WO2012155411A1

WO2012155411A1 - Information modification notification method, linkman information update method and device

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Publication number: WO2012155411A1
Application number: PCT/CN2011/079412
Authority: WO
Inventors: 梁怀宗
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2011-07-21
Filing date: 2011-09-07
Publication date: 2012-11-22
Also published as: CN102891920A; CN102891920B

Abstract

Disclosed in the present invention are an information modification notification method, a linkman information update method and device are, and the information modification notification method includes: setting a linkman need to be notified when user information is updated; and initiating an information modification notification flow to the linkman after the user information has been modified. With the present invention, automatic update of linkman information can be achieved.

Description

Information change notification method, contact information update method and device

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of mobile communications, and in particular, to a method for notification of information change, a method and apparatus for updating contact information.

Background technique

The phonebook storage function has become an indispensable function of the current mobile communication terminal, and the existence of this function brings great convenience to the end user, so that the terminal user does not need to remember all the contacts associated with it. The relevant information is especially the number information, and only the name of the contact needs to be remembered, and the call can be made directly through the phone book.

However, with the continuous development of mobile communication terminals and the ever-changing needs of end users, the related information of the terminal users, especially the number information, often changes, which causes user A to re-notify after the information of user A changes. All user B associated with it, then user B then updates the relevant information about user A stored in its terminal.

After the user A's information changes, it is usually sent to other users connected by SMS or phone: 8. If User A tells all User B by telephone, although it can be ensured that all User B can receive notification of their own information update, but since User B is connected with User A, there are many, each person is on the phone. Information will bring a lot of work to User A. If user A informs user B by means of short message, in order to ensure that user B receives the notification message, user B also needs to manually reply to user A confirmation message indicating that he has received the message of this information update. These two modes of operation, whether for user A or user B, bring a lot of extra work, because the two end users are connected to each other, the related information, especially the number information is not the user's most concerned, so this operation gives Users bring unnecessary trouble.

Summary of the invention

An object of the present invention is to provide an information change notification method, a method and apparatus for updating contact information, to implement automatic update of contact information. In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides an information change notification method, including: setting a contact that needs to be notified when user information is updated;

After the user information is changed, an information change notification process is initiated to the contact.

The steps of initiating an information change notification process to the contact include:

Editing the information change message, the information change message carries the changed user information; and transmitting the information change message to the contact.

After detecting that the user information is changed, prompting whether to initiate the information change notification; and receiving the trigger message for initiating the information change notification, generating an information change short message, and transmitting the information change short message to the contact.

The steps to set up contacts that need to be notified when updating user information include:

In the phone book, the contact that needs to be notified when the user information is updated is marked, or the contact in the phone book that needs to be notified when the user information is updated is backed up.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention also provides a method for updating contact information, including: setting a contact that allows contact information to be automatically updated;

After receiving the information change message, the sender of the change SMS message and the contact person set up trigger the contact information update process according to the information.

The steps of triggering the contact information update process according to the information change sender of the short message and the set contact include:

If it is determined that the set contact includes the sender of the information change message, the contact information carried by the message is changed according to the information, and the contact information corresponding to the sender is automatically updated.

After the step of automatically updating the contact information corresponding to the sender, the method further includes: prompting whether to reply to the message that the information update is successful, or

The sender is replied to a message that the information update was successful.

The step of triggering the contact information update process according to the information change sender of the short message and the set contact includes: If it is determined that the set contact does not include the sender, it prompts whether to update the contact information, or prompts whether to add the sender's information.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention further provides an apparatus for information change notification, comprising: a setting module configured to set a contact that needs to be notified when user information is updated; and a notification module configured to change after the user information is changed , initiating an information change notification process to the contact set by the setting module.

The notification module includes:

An editing unit configured to edit an information change short message, wherein the information change message carries the changed user information;

And a notification unit configured to send the information change short message to a contact set by the setting module.

