KR20020034525A - Speed dial method for phone - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An abbreviated dialing method for a telephone is provided to be unnecessary for memorizing abbreviated dial numbers by inputting a consonant corresponding to a name, retrieving a telephone number of a desired person, and performing an abbreviated dialing. CONSTITUTION: If an abbreviated dial consonant is inputted in a set character abbreviated dial mode(200,202), a control unit confirms whether it is a primary retrieval(204). In case of the primary retrieval, the control unit retrieves a name started as consonants corresponding to syllables of a sequence corresponding to an input sequence of inputted consonants from an address box of a memory unit(206) and stores an address of the retrieved name in a temporal address box(208). The control unit displays the retrieved one or two names or more names and telephone numbers on a screen(210). If a user selects the telephone number, the control unit dials the selected telephone number(212).

Description

How to Speed Dial a Phone {SPEED DIAL METHOD FOR PHONE}

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a telephone, and more particularly, to a method for improving the convenience of a speed dial function in a telephone having a speed dial function.

Wired and wireless telephones, mobile telephone terminals, and Internet telephones, which have been used in the past, have speed dial functions.

A typical speed dial function includes an address book registered with a name corresponding to a speed dial number different from each other in a database, and dials and transmits a phone number corresponding to a speed dial number input by a user. Accordingly, the user can make an outgoing call by inputting only the speed dial number corresponding to the phone number without inputting all the phone numbers to be dialed.

In order to use the speed dial function as described above, the user must be familiar with the speed dial numbers corresponding to the phone numbers registered in the address book. Accordingly, when there are few phone numbers registered in the address book, it is easy to remember speed dial numbers. However, when there are many phone numbers registered in the address book, it is very difficult to remember speed dial numbers. In addition, the number of speed dials was limited because 10 numbers from 0 to 9 on the keypad are used. For this reason, although the speed dial function is a convenient function, there was a lot of inconvenience.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a speed dial method capable of improving the convenience of a speed dial function.

1 is a block diagram of a typical portable mobile phone to which the present invention is applied;

2 is a process flow diagram in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

Speed dial method of the present invention for achieving the above object is a method of the present invention is a speed dial method of a telephone having a speed dial function having an address book consisting of a name and a telephone number corresponding thereto as a database, When the key input assigned to consonants continues for a certain period of time in the dial mode, searching the address book for names starting with the syllables starting with the entered consonants and displaying the searched names and phone numbers on the screen Characterized in having.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description and the annexed drawings, detailed descriptions of well-known functions and configurations that may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention will be omitted.

1 shows a block diagram of a typical portable mobile phone to which the present invention is applied. 1, a memory unit 102, a key pad 104, a touch screen input / output device 106, a radio frequency (RF) module 110, and a baseband processor 112 are illustrated in FIG. 1. The control unit 100, which is connected to a Coder-Decoder (CODEC) 114, processes voice signals and data according to a protocol for a general telephone call, data communication, or wireless Internet connection, and controls each part of the portable mobile phone. Control, and processes the user interface functions according to the present invention as described below. Therefore, in the following description, the description of the processing and control of the control unit 100 for ordinary telephone call, data communication, and wireless Internet connection is omitted.

The memory unit 102 connected to the controller 100 includes a random access memory (ROM), a flash memory, a random access memory (RAM), and the like. The ROM stores a program for processing and controlling the controller 100 and various reference data. The RAM provides a working memory of the controller 100. The flash memory provides an area for storing various updatable storage data. The address book database as described above is also stored in the flash memory.

In addition, the keypad 104 includes various buttons including numeric buttons and function buttons to provide the controller 100 with a button input operated by a user. The display unit 106 includes a liquid crystal display (LCD) to display various types of information on the LCD screen under the control of the controller 100. The RF module 110 transmits and receives an RF signal with the base station through the antenna 108. The RF module 110 converts the received RF signal into an IF (Intermediate Frequency) signal and outputs the signal to the baseband processor 112 and the baseband processor 112. IF signal inputted from) is converted into RF signal and transmitted.

