Communication device including phonebook and communication method therefor

• US 7,272,384 B2
• Filed: 06/20/2006
• Issued: 09/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Tsukamoto, Akihito
• Primary Examiner(s): Anderson; Matthew
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pham; Tuan
• Application Number:
  US11/455,692
• Publication Number:
  US 20060234770A1
• Time in Patent Office: 455 Days
• Field of Search: 455/564, 455/566, 455/567, 455/569, 455/415, 455/412.1, 455/556.1, 379/355.02, 379/355.03, 379/356.01
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2745 using static electronic memories, e.g. chips
• 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 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/60 logging of communication history, e.g. outgoing or incoming calls, missed calls, messages or URLs

Abstract

A communication device comprises a first memory which stores telephone books, each including identification information and a name of a communication party, a second memory which stores communication histories, each including a communication time and identification information and a name of a communication party, a changing device which changes a telephone book stored in the first memory, and a control device which, when the telephone book is changed, changes a communication history stored in the second memory in accordance with a content of change.

Claims

1. A communication device comprising:

a phonebook configured to store a plurality of phonebook items, each phonebook item including identification information and a name of a communication party;

a communication history configured to store a plurality of communication history items, each communication history item including identification information and a name of a communication party;

a changing device configured to change a content of a first phonebook item;

a control device configured to, if said changing device changes a content of the first phonebook item, change a content of a first communication history item corresponding to the first phonebook item in accordance with the changed content of the first phonebook item; and

a deleting device configured to delete the least recent communication history item or an unnecessary communication history item from said communication history,

wherein

said phonebook item further includes a first flag indicating whether a communication history item relating to the communication party is stored in said communication history,

said control device determines based on the first flag whether the communication history item to be changed is stored in said communication history,

said communication history item further includes a second flag indicating whether a phonebook item relating to the communication party is stored in said phonebook, and

said deleting device changes the first flag relating to the phonebook item corresponding to a deleted communication history item based on the second flag relating to the deleted communication history item.

2. A communication method comprising:

storing a plurality of phonebook items, each phonebook item including identification information and a name of a communication party;

storing a plurality of communication history items, each communication history item including identification information and a name of a communication party;

changing, if a content of a first phonebook item is changed, a content of a first communication history item corresponding to the first phonebook item in accordance with the changed content of the first phonebook item; and

deleting the least recent communication history item or an unnecessary communication history item from said communication history,

wherein

said phonebook item further includes a first flag indicating whether a communication history item relating to the communication party is stored in said communication history, and it is determined based on the first flag whether the communication history item to be changed is stored in said communication history,

said communication history item further includes a second flag indicating whether a phonebook item relating to the communication party is stored in said phonebook, and

the first flag relating to the phonebook item corresponding is changed to a deleted communication history item based on the second flag relating to the deleted communication history item.