The notification module includes:

a detecting unit configured to detect whether the user information is changed;

a prompting unit configured to prompt whether to initiate an information change notification if the detecting unit detects that the user information has changed;

The notification unit is configured to: after receiving the trigger message for initiating the information change notification, generate an information change short message, and send the information change short message to the contact set by the setting module.

The setting module is configured to set a contact that needs to be notified when the user information is updated by: marking a contact that needs to be notified when the user information is updated in the phone book, or notifying the user information when updating the phone book in the phone book The contacts are backed up.

In order to solve the above problem, the present invention further provides an apparatus for updating contact information, comprising: a setting module configured to set a contact that allows contact information to be automatically updated; and an update module configured to: receive the information change After the short message, the sender of the short message and the contact set by the setting module are triggered according to the information to trigger a contact information update process.

The update module includes:

a determining unit, configured to determine whether the contact set by the setting module includes the sender of the information change text message; And an update unit, configured to: when the determining unit determines that the contact set by the setting module includes the sender of the information change short message, change the contact information carried by the short message according to the information, and automatically update the location Describe the contact information corresponding to the sender;

a prompting unit, configured to: when the determining unit determines that the contact set by the setting module does not include the sender of the information change short message, prompting whether to update the contact information, or prompting whether to add the sending Believe in information.

The prompting unit is further configured to prompt a message of whether the reply information update is successful after the update unit automatically updates the contact information corresponding to the sender.

The device also includes:

And a sending module, configured to: after the updating unit automatically updates the contact information corresponding to the sender, replying to the sender with a message that the information update is successful.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention also provides a terminal, the device including the above information change notification, and/or the device for updating the contact information described above.

In summary, the present invention provides an information change notification method, a method and device for updating contact information, and can automatically update contact information. BRIEF abstract

1 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus for information change notification according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a device for updating contact information according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a flowchart of an information change notification method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a flowchart of a method for updating contact information according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a flow chart of a method of an application example of the present invention.

Preferred embodiment of the invention

In order to make the objects, the technical solutions and the advantages of the present invention more clearly, the embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that, in the case of no conflict, the features in the embodiments and the embodiments in the present application may be arbitrarily combined with each other. For a better understanding of the present invention, the invention will be further described in conjunction with the drawings and specific embodiments.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus for information change notification according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the apparatus of this embodiment includes:

a setting module configured to set a contact to be notified when the user information is updated; and a notification module configured to initiate a information change notification process to the contact set by the setting module after the user information is changed.

The setting module is configured to set a contact that needs to be notified when the user information is updated by: marking, in the phone book, a contact that needs to be notified when the user information is updated, or when the user information is updated in the phone book. The contact that needs to be notified is backed up.

The setting module can make a single setting for the contact, or a group of contacts, or a single contact.

In a preferred embodiment, the notification module may include:

The editing unit is configured to edit the information change short message, and the information change message carries the changed user information; the editing unit can provide the user with the corresponding information to change the edit template of the short message, and the user only needs to fill in the related information that needs to be updated. Enter the template; and

In a preferred embodiment, the notification module may include:

a detecting unit configured to detect whether the user information is changed;

a prompting unit configured to prompt whether to initiate an information change notification when the detecting unit detects that the user information is changed;

The notification unit is configured to: after receiving the trigger message for initiating the information change notification, generate an information change short message, and send the information change short message to the contact.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus for updating contact information according to an embodiment of the present invention, including:

a setting module configured to set a contact that allows contact information to be automatically updated; And an update module, configured to: after receiving the information change short message, change the sender of the short message and the contact set by the setting module according to the information to trigger a contact information update process.

The setting module may perform a single setting for the contact, or a contact group, or a single contact.

The update module includes:

a determining unit, configured to determine whether the contact set by the setting module includes the sender of the information change short message;

And an update unit, configured to: when the determining unit determines that the contact set by the setting module includes the sender of the information change short message, change the contact information carried by the short message according to the information, and automatically update the location Describe the contact information corresponding to the sender;

In a preferred embodiment, the prompting unit may further prompt whether the reply information is successfully updated after the update unit automatically updates the contact information corresponding to the sender.

