SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING CONTACT INFORMATION

• US 20090164430A1
• Filed: 08/21/2008
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Chen, Mu-Ann
• Application Number:
  US12/195,422
• Publication Number:
  US 20090164430A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading

Abstract

An exemplary method for acquiring contact information in an electronic device is disclosed. The method is for generating a plurality E-mail index of all E-mail addresses stored in the electronic device, and inserting the E-mail index into a generated E-mail index list. When the electronic device receives an E-mail from a sender, corresponding contact information of the sender may be acquired by utilizing the method.

Claims

1. A computing system for acquiring contact information, the system comprising:

a string parsing module configured for predetermining at least one separator, and parsing a character string of an E-mail address, stored in a storage device of the system, into a predetermined number of sub-strings according to the separator;

a converting module configured for converting each character in each of the sub-strings from uppercase characters to lowercase characters, determining an ASCII value of each character in each of the sub-strings, determining an ASCII sum of each of the sub-strings by adding the ASCII value of each character in each of the sub-strings, and converting the ASCII sum of each of the sub-strings into a converted value;

an index generating module configured for generating an E-mail index of the E-mail address by combining the last two characters of each converted value, generating an E-mail index list, and storing the E-mail index in the storage device of the system;

a correlating module configured for correlating the E-mail index to corresponding contact information of the E-mail address; and

at least one processor executing the string parsing module, the converting module, the index generating module, and the correlating module so as to generate E-mail indexes corresponding to other E-mail addressed stored in the storage device, inserting the E-mail indexes into the E-mail index list, and correlating the E-mail indexes to the corresponding contact information of the E-mail addresses respectively.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a searching module configured for reading a received E-mail address of an E-mail, the received E-mail address being processed to generate an E-mail index of the received E-mail address by utilizing the string parsing module, the converting module, and the index generating module.

3. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the searching module is further configured for searching the E-mail index list for the E-mail index of the received E-mail address, determining if the E-mail index of the received E-mail address can be found in the E-mail index list, and further determining if the E-mail address stored in the storage device corresponding to the found E-mail index is substantially the same as the received E-mail address.

4. The system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the searching module is further configured for reading contact information corresponding to the found E-mail index if the E-mail address stored in the storage device corresponding to the found E-mail index is substantially the same as the received E-mail address.

5. The system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the searching module is further configured for displaying a dialog box prompting that the storage device has no contact information corresponding to the received E-mail address, if the E-mail index of the received E-mail address cannot be found in the E-mail index list, or if the E-mail address stored in the storage device corresponding to the found E-mail index is different from the received E-mail address.

6. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the separator is predetermined to be an “

at”

character, a period character, or a combination of the “

at”

character and the period character.

7. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the predetermined number of sub-strings of the E-mail address is four.

8. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the index generating module is further configured for arranging all E-mail indexes in a sequence.

9. An electronic method for acquiring contact information in an electronic device, the method comprising:

predetermining at least one separator, and parsing a character string of an E-mail address, stored in a storage device of the electronic device, into a predetermined number of sub-strings according to the separator;

converting each character from uppercase characters to lowercase characters in each of the sub-strings;

determining an ASCII value for each character in each of the sub-strings;

determining an ASCII sum for each of the sub-strings by adding the ASCII value of each character in each of the sub-strings, and converting the ASCII sum of each of the sub-strings into a converted value;

generating an E-mail index of the E-mail address by combining the last two characters of each converted value, generating an E-mail index list, and storing the E-mail index list in the storage device;

correlating the E-mail index to corresponding contact information of the E-mail address; and

repeating the converting step to the correlating step until generating E-mail indexes corresponding to all E-mail addresses stored in the storage device, inserting the E-mail indexes into the E-mail index list, and correlating the E-mail indexes to the corresponding contact information of the E-mail addresses respectively.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

reading a received E-mail address of a received E-mail;

executing the converting step to the correlating step for generating an E-mail index of the received E-mail address.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

searching the E-mail index list for the E-mail index of the received E-mail address;

determining if the E-mail index of the received E-mail address can be found in the E-mail index list;

determining if the E-mail address stored in the storage device corresponding to the found E-mail index is substantially the same as the received E-mail address, if the E-mail index of the received E-mail address is found in the E-mail index list; and

reading contact information corresponding to the found E-mail index if the E-mail address stored in the storage device corresponding to the found E-mail index is substantially the same as the received E-mail address.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

displaying a dialog box prompting that no contact information corresponding to the received E-mail address is provided, if the E-mail index of the received E-mail address cannot be found in the E-mail index list, or if the E-mail address stored in the storage device corresponding to the found E-mail index is different from the received E-mail address.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein the separator is predetermined to be an “

at”

character, a period character or a combination of the “

at”

character and the period character.

14. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

arranging all E-mail indexes in a sequence.

15. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computer, causing the computer to perform a method for acquiring contact information in an electronic device, the medium comprising:

predetermining at least one separator, and parsing a character string of the E-mail address, stored in a storage device of the electronic device, into a predetermined number of sub-strings according to the separator;

converting each character from uppercase characters to lowercase characters in each of the sub-strings;

determining an ASCII value for each character in each of the sub-strings;

determining an ASCII sum for each of the sub-strings by adding the ASCII value of each character in each of the sub-strings, and converting the ASCII sum of each of the sub-strings into a converted value;

generating an E-mail index of the E-mail address by combining the last two characters of each converted value, generating an E-mail index list, and storing the E-mail index list into the storage device;

correlating the E-mail index to corresponding contact information of the E-mail address; and

repeating the converting step to the correlating step until generating E-mail indexes corresponding to all E-mail addresses stored in the storage device, inserting the E-mail indexes into the E-mail index list, and correlating the E-mail indexes to the corresponding contact information of the E-mail addresses respectively.

16. The computer-readable medium according to claim 15, further comprising:

reading a received E-mail address of a received E-mail;

executing the converting step to the correlating step for generating an E-mail index of the received E-mail address.

17. The computer-readable medium according to claim 15, further comprising:

searching the E-mail index list for the E-mail index of the received E-mail address;

determining if the E-mail index of the received E-mail address can be found in the E-mail index list;

determining if the E-mail address stored in the storage device corresponding to the found E-mail index is substantially the same as the received E-mail address, if the E-mail index of the received E-mail address is found in the E-mail index list; and

reading contact information corresponding to the found E-mail index if the E-mail address stored in the storage device corresponding to the found E-mail index is substantially the same as the received E-mail address.