KR20040041862A - Method for searching phone number using priority - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for searching a phone book of a mobile phone according to priority is provided to reduce search time by preferentially outputting first searched result from a 'frequently used number' region. CONSTITUTION: When a user selects a name search menu in a phone book search menu(S10), an input window is displayed on a display unit. The user selects a name search in the phone book search menu on the input window by manipulating a key pad(S20). If a name to be searched is included in a 'frequently used number' region(S30), a search result is outputted on the display unit(S40).

Description

Method for searching phone number using priority}

The present invention relates to a mobile phone directory search method according to priority.

More specifically, when the phone number information designated by the user is registered in the 'frequently used number' area included in the phone book of the mobile phone menu, the user frequently searches for a specific person's phone number by inputting a search word. The first embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for searching a mobile phone directory according to priorities, by first searching a phone number for the search word and then searching the entire phone book so that a user can search the phone number more quickly.

Currently, most mobile phones include a phone book that can store more than 100 phone numbers as a menu.

Therefore, mobile phone holders do not have a separate notebook for input of the other party's phone number, and enter the other party's phone number in the phone book of the mobile phone and search and use it when necessary.

When a user wants to search for a phone number of a specific person, the user can search by searching the entire phone, searching a name, searching a phone number, searching a street address, and a recent call list in the 'phone number search' included in the menu of the mobile phone.

The entire search is to search all phone numbers stored in the phone book, and is sequentially presented from the address 1 to the address where the phone number is stored.

The name search is to search by inputting the name of a specific person to be searched by the user. Most users do not input all three letters of the name of the specific person to search, and input only about one letter to the name including the one letter. When the corresponding information is found, the specific person to search is searched using the up and down navigation keys.

The phone number search or address search is to search for a specific person's name stored in correspondence with the phone number by inputting a specific person's phone number or to search for a specific person's phone number by entering a stored address of the specific person's phone number. This is not well used by users.

In the above-mentioned full search, all the phone number information stored in the phone book is presented, so it takes a long time to search for a specific person's phone number by operating up / down navigation keys among 100 phone numbers.

In addition, even in the case of the name search, even if the user inputs only one letter of the name of the specific person to be searched, there may be many specific persons including the one letter in the phone book.

For example, if a user selects a name search to search for a phone number of 'Kim OO' and inputs a search term of 'kim', dozens of phone numbers may be searched and output.

Therefore, such a search method causes inconvenience and time loss for the user.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, if you register / store the 'frequently used number' area in the phone book of the mobile phone separately, when the user enters a search term to search for a specific person's phone number, the 'frequently used number' It is an object of the present invention to search for a phone number more quickly and conveniently by searching for information corresponding to the search word in an area.

In order to achieve the above object, according to an embodiment of the present invention, a phone number corresponding to the search word is searched in a phone book in which a plurality of phone numbers are stored according to a phone number search request signal for a search word input by a user. In the method, the telephone number registration process in which one or more telephone numbers are registered in the 'frequently used number' area by the user; A search word input process for receiving a search word by a user's key input; And a first phone number search process of searching for information corresponding to the search word in the 'frequent number' area and presenting a corresponding phone number to a display unit. .

In order to achieve the above object, according to another embodiment of the present invention, a phone number corresponding to the search word is searched in a phone book in which a plurality of phone numbers are stored according to a phone number search request signal for a search word input by a user. In the method, the telephone number registration process in which one or more telephone numbers are registered in the 'frequently used number' area by the user; A 'name search' search process in which a key corresponding to 'name search' is input by a user; The present invention provides a method for searching a mobile phone book according to a priority, comprising a step of presenting a frequently used number area for presenting information stored in the frequently used number area to a display unit.

1 is a block diagram of a mobile phone for the present invention

2 shows a submenu of a phone book menu;

3 is a flowchart illustrating a phone number search method according to the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

10: keypad 20: control unit

30: radio frequency transmitting and receiving unit 40: display unit

50: memory 60: voice processing unit

These objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be more readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings and the following detailed description. In describing the present invention, if it is determined that a detailed description of a related known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the description thereof will be omitted.

1 is a block diagram of a mobile phone for the present invention.

Looking at the configuration of the mobile phone for the present invention as follows.

Keypad 10 consisting of a plurality of numbers and function keys, and generates the key data corresponding to the key selected by the user to transmit to the control unit 20, the control unit 20 for performing the overall operation control of the mobile phone, and the mobile phone The memory 50 for storing the algorithm and the phone number or text message for the operation of the display unit, the display unit 40 for displaying the information signal generated during the operation of the mobile phone operation, for transmitting and receiving voice signals or text messages to the base station And a voice processor 60 that modulates / demodulates the voice signal received through the wireless frequency transmitter / receiver 30, the voice signal input through the microphone, and the voice signal received through the wireless frequency transmitter / receiver 30, and is not described. Other components are the same as the existing mobile phone components, so description thereof will be omitted.

In particular, the memory 50 includes a phone book area for allowing a user to register, delete, and edit another person's phone number.

That is, by using the phone book menu of the mobile phone menu, the user can store another person's phone number and use it to search for a specific person's phone number and make a call or send a text message when necessary.

The process of storing another person's phone number in the phone book is different for each mobile phone device, but can be stored in the following process.

Enter the phone number you want to save first, and then press the key for 'save' to select the phone type, ie home phone, work phone, mobile phone, etc. A window is displayed on the display unit 40 for inputting a name to be stored corresponding to the number.

