KR101403680B1 - Personal information management server, mobile phone and method for controlling thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

An address book management server, a mobile terminal and a control method thereof are disclosed. The database stores a plurality of address books. When the address book transmission corresponding to the search word is requested from the mobile terminal, the search unit searches at least one address book corresponding to the search word from the database, and the converting unit searches at least one address book And the server communication unit transmits the converted file to the mobile terminal.

Address book management server, mobile terminal

Description

[0001] The present invention relates to an address book management server, a mobile terminal, and a control method thereof,

The present invention relates to an address book management server, a mobile terminal and a control method thereof, and more particularly, to an address book management server, a mobile terminal and a control method thereof. More particularly, An address book management server, a mobile terminal and a control method thereof.

A recent mobile terminal has a function of accessing a server and downloading address book information registered in advance by a user. The address book information may include a mobile communication number, a general public network telephone number, an e-mail address, and the like, by the name of a person whom the user wants to store.

For example, when the user inputs a name of a person to be downloaded from the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal connects to the server and requests an address book search corresponding to the input name. The server retrieves and extracts the address book information corresponding to the input name from the database of the server, and transmits it to the mobile terminal.

However, in the conventional server, when a plurality of names identical to the names requested to be searched in the mobile terminal are stored in the database, address information for a plurality of identical names is transmitted to the mobile terminal. Such a transmission extends the connection time or the number of connection times of the mobile terminal and the server, and causes an overhead on the network, thereby causing a network failure.

In addition, the conventional mobile terminal does not provide a function for making a direct call to the receiver corresponding to the address book information transmitted from the server. That is, even though the desired address information is received and stored, the user must re-search the address information stored in the mobile terminal. If the user is located in the same area as the receiving side and the receiving side number is searched and displayed on the mobile terminal, the user can enter the 'country code + country code + country code + It is inconvenient to attempt to make a call with the receiver only after manually deleting the area code.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, the present invention has been made keeping in mind the above problems occurring in the prior art, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a mobile terminal capable of transmitting a plurality of address information, .

Another object of the present invention is to directly display address information transmitted from a server and to enable a direct communication without requiring the user to manually manipulate the telephone number through the displayed address information, And a control method thereof.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an address book management server comprising: a database for storing a plurality of address books; A search unit for searching at least one address corresponding to the search word from the database when an address book corresponding to the search word is requested from the mobile terminal; A converting unit converting at least one address to be searched into one file; And a server communication unit for transmitting the converted file to the mobile terminal.

Meanwhile, the mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an input unit for receiving a search word for address book search; A terminal communication unit for transmitting the input search word to an address book management server and receiving at least one address list corresponding to the search word from the address book management server as one file; A terminal converting unit for converting the received file and outputting at least one address list corresponding to the search word; And a display unit displaying the at least one address list to be output.

Preferably, a storage unit for registering a country and a region number in which the user is currently located; And if a call is requested after one address is selected from the displayed address list, it is determined whether the user and the country and area of the selected address are the same. If the same is true, the telephone number of the selected address, The terminal communication unit automatically performs a call connection with the generated real number.

Meanwhile, a method of controlling a mobile terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: receiving a search word for address book search; Transmitting the input search word to an address book management server and receiving at least one address list corresponding to the search word from the address book management server as one file; Converting the received file and outputting at least one address list corresponding to the search word; And displaying the outputted at least one address list.

Preferably, registering the country and area code in which the user is currently located; Determining whether the user and the country and region of the selected address are the same if a call is requested after selecting one of the displayed address lists; Generating an actual number excluding a country and a region number among telephone numbers of the selected address if they are the same; And automatically performing a call connection with the generated real number.

According to the address book management server, the mobile terminal and the control method thereof according to the present invention, the server can collectively transmit a plurality of addresses searched for one search word to the mobile terminal in a single address book file. This minimizes the number of connections between the mobile terminal and the server and shortens the address book search time.

