KR20010003397A - Method for managing memorial days in hand held phone - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for managing anniversaries in a cellular phone is provided to interwork schedule managing/anniversary alarming functions with corresponding telephone numbers, so as to automatically display a registered telephone number relating to an anniversary day on a liquid crystal display(LCD), so that a user dial the registered telephone number by pressing a 'send' button at a time point for alarming the anniversary day. CONSTITUTION: A telephone number corresponding to an anniversary day, an anniversary date, and an anniversary title is registered in a cellular phone. The registered telephone number is displayed with information on the anniversary day, stored in a liquid crystal display(LCD) of the cellular phone on the anniversary day. When a user presses a 'send' button, the cellular phone automatically dials the displayed telephone number. When the telephone number is registered in the cellular phone, the cellular phone comprises the steps as follows. The user presses a menu button to select an 'anniversary managing menu'. The user presses a register button of the cellular phone. The user inputs the anniversary title and the anniversary date. The user inputs an alarming time for notifying the inputted anniversary day. The user inputs the telephone number corresponding to the anniversary day. The cellular phone registers the inputted anniversary day, the anniversary title, the alarming time, and the telephone number in an anniversary day list.

Description

How to manage your anniversary on your phone {METHOD FOR MANAGING MEMORIAL DAYS IN HAND HELD PHONE}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to the application of mobile phones, and more particularly, to a method for managing an anniversary in a mobile phone, for managing an anniversary and managing a telephone number to be used for the anniversary.

Conventional mobile phones have a function to register and maintain for an individual's anniversary, but the function is to register only by inputting the contents and to sound an alarm at a later time.

However, the problem with the conventional schedule management function is that there is no way to register the phone number together. For this reason, in case of needing to call in the future when registering the schedule content, the number is registered with the number and the alarm is later about the anniversary. There is a problem that you cannot make a direct call to the phone number displayed on the LCD.

That is, the function of registering and keeping their own anniversary in the mobile phone is provided as a function of schedule management, but only the contents of the anniversary can be input. Therefore, if you want to call the place corresponding to the contents of the memorial at the time when the alarm sounds for the anniversary, you can simply enter the phone number but simply press the call button to the registered phone number. The problem was that there was no way to call.

Therefore, an object of the present invention, which was created to solve the problems of the prior art operating as described above, by linking the phone number corresponding to the schedule management and anniversary alarm function of the existing mobile phone, the registered phone when the anniversary The present invention provides a method for managing anniversaries in a mobile phone so that a number is automatically displayed on a display window so that the number can be dialed by simply pressing a call button at the time of announcing the commemoration.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a mobile phone applied to the present invention.

Figure 2 is a flow chart illustrating a anniversary management method in a mobile phone according to the present invention.

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100: voice transmission and reception unit 200: ring tone generator

300: dialing unit 400: key input unit

500: memory 600: central processing unit

700: power supply 800: RF-

An embodiment of the anniversary management method in a mobile phone according to the present invention, which was created to achieve the above object, registers the date and title of the anniversary and a telephone number to be stored corresponding to the anniversary (s100). Wow; Displaying the contents of the memorial day and the corresponding telephone number on the display window of the mobile phone when the registered anniversary date is reached (s200); And when the user presses the call button, the mobile phone automatically dials the telephone number displayed on the display window (s300).

The present invention, if you want to register the personal memorial content and anniversaries in the mobile phone and set an alarm time to give a pre-alarm for the anniversary, if you want to make a call immediately, enter the phone number of the desired place and register the alarm and In addition, the number is automatically displayed on the display window, and if you want to make a call, you can press the call button to make an automatic call and how to edit or delete the registered anniversary.

The user registers the contents of the memorial day / anniversary date (alarm time) / telephone number to be memorialized for the fact that the user can commemorate on his mobile phone. Users who use a mobile phone usually carry their own mobile phone at all times, so the alarm is notified of the anniversary time at the registered time, so that the user can call the registered place without forgetting his or her anniversary. It may be possible to take action depending on the nature of the event, anniversary, or anniversary. The present invention provides convenience to a user by providing such a function by using an existing component as it is.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail the operating principle of the preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a mobile phone applied to the present invention, as shown, voice transmission and reception unit 100; Ring tone generator 200; Dialing unit 300; A key input unit 400; A memory unit 500; A central processing unit 600; A power supply 700; And an RF-part (Radio Frequency Module) 800.

The present invention provides a method for managing anniversaries using a mobile phone of the above configuration.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for managing an anniversary in a mobile phone according to the present invention, as shown in the drawing, registering an anniversary and a phone number to be stored corresponding to the anniversary in the mobile phone (s100); Displaying the contents of the memorial day and the corresponding telephone number on the display window of the mobile phone when the registered anniversary date is reached (s200); And when the user presses the call button, the mobile phone automatically dials the phone number displayed on the display window (s300). Hereinafter, the operation and effect of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Is the same as

First, a step (s100) of registering an anniversary content, an alarm time, and a phone number through a program of a mobile phone will be described.

First, press the menu button on the mobile phone's key input section and select the menu for "Anniversary Day Management." Then, press the registration button on the mobile phone. At this time, if there is no space to register, "No space" is displayed.

If you have space, enter your anniversary, and then press the OK button on your phone.

When the input of the anniversary content is finished, enter the alarm time (the time to announce the anniversary). If you enter the alarm time to register the phone number to be remembered for the anniversary.

When all of the above steps are completed, the input anniversary information, alarm time and phone number are automatically added to the anniversary list.

Second, it will be described with respect to the step (s200) that the alarm time to the alarm for the anniversary.

