Apparatus and method for managing address book in portable wireless terminal having a radio frequency identification (RFID) recognition section

• US 7,409,466 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2004
• Issued: 08/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Yang, Sung-Chul
• Primary Examiner(s): Peyton; Tammara R
• Application Number:
  US10/752,395
• Publication Number:
  US 20050045719A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,673 Days
• Field of Search: 710/5, 710/33, 455/556.2, 455/556.1, 455/41.1, 707/9, 707/10, 707/1, 707/201, 235/385
• US Class Current: 710/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99952 Coherency, e.g. same view to multiple users

Abstract

An apparatus and a method for managing an address book in a portable wireless terminal, allowing users to easily input private information into the apparatus. The apparatus includes an RFID recognition section for receiving information transmitted from an RFID chip after transmission of an electric wave, storing and reading received information, and converting read data into data suitable for an address book; a display section for displaying data for the address book management; a user command input section for inputting a command for the address book management by a user; an address book storage section for storing private information; and a control section for controlling an operation of the RFID recognition section, so as to transmit the converted data to the address book storage section according to a user command, thereby storing the data.

Claims

1. An apparatus for managing an address book in a portable wireless terminal, the apparatus comprising:

a radio frequency identification (REID) recognition section for receiving information transmitted from an RFID chip after transmission of an electric wave, storing received information and reading identifiers and data corresponding to the identifiers from received information;

a data conversion section for converting the data corresponding to the identifiers into data suitable for the address book;

a display section for displaying data for management of the address book;

a user command input section for inputting a command for address book management by a user;

an address book storage section for storing the converted data; and

a control section for controlling an operation of the REID recognition section, so as to transmit the converted data to the address book storage section thereby storing the converted data in a field of the address book storage which corresponds to the identifiers, wherein the RFID recognition section comprises an electric wave control section for controlling an electric wave transmission section to transmit the electric wave having a frequency and an intensity corresponding to the RFID chip.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the RFID recognition section further comprises:

an antenna;

the electric wave transmission section for generating the electric wave for operating the REID chip to transmit the electric wave through the antenna;

an electric wave reception section for receiving information transmitted from the RFID chip through the antenna;

a memory for storing information received in the electric wave reception section;

an ID reading section for analyzing digitized information stored in the memory to read out digitized information as private information; and

the data conversion section for converting information read by the ID reading section into data suitable for the address book.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the electric wave reception section includes an amplification section for amplifying the electric wave when the received electric wave has a weak intensity.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the electric wave reception section includes an error detection section for detecting an error when the received electric wave has the error.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the electric wave reception section includes an amplification section for amplifying the electric wave when the received electric wave has a weak intensity, and an error detection section for detecting an error when the received electric wave has the error.

6. An apparatus for managing an address book in a portable wireless terminal, the apparatus comprising:

a data conversion section;

an RFID recognition section external to the terminal for receiving information transmitted from an RFID chip after transmission of an electric wave, storing and reading the received information, and structuring address book data using the read information so as to be suitable for the address book, wherein the data conversion section is included in the RFID recognition section;

a display section for displaying data for management of the address book;

a user command input section for inputting a command for address book management by a user;

an address book storage section for storing information; and

a control section for controlling an operation of the RFID recognition section, so as to transmit converted data to the address book storage section according to a user command, thereby storing the data, wherein the RFID recognition section comprises an electric wave control section for controlling an electric wave transmission section to transmit the electric wave having a frequency and an intensity corresponding to the RFID chip.

7. The apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the data converted by the external RFID recognition section are transmitted to the terminal through an ear phone jack.

8. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the data converted by the external RFID recognition section are transmitted to the terminal through a universal asynchronous serial receiver and transmitter.

9. A method for managing an address book in a portable wireless terminal, the method comprising the steps of:

a) controlling an electric wave transmission section to transmit an electric wave having a frequency and an intensity corresponding to the RFID chip and transmitting the electric wave for an RFID recognition to an RFID chip;

b) determining whether RFID information, which is transmitted from the RFID chip, is received after the electric wave is transmitted;

c) storing received information in a memory when received RFID information is related to an address book registration;

d) converting the data corresponding to the identifiers into data suitable for the address book of a corresponding portable terminal;

e) displaying the converted data in a display section of the terminal to ask a user whether the converted data are data to be registered in the address book; and

f) storing the converted data in an address book storage section when the user wants to register the converted data.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, further comprising a step of determining whether the wireless terminal is in an RFID reception mode, and performing step a) when the wireless terminal is in an RFID reception mode.

11. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein step e) includes a substep of a user viewing information displayed in the display section to modify data by using a key input section.

12. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the step of storing information includes the step of determining whether or not received information is information related to the address book registration, and the determining step is performed by detecting a code recorded in a header part of a transmission frame.

13. An apparatus for managing an address book in a portable wireless terminal, the apparatus comprising:

a display section for displaying data for management of an address book;

a user command input section for inputting a command for address book management by a user;

an address book storage section for storing information;

a portable wireless terminal including a control section for receiving data from an external device and enabling the received data to be stored in the address book storage section according to the user'"'"'s request based on identifiers extracted from the received data;

an RFID recognition section for receiving information transmitted from an RFID chip receiving an electric wave after transmission of the electric wave, and storing and reading received information, wherein the RFID recognition section comprises an electric wave control section for controlling an electric wave transmission section to transmit the electric wave having a frequency and an intensity corresponding to the RFID chip; and

a data conversion section for structuring address book data using the information read by the RFID recognition section so as to be suitable for the address book of the portable wireless terminal, thereby transmitting the converted information to the control section of the portable wireless terminal.

14. The apparatus as claimed in claim 13, wherein the data converted by the data conversion section are transmitted through an ear phone jack.

15. The apparatus as claimed in claim 13, wherein the data converted by the data conversion section are transmitted through a universal asynchronous serial receiver and transmitter.