KR20040009934A - Telephone number input method using long key - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for inputting a receiver phone number is provided to automatically input a desired receiver telephone number at a very simple key operation by using a long key. CONSTITUTION: A mobile phone outputs a message to request the user to input a receiver phone number. Then the mobile phone judges whether the user's key input is a long key. If the user's key input is the long key, the mobile phone judges whether an SMS-supporting phone number corresponding to the long key exists. In case that there is no SMS-supporting phone number corresponding to the long key, the mobile phone outputs an error message. If it is judged that an SMS-supporting phone number corresponding to the long key exists, the mobile phone makes it automatically inputted as a receiver phone number.

Description

How to enter incoming phone number {TELEPHONE NUMBER INPUT METHOD USING LONG KEY}

The present invention relates to a method for inputting a reception telephone number necessary for transmitting a short message, and more particularly, to a method for inputting a reception telephone number suitable for easily inputting a reception telephone number.

With the rapid spread of mobile phones, the use of short message service (SMS) using mobile phones is becoming a new culture. In Korea alone, tens of millions of short message services are used per day, and their usage is increasing.

The short message service differs depending on the manufacturer or model of the mobile phone, but basically, the user selects the short message transmission menu and inputs a message. Enter to send.

At this time, if you remember the recipient's phone number, you can enter it manually, but for convenience, you can call the recently used phone number list and select the phone number from the list and search the phone book using the search menu. It provides the ability to select at the same time. The selection of such a menu is performed to switch screens to display corresponding lists or to display a search screen, and the desired telephone number can be found by appropriately selecting a plurality of submenus.

1 and 2 are examples of the two additional functions described above, and show steps for selecting a recipient's telephone number.

FIG. 1 shows a case of using a menu of recently used telephone number list to select a telephone number of a receiver, and is shown from the screen that appears after a short message is created.

As a matter of course, the screens shown in FIG. 1 are provided to illustrate a simple example, and the specific screens may be different depending on the type of mobile phone or a phone supporting a short message service. However, the other party's telephone number and the reply telephone number are essential contents of the short message service, and basic menus are provided regardless of the model of the telephone used.

On the screen (D1) that appears after creating a short message on the receiving number input field 40 to receive the current short message, a reply number input box 50 automatically inputs the telephone number of the telephone currently being used, and menus 10, 20, 30 are indicated.

The screen D1 basically has a focus on the reception number input field 40, and a user may manually input a reception number by pressing a numeric key. After entering manually and selecting the confirmation menu 20, a message is sent.

However, for convenience, if the recent phone list selection menu 10 is selected, a screen D2 displaying a list of recently used phone numbers appears. The telephone number selected from the displayed list is displayed in reverse, which can be selected using the numeric keys or the direction keys. In this case, it is assumed that 1 is selected.

The telephone number selected as described above is automatically input to the receiving number input field 40 and displayed as the screen D3. After reviewing the telephone number entered through the screen D3 and selecting the confirmation menu 20, a message is transmitted.

The above-described method must go through a step of manually searching for a desired phone number from a recent phone list to input a received number, and sometimes a desired phone number cannot be found in a phone list having a preset storage size.

Fig. 2 shows a case where a search menu is used to select a recipient's telephone number, which is also shown from the screen that appears after creating a short message.

The search menu 30 used in FIG. 2 is a menu used to search a phone book embedded in a phone providing a short message service, and the phone book is already input by a user.

When the search menu 30 is selected, a general phonebook search step is performed. When the search menu 30 is selected on the basic screen D4, a screen D5 asking whether to search by name or storage address is displayed. appear. If you select the search using the storage address, you can search the phone number of the corresponding address by entering the address that the user remembers. If you do not remember, select the confirmation menu, the phone numbers according to the address is as shown in Figure 1 Since it is listed like the recent phone list screen (D2), you can use it to search manually. However, here, a search using a name is taken as an example, and a search by name is selected on the screen D5.