In the mobile phone, when the same time of the same date is compared with the time of own and the alarm time registered in the anniversary list, the alarm sounds according to a predetermined form. At this time, the type of alarm is not considered, but the property of the alarm is displayed on the liquid crystal display window while the alarm is sounding. In this case, the content displayed on the display window displays the contents of the anniversary and the corresponding telephone number.

When the alarm is triggered and the phone number is displayed on the display, press "send" to send the number. If you press the Cancel button without pressing the Call button, the number is deleted from the display.

In addition, the steps of inquiring, modifying and deleting the title of the anniversary, the anniversary, the alarm time, and the telephone number by the program of the mobile phone will be described.

Press the menu button on the key input of the mobile phone, select the menu corresponding to "anniversary management", and then press the inquiry button. Enter the anniversary title registered. If you press the OK button without entering a title, the first anniversary is displayed among the registered ones, and the user moves to the scroll button to find the desired anniversary.

To modify the title of the anniversary, enter a new one, then click OK. If you want to move to the next without editing, press the OK button. At this time, if you want to delete the contents, press the "Delete" button.

After modifying the title, enter the day and hour of the anniversary, press the OK button, and enter the alarm time (the time to announce the anniversary) when you finish entering the anniversary in the same way.

If you enter the alarm time, the phone number to be remembered for the anniversary is also corrected if necessary.

After completing all of the above, the Anniversary list is modified and kept.

That is, the device of the present invention is basically a voice transmission and reception unit 100, ring tone generator 200, dialing unit 300, key input unit 400, memory unit 500, the central processing unit 600 has a mobile phone And, the power supply unit 700, RF-MODULE (800) is composed of, the anniversary management function of the present invention receives the contents for the anniversary, alarm time, telephone number, etc. input through the key input unit (400).

The registered contents are managed by the memory unit 500 and the central processing unit 600 of the mobile phone, so that the contents of the anniversary can be announced in advance at a predetermined alarm time. The user may select a notification by an alarm for notifying the anniversary by registering a phone number corresponding to the anniversary among the methods for reminding the user about the anniversary to be known.

In this case, when the alarm time of the anniversary is reached, the mobile phone displays the phone number to be contacted along with the contents on the display window, and at this time, by simply pressing the "send" button, the mobile phone can automatically make a unique call.

In the present invention operating as described in detail above, the effects obtained by the representative ones of the disclosed inventions will be briefly described as follows.

The present invention, the user can manage the anniversary without the need for a separate electronic notebook, by utilizing the phone call function distinguished from the electronic notebook, by implementing a phone call to the number registered on the anniversary, his customer It has the effect of quick and accurate response to management.

Claims (6)

Registering the date and title of the anniversary and a telephone number to be stored corresponding to the anniversary in the mobile phone having the anniversary alarm function; Displaying the content of the memorial day and the corresponding telephone number on a display window of the mobile phone when the registered anniversary date is reached; And And when the user presses a call button, the mobile phone automatically dials the telephone number displayed on the display window. The method of claim 1, wherein the registering step comprises: A user pressing a menu button of a key input unit of the cellular phone to select a "anniversary management" menu; Pressing the registration button of the mobile phone when the anniversary management menu is selected; Inputting a title and date of an anniversary to be registered by the user after pressing the registration button; When the input of the anniversary is completed, inputting an alarm time that is a time to announce the input anniversary; When the input of the alarm time is completed, inputting a telephone number to be stored corresponding to the input anniversary date; And And registering the input anniversary date, the title, the alarm time, and the telephone number in the anniversary list of the cellular phone. The method of claim 2, wherein the displaying step, Comparing the current date with the date of the previously registered anniversary; If there is a date of an anniversary, such as a current date, ringing an alarm at an alarm time corresponding to the anniversary; And Displaying the title of the anniversary date and a corresponding telephone number on the display window of the cellular phone while the alarm is sounding. 4. The method of claim 3, further comprising: after the registering, the user presses a menu button of a key input unit of the cellular phone to select a "anniversary management" menu; Pressing an inquiry button on the mobile phone when an anniversary management menu is selected; Inputting a title of an anniversary to be queried by the user after pressing the inquiry button; Displaying contents of an anniversary corresponding to the input title, an alarm time, and a corresponding telephone number on a display window; If necessary, correcting the title of the anniversary displayed on the display window by the user; If necessary, correcting the date of the anniversary displayed on the display window by the user; If necessary, correcting the alarm time of the anniversary displayed on the display window by the user; If necessary, the user modifying the corresponding telephone number of the anniversary displayed on the display window; If the user wants to delete the anniversary displayed on the display window, deleting the anniversary by the user pressing a delete button; And If you do not want to modify the title of the anniversary displayed on the display window, pressing the OK button, anniversary management method in a mobile phone. The method as claimed in claim 4, further comprising: after pressing the inquiry button, when the user presses the confirmation button of the mobile phone, displaying the first anniversary date among the pre-registered days on the mobile phone on the display window; After the first anniversary is displayed on the display window, searching for an anniversary to be queried by a user using a scroll button; And If the user finds an anniversary to be searched using a scroll button and then presses a confirmation button, displaying the information and the alarm time and the phone number of the found anniversary on the display window, the anniversary management method in a mobile phone. The method according to claim 1 or 5, wherein when the registered anniversary is displayed, after displaying the contents of the memorized anniversary and the corresponding telephone number on the display window of the mobile phone, when the user presses a cancel button, the displayed telephone number is deleted from the display window. Further comprising the step of, anniversary management method in the mobile phone.