KR101315800B1 - Management Method of Tag Based Personal Information in the Portable Information Terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of managing tag-based personal information using a portable information terminal.
The present invention is a personal information management method of a portable information terminal,
Associating and storing at least one tag associated with each personal information with each personal information; And, when searching for personal information, displaying personal information related to at least one tag selected by a user on a portable information terminal.
Using the present invention, the user can quickly retrieve the personal information corresponding to these tags by using at least one tagging method on the personal information.

Description

Management Method of Tag Based Personal Information in the Portable Information Terminal}

The present invention relates to a method of managing tag-based personal information using a portable information terminal.

Normally, when you greet someone, whether you are an employee or the general public, you introduce yourself, exchange business cards or contacts with your information, and collect a variety of information related to the other person during the conversation.

Therefore, among such various personal information, contact information such as name, face photograph (if necessary), contactable wired and wireless telephone number, and the like can be found in a portable information terminal (general phone, smart phone, PDA, etc.) as shown in the left side of FIG. , Tablet PC, etc.).

In addition to such contact information, special information such as business card photos, business names, job titles, job titles, residence addresses, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, web pages, and other special information such as education, career, specialty, birthdays, hobbies, etc. The business card information application stored in the terminal is driven and stored in an electronic method in the portable information terminal as shown in the right side of FIG.

Thus, in order to manage personal information including such contact information, business card information and special information in the portable information terminal, for example, in the case of contact information, all contact information is first inputted by group.

Now, when the user wants to search for the contact information of a specific person, in case of the iPhone, a group name appears as shown in the first drawing of FIG. 2 and included in the selected group (all contacts) as shown in the second drawing of FIG. A list of people's names will appear in alphabetical order (or ABC), and a menu will appear on the right hand side where you can navigate to the contact that corresponds to the consonant. Contact information (mobile phone number, ringtone information, etc.) will appear.

Similarly, in the case of an Android phone, contact information for each group appears as shown in FIG. 3 and the contact information of a specific person is searched in a manner similar to that of the iPhone. Android phones, in particular, support recent call lists and frequency-based sorting.

As a result, in the prior art, specific contact information should belong to only one group. That is, one contact cannot be included in multiple groups.

In addition, when searching for a contact, the names are sorted alphabetically or ABC and displayed in a list form. Therefore, in the case of a group having many names, it is difficult to find a desired contact because there are many names included. Even if you have a function that displays a list of names quickly, such as in Canada or ABC, it is inconvenient to search and takes a long time when many contacts are included in the same item.

And even if it is possible to search by name or company name, it is inconvenient to input every time the text corresponding to the name and company name is searched, which makes the search uncomfortable.

In view of these problems of the prior art, the present invention enables a user to quickly retrieve personal information corresponding to these tags by using a method of attaching at least one tag to personal information.

The present invention is a personal information management method of a portable information terminal,

Associating and storing at least one tag associated with each personal information with each personal information; And, when searching for personal information, displaying personal information related to at least one tag selected by a user on a portable information terminal.

Using the present invention, the user can quickly retrieve the personal information corresponding to these tags by using at least one tagging method on the personal information.

1 shows general phone contact information and business card information.
Figure 2 shows a contact management method of the iPhone.
Figure 3 illustrates an Android phone contact management method.
4 shows an information structure of a tag used in the present invention.
5 shows a procedure for setting a tag list in the present invention.
Figure 6 shows a terminal screen in the case of setting a tag list in the present invention.
Figure 7 shows the order of tagging the contacts in the present invention.
8 is a view showing a tag list that can be attached to a contact in the present invention and whether the display is displayed.
9 is a screen showing a tag information attached to the contact and tagging menu is displayed in the present invention.
Figure 10 shows the procedure for searching for a contact tag in the present invention.
Figure 11 shows a list of public and private tags in the present invention.

First, the characteristics of personal information will be described.

Unlike general digital information such as moving pictures, images, and texts, personal information has a feature in which attributes and meanings of individual personal information are differently provided by the user's supervision, and a plurality of individual personal information is provided. For example, in the case of “Kang Kyung-gu” of FIG. 2, the user may be an elementary school alumni and a junior high school alumni, or a company employee such as the user and the same Go club member.

Therefore, in the present invention, the user attaches at least one tag to the personal information based on his or her subjectivity, classifies and manages the personal information based on the tags, and searches the user quickly and conveniently. Give a way.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

As shown in Figure 4, the tag used in the present invention is composed of a tag name, whether public or private, the color of the tag, the tag generation date / time, password, and other information. In this case, the tag name may be input by the user or may be selected from a list provided by the terminal.

In addition, the tag color is for easily distinguishing the tag by color, and the other information means other information related to the tag (for example, related information such as the address and homepage of the corresponding middle school in the case of the tag name "junior high school"). .

Next, a method of setting a tag list will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the user selects whether to add a tag from the tag addition menu of the terminal screen (S1).

