire phone number data in the selected phone book name on the screen, and displaying the classified items in the phone book on the screen.

Hereinafter, a method of storing and retrieving a multi-level phone number classification of a mobile communication terminal of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 6.

1 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal of the present invention. As shown therein, the mobile communication terminal includes a phone call with the control unit 100, the memory 110, the RF unit 120, the modem 130, the ring generator 140, the display unit 150, and the key input unit 160. It is made of a portion 170.

The controller 100 controls the overall operation of the mobile communication terminal, and controls a function related to a phone number storage and retrieval method according to the present invention.

The memory 110 includes a ROM for storing a program for controlling the operation of the mobile communication terminal and a RAM for temporarily storing data generated during the execution of the program.

The RF unit 120 converts an analog baseband signal input from the modem 130 into an RF signal (high frequency signal) and transmits the signal to an antenna (AT) to transmit to a base station through a wireless channel, or to an antenna ( The RF signal received through AT is down-converted to an analog baseband signal and output to the modem 130.

The modem 130 converts the digital data transmitted from the control unit 100 into an analog baseband signal and outputs it to the RF unit 120, or converts the analog signal input from the RF unit 120 into digital data and controls the control unit ( Output to 100).

The ring generator 140 generates a ring sound under the control of the controller 100.

The display unit 150 displays the operation state of the mobile communication terminal on the liquid crystal display (LCD) under the control of the controller 100.

The key input unit 160 is composed of key metrics including a plurality of numeric keys, and provides the control unit 100 with key data generated by a user's key operation.

The telephone call unit 170 converts the voice data transmitted from the controller 100 into an audible sound through a speaker and outputs the voice signal received from a microphone.

Here, the memory 110 stores the telephone number data according to the telephone number storage method according to the present invention, which is shown in Table 2.

Company phone number database address name Phone number Category One Deputy Na 000-111-1111 Human Resources 2 Director 000-222-2222 Department of Materials 3 You Business 000-333-3333 Patent Department ... ... ... ...

Friend's phone number database address name Phone number Category One ABC 111-222-3333 middle School 2 Mavasa 111-333-4444 high school 3 Achaca 111-444-5555 University ... ... ... ...

Club Phone Number Database address name Phone number Category One ABC 222-333-3333 Mountain climbing 2 DEF 222-444-4444 tennis 3 GHI 222-555-5555 Early football meeting ... ... ... ...

As shown in Tables 2a to 2c, the memory 110 stores and stores phone number data separately for each major category (eg, company, friends, groups, etc.).

That is, by assigning a specific address to each major category to be stored in the corresponding major category when the user's phone number is entered, a separate database for each major category is constructed.

When storing a phone number in the major category, it can be sequentially stored in the order of address, and the user can select and save the storage address.

In other words, when a user stores a phone number in a certain category, the user may input a storage address, so that the user may give priority to a phone number frequently called.

And, even within a large category, it is possible to specify and store a small category (group). For example, if the major category is a 'group' can be classified and stored as climbing, tennis, early football, etc. as a small category when entering the phone number.

As described above, the present invention does not support only one database for the phone book like the existing mobile communication terminal, but has a phone book for each major category so that each phone book is supported by one database.

That is, the mobile communication terminal supports several databases for the phone book, and one database is related to one phone book (large category).

2 is a diagram schematically illustrating a system structure for multi-level phone number classification of a mobile communication terminal of the present invention.

As shown here, one telephone directory which is a logical unit is mapped to one database which is a physical unit. Groups in the phone book are divided into field values on the database.

As such, when the mobile communication terminal supports a plurality of databases, it has a side effect of increasing the number of phone book storages according to the needs of the user.

On the other hand, the memory 110 further includes a management database for managing the plurality of phone books.

That is, the memory 110 further includes a management database that manages the phone book names of several major categories and the phone book addresses in which the major categories are stored.

The management database is shown in Table 3.

Phonebook address Phone book name One company 2 friend 3 club ... ...

Multiple databases can be managed by creating, deleting, adding, and changing telephone book addresses and telephone book names in the management database.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a method for storing phone number multi-level classifications of a mobile communication terminal of the present invention, and FIGS. 4A to 4D sequentially show a display unit according to the method for storing phone number multi-level classifications of a mobile communication terminal of the present invention. Screen.

First, when the user inputs a menu key provided in the key input unit 160 of the mobile communication terminal (step S 100), the control unit 100, as shown in Figure 4a, my mobile phone, phone book, mail box, camera, Menu items such as an electronic diary and mobile phone management are displayed on the display unit 150 (step S 110).

When the user selects the 'phone book' menu from the menu item displayed on the display unit 150 using the navigation key provided in the key input unit 160 (step S 120), the controller 100 is shown in FIG. 4B, The phone book address and the phone book name are listed on the display unit 150 to allow the user to select a phone book name for storing the phone number (step S 130).

If the user selects a menu other than the 'phone book' menu from the menu item displayed on the display unit 150, the controller 100 causes the selected operation to be performed (step S 125).

When the user selects the phone book name by using the navigation key (step S 140), the control unit 100 searches, displays a new number, registers a shortcut number, and manages a category on the display unit 150, as shown in FIG. 4C. A management menu for managing phone numbers included in the phone book, such as a phone business card, is displayed (step S 150).