Now, the phone shows a screen D6 for requesting the user to enter a name to search for, and the user enters a name on the phone book using the character keys and selects the search menu.

The phone number selected as described above is automatically input to the received number input field 40 and displayed as shown in the screen D7. After reviewing the telephone number input through the screen D7 and selecting the confirmation menu 20, a message is transmitted.

The above-described method requires a phone book search step to enter a received number, needs to switch several screens and select appropriate search menus, and sometimes needs to directly enter a number or name to search.

That is, the above-mentioned reception number input methods require a great deal of key manipulation to input the reception number, and thus, it takes a lot of time. In addition, because of the complexity and complexity of operations, rather than the mailbox service that leaves voice messages or phone numbers, people who are not familiar with the machine may lose their hard-working messages during many operations.

As described above, in the conventional method of inputting a received phone number, a user needs to directly input the phone number of the other party to receive the short message or search for the other party's phone number using predetermined menus. And the inconvenience of requiring long operation time. In addition, during the search function, the desired phone number can be obtained through various steps, and if there is a mistake during the operation, the recorded message disappears and there is a problem that a short message transmission procedure must be restarted from the beginning.

The present invention in view of the above problems is to provide a receiving telephone number input method that can automatically enter the desired receiving number by a simple key operation by using a long key on the screen for entering the telephone number to receive. .

1 is a conventional method for inputting a received telephone number.

2 is another conventional method for inputting a received telephone number.

3 is an embodiment of a method for inputting a received telephone number of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for inputting a received telephone number of the present invention.

*** Explanation of symbols for main parts of drawing ***

100: recent phone list selection menu 200: confirmation menu

300: search menu 400: incoming number field

500: Reply To field

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of inputting a recipient's telephone number for a short message transmission, the method comprising: a first step of outputting a message requesting input of a recipient's telephone number on a screen; Determining whether the user key input is a long key or selecting a telephone number according to a menu corresponding to the key input to automatically input a recipient telephone number or to directly input a telephone number; In the second step, if the user key input is a long key, determining whether there is a short message support telephone number corresponding thereto, and if not, outputting an error message and proceeding to the first step; In the third step, if there is a short message support phone number corresponding to the long key, it comprises a fourth step of automatically inputting the recipient phone number.

As described above, the present invention uses a long key input method in addition to the conventional method for inputting a received telephone number, and through this, a fast input of the received telephone number can be expected. An embodiment of this invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 3.

3 is a simplified exploded view of an embodiment of the present invention.

First, a basic screen D10 displayed after inputting a short message is displayed. The basic screen may have a different display method depending on the type of the phone supporting the short message service used as described above. In some models, all the information is displayed on one screen as shown, but in other models, the reception is performed. There may be a step of inputting only numbers. In any expression method, a method of inputting a reception number supports direct input as described above and input by searching through a menu selection, which requires a great deal of key input or operation according to a menu. In addition, since the use of such a menu requires various screen changes to be performed and an appropriate menu must be continuously selected, it is often necessary to lose a written message and start again from the beginning if the operation is not good. .

The present invention allows the input by a long key on the basic screen D10, where the long key is a telephone call corresponding to a long press (for example, about 3 seconds) of a series of numbers (addresses) recorded in the phone book. The number means the function to be selected. If the address is more than 2 digits long, just press the last digit number.

Longkey is a user-friendly feature that is basically applied to most mobile phones so that you can quickly select the phone number you want to call from the standby state, and many users are familiar with it. In other words, you will already remember the longkeys for frequently used phone numbers.

For example, if the phone number 019-123-4567 is already entered in address 1 and the user is aware of it, if the number 1 key is kept pressed for a predetermined time in the basic screen (D10) The telephone number memorized at the address is automatically entered into the receiving number input box. In the above example, since the number of the mobile phone supporting the short message service is stored at the address 1, the screen D20 is displayed and the automatic input of the received number is normally processed. In another embodiment, the automatic input may be performed, and the next step may be to check whether the message is transmitted or whether the message is stored.

