COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM

• US 20110276571A1
• Filed: 07/24/2008
• Published: 11/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Kano, Izua, Onda, Yasushi, Yamada, Eiju, Yamada, Kazuhiro, Murakami, Keiichi, Kamiya, Dai
• Granted Patent: US 8,825,647 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/737
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27453 Directories allowing storage of additional subscriber data, e.g. metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2746 Sorting, e.g. according to history or frequency of use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver

Abstract

A terminal device in which basic information and detailed information of each a plurality of application programs are stored in a different storage area for each application program, and that prohibits access to each storage area by other application programs, is caused to execute the processes of displaying a window that includes the basic information of each application program, and, if a cursor is moved to the display position of one of the pieces of basic information, reading out, from the appropriate storage areas, the detailed information of a first application program corresponding to the basic information where the cursor is positioned and the detailed information of a second application program whose basic information is displayed adjacent to the basic information of the first application program, and displaying the detailed information of the first application program.

Claims

1. A communication terminal comprising:

communication means for using communication addresses respectively allocated to a plurality of communication terminals to communicate with the individual communication terminals;

storage means for storing the communication addresses allocated to the individual communication terminals respectively in pairs with identification names for identifying users of the individual communication terminals;

specifying means for specifying positions of the communication terminals to which the communication addresses stored in the storage means are allocated, or distances from the communication terminals;

sorting means for sorting the pairs of communication addresses and identification names into a plurality of groups in accordance with a set algorithm, based on the positions or distances specified by the specifying means; and

display control means for causing display means to display at least the identification names, out of the communication addresses and identification names stored in the storage means, by the groups sorted by the sorting means.

2. The communication terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the sorting means sorts the pairs of communication addresses and identification names into a plurality of groups, based on dates/times on which or periods for which the positions or distances were specified by the specifying means, in addition to the positions or distances.

3. The communication terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the sorting means sorts the pairs of communication addresses and identification names into a plurality of groups, and further determines, in each of the groups, a ranking for when the display means is caused to display the identification names, based on the positions or distances specified by the specifying means, and

the display control means displays the identification names in accordance with the ranking determined by the sorting means, in a case of causing the display means to display at least the identification names, out of the communication addresses and identification names stored in the storage means, by the groups.

4. The communication terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the sorting means stores types of facilities installed in a prescribed range in correspondence with positions of the facilities, specifies the types of facilities installed in the positions specified by the specifying means, by comparing the positions specified by the specifying means with the positions of the facilities, and sorts the pairs of communication addresses and identification names into a plurality of groups based on the specified types of facilities.

5. The communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

operation means for receiving an operation by a user; and

changing means for changing a group to which a pair of a communication address and an identification name sorted by the sorting means belong, in accordance with the operation received by the operation means,

wherein the sorting means does not perform sorting based on the positions or distances specified by the specifying means, with regard to the pair of the address and the identification name whose group was changed by the changing means.

6. An information management apparatus comprising:

storage means for storing communication addresses respectively allocated to a plurality of communication terminals respectively in pairs with identification names for identifying users of the individual communication terminals;

specifying means for specifying positions of the communication terminals to which the communication addresses stored in the storage means are allocated, or distances from the communication terminals to a prescribed communication terminal; and

sorting means for sorting the pairs of communication addresses and identification names into a plurality of groups in accordance with a set algorithm, based on the positions or distances specified by the specifying means, and causing the storage means to perform storage for each sorted group.

7. A program for causing a computer that uses communication addresses respectively allocated to a plurality of communication terminals to perform communication with the individual communication terminals to realize the functions of:

causing storage means to store the communication addresses allocated to each of the individual communication terminals respectively in pairs with identification names for identifying users of the individual communication terminals;

specifying positions of the communication terminals to which the communication addresses stored in the storage means are allocated, or distances from the communication terminals;

sorting the pairs of communication addresses and identification names into a plurality of groups in accordance with a set algorithm, based on the specified positions or distances; and

causing display means to display at least the identification names, out of the communication addresses and identification names stored in the storage means, by the sorted groups.

8. A program for causing a computer to realize the functions of:

causing storage means to store communication addresses respectively allocated to a plurality of communication terminals respectively in pairs with identification names for identifying users of the individual communication terminals;

specifying positions of the communication terminals to which the communication addresses stored in the storage means are allocated, or distances from the communication terminals to a prescribed communication terminal; and

sorting the pairs of communication addresses and identification names into a plurality of groups in accordance with a set algorithm, based on the specified positions or distances, and causing the storage means to perform storage for each sorted group.