When the user selects the 'new number registration' menu in the management menu (step S 160), as shown in Figure 4d, the control unit 100 to enter the storage address, name, phone number, classification items, etc. In 150, a data input field is displayed (step S 170).

If the user selects a menu other than the 'new number registration' menu in the management menu, the control unit 100 causes the selected operation to be performed (step S165).

When the user inputs each item, that is, a storage address, a name, a phone number, and a classification item in a data input box (step S 180), the controller 100 transmits the data to the memory 110. It is stored in the database (step S 190).

Here, when the storage of the data is completed, the control unit 100 may further include a process of indicating that the storage of the telephone number has been successfully completed by displaying a message that the storage is completed, on the display unit 150.

On the other hand, when the phone book name is displayed on the display unit 150 in step S 130, when the user enters the menu key, a menu for managing the phone book, that is, the phone book management menus such as addition, deletion, and modification are displayed. This allows you to manage your phonebook, that is, major categories.

5 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a method for searching phone number multi-level classification of a mobile communication terminal of the present invention, and FIGS. 6A and 6B illustrate screens of a display unit according to the method for searching phone number multi-level classification of a mobile communication terminal of the present invention. Drawing.

In the case of the phone number search method of the mobile communication terminal of the present invention, the process from step S 100 to step S 140 is performed as it is in FIG. 3, and description thereof will be omitted.

The user selects a certain phone book name with a navigation key and displays a management menu for managing phone numbers included in the phone book such as search, new number registration, speed number management, category management, phone business card, etc. on the display unit 150. If (step S200), the controller 100 checks whether the user selects the 'search' menu from the management menu (step S210).

If the user selects a menu other than the 'search' menu, the controller 100 causes the selected task to be performed (step S215).

For example, when the user selects the 'Category item management' menu, a menu for managing the category items of the corresponding phone book, that is, a menu item for managing category items such as addition, deletion, and modification is displayed. You can manage the categories.

In step S 210, when the user selects the 'search' menu, the controller 100 displays all phone number data in the corresponding phone book on the display unit 150 as shown in FIG. 6A (step S 220). .

For example, if the user selects 'company' as the phone book name in the previous step, the display unit 150 displays the entire phone number data stored in the database designated as 'company'.

In this case, the display unit 150 displays a 'all' menu showing all the phone number data in the phone book and a 'classification item' menu showing the phone number data in the category of the phone book.

That is, when the user's selected phone book name is 'company', the display unit 150 displays a human resource part, a material part, a patent part, etc. as a 'classification item' menu along with a 'all' menu, and displays the corresponding phone book in the corresponding phone book. The full phone number data is displayed.

Here, when there are many phone numbers stored in the phone book selected by the user and the search is not easy, the user selects a tab menu and selects a phone number by category, for example, a personnel department, a material department, and a patent department from the corresponding phone book. You can search.

As such, when the user selects the tab menu using the navigation key provided in the key input unit 160 (step S 230), the controller 100 displays the phone number data in the corresponding category as shown in FIG. 6B. It displays on the display part 150 (step S240). In this case, the user can search for a phone number more easily.

As described above, the present invention establishes a database separately for each major category and sets up a database in each directory, thereby placing a multi-level classification, thereby increasing convenience in searching a user's telephone number.

On the other hand, while the present invention has been shown and described with respect to specific preferred embodiments, various modifications and variations of the present invention without departing from the spirit or field of the invention provided by the claims below It will be readily apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that it can be used.

As described above, according to the present invention, instead of supporting only one database for the phone book like the existing mobile communication terminal, by having a phone book for each major category, each phone book is supported by one database. According to the needs of the user, the number of phone book stores can be increased.

In addition, the present invention establishes a database separately for each of the major categories, and sets up a database in each of the telephone directories, and by placing the classification items in each of the telephone books, multi-level classification is possible, thereby increasing the convenience of the user's telephone number search.

Claims (5)

A user selecting a phone book from a menu item of a mobile communication terminal, extracting a phone book address and a phone book name stored in a memory, and displaying them on a screen; Selecting a specific phone book name from the phone book name and displaying a management menu for managing the phone book; Selecting a new number registration menu from the management menu and displaying a text box for inputting a name, a phone number, and a category; And And storing the data in the telephone directory by a user inputting data in the input field and pressing a storage key. The memory device of claim 1, further comprising: a memory; A method for storing phone numbers in a multi-level classification of a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that the phone books databased for each major category designated by the user are stored in correspondence with the phone book address and the phone book name, respectively. The method of claim 1, further comprising: extracting and displaying a phone book address and a phone book name stored in the memory on a screen; Displaying menus such as adding, deleting, and modifying a phone book for managing a phone book when a user inputs a menu key; And And storing, adding, deleting, and modifying the telephone book according to a user's selection. A user selecting a phone book from a menu item of a mobile communication terminal, extracting a phone book address and a phone book name stored in a memory, and displaying them on a screen; Selecting a specific phone book name from the phone book name and displaying a management menu for managing the phone book; And And a user selecting a search menu from the management menu, displaying all phone number data in the phone book name selected by the user on the screen, and displaying a category in the phone book on the screen. How to search phone number multi-level classification. The method of claim 4, further comprising: when a user selects the category; And displaying the phone number data in the corresponding category on the screen.

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