KR100763204B1 - Apparatus and method for providing address list including various information - Google Patents

Abstract

An apparatus and method for providing an address book including various information are provided. An address book providing apparatus including a variety of information according to an embodiment of the present invention, the storage unit for storing the address book including the identification information for one or more communication partners, and the first identification information of the communication partner selected from the address book is displayed; And a control unit providing a user interface including an area and a second area in which content related to the selected communication partner is displayed, wherein the second area is divided into a plurality of sub areas according to the type of the content. .

Handheld terminal, address book

Description

Apparatus and method for providing address list including various information}

1 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a configuration of a mobile communication system applied to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an address book providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3A to 3C are exemplary views illustrating a user interface of an apparatus for providing an address book according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing an address book according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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200: address book providing device

210: transceiver

220: storage unit

230: input unit

240: control unit

250: display unit

The present invention relates to a portable terminal, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method that can provide a variety of information through an address book.

When communicating with other users through a portable terminal such as a mobile phone or a PDA, a process of inputting information of a communication partner is required. For example, when using a short message service, a user must enter information of a communication partner to receive a short message.

However, there is a limit in that the user memorizes information of the communication partner. In order to solve such a problem, the conventional portable terminal provides an address book function capable of storing information of a communication partner. That is, the user may store the information of the communication partner in the portable terminal in advance, and when communicating with the specific communication partner, search for the information stored in the address book, thereby communicating with the specific person without any inconvenience. .

However, the conventional address book function only provides simple information such as information of a communication partner stored in advance by a user or group information previously set for a specific communication partner. Therefore, there is a problem that a limit is revealed in terms of user's satisfaction with address book function or address book function utilization.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for providing more various information through an address book.

However, the objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

In order to achieve the above object, an address book providing apparatus including various information according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a storage unit for storing an address book including identification information of at least one communication partner, and a communication partner selected from the address book. And a control unit providing a user interface including a first area in which identification information is displayed and a second area in which content related to the selected communication partner is displayed, wherein the second area is a plurality of sub-areas according to the type of the content. It is characterized in that divided into.

In order to achieve the above object, an address book providing method including various information according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: storing an address book including identification information of at least one communication partner, and identifying a communication partner selected from the address book; And providing a user interface including a first area where information is displayed and a second area where content related to the selected communication partner is displayed, wherein the second area is divided into a plurality of sub areas according to the type of the content. It is characterized by being divided.

Specific details of other embodiments are included in the detailed description and drawings, and the advantages and features of the present invention and methods for achieving them will be apparent with reference to the embodiments described below in detail with the accompanying drawings.

However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments disclosed below, but may be embodied in various different forms, and the present embodiments merely make the disclosure of the present invention complete and common knowledge in the technical field to which the present invention belongs. It is provided to fully inform the person having the scope of the invention, which is defined only by the scope of the claims. Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout.

Hereinafter, an apparatus and method for providing an address book including various information according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying block diagram or the drawings of the processing flowchart. At this point, it will be understood that each block of the flowchart illustrations and combinations of flowchart illustrations may be performed by computer program instructions.

Since these computer program instructions may be mounted on a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing equipment, those instructions executed through the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing equipment may be described in flow chart block (s). It creates a means to perform the functions.

These computer program instructions may be stored in a computer usable or computer readable memory that can be directed to a computer or other programmable data processing equipment to implement functionality in a particular manner, and thus the computer usable or computer readable memory. It is also possible for the instructions stored in to produce an article of manufacture containing instruction means for performing the functions described in the flowchart block (s). Computer program instructions It is also possible to mount on a computer or other programmable data processing equipment, so that a series of operating steps are performed on the computer or other programmable data processing equipment to create a computer-implemented process to create a computer or other programmable data processing equipment. The instructions that perform may also provide steps for performing the functions described in the flowchart block (s).

In addition, each block may represent a portion of a module, segment, or code that includes one or more executable instructions for executing a specified logical function (s). It should also be noted that in some alternative implementations, the functions noted in the blocks may occur out of order. For example, the two blocks shown in succession may in fact be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending on the corresponding function.

