JP2003283640A - Cellular phone terminal apparatus, dispatcher name verification program, and telephone number-searching system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cellular phone terminal apparatus for verifying the name of a caller with an unknown number, to provide a dispatcher name verification program, and to provide a telephone number-searching system. <P>SOLUTION: The cellular phone terminal apparatus comprises a communication means for transmitting or receiving signals, an operation means for inputting a user's instruction, a storage means for storing caller registration information where a telephone number and a name that is associated with the telephone number are registered in advance and an arrival history information for storing the telephone number of the dispatcher in time series in the order of the arrival of messages, a display means for displaying the arrival history information, and an arrival history-controlling means for referring to the caller registration information, searching for a name from a telephone number that is stored in the arrival history information, and displaying the name on a display means. In the cellular phone terminal apparatus, when the telephone number of a dispatcher that is not being registered in the caller registration information is received, the telephone number of the caller is transmitted to telephone number search contents for searching for a name corresponding to the telephone number from the telephone number via a communication means, a name corresponding to the telephone number is received via the communication means, and the name if display on the display means by a caller name verification means. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mobile phone terminal device having a function of displaying an incoming call history of calls received by the mobile phone terminal device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A portable telephone terminal device has a function of storing a telephone number of a caller of an incoming call in time series and creating incoming call history information. When the user refers to the incoming call history information, the incoming call history information displays the incoming time and the caller's telephone number in chronological order. Also, in recent mobile phone terminal devices, when the user refers to the incoming call history information by creating caller registration information in which the user has registered the telephone number and its name in association with each other, When the telephone number of the caller is registered in the caller registration information, the name of the caller can be displayed. That is, when the user displays the incoming call history information, if the call is from a caller registered in the caller registration information, the caller name is registered in the caller registration information on the display unit. If there is no caller, the phone number will be displayed.
The user looks at the incoming call history information displayed on the display,
You can easily redial by selecting the caller you want to redial.

[0003]

However, the conventional techniques have the following problems. That is, when the caller's telephone number is displayed as the incoming call history information, the telephone number of the caller cannot be known.

[0004] Recently, there is a telephone called "Wangiri" that can be disconnected only by one incoming call. In this case, the incoming call history remains in the mobile phone terminal device, but if you call back the phone number that remains in this incoming call history,
It may lead to advertisements on malicious sites or guide tapes for malicious programs, and you may be billed later for the calls you make. In these cases, a strange telephone number remains as the incoming call history information, which is the cause of the user's careless redialing. Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a mobile phone terminal device, a caller name confirmation program, and a telephone number search system that can confirm the name of a caller of a strange number.

[0005]

To achieve the above object, a portable telephone terminal device of the present invention comprises a communication means for transmitting and receiving signals, an operating means for inputting a user's instruction, and a telephone number. Storage means for storing caller registration information in which a name associated with a telephone number is registered in advance, and incoming call history information for storing the caller's telephone number in time series in the order of incoming call;
A mobile phone provided with display means for displaying incoming call history information and incoming call history management means for referring to caller registration information to retrieve a name from a telephone number stored in the incoming call history information and displaying the name on the display means. When receiving a caller's telephone number that is not registered in the caller registration information and is a telephone terminal device, the telephone number search content for searching the name corresponding to the telephone number from the telephone number is transmitted via the communication means. The caller name confirmation means for transmitting the telephone number of the caller, receiving the name corresponding to the telephone number through the communication means, and displaying the name on the display means. According to the present invention, the name of a sender who is not registered in the sender registration information can be confirmed.

Further, the incoming call history management means is characterized by displaying the telephone number of the caller not registered in the caller registration information on the display means. According to the present invention, the user can easily know the telephone numbers of callers who are not registered in the caller registration information. Further, the sender name confirmation means operates the operation means to display the telephone number search content in the communication means when the telephone number of the sender not registered in the sender registration information is displayed on the display means. It is characterized by connecting. According to the present invention, the user can easily know the name of the caller corresponding to the telephone number of the caller not registered in the caller registration information.