The baseband processor 112 is a baseband analog ASIC (BBA) that provides an interface between the controller 100 and the RF module 110. The baseband processor 112 converts a baseband digital signal applied from the controller 100 into an analog IF signal. The signal is converted and applied to the RF module 110, and the analog IF signal applied from the RF module 110 is converted into a digital signal of the baseband and applied to the controller 100. In addition, the codec 114 connected to the control unit 100 is connected to the microphone 118 and the speaker 120 through the amplifying unit 116, and the PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) encoding of the voice signal input from the microphone 118 ( After encoding, the voice data is output to the controller 100, and the PCM decoding of the voice data input from the controller 100 is performed to output the voice signal to the speaker 120 through the amplifier 118. The amplifier 116 amplifies the voice signal input from the microphone 118 or the voice signal output to the speaker 120. The volume of the speaker 120 and the gain of the microphone 118 are controlled by the control unit 100. Adjust accordingly. The ringer 122 generates a ring tone under the control of the controller 100, and the vibrator 124 generates vibration under the control of the controller 100.

In the mobile phone as described above, the present invention provides a consonant in which the first syllable of the name desired by the user starts from among names registered in the address book, or at least two, that is, at least the first and second syllables respectively start. You can search by typing consecutively.

For example, if the name of the person you want to call is 'Hong Gil-Dong', enter 'ㄱ' or 'ㄱ, ㅎ' or 'ㄱ, ㅎ, ㄱ' consecutively, but for the last consonant Enter a long value to keep typing for a certain time. In the following description, for convenience, one or two or more consonants are input as described above, but a long input for the last consonant is referred to as 'short dial consonant input'. In this way, the consonant input is performed by inputting a key to which a consonant corresponding to one of the keys of the keypad 104 is assigned in a state of being set to a character speed dial mode for performing a speed dial function according to the present invention. The text speed dial mode may be set or canceled by the user in the same manner as setting or canceling various modes in a normal menu.

For example, assuming that names and phone numbers registered in the address book are as shown in Table 1 below, the number and order of consonants consecutively entered are searched as follows.

address name Phone number 01 Ho-Gyu Kim 02-280-1234 02 Sung Joo Kim 02-280-2345 03 Heung Soon Kim 02-280-3456 04 Kwon Do Heon 02-280-4567 05 Sungjoo Park 02-280-5678 06 Frontal 02-280-6789 07 Choi Woo Hyuk 02-280-7890 08 Myung Soo Jeong 02-280-8901 09 A representative 02-280-9012 10 Seunghwan Cho 02-280-0123 11 Soyoung Ko 031-200-1234 12 Guhongdo 031-200-2345

If the user inputs 'ㅈ', 'Jungwoojin' and 'Chundugu' and the corresponding phone numbers are searched, and if the user enters 'ㄱ, ㅎ', 'Kim Ho-gyu' and 'Kim Heung-soon' The phone number is searched, and if 'ㄱ, ㅎ, ㄱ' is entered, 'Kim Ho-gyu' and the corresponding phone number are searched.

As described above, the searched name and telephone number are displayed on the screen of the display unit 106 so that the user can select and make a call.

FIG. 2 shows a process flow chart according to an embodiment of the present invention performed by the controller 100 of FIG. 1 in steps 200 to 220. If the speed dial consonant is input in step 202 while the speed dial consonant is input in step 202, that is, at least two or more consecutive key inputs to which the consonant is assigned are input, and the last key input is constant. If it lasts for a time, it is checked in step 204 whether it is the first search.

In the case of the first search, the names of the syllables in the order corresponding to the input order of the consonants input in step 206 are searched in the address book of the memory unit 102, respectively. Save the address of the name as a temporary address book. In this case, storing the address of the searched name as a temporary address book, for example, inputting only one consonant, as a result of the first search, is difficult to check when there are many searched names. If you enter additional search, it is to speed up the search time. In other words, if additional consonants of the syllable following the first searched syllable are entered, they are included in the already searched names without having to search again for the full name registered in the address book. It is to reduce the time it becomes.