Particularly, when the address book stored in the server is shared with users who are working in the same business or located in the same group, users in business relation can share and manage more address book information efficiently in business.

In addition, when the mobile telephone of the present invention includes a country code and an area code in the address book, if the user is located in the same country, the mobile terminal automatically removes the country code and the area code to attempt to establish a call connection . Thereby, it is possible to eliminate the trouble that the user manually tries to make a call after deleting the country code and area code.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a system for address book batch transfer according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. Referring to FIG. 1, the system includes mobile terminals 100, 101, and 102 and an address book management server 200.

The mobile terminals 100, 101 and 102 and the server 200 are connected to a user or a server 200 located in a specific group such as a company network and provided for an unspecified number of users having an authority to register an address do. In particular, the mobile terminals 100, 101, and 102 and the server 200 can request and respond to the address book service through wireless communication.

More specifically, the user accesses the server 200 through the personal computer 10 and the Internet network 20 or through the mobile terminals 100, 101 and 102, 200). That is, in an environment where the user can use the Internet, the user accesses the server 200 to register the address, and downloads desired address book information from the server 200 through the mobile terminal 100.

The portable terminals 100, 101 and 102 are portable terminals such as a cellular phone, a PCS phone and a PDA. The server 200 is a Personal Information Management System (PIMS) server for storing and managing an address book program and an address book. Hereinafter, the mobile terminal 100 will be described as an example.

2 is a block diagram illustrating the mobile terminal of FIG.

2, the mobile terminal 100 includes a user input unit 105, a display unit 110, an audio processing unit 120, a microphone 130, a speaker 135, an address book processing unit 140, a call processing unit 150, A terminal communication unit 160, a storage unit 170, and a terminal control unit 180.

The user input unit 105 is an interface for receiving a function supported by the mobile terminal 100 from the user and requesting the terminal control unit 180. The user input unit 105 may be a removable keyboard, a plurality of buttons, a touch panel, or the like. For example, the user input unit 105 receives a search word for searching for an address book, and outputs a signal for requesting the server 200 to transmit an address book file for a specific search word.

The display unit 110 displays the operation state of the mobile terminal 100 according to the operation of the user input unit 105. [ For example, the display unit 110 displays an address book list included in the address book file transmitted from the server 200.

The sound processor 120 processes the voice of the user input from the microphone 130 of the mobile terminal 100 in a form that can be transmitted and processes the voice or the like transmitted from the receiver terminal (135).

The address book processing unit 140 processes requested data corresponding to the inputted search word in a format that can be transmitted and processes the address book file transmitted from the server 200 in a displayable form. The address book processing unit 140 includes a request data generation unit 141, a terminal conversion unit 142, and a terminal compression processing unit 143.

The request data generation unit 141 generates request data for requesting the address book transmission using the search word input through the user input unit 105. [ The terminal conversion unit 142 converts the generated request data into a format that the server 200 can read. The terminal compression processing unit 143 compresses the request data output from the terminal conversion unit 142.

The terminal communication unit 160 receives request data input from the terminal compression processing unit 143 from the terminal control unit 180 and transmits the request data to the server 200 and receives an address book file responding to the request data from the server 200.

When the address book file corresponding to the search word is received from the server 200 through the terminal communication unit 160, the terminal compression processing unit 143 decompresses the address book file received from the server 200 and transmits the address book file to the terminal conversion unit 142 Output. The decompressed file may be temporarily or permanently stored in the storage unit 170. The terminal conversion unit 142 converts the decompressed address book file into a format readable by the terminal control unit 180 and outputs at least one address book list corresponding to the search term.

The address book list is displayed on the display unit 110. The address book list may include at least one address mapped to a search word among a plurality of addresses stored in the server 200. For example, if the search word is 'YiSUN' and three names of 'YiSUN' are stored in the server 200, the address book list has three addresses. The address book includes a mobile terminal number, a fixed telephone number of a general communication network, an e-mail address, and the like.