Further, the caller name confirmation program of the present invention is applied when a caller's telephone number not registered in the caller registration information in which the telephone number and the name associated with the telephone number are registered in advance is received. , The name corresponding to the telephone number is searched for from the telephone number, the telephone number of the caller is transmitted to the telephone number search contents through the communication means for transmitting and receiving a signal, and the name corresponding to the telephone number is used for the communication means. It is characterized in that the computer is made to function as sender name confirmation means for receiving the name via the display and displaying the name on the display means. Further, the caller name confirmation means operates the operation means for inputting the user's instruction when the caller's telephone number not registered in the caller registration information is displayed on the display means. It is characterized in that the communication means is connected to the telephone number search contents. According to the present invention, it is possible to search for the name of the caller corresponding to the phone number of the caller not registered in the caller registration information.

Further, the telephone number search system of the present invention is
A mobile telephone terminal device equipped with a communication means for transmitting and receiving signals, and a telephone number search content that is connected to the communication means of the mobile telephone terminal device via a communication network and retrieves the name corresponding to the telephone number from the telephone number. A telephone number search system including a stored server, wherein a mobile telephone terminal device has an operation means for inputting a user's instruction, and a call number in which a telephone number and a name associated with the telephone number are registered in advance. Storage means for storing the caller registration information and the caller's telephone number in chronological order in the order of incoming call, storage means for storing the call history information, display means for displaying the call history information, and caller registration information for referring to the call history information The name is retrieved from the telephone numbers stored in the display and the received call history management means for displaying the name on the display means and the telephone number of the caller not registered in the caller registration information are received. A sender name confirmation means for transmitting the telephone number of the sender through the communication means to the number search contents, receiving the name corresponding to the telephone number through the communication means, and displaying the name on the display means. The server includes a telephone number database that stores a telephone number and a name associated with the telephone number, a receiving unit that receives the telephone number of the caller from the communication unit, and a name that corresponds to the telephone number of the caller. And a sending means for sending the sender's name to the communication means. According to the present invention, the name of the caller corresponding to the telephone number of the caller not registered in the caller registration information can be confirmed.

[0009]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. In all the drawings for explaining the embodiments, the same reference numerals are given to those having the same function, and the repeated description thereof will be omitted.

Mobile phone terminal device 1 according to the first embodiment
As shown in FIG. 1, the communication unit 1-1 and the control unit 1-2.
, Operation unit 1-3, display unit 1-4, and voice input unit 1-
5, a voice output unit 1-6, and a storage unit 1-7.

The communication section 1-1 has an antenna and transmits / receives radio waves in a predetermined frequency band to / from a base station (not shown). The control unit 1-2 includes an incoming call history management unit 1-21 and a caller name confirmation unit 1-22, and controls each unit of the mobile phone terminal device 1 as a whole by control by a program, for example. The operation unit 1-3 includes, for example, a numeric keypad and various function keys, and transmits the input user request and instruction to the control unit 1-2. The display unit 1-4 is, for example, an LC
It is composed of a display device such as D and displays a character string and the like.
The voice input unit 1-5 is composed of, for example, a microphone used for voice communication, collects voice and converts it into an electric signal,
The electric signal is transmitted to the control unit 1-2 as a transmission signal. The voice output unit 1-6 is composed of, for example, a receiver, a speaker, a sounder, etc., and outputs the voice or alarm sound received by the communication unit 1-1. The storage unit 1-7 stores caller registration information 1-71 in which a telephone number and a name associated with the telephone number are registered in advance, and incoming call history information 1 in which the caller's telephone number is chronologically stored in the order of incoming calls. -72, control unit 1-2
It stores programs for use in data transmission / reception with the control unit 1-2. Further, the mobile phone terminal device 1 is operated by a battery (not shown) provided in a power supply unit (not shown). The sender registration information 1-71 is created in advance by the user.

Further, the control unit 1-2 has the incoming call history management unit 1
-21 and a sender name confirmation unit 1-22. The incoming call history management unit 1-21 stores the telephone number of the caller side in the communication unit 1
It is received via -1 and accumulated in the incoming call history information 1-72 in the order of incoming calls. When the user gives an instruction to refer to the incoming call history information 1-72 by operating the operation unit 1-3, the caller registration information 1-71 is referred to and the telephone number is called. It is determined whether or not the person registration information 1-71 is already registered. If registered, the name of the registered caller is displayed on the display unit 1-4, and if not registered, the telephone number is displayed on the display unit 1-4.

Further, the sender name confirmation unit 1-22, when the telephone number is displayed on the display unit 1-4, the communication unit 1
-1 is connected to the telephone number search content for searching the name corresponding to the telephone number from the telephone number, and the communication unit 1-
The caller's telephone number is transmitted via 1, the telephone number is searched, and the name corresponding to the telephone number is set in the communication unit 1-1.
To receive via.

