Systems and methods for hiding a data group

• US 20060104445A1
• Filed: 11/17/2004
• Published: 05/18/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Inventec Appliances Jiangning Corp (Inventec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Inventors: Lai, Cheng-Shing, Wu, Steven
• Granted Patent: US 7,715,560 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 380/252
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27457 Management thereof, e.g. manual editing of data
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/677 Preventing the dialling or sending of predetermined telephone numbers or selected types of telephone numbers, e.g. long distance numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality

Abstract

A system is provided for hiding a data group in a wireless communication device, in which a predetermined data group is hidden according to a hiding request. The system for hiding a data group comprises an encryption module for receiving the hiding request and the predetermined groups in a memory in the wireless communication device and an access module. Next, the encryption module establishes mechanism for hiding a data group to hide the predetermined data group. The access module performs the mechanism for hiding a data group and decrypts a secret code encrypted by the encryption module when data in the predetermined data group is to be read.

Claims

1. A system for hiding a data group in a wireless communication device comprising a memory storing a plurality of sets of data categorized into a plurality of data groups based on their categorizations and hiding a predetermined set of data group according to a hiding request, comprising:

an encryption module receiving said hiding request and setting a mechanism for hiding said predetermined data group; and

an access module accessing said plurality of sets of data and performing said mechanism for hiding said predetermined data group,

wherein said mechanism for hiding said predetermined data group needs to be removed when data in said predetermined data group is later to be read by a user.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said wireless communication device comprises a displayer displaying said plurality of data to be selected by the user through a keyboard and generating said hiding request and said keyboard.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein said data in said predetermined data group later read by the user is done through an input of a secret code for reading through said keyboard and through a displayer displaying said predetermined data group after said mechanism for hiding said predetermined data group is removed.

4. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said plurality of sets of data are selected from the group consisting of a plurality of sets of data associated with individuals in a communication book in said wireless communication device, a plurality of sets of data associated with schedules, a plurality of sets of data associated with notebooks and a plurality of sets of data associated with messages.

5. The system as recited in claim 4, wherein when said plurality of sets of data are said data associated with said individuals in said communication book, said plurality of sets of data are further categorized into a family data group, a relative data group, friend data group, a colleague data group and a business affairs data group.

6. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said mechanism for hiding said predetermined data group sets a checkpoint before said predetermined data group is read and said checkpoint is removed upon a correct secret code for reading is received and said predetermined data group is allowed to be read continuously.

7. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein said secret code for reading is set by a user.

8. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein said secret code for reading is a communication secret code built in said wireless communication device.

9. A method for hiding a data group in a wireless communication device comprising a memory storing a plurality of sets of data categorized into a plurality of data groups based on their categorizations and hiding a predetermined set of data group according to a hiding request, comprising the steps of:

receiving said hiding request;

selecting said predetermined data group appointed by said hiding request from said memory; and

setting a mechanism for hiding said predetermined data group according to said predetermined data group to hide said predetermined data group,

wherein said mechanism for hiding said predetermined data group needs to be removed when data in said predetermined data group is later to be read by a user.

10. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein said wireless communication device comprises a displayer displaying said plurality of data to be selected by the user through a keyboard and generating said hiding request and said keyboard.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein said data in said predetermined data group later read by the user is done through an input of a secret code for reading through said keyboard and through a displayer displaying said predetermined data group after said mechanism for hiding said predetermined data group is removed.

12. The method as recited in claim 10, wherein said plurality of sets of data are selected from the group consisting of a plurality of sets of data associated with individuals in a communication book in said wireless communication device, a plurality of sets of data associated with schedules, a plurality of sets of data associated with notebooks and a plurality of sets of data associated with messages.

13. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein when said plurality of sets of data are said data associated with said individuals in said communication book, said plurality of sets of data are further categorized into a family data group, a relative data group, friend data group, a colleague data group and a business affairs data group.

14. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein said mechanism for hiding said predetermined data group sets a checkpoint before said predetermined data group is read and said checkpoint is removed upon a correct secret code for reading is received and said predetermined data group is allowed to be read continuously.

15. The method as recited in claim 14, wherein said secret code for reading is set by a user.

16. The system as recited in claim 14, wherein said secret code for reading is a communication secret code built in said wireless communication device.