1 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a configuration of a mobile communication system to which the present invention is applied. The illustrated mobile communication system includes a plurality of portable terminals 60 and 65, an address book providing apparatus 200, a plurality of base stations 10 and 15, a plurality of base station controllers 30 and 35, and a switching center 40.

The portable terminals 60 and 65 communicate with the address book providing apparatus 200. Examples of such portable terminals 60 and 65 include mobile phones and PDAs.

The address book providing apparatus 200 provides an address book function capable of storing identification information of the mobile terminals 60 and 65, that is, the communication counterpart. In addition, when a signal for selecting a specific communication partner or a signal for searching for identification information of the specific communication partner is input from the address book, the address book providing apparatus 200 extracts related information with the corresponding communication partner and provides the identification information with the identification information. do. A detailed description of the address book providing apparatus 200 will be described later with reference to FIG. 2.

Meanwhile, the portable terminals 60 and 65 and the address book providing apparatus 200 are divided for convenience of description, and the portable terminals 60 and 65 perform the functions of the address book providing apparatus 200 in actual communication or the address book. Of course, the providing apparatus 200 may perform the functions of the portable terminals 60 and 65.

The base stations 10 and 15 each have a predetermined propagation area and are installed at predetermined intervals so that the portable terminals 60 and 65 and the address book providing device 200 can use the mobile communication service provided by the mobile communication server. It acts as a relay for the signal. For example, the base stations 10 and 15 change the signal format of the radio link to be suitable for the wired link, thereby serving to provide the exchange 40 with a message transmitted from a predetermined portable terminal. In addition, the base stations 10 and 15 measure the transmit / receive electric field strength (the radio wave reception strength) of the portable terminal and provide it to the switching center 40. In addition, the base station manages incoming and outgoing control of the portable terminal in the cell managed by the base station, and manages radio channels in the base stations 10 and 15.

The base station controllers 30 and 35 manage the plurality of base stations 10 and 15. That is, the base station controllers 30 and 35 manage the service states of the base station 10 and 15 hardware and software, allocate and configure resources for call traffic, establish information regarding the operation of the base stations 10 and 15, 10, 15) Performs functions such as operation, monitoring and monitoring of subordinate devices related to failures.

The switching center 40 provides circuit switched services to the plurality of base station controllers 30 and 35 and the portable terminals 60 and 65. The switching center 40 has a channel handoff function as an additional function.

Next, the address book providing apparatus 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the address book providing apparatus 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The illustrated address book providing apparatus 200 includes a transceiver 210, a storage 220, an input 230, a controller 240, and a display 250.

The transceiver 210 transmits and receives data to and from the plurality of portable terminals 60 and 65. For example, the transceiver 210 transmits a short message or a multimedia message to a specific portable terminal 60, 65, or receives a short message or a multimedia message from the specific portable terminal 60, 65, or the like. .

The storage unit 220 stores an address book including identification information of the communication partner and related information related to the communication partner. Here, the identification information of the communication partner may include, for example, the name, nickname, e-mail address, and telephone number of the communication partner, and the related information may include short messages, multimedia messages, still images, videos, etc. For example, content.

The storage unit 220 may be a nonvolatile memory device or RAM such as a cache, a read only memory (ROM), a programmable ROM (PROM), an erasable programmable ROM (EPROM), an electrically erasable programmable ROM (EEPROM), and a flash memory. It may be implemented as at least one of a volatile memory device such as a random access memory or a storage medium such as a hard disk drive (HDD), but is not limited thereto.

Although the input unit 230 receives a user's command, although not shown in the drawing, a plurality of function keys, for example, a key for displaying an address book previously stored in the storage unit 220 and a direction key for menu selection It may include an execution key for executing the selected menu and a plurality of character input keys for inputting numbers or characters. The function key provided in the input unit 230 generates a predetermined key signal when applied by the user, which is provided to the controller 240 to be described later.

The controller 240 connects and manages components in the address book providing apparatus 200. For example, when a key signal for executing an address book is provided, the controller 240 allows the address book stored in the storage 220 to be displayed through the display 250.