The portable telephone terminal device 1 can be realized by configuring hardware including a CPU (central processing unit). In this case, a memory and a communication IF are connected to the CPU via the bus. The memory stores an incoming call history management program and a caller name confirmation program.

Here, the incoming call history management program refers to the caller registration information, retrieves the name from the telephone number stored in the incoming call history information, and displays the name on the display means as a computer. The caller name confirmation program is
When the telephone number of the caller not registered in the caller registration information is received, the telephone number of the caller is transmitted to the telephone number search contents through the communication means, and the name corresponding to the telephone number is transmitted to the communication means. It is a program that causes a computer to function as sender name confirmation means for receiving the name via the display and displaying the name on the display means. Further, the caller name confirmation means operates the operation means when the telephone number of the caller who is not registered in the caller registration information is displayed on the display means, so that the communication means receives the telephone number search content. May be connected to.

Next, the telephone number search system will be described. As shown in FIG. 2, the telephone number search system stores, for example, mobile telephone terminal devices 1, 2, and 3, a base station (not shown), a communication network such as a packet network 4, a gateway 5, and telephone number search contents. Server 6 and information providers 8-2 and 8-3 including telephone number search contents 8-1. The mobile phone terminals 1, 2, and 3 are connected to a packet network 4 or a dedicated line via a base station, the packet network 4 or a dedicated line is connected to a gateway 5, and the gateway 5 is connected to a server 6 by a dedicated line. Meanwhile, telephone number search content 8-
Information providers 8-2 and 8-3 including 1
Are connected via a communication network such as the Internet 7.

The gateway 5 relays the leased line to which the server 6 is connected and a communication network such as the Internet 7 and the packet network 4. The server 6 is a computer having the hardware configuration shown in FIG. Figure 3
(A) is a server 6 including a CPU (central processing unit)
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the hardware configuration of the above. Figure 3
In (a), a memory 12, a communication IF 13, and a hard disk 9 are connected to a CPU 11 that controls the entire control via a bus 10. The hard disk 9 stores a telephone number search program 9-1.
Here, the telephone number search program 9-1 is a program that causes a computer to function as a search unit that receives the telephone number of the caller and searches for the name corresponding to this telephone number.

FIG. 3B shows a functional block diagram of the server 6. The server 6 includes a communication IF unit 6-1 and a receiving unit 6-
2, a transmission unit 6-3, a search unit 6-4, and a telephone number DB
6-5 and 6-5. The communication IF unit 6-1 is an interface for connecting the server 6 and the gateway 5. The receiving unit 6-2 receives the caller's telephone number transmitted via the communication unit 1-1 of the mobile phone terminal 1 by the caller name confirmation unit 1-22. The search unit 6-4 refers to a telephone number DB 6-5 described later, searches for a name corresponding to the caller's telephone number, and transmits the name to the transmission unit 6-3. The transmission unit 6-3 receives the name corresponding to the telephone number of the caller from the search unit 6-4, and transmits the name to the caller name confirmation unit 1-22 of the mobile phone terminal device 1. The telephone number DB 6-5 is a database that stores telephone numbers and names associated with the telephone numbers.

Information providers 8-2, 8
-3 is provided with various contents such as telephone number search contents 8-1. When the user uses those contents, the mobile phone terminals 1, 2,
You can freely access by entering the URL on 3. Further, in this embodiment, the telephone number search content may use either the server 6 or the content provided in the information provider. Further, in addition to the telephone number search contents provided in the server 6, by inputting a URL, other telephone number search contents can be used.

Next, the operation of the caller telephone number search system according to the embodiment will be described with reference to the operation sequence diagram of FIG. Here, a case where the telephone number search content stored in the server 6 is used will be described. The same applies when connecting from the gateway 5 to the telephone number search content 8-1 via a communication network such as the Internet 7.

For example, when a call is made from the caller side telephone 14 and the mobile phone terminal device 1 receives a call, the mobile phone terminal device 1 performs the incoming call history processing 100. In the incoming call history processing 100, as shown in the flowchart of FIG. 5, the communication unit 1-1 receives the telephone number of the originating telephone set 14 (S101), and the telephone number is the control unit 1-2.
To the incoming call history management unit 1-21. Upon receipt of the telephone number, the incoming call history management unit 1-21 saves the telephone number in the incoming call history information 1-72 in order of arrival (S102).

