Method for synchronizing two sets of contact data of two storage media in a communications system

• US 20070100906A1
• Filed: 11/01/2006
• Published: 05/03/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Inventors: Cheng, Ann-Tzung, Lin, Meng-Shan
• Application Number:
  US11/590,795
• Publication Number:
  US 20070100906A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor

Abstract

A method establishes two contact data arrays in two separate storages respectively and corresponding mapping relations between the two contact data arrays. The method updates the content of the contact data of one storage medium with the content of the contact data of the other storage medium according to the corresponding mapping relations between the two contact data arrays and to the choice of an operator that can update one of a plurality of contact data with one or more of a plurality of contact data.

Claims

1. A method for synchronizing two sets of contact data of two storage media in a communications system, comprising:

establishing a first contact data array according to contact data of a first storage medium and establishing a second contact data array according to contact data of a second storage medium;

establishing mapping relations between the contact data of the first contact data array and the contact data of the second contact data array according to the first contact data array and the second contact data array; and

updating content of a second contact datum of the second storage medium with content of a first contact datum of the first storage medium according to the mapping relations between the contact data of the first contact data array and the contact data of the second contact data array.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein establishing the first contact data array according to the contact data of the first storage medium and establishing the second contact data array according to the contact data of the second storage medium comprises:

establishing in the first contact data array and in the second contact data array respectively an index ID, a mapping ID, a name content, and a phone number content of one of a plurality of contact data; and

sorting the plurality of contact data of the first contact data array and the plurality of contact data of the second contact data array respectively according to the respective name content of the contact data.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein establishing the mapping relations between the contact data of the first contact data array and the contact data of the second contact data array according to the first contact data array and the second contact data array comprises:

searching for a second contact datum in the second contact data array having a name content the same as a name content of a first contact datum according to the name content of the contact data of the first contact data array; and

filling in the mapping ID of the first contact datum of the first contact data array with the index ID of the second contact datum searched in the second contact data array with the same name content as the name content of the first contact datum.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein updating content of a second contact datum of the second storage medium with content of a first contact datum of the first storage medium according to the mapping relations between the contact data of the first contact data array and the contact data of the second contact data array comprises:

selecting one mapping ID of the first contact datum and updating the content of the second contact datum having an index ID as the selected mapping ID of the first contact datum when a plurality of mapping IDs exists in the first contact datum of the first storage medium; and

storing the selection of the mapping ID.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising updating the content of the second contact datum having the index ID as the selected mapping ID with the content of the first contact datum according to the stored selection of the mapping ID when the content of the first contact datum updates.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein updating content of a second contact datum of the second storage medium with content of a first contact datum of the first storage medium according to the mapping relations between the contact data of the first contact data array and the contact data of the second contact data array comprises:

selecting one mapping ID of the second contact datum and updating the content of the second contact datum with the content of the first contact datum having an index ID as the selected mapping ID of the second contact datum when a plurality of mapping IDs exists in the second contact datum of the second storage medium; and

storing the selection of the mapping ID.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising updating content of the second contact datum having an index ID as the selected mapping ID with content of the first contact datum according to the stored selection of the mapping ID when the content of the first contact datum updates.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising adding a contact datum from the first storage medium having no mapping relation to the second storage medium.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein establishing the first contact data array according to the contact data of the first storage medium and establishing the second contact data array according to the contact data of the second storage medium is performed when the communications system starts or when the contact data of the first storage medium are activated.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising updating the first contact datum to the second storage medium when the first contact datum of the first storage medium is updated.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising updating the second contact datum of the second storage medium having a corresponding mapping relation with the first contact datum when the first contact datum of the first storage medium is updated.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising selecting to update or not to update the second contact datum of the second storage medium having a corresponding mapping relation with the first contact datum when the first contact datum of the first storage medium is updated.

13. A communications system capable of synchronizing contact data, comprising:

a first storage device having a plurality of contact data;

a second storage device having a plurality of contact data;

a first contact data array stored in the first storage device, the first contact data array having a plurality of pointers pointing to the plurality of contact data stored in the first storage device;

a second contact data array stored in the second storage device, the second contact data array having a plurality of pointers pointing to the plurality of contact data stored in the second storage device; and

a synchronization module for establishing mapping relations between the plurality of contact data of the first contact data array and the plurality of contact data of the second contact data array according to the first contact data array and the second contact data array and for updating content of the contact data of the second storage device with content of the first contact data of the first storage device according to the mapping relations between the plurality of contact data of the first contact data array and the plurality of contact data of the second contact data array.

14. The communications device of claim 13 further comprising an input interface coupled with the first storage device and the second storage device for inputting contact data into the first storage device or the second storage device.

15. The communications device of claim 13 further comprising a mapping searching unit coupled with the synchronization module for searching the mapping relations between the contact data of the first contact data array and the second contact data array.