WO2018000744A1

WO2018000744A1 - Contact person detail prompting method

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Publication number: WO2018000744A1
Application number: PCT/CN2016/109589
Authority: WO
Inventors: 冉筱庆
Original assignee: 乐视控股（北京）有限公司; 乐视移动智能信息技术（北京）有限公司
Priority date: 2016-06-30
Filing date: 2016-12-13
Publication date: 2018-01-04
Also published as: CN105978799A

Abstract

The invention relates to the field of communications. Disclosed is a contact person detail prompting method, comprising: receiving a prompt about an associated contact person which is input by a user in the text of a communication software with a contact person list, and marking the associated contact person in a pre-set format; and acquiring and displaying details of the associated contact person when a selection instruction for the associated contact person in the text is received. Compared with the prior art, in the embodiments of the present invention, when information is written in the text of a communication software, detail information about a selected contact person can be filled conveniently and quickly, and the inconvenience of manually inputting contact person information by the user is avoided; and when the information is viewed, the efficiency of prompting the user to pay attention to the detail information about the selected contact person in the text of the information can be improved.

Description

Contact details prompt method

The present application is filed on the basis of a Chinese patent application filed on Jan. 30, 2016, filed on June 30, 2016, the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference.

[Technical Field]

The present invention relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to a contact detail prompting method.

【Background technique】

In the process of implementing the present invention, the inventors found that the prior art has the following defects: with the rapid development of the Internet and the application of office automation in daily work, communication software with contact lists such as short messages, telephones, and e-mails has become An essential tool for everyday work. For e-mail, carrying an attachment and describing the attachment as a text is one of the important functions of the e-mail; and when you need to prompt for a contact's information, you can manually add a callout near the body you want to follow to suggest the contact. People pay attention. Such as: near the body that needs attention, @a contact, and so on. However, in the body of the message, @contact requires the user to manually add the contact's name or other information representing the contact. It can be seen that the way in which users are prompted to pay attention to information in an email is currently inefficient. Or, when sending a short message, the user needs to manually add the name or mobile phone number of the contact, the input method is inconvenient, and the operation efficiency is not high.

[Summary of the Invention]

The purpose of the embodiment of the present invention is to provide a contact detail prompting method, so that when the information is written in the body of the communication software, the selected contact detailed information can be conveniently and quickly filled, thereby avoiding the user manually inputting the contact information. Inconvenient; when viewing information, it can improve the efficiency of prompting the user to pay attention to the information of the selected contact details in the body of the message.

To solve the above technical problem, an embodiment of the present invention provides a contact detail prompting method, including: receiving, by a user, an associated contact input in a body of a communication software having a contact list. And display the associated contact in a preset format; when the selected instruction of the contact in the text is received, the associated contact details are obtained and displayed.

Compared with the prior art, the embodiment of the present invention marks the associated contact in a preset format when receiving the prompt of the associated contact entered by the user in the body of the communication software having the contact list, thereby writing When the information is used, the selected contact details information can be conveniently and quickly filled, which avoids the inconvenience when the user manually inputs the contact information. And after receiving the selection instruction of the contact associated with the text in the above text, the associated contact details may be automatically obtained and displayed, so that when viewing the information, the user may be prompted to pay attention to the information of the selected contact in the text. The efficiency; and the operation is simple, easy to use, and practical.

In addition, when the associated contact details are obtained, the associated contact details are obtained in a classified manner, so that various details of the associated contacts can be conveniently obtained according to the classified contact details that have been classified. The information simplifies the steps for the user to view the details of the associated contact, which is simple and smarter to use.

In addition, the contact details prompting method further includes: pre-collecting and storing all mail contact details; and obtaining the contact details that are pre-categorized and stored according to the associated contact search when acquiring the associated contact details. Since all mail contact details are stored in advance, it is more convenient to call the contact details, which greatly improves the efficiency of obtaining the associated contact details.