The call processing unit 150 processes the telephone number so that the telephone number can be communicated with the telephone number included in the selected address list. To this end, the call processing unit 150 includes a determination unit 151 and a number generation unit 152.

If one of the address book lists displayed on the display unit 110 is selected and a call is requested, the determination unit 151 determines whether the current user and the selected country and area of the address are the same. Particularly, if the landline telephone number of the selected address includes the country code and the area code as shown in FIG. 3 (a), the judging unit 151 judges whether the current user's country number and area Reads the number, and compares and judges whether the country code of the selected address is the same as the area code. If the determination unit 151 determines that they are identical to each other, the number generation unit 152 generates an actual number excluding the country and region numbers of the telephone numbers of the selected address as shown in FIG. 3 (b). The actual number to be generated is displayed on the display unit 110.

The storage unit 170 stores various programs necessary for controlling and performing operations of the mobile terminal 100. [ In addition, the storage unit 170 stores the country code of each country and the area code of each country, and stores the currently located country and region that the user inputs.

The terminal control unit 180 controls the above-described operations using various stored programs. In particular, when the user input unit 105 receives a search word for searching for an address book, the terminal control unit 180 generates data for requesting address book transmission corresponding to the search word, and searches for an address book list from the address book file transmitted from the server 200 And controls the address book processing unit 140 to generate the address book.

The terminal control unit 180 controls the call processing unit 150 and the terminal communication unit 160 to attempt a call to a number corresponding to the selected address when one address in the address book list is selected and a call connection is selected.

4 is a block diagram illustrating the address book management server shown in FIG.

4, the address book management server 200 includes a database 210, a server communication unit 220, a server compression processing unit 230, a server conversion unit 240, a search unit 250, And a server control unit 260.

The DB 210 stores address books input by a plurality of users or one administrator.

The server communication unit 220 receives request data transmitted from the mobile terminal 100.

The server compression processing unit 230 decompresses the request data received through the server communication unit 220.

The server conversion unit 240 converts the decompressed request data into a format readable by the server 200, and confirms a search word included in the request data.

The search unit 250 searches the DB 210 for an address corresponding to the identified search word. When a plurality of addresses are stored in the DB 210, for example, address information about the same name is stored in the DB 210, the search unit 250 maps the keyword to a search term And then outputs the address.

When the search for the address corresponding to the search word is completed, the server conversion unit 240 converts at least one address retrieved into one address book file in accordance with the predetermined data structure. That is, at least one address corresponding to one search word exists in one address book file.

The server compression processing unit 230 compresses the converted address book file and the server communication unit 220 transmits the compressed address book file to the mobile terminal 100.

The server control unit 260 controls the above-described operation using a program stored in a storage unit (not shown). In particular, the server control unit 260 searches the DB 210 based on the request data transmitted from the mobile terminal 100, and controls each block to generate an address book file. Also, the server control unit 260 processes the created address book file to be transmitted to the mobile terminal 100.

According to the present invention, the server 200 can collectively transmit a plurality of addresses, which are searched for one search word, to the mobile terminal 100 as a single address book file. In addition, the mobile terminal 100 displays the address book list included in the address book file, thereby enabling the user to directly perform a call with a desired receiver. Particularly, when the landline telephone number of the receiving side is the same as the country and area number where the user is presently located, and the receiving side landline telephone number includes the country and area code, the mobile terminal 100 transmits the landline telephone number It automatically deletes the country code and area code, so that only the actual code is displayed, and the call can be processed automatically.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of controlling a mobile terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

1 to 5, when the user input unit 105 receives a search word (S500), the terminal control unit 180 generates request data for requesting address book transfer using the input search word, The terminal conversion unit 142 and the terminal compression processing unit 143 in order to convert and compress the data into a format readable by the terminal 200 in operation S510.

When the requested data is compressed, the terminal control unit 180 controls the terminal communication unit 160 to transmit the compressed request data to the server 200 (S510).