Display one or more names and phone numbers searched as above on the screen in step 210, and if the user selects a phone number in step 212, proceed to step 220 to dial the selected phone number. To make a call. Dialing the selected phone number in this way is the same as in the normal speed dial.

If the telephone number is not selected in the step (212), it is confirmed in the step (214) and if the user presses the end key, for example, it ends in (216). On the contrary, if the user makes further searches, the process returns to step 202 described above.

On the other hand, if it is not the first search in step 204, the name beginning with the input consonant of the syllable corresponding to the input sequence of the input consonants is searched in the address book for the address stored in the temporary address book in step 218. Perform step 210 described above.

Therefore, instead of entering a number, the first syllable of the name or the consonant beginning of several consecutive syllables can be dialed by searching for the desired phone number. Accordingly, even when there are many telephone numbers registered in the address book, the user does not need to remember speed dial numbers, and the number of speed dials does not have to be limited by the keypad.

Meanwhile, in the above description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. In particular, although the embodiment of the present invention has been described as an example of application to a portable mobile phone, the same applies to wired / wireless telephones and Internet telephones having a speed dial function for displaying speed dial information registered with a display device. In addition, there is an example of searching by entering two or more consecutive keystrokes assigned with consonants, and using the temporary address book depending on whether the first search is made to shorten the search time. It may be optionally applied or omitted depending on the condition. Therefore, the scope of the invention should not be defined by the described embodiments, but should be defined by the equivalent of claims and claims.

As described above, the present invention can perform speed dialing by searching a phone number of a desired person by inputting a consonant corresponding to a name, so that the user does not need to remember speed dial numbers even when there are many phone numbers registered in the address book. The number of speed dials also has the advantage of being limited by the keypad.

Claims (8)

In a speed dial method of a telephone having a database including an address book in which a name and a corresponding telephone number are registered as a database, and having a speed dial function, Searching for the name in the address book starting with a syllable beginning with the input consonant when the key input to which the consonant is assigned in the character speed dial mode is continued for a predetermined time; And displaying the searched name and phone number on a screen. The speed dialing method of claim 1, further comprising: dialing the selected phone number when the displayed name and the phone number are selected by the user. In a speed dial method of a telephone having a database including an address book in which a name and a corresponding telephone number are registered as a database, and having a speed dial function, If the keystroke assigned to consonants in the text speed dial mode is set for a certain time, checking whether the first search In the case of the first search, searching the address book for a name beginning with the syllable starting with the input consonant; Storing the address of the searched name as a temporary address book; If it is not the first search, searching for the address stored in the temporary address book in the address book with a name beginning with the input consonant in a syllable order corresponding to the input order of the input consonant; And displaying the searched name and phone number on a screen. The speed dialing method of claim 3, further comprising: dialing the selected telephone number when the displayed name and telephone number are selected by the user. In a speed dial method of a telephone having a database including an address book in which a name and a corresponding telephone number are registered as a database, and having a speed dial function, If the consonant is assigned at least two consecutive key inputs in the speed dial mode and the last key input lasts for a predetermined time, the syllables in the order corresponding to the input consonants start with the corresponding consonants. Searching for the name in the address book; And displaying the searched name and phone number on a screen. The speed dialing method of claim 5, further comprising: dialing the selected phone number when the displayed name and the phone number are selected by the user. In a speed dial method of a telephone having a database including an address book in which a name and a corresponding telephone number are registered as a database, and having a speed dial function, If at least two keystrokes to which consonants are assigned in the text speed dial mode are continuously input and the last keystroke lasts for a predetermined time, a process of checking whether the first search is performed; In the case of the first search, a process of searching the address book for a name beginning with a consonant corresponding to each of the syllables corresponding to the input order of the input consonants; Storing the address of the searched name as a temporary address book; If it is not the first search, searching for the address stored in the temporary address book in the address book with a name beginning with the input consonant in a syllable order corresponding to the input order of the input consonant; And displaying the searched name and phone number on a screen. The speed dialing method according to claim 7, further comprising, when the displayed name and the telephone number are selected by the user, dialing the selected telephone number to make a call.