In a preferred embodiment, the device further includes:

The embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, which may include one or both of the information change notification device and the contact information update device, and the device having the information change notification and the function of the contact information update device. .

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a method for information change notification according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, the method in this embodiment includes the following steps:

Sl l, set the contact that needs to be notified when the user information is updated;

S12. After the user information is changed, initiate an information change notification process to the contact. In a preferred embodiment, the information change notification process is initiated to the contact, including: editing an information change short message, wherein the information change message carries the changed user information; Sending the information change text message to the contact.

In a preferred embodiment, the information change notification process is initiated to the contact, including: prompting whether to initiate an information change notification after detecting that the user information is changed; and generating a change of information after receiving the trigger message for initiating the information change notification The short message is sent to the contact by the information change message.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a method for updating contact information according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the method in this embodiment includes the following steps:

521. Set a contact that allows the contact information to be automatically updated;

522. After receiving the information change message, change the sender of the short message and the set contact according to the information to trigger a contact information update process.

The method of the present invention will be described in detail below with an application example.

First, User A sets other users (contacts) whose information needs to be notified, User A enters the settings interface, selects the Information Update Notifier function, and then can choose to set all contacts, set individuals, or set groups. If user A chooses to set the individual, enter the contact personal list interface; if the group is set, enter the group selection interface, and save the user's settings and exit the setting interface after the user selects and sets.

Here, it is mainly to set the contact that user A needs to notify when sending a message change message. Here is a method of adding a tag field to the phone book in the user A mobile phone to mark the contact that needs to be notified when the information changes; another method is: for the phone book in the user A mobile phone Back up the list of contacts that need to be notified when the information changes. When the phone list in the card currently used by user A is set, the backup is performed uniformly, so that the user on the previous card can be notified in time after the user A information is changed. If User A has a backup phone list, the backup information should be synchronized in time when the original information in the phone list changes.

User B sets whether or not user A is allowed to automatically update his or her own phone book information. At the same time, it can be set whether or not user A is automatically notified after user A's information is updated, and whether user B is notified whether or not to update the information.

Specifically, the user B selects the information update setting, and then can select to set all contacts, set individuals, or set the group. If user B chooses to set a personal, enter the contact personal list Interface; If the group is set, enter the group selection interface, save the user's settings and exit the setting interface after the user selects and sets. Here, it is mainly set whether the user B automatically updates or selects the manual update when receiving the information update message from the user A, and whether the result is notified to the user A after the update.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a method for applying an example of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5, the method includes the following steps: Step 101: After the information of the user A changes, the information change notification process is initiated; the information change notification process may be initiated by the user A. The terminal may also prompt the user A to initiate an information change notification process after detecting that the user A information changes. The terminal detection is mainly based on comparing the information of the user A stored before the system with the new information, and if the change occurs, the user A is reminded whether Notify other contacts of this information change.

If the information change notification process is initiated by the user A, the user A edits the specific information change message through the editing guide provided by the editing unit; the sending unit sends the short message to the network side according to the short message format, and the network side Forward this message to the intended recipient, User B.

If the information change notification process is initiated by the terminal detecting that the information of the user A has changed, after the user A selects the change notification, the short message of the information change is automatically generated. Of course, if User A needs it, it can also edit and modify the SMS automatically generated by the terminal.

Step 102: User B receives the information update message from user A, first determines whether the short message is the user information update message, if not, then according to the ordinary message processing; if it is the information change message, then proceeds to step 103;

Step 103: The information change module obtains the original information of the user A from the information change short message, mainly the original number of the user A, and then searches according to the number information in the phone book of the user B, and the search range includes all the contents stored by the user B. The phone book list, if the information of the user A is found, proceeds to step 104, and if not found, proceeds to step 107.

Step 104: Determine whether the user A is allowed to perform automatic information update according to the update setting of the user B to the user A. If yes, go to step 105. If not, go to step 106.