In addition, when a signal for searching for a predetermined communication partner or a signal for selecting a predetermined communication partner from an address book is input through the input unit 230, the controller 240 corresponds to the corresponding communication partner among contents stored in the storage unit 220. Extract the contents related to For example, when a communication partner 'Hong Gil-Dong' is selected in the address book, the controller 240 searches the storage unit 220, and contents related to the communication partner 'Hong Gil-Dong', for example, a still image, a video, and a message. Extract At this time, a message such as a short message and a multimedia message may be extracted based on the telephone number of the sender who sent the message or the receiver who received the message. Also, still images and moving images may be extracted based on file names. To this end, file names such as still images and moving pictures are preferably designated to include identification information previously stored in the address book by the user. More specifically, in the case of a video file for a person named 'Hong Gil Dong', a part of the identification information stored in the address book for the person named 'Hong Gil Dong' such as name, nickname, email address or telephone number is designated as the file name. It is preferable.

When the contents related to the selected communication partner are extracted from the address book, the controller 240 classifies the extracted contents according to the type and provides a user interface including the extracted content information together with the identification information of the corresponding communication partner. The user interface will be described later with reference to FIGS. 3A to 3C.

The display unit 250 displays the command processing result according to the key signal provided from the input unit 230 in a visual form. For example, when a specific communication partner is selected in the address book, the display 250 displays detailed information and communication history information of the selected communication partner. Here, the detailed information may be, for example, a home telephone number, a work telephone number, an e-mail address, and the like, and the communication history information may include, for example, a message sent to a communication partner, a message received from a communication partner, and image data related to a communication partner. And the like.

3A to 3C are exemplary views illustrating a user interface according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, referring to FIG. 3A, the user interface includes a first area 310 in which identification information of a selected communication partner is displayed and a second area 320 in which related information related to the selected communication partner is displayed.

FIG. 3A illustrates identification information of a communication partner selected from an address book, and information such as a name, a phone number, an email, and the like is displayed in the first area 310, and as related information with a communication partner selected from an address book. Content such as image data, a message transmitted to the communication partner, and a message received from the communication partner is displayed on the second area 320.

Meanwhile, the second area 320 may be divided into a plurality of sub areas corresponding to the type of related information. In FIG. 3A, the second region 320 is divided into a first subregion 321, a second subregion 322, and a third subregion 323, and the first subregion 321 and the second subregion 323. In the sub area 322 and the third sub area 323, image data related to the communication partner, a message transmitted to the communication partner, and a message received from the communication partner are displayed.

In addition, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the content displayed in each sub-area is preferably displayed in a thumbnail manner so that more content can be displayed.

Contents displayed in thumbnail format in each sub area may be focused. When a signal for selecting the content is input while the predetermined content is focused, detailed information is displayed while the corresponding content is enlarged. For example, as shown in FIG. 3A, when a signal for selecting a message is selected from among messages received from a communication partner of 'Hong Gil-dong' while a predetermined message is focused, detailed information about the selected message, for example, message content and reception date. And the like can be displayed. At this time, the detailed information of the selected message may be displayed in various ways. 3B and 3C illustrate a method of displaying detailed information of content selected in a sub area. FIG. 3B illustrates the detailed information being displayed while the thumbnail image is enlarged on a part of the screen area, and FIG. 3C shows the detailed information being displayed on the entire screen area.

Next, an address book providing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 4. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an address book providing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

First, the storage unit 220 of the address book providing apparatus 200 may include an address book including identification information of a communication person, for example, a name, a nickname, a phone number, an e-mail address, and related information related to the communication person, for example, a short message. Assume that the user stores content such as a message, a multimedia message, a still image, and a moving image.

When a predetermined signal is input through the input unit 230 in this state, the control unit 240 controls the components in the address book providing apparatus 200 according to the input signal.

For example, when a signal for displaying an address book is input, the controller 240 allows the address book previously stored in the storage 220 to be displayed through the display 250 (S410).