When the user operates the operation unit 1-3, the incoming call history display processing 110 is performed and the incoming call history information 1-72 is displayed. In the incoming call history display processing 110,
As shown in the flowchart of FIG. 6, the incoming call history management unit 1
-21, the sender registration information 1-71 is referred to, and it is determined whether or not the received telephone number is already registered (S111). If the telephone number is the number registered in the sender registration information 1-71, the name of the sender is displayed on the display unit 1-4 (S112). Also.
If the telephone number is not registered, the telephone number is displayed on the display unit 1-4 (S113). in this case,
If the telephone number of the calling telephone 14 is not notified,
A message to that effect is displayed.

When the user confirms the incoming call history information 1-72 displayed on the display unit 1-4 and wants to call the caller again, for example, it is displayed on the display unit 1-4. The caller's name can be selected with the select key and the call operation such as pressing the call key automatically redials the call.

If a telephone number is displayed in the incoming call history information 1-72 displayed on the display unit 1-4 and the telephone number is a strange number, the sender name confirmation processing 120 is performed as necessary. Is done. In the sender name confirmation processing 120, as shown in the flowchart of FIG. 7, the user first determines whether or not to confirm the sender name (S121). For example, with the selection key etc.,
It is also possible to select an arbitrary telephone number from the incoming call history and give an instruction to confirm. When an instruction to perform the caller name confirmation process 120 is issued, the caller name confirmation unit 1-22 dial-connects to an access point such as a base station. After that, HTTP (Hyper
The telephone number search content of the server 6 is accessed via the packet network 6 and the gateway 5 by performing communication using the Text Transfer Protocol) and designating the URL (S122).

When connected to the telephone number search content,
The sender name confirmation unit 1-22 displays the selected telephone number
As a search condition, it is transmitted to the number search content (S1
23). The receiving unit 6-2 of the server 6 has a communication IF unit 6-1.
The telephone number is received via the and the telephone number is retrieved by the search unit 6
-4. Search unit 6-4 that received this telephone number
Then, by referring to the telephone number DB 6-5 and searching for the telephone number, the name of the caller corresponding to this telephone number is specified. The name of the specified sender is the transmitter 6-3.
Sent to. The transmission unit 6-3, which has received the name of the sender from the search unit 6-4, has the communication IF unit 6-1 and the communication unit 1-.
The name of the sender is transmitted to the sender name confirmation unit 1-22 via 1 (S124). The sender name confirmation unit 1-22 that has received the sender name from the server 6 displays the received sender name on the display unit 1-4 (S125).

When the user gives an instruction not to perform the caller name confirmation processing 120, the user further determines whether or not to delete the caller's telephone number. (S126). When an instruction to delete the caller's phone number is issued, the caller's phone number is deleted from the incoming call history information 1-72 (S127).
For example, even if the caller's telephone number to be deleted is selected by the selection key from the incoming call history displayed on the display unit 1-4 and the deletion operation is performed by pressing the deletion key, the call is automatically performed. good.

The user confirms the name of the caller displayed on the display section 1-4 to perform the call processing 130. In the calling process 130, the caller determines whether to make a call. When making a call, for example,
The caller's name displayed on the display unit 1-4 can be selected with the select key and the call can be redone automatically by a call operation such as pressing the call key. In this case, the connection to the telephone number search content is automatically disconnected and the call is made. When the caller does not make the call, it is further determined whether or not the sender's name should be deleted. When an instruction to delete the name of the sender is made, the incoming call history information 1-7
The name of the sender is deleted from 2. For example, the name of the caller displayed on the display unit 1-4 may be selected by the selection key and the deletion operation such as pressing the deletion key may be performed automatically.

In the embodiment, the case where only the name of the sender is displayed on the display section 1-4 has been described as an example.
In addition to the name of the caller, necessary information such as the arrival time may be displayed. Although the mobile phone terminal device has been described as an example in the embodiment, the same applies to other mobile bodies such as PHS.

Although the invention made by the present inventor has been specifically described based on the embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. Needless to say.

[0030]

According to the portable telephone terminal device, the caller name confirmation program, and the telephone number search system of the present invention, the name of the caller can be confirmed even if an unknown telephone number remains in the incoming call history. , You can avoid making calls to strange numbers.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a mobile phone terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining a caller's telephone number search system according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

3A is a diagram for explaining a hardware configuration of a server, and FIG. 3B is a functional block diagram of FIG. 3A.