In addition, when receiving the prompt of the associated contact entered by the user in the body of the communication software having the contact list, the method includes: when receiving the prompt input by the user in the text, acquiring all the contacts; The person is displayed with a preset collation; the contact selected by the user is taken as the associated contact. Therefore, when the user needs to input the details of an associated contact, the user can directly select from all the contacts displayed by the sorting, and selecting the associated contact according to the sorting rule makes the operation of the user more convenient and practical. .

In addition, the preset collation includes: sorting the contacts according to the first letter of the receiving address; or sorting the contacts according to the length of the last contact time according to the current contact time; or, according to the historical contact frequency, the contacts are Sort display. Can be based on the user's usage habits or actual The design requirements select the appropriate ordering rules to suit different design needs.

In addition, after all the contacts are displayed in a preset collation, the method further includes: if the contact address of the associated contact does not exist in the address input field in the body, the corresponding contact to be associated The recipient address is added to the address entry field. If the user needs to input the receiving address into the address input field, the above method can automatically fill the address of the selected associated contact into the address input field when the associated contact is selected, thereby avoiding the user manually inputting the address into the address. It is not convenient to enter the address, and it can also avoid the wrong operation by manual operation.

In addition, the contact details include any one or any combination of the following: information sent to me, information I sent to ta, creation as a new contact, addition to an existing contact, classification of the contact's information. Thereby, the contact details can be designed in any combination to meet the needs of different users.

An embodiment of the present invention provides an electronic device comprising: at least one processor; and a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the one processor The instructions are executed by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to perform the method of any of the above.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer instructions for causing the computer to perform the method.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer program product comprising a computer program stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the computer program comprising program instructions, when the program instructions are executed by a computer The computer is caused to perform the method of any of the above.

[Description of the Drawings]

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below. It is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention. Those of ordinary skill in the art, without creative efforts, Other drawings can be obtained from these figures.

1 is a flowchart of a method for prompting details in an email according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a schematic diagram of a body of a mail according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a schematic diagram of an email contact interface according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a flow chart showing a method of displaying details in an email according to the first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of contact details in a first embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

6 is a flow chart showing a method of displaying details in a mail according to a third embodiment of the present invention;

7 is a structural block diagram of a client in a fourth embodiment of the present invention;

8 is a block diagram showing the structure of a terminal according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of hardware of an electronic device applied to the contact detail prompting method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

【detailed description】

In order to make the objects, technical solutions, and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below. However, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that, in the various embodiments of the present invention, numerous technical details are set forth in order to provide the reader with a better understanding of the present application. However, the technical solutions claimed in the present application can be implemented without these technical details and various changes and modifications based on the following embodiments.

The contact details prompting method in the embodiment of the present invention can be applied to a client of a communication software having a contact list. Optionally, the method provided by the embodiment of the present invention can be used as a function of a client of a communication software having a contact list. The client of the communication software can be installed on the terminal device, and the communication software can be: short message, telephone, email, and the like. The embodiments of the present invention can be applied to terminal devices such as a personal computer PC, a smart phone (such as an Android mobile phone, an iOS mobile phone, etc.), a tablet computer, a palmtop computer, or a mobile Internet device.

A first embodiment of the present invention relates to a contact details prompting method, which receives a prompt of an associated contact entered by a user in a body of a communication software having a contact list, and is preset by a cell The associated contact is marked; and when the selected instruction for the associated contact in the body is received, the associated contact details are obtained and displayed. Compared with the prior art, the embodiment of the present invention enables the selected contact detailed information to be conveniently and quickly filled when writing information in the body of the communication software, thereby avoiding the inconvenience when the user manually inputs the contact information; While viewing the information, it is possible to improve the efficiency of prompting the user to pay attention to the information of the selected contact details in the body of the message.

The contact details prompting method can be used as a function of the mail client, and is applied to various terminal devices for installing the mail client as an example. It should be understood that this example does not limit the contact details prompting method to the mail. Client. The specific process is shown in Figure 1, including the following steps:

In step 101, it is determined whether the user inputs a prompt in the body of the mail, and if so, proceeds to step 102, otherwise returns to step 101 to continue the determination.