Step 105: Update the information of the user A in the phone book of the user B according to the new information in the information update message, and then determine according to the setting of the user B for the user A after the update is completed. Send an update notification, and the update notification is sent as a regular SMS.

Step 106: Provide an update wizard for user B, and user B selects whether to update;

For example, prompt user B "User A's information has changed to be updated". If user B chooses to update, user A's information can be manually updated; if you choose to abandon, the update process ends, and the final The result is communicated to user A.

Step 107: If the information about the user A is not saved in the phone book of the user B, the user B is prompted to save.

If user B chooses to save, you can create a new user A's information record and save it. If you choose to abandon, the update process ends, and the final operation result determines whether to notify user A according to user B's settings.

Of course, if User B's phone book does not store user A's information, it can also decide to discard this information according to User B's settings.

This application example can provide User A with a simple and fast notification method, and ensure that User A can finally know whether User B has successfully updated his information. User B can also be provided with a method for automatically updating User A information. This eliminates the need for user B to manually update, thereby reducing unnecessary operations of both end users, saving user time and better meeting user needs.

The method and the device provided by the embodiment and the application example do not need to add a new hardware unit to the existing terminal, and only need to modify related parts of the current terminal, and add a new functional unit that is not currently available. Under the premise of not increasing the cost of the current terminal, the unnecessary operation of the user is greatly reduced, and the user's attention to the information that does not need attention is also reduced.

One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that all or a portion of the above steps may be performed by a program to instruct the associated hardware, such as a read only memory, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk. Alternatively, all or part of the steps of the above embodiments may also be implemented using one or more integrated circuits. Correspondingly, each module/unit in the foregoing embodiment may be implemented in the form of hardware, or may be implemented in the form of a software function module. The invention is not limited to any specific form of combination of hardware and software. The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and of course, the present invention may be embodied in various other embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Corresponding changes and modifications are intended to be included within the scope of the appended claims.

Industrial applicability

Compared with the prior art, the present invention can realize automatic update of contact information, and does not need to add a new hardware unit to an existing terminal, and only needs to modify related parts of the current terminal, and the newly added part is currently Without the functional unit, the user's unnecessary operation is greatly reduced without increasing the cost of the current terminal, and the user's attention to the information that does not need attention is also reduced.

Claims

Claim

1. A method for notification of information change, comprising:

Set up contacts that need to be notified when updating user information; and

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of initiating an information change notification process to the contact comprises:

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of initiating an information change notification process to the contact comprises:

4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the step of setting a contact to be notified when the user information is updated comprises:

5. A method for updating contact information, including:

Set up contacts that allow contact information to be automatically updated;

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the step of triggering the contact information update process according to the information change sender of the short message and the set contact includes:

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the contact letter corresponding to the sender is automatically updated After the steps of interest, it also includes:

Prompt whether to reply to the message that the information update is successful, or

The sender is replied to a message that the information update was successful.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein the step of triggering the contact information update process according to the information change sender of the short message and the set contact includes:

If it is determined that the set contact does not include the sender, it prompts whether to update the contact information, or prompts whether to add the sender's information.

9. A device for notification of information change, comprising:

a setting module configured to set a contact to be notified when the user information is updated; and a notification module configured to initiate an information change notification process to the contact set by the setting module after the user information is changed.

The device of claim 9, wherein the notification module comprises:

a detecting unit configured to detect whether user information has changed;

12. The apparatus according to any one of claims 9 to 11, wherein

13. A device for updating contact information, comprising: a setting module configured to set a contact that allows the contact information to be automatically updated; and an update module configured to: after receiving the information change short message, change the contact set by the sender of the short message and the setting module according to the information The person triggers the contact information update process.

The device of claim 13, wherein the update module comprises:

15. The apparatus according to claim 14, wherein

16. The apparatus of claim 14, further comprising:

A terminal comprising the device according to any one of claims 9 to 12 and/or the device according to any one of claims 13 to 16.