Communication apparatus and computer program

• US 8,200,808 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2006
• Issued: 06/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ishida, Maiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Follansbee, John
• Assistant Examiner(s): Daftuar, Saket K
• Application Number:
  US11/528,526
• Publication Number:
  US 20070083651A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,084 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206, 709223-224, 726/22, 705/8, 705/9, 705/FOR.111, 705/FOR.112, 705/7.18, 705/7.19, 705/7.21, 705/7.24, 715/853, 715/854, 715/762, 715/763, 715/764, 715/765, 715/803, 715/804, 715/805, 715/806, 715/807, 715/808, 715/809, 715/810, 715/851, 715/797, 715/798, 345/351, 345/334, 345/431, 345/963
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06314 Calendaring for a resource
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1093 Calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1095 Meeting or appointment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1097 Task assignment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2746 Sorting, e.g. according to history or frequency of use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/576 associated with a pictorial or graphical representation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• 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 logging of telephone numbers H04M1/56, H04M1/57
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/963 Calendar or scheduling

Abstract

A communication apparatus includes history information storing means for storing history information on communication; displaying means for displaying a calendar; means for classifying the history information on the communication of each day into a plurality of patterns; and image storing means for storing beforehand images corresponding to the plurality of patterns, wherein the displaying means displays an image corresponding to a pattern corresponding to the history information on the communication of each day, in correspondence with each day of the calendar, when the calendar is displayed.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

a history information storage configured to store history information on-of communications received by said communication apparatus during a display that displays a calendar;

a computer implemented classifier configured to classify said history information on-of said communications of each day into a plurality of patterns; and

an image storage configured to store beforehand images corresponding to said plurality of patterns, wherein said display displays an image corresponding to a pattern corresponding to said history information on said communication of each day, in correspondence with each day of the calendar, when said calendar is displayed,

wherein said display displays, for a day having a predetermined ratio or more of receptions from a same sender among a plurality of receptions, an image representative of said predetermined ratio or more of receptions is being from the same sender, in place of the images corresponding to said plurality of pattern,

wherein the display displays a plurality of icons within the calendar, each of the icons corresponding to a respective day of the calendar, and each icon being displayed within a display field of the respective day of the calendar,

wherein each icon corresponds to the pattern in accordance with the classification of the history information of the communication of the respective day of the calendar,

wherein if there is a protective mail, which is an electronic mail inhibited to be erased, among mails received in a day, the display displays an icon corresponding to the protective mail in correspondence with the day, in place of the images corresponding to the plurality of patterns, and

wherein each icon is assigned, based on the history information, in accordance with parameters selected from the group consisting of number of received mails, protective mail, and sender of maximum number of received mails.

2. A communication apparatus comprising:

information storage configured to store history information on-of communications received by said communication apparatus;

a display configured to display a calendar;

a computer implemented classifier configured to classify said history information on said communication of each day into a plurality of patterns; and

storing an image storage configured to store beforehand images corresponding to said plurality of patterns,

wherein said display displays an image corresponding to a pattern corresponding to said history information on said communication of each day, in correspondence with each day of the calendar, when said calendar is displayed,

wherein said communication is an electronic mail, and if there is a protective mail which is a mail inhibited to be erased, among mails received in a day, said display displays an image corresponding to said protective mail in correspondence with the day, in place of the images corresponding to said plurality of patterns,

wherein the display displays a plurality of icons within the calendar, each of the icons corresponding to a respective day of the calendar, and each icon being displayed within a display field of the respective day of the calendar,

wherein each icon corresponds to the pattern in accordance with the classification of the history information of the communication of the respective day of the calendar,

wherein each icon is assigned, based on the history information, in accordance with parameters selected from the group consisting of number of received mails, protective mail, and sender of maximum number of received mails.

3. A communication apparatus comprising:

a history information storage configured to store history information of communications received by the communication apparatus;

a display configured to display a calendar representing predetermined periods;

a computer implemented classifier configured to classify the history information of the communications received in each predetermined period into patterns in accordance with a predetermined threshold value; and

an image storage configured to store images corresponding to the patterns,

wherein the display displays an image with the calendar, the image corresponding to a pattern in accordance with a classification of history information of a communication of a predetermined period;

wherein the display displays a plurality of icons within the calendar, each of the icons corresponding to a respective day of the calendar, and each icon being displayed within a display field of the respective day of the calendar,

wherein each icon corresponds to the pattern in accordance with the classification of the history information of the communication of the respective day of the calendar,

wherein if there is a protective mail, which is an electronic mail inhibited to be erased, among mails received in a day, the display displays an icon corresponding to the protective mail in correspondence with the day, in place of the images corresponding to the plurality of patterns; and

wherein each icon is assigned, based on the history information, in accordance with parameters selected from the group consisting of number of received mails, protective mail, and sender of maximum number of received mails.

4. The communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the history information storage stores information of communications transmitted by the communication apparatus, and

wherein the classifier classifies the history information of the communications transmitted in each predetermined period into patterns in accordance with a predetermined threshold value.

5. The communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the communications are electronic mail type communications.

6. The communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the communications are phone call type communications.

7. The communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the history information includes the number of received communications, and the history information is classified into the patterns by whether the number of receptions is lower or greater than the predetermined threshold value.

8. The communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the display displays, for a day having a predetermined ratio or more of receptions from a same sender among a plurality of receptions, an image representative of the predetermined ratio or more of receptions being from the same sender, in place of the images corresponding to the plurality of patterns.

9. The communication apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

an address book storage configured to store an address book for registering information on a communication partner,

wherein the display displays, for a day having a predetermined ratio or more of receptions from the same sender among a plurality of receptions, an image representative of the same sender in a display area different from a display area for the calendar, if the image representative of the same sender is already registered in the address book.

10. The communication apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a designator configured to designate an arbitrary day in the calendar,

wherein the display displays additional information corresponding to a designated day in an area different from a display area for the calendar.

11. The communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the communication is an electronic mail, and if there is a protective mail which is a mail inhibited to be erased, among mails received in a day, the display displays an image corresponding to the protective mail in correspondence with the day, in place of the images corresponding to the plurality of patterns.

12. The communication apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the display displays contents of the protective mail in an area different from a display area for the calendar.

13. The communication apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a statistic information extractor configured to extract statistic information from the history information,

wherein separately from the calendar display, the display conducts a graph display of displaying a change in at least one of the number of transmissions and the number of receptions during a predetermined period, in accordance with information obtained by the statistic information extractor.

14. The communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the predetermined periods represented by the calendar are days, and the display displays an image for each day in accordance with the history information of communications transmitted or received during that day.

15. The communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the communications are phone call type communications, the history information is the number of receptions, and the history information is classified into the plurality of patterns in accordance with whether the number of receptions of each day is large or small.

16. A mobile phone terminal device including the communication apparatus according to claim 3.

17. The communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the calendar is a monthly calendar displayed in a matrix shape of days arranged in rows and columns, each of the rows indicating seven days of a week.