The prompt can be set by the user according to the needs of the user. This embodiment does not limit the type of the prompt. For example, the prompt can be, but is not limited to, the "@" character or the "#" character, etc., which are not enumerated here. As shown in FIG. 2, when the prompt is "@" character, the terminal device can receive the "@" character input by the user in the body of the mail.

It is worth mentioning that the prompt can also be set by the terminal device according to the history record set by the user. Specifically, the terminal device can obtain a history setting record of the user setting prompt; according to the historical setting record, the prompt set with the highest setting frequency in the history prompt set by the user can be obtained, and the setting frequency is the highest. The prompt is used as the newly set contact prompt.

In this embodiment, regardless of whether the prompt is set by the user or by the terminal device according to the history setting record of the user, the user can view the specific prompt by entering a contact prompt in the body of the email. The set contact prompt. Of course, the user can also control the terminal device to use only one contact prompt. This embodiment does not limit the setting manner of the contact prompt.

In step 102, all mail contacts are obtained, and all mail contacts are displayed in a preset sorting rule for the user to select.

Specifically, all mail contacts can be displayed in a drop-down menu with a preset sorting rule; It is also possible to automatically pop up a mail contact interface arranged by a preset sorting rule. You can use the automatic pop-up email contact interface as an example. The pop-up email contact interface can be as shown in Figure 3.

It should be noted that the preset collation includes, but is not limited to, sorting the contacts according to the first letter of the email address; or sorting the contacts according to the length of the current contact time of the latest contact time; or, according to the historical contact The frequency is sorted and displayed for the contacts; any rule that can achieve sorting to facilitate user selection should be within the protection scope of the embodiments of the present invention.

In step 103, the mail contact selected by the user is taken as the associated contact.

Specifically, the mail contact selected by the user can be received, and the mail contact selected by the user is taken as the associated contact. For example, if the contact selected by the user is “AAA”, the terminal device can receive the mail contact “AAA” selected by the user and use “AAA” as the associated contact.

It is worth mentioning that the user can select a contact in the mail contact list by, but not limited to, the following: the user clicks on the contact to be selected, or long presses the contact to be selected, or double-clicks the contact to be selected. .

In step 104, the associated contacts are marked in a preset format.

For example, the prompt and the associated contact can be underlined in the body, and the content displayed at this time can be "@AAA". It is worth mentioning that the default format can be underlined under the associated contact and/or the associated contact is displayed in a different color than the body text of the email. Any preset format different from the body content should be Within the scope of protection of the present invention.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment, in the process of sending an email, the sender can view the contact details by selecting the associated contact; after receiving the email, the recipient can also be selected by being associated. Contacts to view the contact details. That is, after receiving the selected instruction from the recipient, that is, the recipient selects the selected contact of the contact in the body of the email, the associated contact details are obtained and displayed, and the selected instruction can be the sender. It can also be sent by the recipient. The following describes the contact selected by the recipient as an example. The specific process is as shown in Figure 4, including the following steps:

In step 401, it is determined whether a selection instruction for the associated contact in the body of the mail is received. If yes, go to step 402, otherwise return to step 401 to continue the judgment.

For example, the recipient can click the content of the above underscore "@AAA" in the body of the email when reading the email. It is worth mentioning that the user can select the associated contact by any of the following methods: click, double click or long press, etc., but the invention is not limited thereto, and any way can be set to indicate that the selected is associated. The contact person should be within the scope of the present invention.

In step 402, the associated contact details are obtained and displayed.