However, if address 1 is empty or if the recorded telephone number is a regular landline telephone that does not support short message service, an error message is generated. Naturally, this may be displayed in the form of a small window or in full screen, depending on the device used. In this case, it is assumed that the full screen is displayed, and the display proceeds to the screen D30.

The screen D30 displays a message informing that the short message cannot be transmitted for the selected number, and has a confirmation menu to allow the message to be read. When the confirmation menu is selected, the display returns to the basic screen D10 to wait for use of the various reception number input methods described above. Here too, the use of the confirmation menu can be replaced by a simple delay.

In order to use the long key function as described above, a function for distinguishing whether a number input in a reception number input field displayed on the basic screen D10 or a screen requiring input of a received telephone number is a general number or a long key (reading an event) Function), and in order to output the above-mentioned error message, the function of determining whether the content of the address retrieved by the long key is the telephone number of the device having the short message function should also be added. This may be a function of simply determining whether it is a mobile phone number, but in order to prepare for use of a general phone with a short message function, the user may be able to display it when the user enters a phone in the built-in phone book. And, accordingly, a function for outputting an error message and a function for returning to the basic screen on which the receiving number input field appears again after confirmation of the user should be added.

Most of the above is possible by writing a routine that is added to a user interface program of a device supporting short message transmission, so that there is no additional burden of hardware.

An embodiment of the present invention described above will be described in more detail using the flowchart shown in FIG.

The flowchart of FIG. 4 highlights the features of the present invention for a recipient telephone number entry procedure performed after entering a short message.

First, a message is displayed on the screen to input the recipient's telephone number. In this case, the reply number may be displayed together or may be displayed after completing this procedure. In this case, in order to receive the incoming call number, a cursor is basically displayed in the incoming number input field to wait for the user's key input. At the same time, a predetermined portion of the screen displays a number of menus that can be used at this time, such as a recent phone list selection menu, a confirmation menu, and a search menu.

Next, it is determined whether the user key input is a long key. In the basic screen, a desired function can be performed through various input forms. By shortly pressing a general number, a received number can be manually entered into a received number input box on the basic screen, and pressing the menu keys corresponds to the aforementioned function. Will be available. Then, by using the long key input using the numeric keys, the telephone number corresponding to the address indicated by the long key may be automatically input into the reception number input box.

If the user key input is a long key, it is determined whether there is an appropriate telephone number corresponding to the long key, and if not, an error message is output. The appropriate telephone number means a telephone number supporting a short message service. Therefore, the error message is output if there is no telephone number in the corresponding address or if the recorded telephone number is a number that does not support the short message service. Thereafter, the user recognizes the error message and then returns to the basic screen display where the reception number input field is waiting for input.

If there is an appropriate telephone number corresponding to the long key, it is automatically entered as the recipient telephone number.

As described above, the present invention enables long key input in addition to the receiving number input method of various devices, thereby giving the user an opportunity to input a desired receiving number with a minimum key input.

As described above, the present invention adds a long key function for easily inputting a received telephone number for short message transmission, thereby automatically inputting a received telephone number through a minimum key input, as well as switching screens. Since it does not go through additional steps, there is an effect that can prevent the loss of messages due to malfunction while maximizing ease of operation.

Claims (1)

CLAIMS 1. A method for inputting a recipient's telephone number for short message transmission, the method comprising: a first step of outputting a message requesting input for a recipient's telephone number on a screen; Determining whether the user key input is a long key or selecting a telephone number according to menus corresponding to the key input to automatically input the receiver's telephone number or to directly input the telephone number; In the second step, if the user key input is a long key, determining whether there is a short message support telephone number corresponding thereto, and if not, outputting an error message and proceeding to the first step; And a fourth step of automatically inputting a short message support phone number corresponding to the long key into the receiver phone number in the third step.