When the user enters the name of another person and presses the 'save' key, the phone number is stored in the designated address of the phone book.

During the process of storing the telephone number as described above, a key for selecting whether or not to include the telephone number in the 'frequently used number' area of the present invention is specified, and when the user clicks the key, the telephone number is It is included in the 'frequent number' area and stored.

The 'frequently used number' area is a sub-menu of the phone book menu as shown in FIG. 2, by separately dividing a phone number frequently used by a user, that is, a frequently used phone number into the 'frequently used number' area. This menu is designed to be stored.

The user stores a number of phone numbers in the phone book, but some phone numbers are used once or twice a year and some are used several times a week.

Therefore, the telephone number determined by the user and considered to have a high frequency of use is set to be stored in the 'frequent number' area.

Of course, the phone number stored in the 'frequent number' area may be added or deleted by the user.

As described above, the phone number may be stored in the 'frequently used number' area during the first registration of another person's phone number in the phone book, or when a specific phone number is selected in the phone book, the phone number is' A key for setting whether to store in the frequently used number 'area is designated, and when the key is selected, the telephone number is stored in the frequently used number area.

That is, the user may search for a phone book and select and set a phone number to be stored in the 'frequent number' area.

The phone numbers stored in the 'frequently used number' area are searched in priority when the user selects a menu for searching for a phone number, which will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 3.

When the user selects a name search menu from the phone number search menu to search for a phone number of a specific person (S10), an input window for inputting a search word except for the entire search is presented on the display unit 40.

Referring to FIG. 2, when a user selects a name search, an input window for inputting another person's name to be searched is presented. When selecting a address search, a user inputs a address to which address to search for a phone number searched for. An input window is presented, hereinafter, a case in which the user selects a name search will be described as an example.

When the input window is displayed on the display unit 40, the user operates the keypad 10 on the input window to select a name search from the phone number search menu (S20).

In the case of 'name search', all three letters of a name of a specific person to be searched are inputted, or only one of them is entered or a search word is not inputted when the name is not correctly remembered.

Therefore, the name of a specific person to be searched can be divided into a case of inputting a search word (eg, 'Y' in S20) and a case of not entering a search word ('No' in S20), such as when entering one or three letters. have.

For example, in the case of 'Yes' in S30, let's say that the user tries to search for the phone number of 'Lee Soo Hyun' and only inputs 'Lee' character in the input window.

Then, all names including the 'this' character are searched. First, it is first searched whether there is a name including the 'this' character in the 'frequent number' area (S30).

If there is a name including 'this' character in the 'frequent number' area, the search result is output to the display unit 40 (S40).

However, if there is no name including the 'this' character in the 'frequent number' area, it is searched whether there is a name including the 'this' character in the entire area of the phone book (S50).

If there is a name including 'this' character in the entire area of the phone book, a search result is output to the display unit 40 (S40), and if there is no name including the 'this' character in the phonebook area, an error message is displayed. It is output to (S60).

If the user wants to search a name without inputting a specific person's name in step S20, the user may select the name search menu and then input the 'confirmation' key without inputting the search word when the search term input window is presented. The 'OK' key is arbitrarily named and its name may be different.

When the 'OK' key is input (S70), all the information stored in the frequently used area is output to the display unit 40.

The search result found in the 'frequent number' area is less than the number of results searched in the entire area of the phone book, and the user can know the phone number of the required person by pressing the up and down navigation keys.

However, there may be a case where there is no phone number of the person required by the user among the search results in the 'frequent number' area.

In this case, a key that can be selected by the user to be searched for the search word is designated in the entire area of the phone book, or when there is no search result in the 'frequent number' area, the search result is automatically displayed in the entire area of the phone book. To be printed).

The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, and various modifications and changes can be made by those skilled in the art, which are included in the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined in the appended claims.

As described above, in the present invention, when a user inputs a search word to search for a phone number of a specific person, first, a search result is first outputted in the 'frequently used number' area, so that the search time is shortened and the user is more convenient to search. The effect is that you can lose.

Furthermore, the search time is shortened and the battery life of the mobile phone is also shortened.

Claims (5)

In a method of searching for a phone number corresponding to the search word in a phone book in which a plurality of phone numbers are stored according to a phone number search request signal for a search word input by a user, A phone number registration process in which one or more phone numbers are registered in a 'frequently used number' area by a user; A search word input process for receiving a search word by a user's key input; And a first phone number search process of searching for information corresponding to the search term in the 'frequent number' area and presenting a corresponding phone number to a display unit. The method of claim 1, If the information corresponding to the search word is not searched in the 'frequently used number' area, a second phone number search process of searching in the phone book and presenting the corresponding phone number to the display unit may include a second phone number search process. How to search the mobile phonebook. According to claim 1, The telephone number registration process, And a 'frequently used number' setting process in which the counterpart phone number registered in the phone book is included in the 'frequently used number' area. The method of claim 1, wherein the search word in the search word input process is: Mobile phone book search method according to the priority, characterized in that all or some letters of the specific person name to search. In a method of searching for a phone number corresponding to the search word in a phone book in which a plurality of phone numbers are stored according to a phone number search request signal for a search word input by a user, A phone number registration process in which one or more phone numbers are registered in a 'frequently used number' area by a user; A 'name search' search process in which a key corresponding to 'name search' is input by a user; And a 'frequently used number' area presenting information stored in the 'frequently used number' area on a display unit.