Specifically: the associated contact details can be collected in a categorized manner. For example, the contact details related to the contact information may be searched in real time according to “AAA”, and the contact details information may be displayed in a classified manner for the user to view, and the display information may be as shown in FIG. 5. The contact details in Figure 5 include the mail sent to me, the mail I sent to ta, classified the contact's mail as spam, created as a new contact, and added to an existing contact. However, it should be noted that the present embodiment does not limit the specific categories included in the contact details, and may edit the categories included in the contact details according to the actual design needs or the needs of the user. So in a practical application, the contact details can include any one or any combination of the following: the mail sent to me, the mail I sent to ta, the creation as a new contact, the addition to an existing contact, the contact Mail categorization. The mail of the contact can be classified into spam or important mail, etc., which are not listed here.

Through the above content, it is not difficult to find that the present embodiment can conveniently and quickly fill the selected contact details when writing an email, thereby avoiding the inconvenience when the user manually inputs the contact information; Raise the efficiency of prompting users to follow the information of selected contacts in the body of the message.

A second embodiment of the present invention relates to a contact detail presentation method. The details presentation method in the second embodiment is substantially the same as the first embodiment, and the main difference is that in the first embodiment, the associated contact details are collected in a classified manner; and in the present embodiment, in advance All mail contact details are categorized and stored, and the contact details pre-categorized and stored are obtained based on the associated contact lookup. In this embodiment, since all the mail contact details are stored in advance, it is more convenient to call the contact details, and the effect of obtaining the associated contact details is greatly improved. rate.

In this embodiment, the mail contact details pre-categorized and stored may be manually added by the user. For example, when a contact is added to a mail contact, the contact details can be searched and categorized. The pre-categorized and stored mail contact details may also be updated in real time by the terminal device. For example, every time an email is received or every email is sent, the new email sent out is received.

A third embodiment of the present invention relates to a contact detail presentation method. The third embodiment is improved on the basis of the first or second embodiment. The main improvement is that in the embodiment, the email address corresponding to the associated contact can be automatically added to the email address input field. Specifically, after all the mail contacts are displayed by the preset sorting rule for the user to select, the method further includes: if the email address of the selected contact does not exist in the email address input field in the email interface, Add the email address corresponding to the associated contact to the email address input field.

The specific steps, as shown in FIG. 6, include:

In step 601, it is determined whether the user inputs a prompt in the body of the email, and if yes, proceeds to step 602, otherwise returns to step 601 to continue the determination.

In step 602, all mail contacts are obtained, and all mail contacts are displayed in a preset sorting rule for the user to select.

Step 603: Determine whether the email address of the selected contact exists in the email address input field in the email interface. If yes, go to step 604, otherwise go to step 606.

Step 604, the mail contact selected by the user is taken as the associated contact.

Step 605, marking the associated contact in a preset format.

Step 606: Add the email address corresponding to the associated contact to the email address input field.

In this embodiment, when the user has selected the associated contact, the terminal device passes the detection and determines whether the email address of the contact that has been selected is in the email address input field. Since the associated contact may also be a contact that needs to be prompted, if the terminal device determines that the associated contact email address is not in the email address input field, the associated contact does not receive the email, and the same I can't see the prompt. So to ensure that the associated contact can see the email, you can add the email address corresponding to the associated contact to the email address input field. The email address input field includes any one of the following: a recipient bar or a CC column. If the terminal device determines that the associated contact email address is in the email address input field, no action is taken.

It is worth noting that, in actual implementation, you can also ask the user whether to add the associated contact to the email address input field according to the need, and add it when the user chooses to add. This is more user-friendly and helps to improve. user experience.

Through the above, it is not difficult to find that, in the embodiment, if the user needs to input a mailbox into the email address input field, the mailbox of the selected associated contact is automatically filled in automatically when the associated contact is selected by the above manner. The email address input field avoids the inconvenience of the user manually inputting the address into the email address input field, and can also avoid the wrong operation of the email address by manual operation.

The steps of the above various methods are divided for the sake of clear description. The implementation may be combined into one step or split into certain steps and decomposed into multiple steps. As long as the same logical relationship is included, it is within the protection scope of this patent. The addition of insignificant modifications to an algorithm or process, or the introduction of an insignificant design, without changing the core design of its algorithms and processes, is covered by this patent.

