METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADDRESS BOOK UNIFICATION SERVICE TO MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20110113073A1
• Filed: 10/26/2010
• Published: 05/12/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: CHANG, Gi-Jae
• Application Number:
  US12/912,056
• Publication Number:
  US 20110113073A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/803
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/20 of structured data, e.g. relational data

Abstract

Provided is a method for providing an address book unification service to a mobile terminal. The method includes, when a plurality of Social Networking Services (SNSs) are executed, comparing information of each member of a specific SNS address book selected by a user with information of each member of an address book registered in at least one SNS, when the comparison results in a determination that values of a specific field among a plurality of data fields constituting information of each member of two SNS address books are equal to each other, creating a new address book including a preset number of data fields, and merging information of the two address books, the specific fields of which having an equal value, into the created address book.

Claims

1. A method for providing an address book unification service to a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

when a plurality of Social Networking Services (SNSs) are executed, comparing information of each member of a specific SNS address book selected by a user with information of each member of an address book registered in at least one SNS;

when the comparison results in a determination that values of a specific field among a plurality of data fields constituting information of each member of two SNS address books are equal to each other, creating a new address book including a preset number of data fields; and

merging information of the two address books, the specific fields of which having an equal value, into the created address book.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the specific field corresponds to a name field of each member.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, the merging of information of the two address books comprises:

determining if all of the data fields are matched between the two address books; and

when it is determined that not all of the data fields are matched between the two address book, notification is given to the user by a pop-up window to enable the user to delete or to merge a non-matched field into another field.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

when the comparison results in a determination that the values of the specific field are not equal, comparing values of one data field selected by the user among values of remaining data fields, except for the specific field.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

when the comparison results in a determination that the values of one data field selected by the user among the values of the remaining data fields, except for the specific field, are equal to each other, creating a new address book including the preset number of data fields;

selecting a first specific field'"'"'s value of the two specific field'"'"'s values mutually different between the two address books, and one of deleting and adding a second first specific field'"'"'s value of the two specific field'"'"'s values to a remaining data field of the created address book; and

merging information of two address books, in which values of one data field selected by the user are equal, into the created address book.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein, the merging of information of the two address books comprises:

determining if a data field of a specific address book is not matched with a data field of an address book into which the merging is to be performed; and

when it is determined that a data field of a specific address book is not matched with a data field of an address book into which the merging is to be performed, a notification is given to the user by a pop-up window to enable the user to delete or to merge the non-matched field into another field.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the information of each member comprises at least one of an IDentifier (ID), an address, a telephone number and an e-mail address.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the SNS address book corresponds to an address book managed in a web environment.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the remaining data field corresponds to one of an IDentifier (ID), an address, a telephone number and an e-mail address of each member.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein, when two address books are merged into the created address book, the two address books are deleted.

11. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having control logic stored therein for causing a computer to provide an address book unification service, the control logic comprising:

a first computer readable program code means for causing the computer, when a plurality of Social Networking Services (SNSs) are executed, to compare information of each member of a specific SNS address book selected by a user with information of each member of an address book registered in at least one SNS;

a second computer readable program code means for causing the computer, when the comparison results in a determination that values of a specific field among a plurality of data fields constituting information of each member of two SNS address books are equal to each other, to create a new address book including a preset number of data fields; and

a third computer readable program code means for causing the computer to merge information of the two address books, the specific fields of which having an equal value, into the created address book.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the specific field corresponds to a name field of each member.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein, the third computer readable program code means comprises:

computer readable program code means for causing the computer to determine if all of the data fields are matched between the two address books, and when it is determined that not all of the data fields are matched between the two address book, to notify the user by a pop-up window to enable the user to delete or to merge a non-matched field into another field.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising:

a fourth computer readable program code means for causing the computer, when the comparison results in a determination that the values of the specific field are not equal, to compare values of one data field selected by the user among values of remaining data fields, except for the specific field.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, further comprising:

a fifth computer readable program code means for causing the computer, when the comparison results in a determination that the values of one data field selected by the user among the values of the remaining data fields, except for the specific field, are equal to each other, to create a new address book including the preset number of data fields;

a sixth computer readable program code means for causing the computer to select a first specific field'"'"'s value of the two specific field'"'"'s values mutually different between the two address books, and one of deleting and adding a second first specific field'"'"'s value of the two specific field'"'"'s values to a remaining data field of the created address book; and

a seventh computer readable program code means for causing the computer to merge information of two address books, in which values of one data field selected by the user are equal, into the created address book.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein, the third computer readable program code means comprises:

computer readable program code means for causing the computer to determine if a data field of a specific address book is not matched with a data field of an address book into which the merging is to be performed, and, when it is determined that a data field of a specific address book is not matched with a data field of an address book into which the merging is to be performed, to notify the user by a pop-up window to enable the user to delete or to merge the non-matched field into another field.

17. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the information of each member comprises at least one of an IDentifier (ID), an address, a telephone number and an e-mail address.

18. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the SNS address book corresponds to an address book managed in a web environment.

19. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the remaining data field corresponds to one of an IDentifier (ID), an address, a telephone number and an e-mail address of each member.

20. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein, when two address books are merged into the created address book, the two address books are deleted.