If a specific communication state is selected in the address book, the control unit 240 extracts related information related to the selected communication partner from among contents previously stored in the storage unit 220 (S420). For example, when a communication partner named 'hong gil dong' is selected in the address book, the controller 240 transmits a still image, a video, a message received from a person named 'hong gil dong' and a person named 'hong gil dong' related to the person named 'hong gil dong'. Extract content such as a message.

Here, a message such as a short message and a multimedia message may be extracted based on the telephone number of the sender who sent the message or the receiver who received the message. Also, still images and moving images may be extracted based on file names. To this end, file names such as still images and moving pictures are preferably designated to include identification information previously stored in the address book by the user. More specifically, in the case of a video file for a person named 'Hong Gil Dong', a part of the identification information stored in the address book for the person named 'Hong Gil Dong' such as name, nickname, email address or telephone number is designated as the file name. It is preferable.

As such, when contents related to the communication partner selected from the address book are extracted, the controller 240 classifies the extracted contents according to the type (S430). For example, when a still image and a message transmitted / received are extracted as contents related to a communication partner “Hong Gil-dong”, the controller 240 classifies the extracted content into a still image, a transmission message, and a received message.

Thereafter, the controller 240 causes the user interface including identification information and related information of the communication partner selected from the address book to be displayed on the display 250 (S440). In this case, the user interface may be divided into a first area 310 in which identification information of a communication partner is displayed and a second area 320 in which related information is displayed.

In addition, the second area 320 may be divided into a plurality of sub areas in which the corresponding content is displayed according to the type of the content. For example, when the still image, the transmission message, and the reception message are detected as related information with a communication partner of 'Hong Gil-dong', the second area 320 includes the first sub area 321 and the second sub area 322. ) And a third sub-area 323, each of which may display a still image, a transmission message, and a reception message.

In this case, the contents displayed through the sub-regions are preferably displayed in the form of thumbnail images corresponding to the respective contents, as shown in FIG. 3A.

After the identification information and the related information about the communication partner selected from the address book are displayed as described above, when a signal for focusing the content of the predetermined sub-area is input, the controller 240 focuses the corresponding content according to the input signal.

If a selection signal is input while the predetermined content is focused, the controller 240 allows detailed information about the selected content to be displayed on the display 250. For example, when any one of the messages received from the person “Hong Gil-dong” is selected in the second area 320 of the user interface illustrated in FIG. 3A, the controller 240 may display detailed information on the selected message, that is, message content. The reception date may be displayed through the display 250. In this case, the detailed information may be displayed in various ways. For example, as shown in FIG. 3B, the detailed information is displayed while the thumbnail image selected in a part of the screen area is enlarged or as shown in FIG. 3C. Detailed information may be displayed.

With reference to the drawings illustrated as above, an apparatus and method for providing an address book including various information according to the present invention have been described, but the present invention is not limited by the embodiments and drawings disclosed herein, Of course, various modifications may be made by those skilled in the art within the scope of the technical idea.

As described above, the apparatus and method for providing an address book including various information according to the present invention have one or more of the following effects.

First, there is an advantage that the related information related to the communication partner can be checked at a glance.

Second, the address book function can be used more efficiently.

Claims (5)

A storage unit which stores an address book including identification information of at least one communication partner; And And a controller configured to provide a user interface including a first area in which identification information of a communication partner selected in the address book is displayed and a second area in which content related to the selected communication partner is displayed. And the second area includes various information divided into a plurality of sub areas according to the type of the content. The method of claim 1, The contents may include an address book including various information including at least one of a message exchanged with the selected communication partner, a still image including identification information of the selected communication partner, and a video including identification information of the selected communication partner. Provision device. The method of claim 1, And the content includes a variety of information displayed in thumbnail form on the divided sub area. Storing an address book including identification information for one or more communication partners; And Providing a user interface including a first area in which identification information of a communication partner selected in the address book is displayed and a second area in which content related to the selected communication partner is displayed; And the second area includes various information divided into a plurality of sub areas according to the type of the content. The method of claim 4, wherein The content includes at least one of a message exchanged with the selected communication partner, a still image including identification information of the selected communication partner, and a video including identification information of the selected communication partner. How to provide an address book including a variety of information displayed in the form of thumbnails on the screen.

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