A fourth embodiment of the present invention relates to a client, as shown in FIG. 7, comprising: a first receiving module 71, a processing module 72, a display module 73, and a second receiving module 74. The first receiving module 71 is configured to receive a prompt of the associated contact entered by the user in the body of the communication software having the contact list; the processing module 72 is configured to receive, in the first receiving module 71, the user input in the text The contact of the associated contact marks the associated contact in a preset format; the display module 73 is configured to, in the preset format, the associated contact when the processing module 72 marks the associated contact in a preset format. The second receiving module 74 is configured to receive a selection instruction for the associated contact in the text body, and the processing module 72 is configured to receive, at the second receiving module 74, a selection instruction for the associated contact in the text. Then, the associated contact details are obtained; the display module 73 is further configured to display the acquired associated contact details after the processing module 72 obtains the associated contact details.

It is not difficult to find that the present embodiment is a device corresponding to the first or second or third embodiment. Embodiments of the present embodiment can be implemented in cooperation with the first or second or third embodiment. The related technical details mentioned in the first or second or third embodiment are still effective in the present embodiment, and are not described herein again in order to reduce repetition. Accordingly, the related technical details mentioned in the present embodiment can also be applied to the first or second or third embodiment.

It is worth mentioning that each module involved in the embodiment is a logic module. In practical applications, a logical unit may be a physical unit, a part of a physical unit, or multiple physical entities. A combination of units is implemented. In addition, in order to highlight the innovative part of the present invention, the present embodiment does not introduce a unit that is not closely related to solving the technical problem proposed by the present invention, but this does not mean that there are no other units in the present embodiment.

A fifth embodiment of the present invention relates to a terminal on which a client described in the fourth embodiment is mounted, as shown in FIG. 8, including an operation panel 81, a processor 82, and a display 83; and an operation panel 81, The prompt of the associated contact entered by the user in the body of the communication software with the contact list is received. The processor 82 is configured to mark the associated contact in a preset format when the operation panel 81 receives the prompt of the associated contact entered by the user in the body of the communication software having the contact list. The display 83 is configured to display the associated contact in a preset format when the processor 82 marks the associated contact in a preset format. The operation panel 81 is further configured to receive a user's selection instruction for the associated contact in the text. The processor 82 is further configured to obtain the associated contact details after receiving the selection instruction of the contact associated with the text in the text. The display 83 is further configured to display the acquired associated contact details after the processor 82 acquires the associated contact details.

It is not difficult to find that the present embodiment is a terminal device embodiment corresponding to the first embodiment, and the present embodiment can be implemented in cooperation with the first embodiment. The related technical details mentioned in the first embodiment are still effective in the present embodiment, and are not described herein again in order to reduce repetition. Accordingly, the related art details mentioned in the present embodiment can also be applied to the first embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram showing the hardware structure of an electronic device for prompting a contact details method according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown, the electronic device includes one or more processors 910 and a memory 920. Take a processor 910 as an example. The electronic device can also include an input device 930 and an output device 940.

The processor 910, the memory 920, the input device 930, and the output device 940 may be connected by a bus or other means, as exemplified by a bus connection in FIG.

The memory 920 is a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for storing non-transitory software programs, non-transitory computer executable programs, and modules. The processor 910 executes various functional applications and data processing of the electronic device by running non-transitory software programs, instructions, and modules stored in the memory 920, that is, the processing method of the above method embodiments.

The memory 920 may include a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area may store an operating system, an application required for at least one function; the storage data area may store data or the like. Moreover, memory 920 can include high speed random access memory, and can also include non-transitory memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other non-transitory solid state storage device. In some embodiments, memory 920 can optionally include memory remotely located relative to processor 910, which can be connected to the processing device over a network. Examples of such networks include, but are not limited to, the Internet, intranets, local area networks, mobile communication networks, and combinations thereof.