When the address book file corresponding to the search word is received from the server 200 in step S515, the terminal control unit 180 controls the terminal compression processing unit 143 to decompress the address book file in step S520.

The terminal control unit 180 converts the decompressed address book file into a signal of a readable and displayable format and controls the terminal conversion unit 142 to generate an address book list at steps S525 and S530.

If an address of the displayed address list is selected and a call connection is requested at step S535, the terminal control unit 180 controls the determination unit 151 to determine whether the current user and the selected country / region of the address are the same (S540) .

If it is determined in step S540 that the country and area where the user is located are the same as the country and area included in the selected address, the terminal control unit 180 stores the actual number, excluding the country and area number, b, and controls the number generator 152, the display unit 110, and the terminal communication unit 160 to perform a call connection with the actual number.

On the other hand, if it is determined that it is not the same in step S540, the terminal control unit 180 controls the terminal communication unit 160 to perform call connection to the telephone number of the address selected in step S535 (S550).

On the other hand, if the address book file is not received and an error occurs in step S515, the terminal control unit 180 can terminate the current state (S555).

6 is a flowchart illustrating an operation method of the address book management server shown in FIG.

1 to 6, when request data including a search word is received from the mobile terminal 100 (S600), the server control unit 260 releases the compression of the request data and converts it into a readable format, The control unit 143 and the terminal conversion unit 142 (S605).

After step S605, the server control unit 260 checks the search word included in the request data and controls the search unit 250 to search the DB 210 for an address corresponding to the identified search word (S610).

In operation S615, the server control unit 260 controls the terminal conversion unit 142 and the terminal compression processing unit 143 to convert at least one address to an address book file and then compress the at least one address.

Then, the server control unit 260 controls the server communication unit 220 to transmit the compressed address book file to the mobile terminal 100 (S620).

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is clearly understood that the same is by way of illustration and example only and is not to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and detail may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.

FIG. 1 illustrates a system for collective address book transfer according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the mobile terminal shown in FIG. 1;

FIGS. 3A and 3B illustrate examples in which telephone numbers included in the address book list are displayed;

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating the address book management server shown in FIG. 1;

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of controlling a mobile terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention,

6 is a flowchart illustrating an operation method of the address book management server shown in FIG.

Description of the Related Art [0002]

100: mobile terminal 105: user input

110: display unit 140: address book processing unit

150: a call processing unit 160:

200: Address Book Management Server 210: Database

220: server communication unit 230: server compression processing unit

240: server conversion unit 250:

Claims (5)

A database for storing a plurality of address books; A search unit for searching at least one address corresponding to the search word from the database when an address book corresponding to the search word is requested from the mobile terminal; A converting unit converting at least one address to be searched into one file; And And a server communication unit for transmitting the converted file to the mobile terminal. An input unit for receiving a search word for address book search; A terminal communication unit for transmitting the input search word to an address book management server and receiving at least one address list corresponding to the search word from the address book management server as one file; A terminal converting unit for converting the received file and outputting at least one address list corresponding to the search word; And And a display unit for displaying the at least one address list to be output. 3. The method of claim 2, A storage unit for registering a country and a region number in which the user is currently located; And If one of the address lists is selected and a call is requested, it is determined whether the user and the country / region of the selected address are the same, and if they are the same, an actual number excluding the country and area number And a call processing unit, Wherein the terminal communication unit automatically performs a call connection with the generated real number. Receiving a search word for address book search; Transmitting the input search word to an address book management server and receiving at least one address list corresponding to the search word from the address book management server as one file; Converting the received file and outputting at least one address list corresponding to the search word; And And displaying the at least one address list to be output. 5. The method of claim 4, Registering the country and area code in which the user is currently located; Determining whether the user and the country and region of the selected address are the same if a call is requested after selecting one of the displayed address lists; Generating an actual number excluding a country and a region number among telephone numbers of the selected address if they are the same; And And automatically performing a call connection with the generated real number.

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