Initial menu registration method and cellular information communication terminal

• US 20020009996A1
• Filed: 07/17/2001
• Published: 01/24/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Electronics Corporation (Renesas Electronics Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Okada, Yoshitaka, Yamazaki, Takashi
• Application Number:
  US09/905,967
• Publication Number:
  US 20020009996A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/435.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/265 for initial activation of new user

Abstract

A telephone dealer connects the cellular phone with a personal computer then starts an initial menu writing software on the personal computer. First, a command to display an initial menu of the cellular phone is outputted, and an information menu image is displayed on a display screen of the personal computer. The respective information on the menu image comprise characters linked to files in service centers where these information are written. The telephone dealer explains the respective information of the menu and the contents of the detailed information by using a pamphlet (paper) or a guidance image on the personal computer. The user selects information to be registered in the initial menu of the cellular phone. The telephone dealer inputs the information selected by the user into the personal computer, then the personal computer stores the information . When input of all the desired information has been completed and writing designation is made, an information writing command is outputted from the personal computer to write all the stored information with a display order to the cellular phone.

Claims

1. An initial menu registration method for registering information in an initial menu displayed on a display screen of a cellular information communication terminal, comprising:

making an information menu with a list of a plurality of information provided from an information provider site, by a cellular information communication terminal dealer;

presenting said information menu from said cellular information communication terminal dealer to a user; and

registering at least one said information, selected from said information menu by said user, into said cellular information communication terminal, by said cellular information communication terminal dealer, to form said initial menu comprising said at least one information.

2. The initial menu registration method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said information is an address indicating said information provider site.

3. The initial menu registration method as claimed in claim 2, wherein said registering further comprises:

connecting a writing terminal to said cellular information communication terminal;

supplying a command to a CPU of said cellular information communication terminal by said writing terminal; and

writing said address into an internal memory of said cellular information communication terminal by said CPU in response to said command.

4. The initial menu registration method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said initial menu comprises a plurality of sites, said sites including said plurality of information.

5. The initial menu registration method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one information is renamed.

6. The initial menu registration method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said information in said initial menu is selected by voice.

7. The initial menu registration method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cellular information communication terminal is a cellular phone.

8. An initial menu registration method for registering information in an initial menu displayed on a display screen of a cellular information communication terminal, comprising:

preparing an initial menu comprising first information at a higher level of a hierarchy by an information provider site;

selecting second information at a lower level of said hierarchy by a cellular information communication terminal dealer; and

installing said second information into said initial menu, wherein said first information comprises said second information.

9. The initial menu registration method as claimed in claim 8, wherein at least one said information is renamed.

10. The initial menu registration method as claimed in claim 8, wherein said information in said initial menu is selected by voice.

11. The initial menu registration method as claimed in claim 8, wherein said cellular information communication terminal is a cellular phone.

12. An initial menu registration method for registering information in an initial menu displayed on a display screen of a cellular information communication terminal, comprising:

making an information menu with a list of a plurality of information provided from an information provider site, by a cellular information communication terminal dealer;

presenting said information menu from said cellular information communication terminal dealer to an user;

sending at least one said information, selected from said information menu by said user, to said cellular information communication terminal, by said cellular information communication terminal dealer; and

registering said at least one information into said cellular information communication terminal by said user, to form said initial menu comprising said at least one information.

13. The initial menu registration method as claimed in claim 12, wherein said at least one information is renamed.

14. The initial menu registration method as claimed in claim 12, wherein said information in said initial menu is selected by voice.

15. The initial menu registration method as claimed in claim 12, wherein said cellular information communication terminal is a cellular phone.

16. A cellular information communication terminal, comprising:

an initial menu comprising first information at a higher level of a hierarchy by an information provider site and second information at a lower level of said hierarchy by an information provider site,

wherein said second information is selected by user.

17. The cellular information communication terminal as claimed in claim 16, wherein said initial menu for information acquisition is set by a dealer of said cellular information communication terminal.

18. The cellular information communication terminal as claimed in claim 16, wherein said initial menu for information acquisition is set by a carrier of said cellular information communication terminal.

19. The cellular information communication terminal as claimed in claim 16, wherein said initial menu for information acquisition is set by said user based on information presented by a dealer of said cellular information communication terminal

20. The cellular information communication terminal as claimed in claim 16, wherein said second information is renamed.

21. The cellular information communication terminal as claimed in claim 16, wherein said second information is selected by voice.

22. The cellular information communication terminal as claimed in claim 16, wherein said cellular information communication terminal is a cellular phone.