Input device 930 can receive input digital or character information and generate a signal input. Output device 940 can include a display device such as a display screen.

The one or more modules are stored in the memory 920, and when executed by the one or more processors 910, perform the method of any of the above embodiments.

The above product can perform the method provided by the embodiment of the present invention, and has the corresponding functional modules and beneficial effects of the execution method. For technical details that are not described in detail in this embodiment, reference may be made to the method provided by the embodiments of the present invention.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a non-transitory computer storage medium storing computer executable instructions that can perform the method of any of the above embodiments.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer program product, the computer program product comprising a computer program stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the computer program comprising program instructions, when the program instructions are executed by a computer The computer is enabled to perform the method of any of the above embodiments.

The device embodiments described above are merely illustrative, wherein the described as separate components The units may or may not be physically separate, and the components displayed as units may or may not be physical units, that is, may be located in one place, or may be distributed to multiple network units. Some or all of the modules may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment. Those of ordinary skill in the art can understand and implement without deliberate labor.

Through the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the various embodiments can be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and of course, by hardware. Based on such understanding, the above-described technical solutions may be embodied in the form of software products in essence or in the form of software products, which may be stored in a computer readable storage medium such as ROM/RAM, magnetic Discs, optical discs, etc., include instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, server, or network device, etc.) to perform the methods described in various embodiments or portions of the embodiments.

It should be noted that the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the present invention, and are not limited thereto; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those skilled in the art should understand that The technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments are modified, or the equivalents of the technical features are replaced. The modifications and substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.

Claims

A contact detail prompting method, comprising:

Receiving a prompt of an associated contact entered by a user in a body of a communication software having a contact list, and marking the associated contact in a preset format;

After receiving the selection instruction for the associated contact in the text, the associated contact details are obtained and displayed.
The contact detail prompting method according to claim 1, wherein the associated contact details are obtained in a categorized manner when the associated contact details are acquired.
The contact details prompting method according to claim 1, wherein the contact detail prompting method further comprises:

Pre-categorize and store all contact details;

Upon obtaining the associated contact details, the pre-categorized and stored contact details are obtained based on the associated contact lookup.
The contact details prompting method according to claim 1, wherein when the selection instruction for the associated contact in the text is received, a selection instruction from a recipient is received.
The contact details prompting method according to claim 1, wherein the receiving the prompt of the associated contact entered by the user in the body of the communication software having the contact list comprises:

Obtain all contacts when receiving a prompt entered by the user in the body text;

Displaying all the contacts in a preset sorting rule;

The contact selected by the user is taken as the associated contact.
The contact detail prompting method according to claim 5, wherein the preset sorting rule comprises:

Sort contacts by the first letter of the recipient's address;

Or, sort the contacts according to the length of the last contact time from the current time;

Or, sort the contacts by historical contact frequency.
The contact details prompting method according to claim 5, further comprising: after the displaying all the contacts in a preset sorting rule, further comprising:

If the recipient address of the associated contact does not exist in the address input field in the body, the recipient address corresponding to the associated contact is added to the address input field.
The contact details prompting method according to claim 7, wherein the address input field comprises any one of the following: a recipient column or a carbon copy column.
The contact detail prompting method according to claim 1, wherein the prompt is @, the preset format is underlined under the associated contact, and/or the associated contact is different from the text. The color of the text is displayed.
The contact details prompting method according to claim 1, wherein the contact details comprise any one or any combination of the following: information sent to me, information sent to me, created as a new contact, Add to an existing contact and categorize the contact's information.
An electronic device comprising:

At least one processor; and,

a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; wherein

The memory stores instructions executable by the one processor, the instructions being executed by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to perform the method of any of claims 1-10 .
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, characterized in that the non-transitory computer readable storage medium stores computer instructions for causing the computer to perform any of claims 1-10 Methods.
A computer program product comprising a computer program stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the computer program comprising program instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to execute The method of any of claims 1-10.