FIG. 4 is a sequence diagram for explaining the operation of the telephone number search system according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing incoming call history processing in the telephone number search system according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an incoming call history display process in the telephone number search system according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing caller name confirmation processing in the telephone number search system according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1, 2, 3 ... Mobile phone terminal device 1-2 ... Control unit, 1-
21 ... Incoming call history management section, 1-22 ... Caller name confirmation section,
1-3 ... Operation unit, 1-4 ... Display unit, 1-5 ... Voice input unit, 1-6 ... Voice output unit, 1-7 ... Storage unit, 1-71 ...
Caller registration information, 1-72 ... Incoming call history information, 4 ... Packet network, 5 ... Gateway, 6 ... Server, 6-1 ... Communication I
F part, 6-2 ... Receiving part, 6-3 ... Sending part, 6-4 ... Searching part, 6-5 ... Telephone number DB, 7 ... Internet, 8-
1 ... Phone number search contents, 8-2, 8-3 ... Information provider, 9 ... Hard disk, 9-1
… Telephone number search program, 10… Bus, 11… CPU
(Central processing unit), 12 ... Memory, 13 ... Communication I
F, 14 ... Caller side telephone.

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A caller registration information and a caller registration information in which a communication means for transmitting and receiving a signal, an operation means for inputting a user's instruction, a telephone number and a name associated with the telephone number are registered in advance. A storage unit that stores incoming call history information that stores telephone numbers in time series in the order of incoming calls, a display unit that displays the incoming call history information, and a caller registration information that is stored in the incoming call history information. When a name is retrieved from a telephone number that has been received and a mobile telephone terminal device having an incoming call history management means for displaying the name on the display means receives a telephone number of a caller not registered in the caller registration information. The telephone number of the caller is transmitted to the telephone number search content for searching the telephone number from the telephone number for the name corresponding to the telephone number, and the name corresponding to the telephone number is transmitted by the communication. Received through the stage,
A mobile phone terminal device comprising a sender name confirmation means for displaying the name on the display means. 2. The mobile phone terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the incoming call history management means displays a telephone number of a caller who is not registered in the caller registration information on the display means. Mobile phone terminal device. 3. The mobile phone terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the caller name confirmation means displays a phone number of a caller who is not registered in the caller registration information on the display means. If the operation means is operated,
A portable telephone terminal device, characterized in that the communication means is connected to the telephone number search content. 4. When a telephone number of a caller who is not registered in the caller registration information in which a telephone number and a name associated with the telephone number are registered in advance is received, the telephone number corresponds to that telephone number. The telephone number of the caller is transmitted to the telephone number search content for searching for a name through the communication means for transmitting and receiving a signal, and the name corresponding to the telephone number is received through the communication means, and the name is displayed. A caller name confirmation program that causes a computer to function as a caller name confirmation means to be displayed on the display means. 5. The caller name confirmation program according to claim 4, wherein the caller name confirmation means displays a telephone number of a caller not registered in the caller registration information on the display means. In this case, the caller name confirmation program is characterized in that the communication means is connected to the telephone number search content by operating an operation means for inputting a user's instruction. 6. A mobile phone terminal device equipped with a communication means for transmitting and receiving signals, and connected to the communication means of the mobile phone terminal device via a communication network, and a name corresponding to the phone number is assigned from a telephone number. In a telephone number search system including a server in which telephone number search contents to be searched are stored, the mobile telephone terminal device includes an operation unit for inputting a user's instruction, and a telephone number and a name associated with the telephone number. Storage means for storing caller registration information in which the caller is registered in advance and incoming call history information for chronologically storing the caller's telephone number in the order of incoming call, and a display means for displaying the incoming call history information.
Referring to the caller registration information, a name is retrieved from the telephone number stored in the call reception history information, and the name is displayed on the display means, and the call reception history management means is not registered in the caller registration information. When the telephone number of the caller is received, the telephone number of the caller is transmitted to the telephone number search content via the communication means, and the name corresponding to the telephone number is received via the communication means. , A caller name confirmation means for displaying the name on the display means, the server stores a telephone number database storing a telephone number and a name associated with the telephone number, and the communication means for transmitting the call. Means for receiving the telephone number of the caller, searching means for searching the telephone number database for the name corresponding to the telephone number of the caller, and the name of the caller for the communication A telephone number search system, comprising: a transmitting means for transmitting to the means.