If you do not want to add a tag, the already set tag list is stored, and if you want to add a tag, a tag add window appears as shown in FIG. 6, and the user inputs a tag name (S2) and selects a color of the input tag. (S3), input the date and time associated with the input tag (S4) (it is also possible to automatically set the tag input date and time), and input other information related to the input tag (S5). In this case, when the tag color is selected, as shown in FIG. 6, if the existing input tag is displayed, it is possible to prevent the color from being repeatedly selected.

Then, the process proceeds to the step of selecting whether to make the input tag public or private (S6), if you select the private input password (S7), whether the tag is set to public or private (S8) The new tag generated in this way is added to the previous tag list (S9) and stored.

Next, a method of attaching a tag to a new contact and a method of showing an attached tag will be described with reference to FIGS. 7 to 9.

As shown in FIG. 9, when the user selects a tag menu or icon for a specific new contact (Kim Young-min) (S10), the user is asked whether to attach the tag (S11), and if the user wants to attach the tag to FIG. Present tag list as shown.

Now, when the user selects at least one tag for the new contact (Kim Young-min) (the work tag is selected) and chooses whether to publish / private for each selected tag (private is selected) (S12), the selected tag And public information is linked with the new contact information (Kim Youngmin) will be stored (S13).

In this case, tag information corresponding to each contact (name) is shown on the screen as shown in FIG. 9 (in the case of Kang Tae-won, "business" and "type" tags are shown).

In addition, when a new tag is to be added as shown in the upper part of FIG. 8, a desired new tag is added by selecting a “add new tag menu”.

Next, a method in which a user searches for a contact using tags will be described with reference to FIGS. 10 and 11.

First, a user enters a tag search window (S20) and selects whether to search for a public tag or a private tag (S21).

If a public tag is selected, a public tag list is displayed on the screen as shown in the left side of FIG. 11, and specific tags desired in the displayed public tag list (in FIG. 11, in order to search for high school friend contacts, "friend" and "high school"). Tag is selected) (S23). In each tag, the number of contacts included in this tag is indicated in parentheses.

Then, the user executes a contact tag search to search for contacts related to all the selected tags (S24).

Now, if too many contacts are found as a result of the search, it is difficult for the user to recognize the desired contact (S25), and then additional tagging is continued so that the desired contact information is displayed on the screen (S26).

On the other hand, if private is selected in step S21, the private tag list is displayed as shown in the right side of Fig. 11 through password input step S27 (S28).

Now, the user selects the desired specific tags from the displayed private tag list (in FIG. 11, "friend" and "elementary school" tags are selected to search elementary school friends contacts) (S29).

Then, the user executes a contact tag search to search for contacts related to all selected private tags (S30).

Now, if too many contacts are found as a result of the search, it is difficult for the user to recognize the desired contact (S31), and further tags are selected so that the desired contact information is displayed on the screen (S32).

By using the present invention as described above, at least one related tag is attached to each contact, and a user selects specific tags and uses only a method of searching for only contacts related to all selected tags. It is possible to search conveniently.

In addition, by specifying whether each tag is public or private, tag-related contacts, which should not be exposed to others, can be viewed only by the user by inputting a password, thereby protecting the security-required contacts.

Of course, if a specific contact is selected from the contact list related to the selected tags, the detailed information related to the contact appears, and various services such as dialing, texting, SNS access, and related map view (address related map) are available.

In addition, the above has been described with respect to contact information, but the present invention can be applied to various personal information including business card information and special information.

While the present invention has been described in connection with certain exemplary embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

Claims (10)

In the personal information management method of a portable information terminal,
A tag list in consideration of attributes and meanings of personal information is set by a user and stored in a portable information terminal;
Inquiring, by the portable information terminal, whether the user has tagged the new personal information;
As a result of the inquiry, when tagging is selected, tag information of at least one tag selected from the tag list stored in the portable information terminal by the user according to the attribute and meaning recognized by the user for the new personal information is displayed. Linked to and stored in the portable information terminal;
Searching for personal information by the user, wherein the personal information related to all of the at least one tag selected by the user in the tag list stored in the portable information terminal is retrieved from the portable information terminal and displayed on the screen of the portable information terminal; ,
Each of the tags is divided into a public tag or a private tag, and the private tag list is displayed on the screen of the portable information terminal only when a corresponding password is input.
The personal information with the private tag is not displayed in all personal information lists,
The tags are generated in a tag attachment window in which a tagging menu is selected in a portable information terminal.
The tag attachment window shows existing tags,
Personal information management method of a portable information terminal, characterized in that the dialing, texting, SNS connection or viewing the associated map is executed through the information contained in the retrieved personal information. delete delete The method of claim 1,
The personal information is a personal information management method of a portable information terminal, characterized in that the contact information. The method of claim 1,
The personal information management method of the portable information terminal, characterized in that the business card information. delete delete The method of claim 1,
Each of the tags is displayed in a different color from each other personal information management method of a portable information terminal. delete delete

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