HANDS-FREE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE OPERATION OF A HANDS-FREE ELECTRONIC DEVICE
First Claim
1. A hands-free electronic device for a vehicle, wherein the hands-free electronic device is connected to a cell phone in which at least one of incoming and outgoing communication links can be established by the hands-free electronic device via the cell phone, wherein the hands-free electronic device comprises at least one memory in which at least one of a call number and a reference to a storage location of the call number located outside the hands-free electronic device is collected for communication links, wherein a processor of the hands-free electronic device generates, from call numbers of the collected communication links, a call number list in which the call numbers of the communication links are sorted by at least one of frequency of use and connection data collected for the communication links.
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Abstract
A hands-free electronic device for a vehicle in which the hands-free electronic device is connected to a cell phone so that incoming and/or outgoing communication links can be established by the hands-free electronic device via the cell phone. The hands-free electronic device generates a call number list based on the existence of a call number in the directory of the cell phone and the frequency of use of the call number.
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- 1. A hands-free electronic device for a vehicle, wherein the hands-free electronic device is connected to a cell phone in which at least one of incoming and outgoing communication links can be established by the hands-free electronic device via the cell phone, wherein the hands-free electronic device comprises at least one memory in which at least one of a call number and a reference to a storage location of the call number located outside the hands-free electronic device is collected for communication links, wherein a processor of the hands-free electronic device generates, from call numbers of the collected communication links, a call number list in which the call numbers of the communication links are sorted by at least one of frequency of use and connection data collected for the communication links.
- 15. A method for the operation of a hands-free electronic device which is connected to a cell phone, wherein the hands-free electronic device compares each communication link to the directory of the cell phone to determine whether there is an existing entry in the cell phone directory, and when an entry exists in the cell phone directory, stores at least one of the call number and a reference to a storage location of the call number that is located outside the hands-free electronic device, in the at least one memory, wherein the hands-free electronic device generates a call number list from the entries stored in the at least one memory in which the entries are sorted by at least one of frequency of use and connection data collected for the communication links.
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