Apparatus and method of processing a ghost register

• US 8,750,478 B2
• Filed: 08/12/2010
• Issued: 06/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Cho, Seong Chul, Kim, Hyung Jin, Jo, Gweon Do, Kim, Daeho
• Primary Examiner(s): TRAN, QUOC DUC
• Application Number:
  US12/855,219
• Publication Number:
  US 20110142220A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,398 Days
• Field of Search: 379/142.01, 379/142.06, 379/142.07, 379/207.15, 379/210.02, 455/415
• US Class Current: 379/142.06
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2745 using static electronic memories, e.g. chips
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/663 Preventing unauthorised calls to a telephone set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/06 Recording class or number of calling , i.e. A-party or called party , i.e. B-party

Abstract

Provided is a ghost register processing apparatus and method. The ghost register processing apparatus may include a ghost setting determining unit to determine whether a ghost is set with respect to a caller identification (ID) that is received in response to a call request or a message reception and a reception information controller to store reception information associated with the caller ID in a ghost memory unit when the determining determines that the ghost is set.

Claims

1. An apparatus of processing a ghost register, the apparatus comprising:

a ghost setting determining unit to determine whether a ghost is set with respect to a caller identification (ID) that is received in response to a call request or a message reception; and

a reception information controller to store reception information associated with the caller ID in a ghost memory unit when the ghost setting determining unit determines that the ghost is set, wherein the reception information controller controls to abstain from displaying the reception information stored in the ghost memory unit,

wherein the ghost register is accessible by inputting a character string identical to a character string of the ghost register.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a reception rejection determining unit to determine whether a reception rejection is set with respect to the caller ID,

wherein, when the ghost is set with respect to the caller ID and the reception rejection is set with respect to the caller ID, the reception information controller stores the reception information in the ghost memory unit.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a reception rejection determining unit to determine whether a reception rejection is set with respect to the caller ID; and

a call neglect determining unit to determine whether a call neglect is set with respect to the caller ID, when the ghost is set with respect to the caller ID and the reception rejection is not set with respect to the caller ID,

wherein, when the call neglect is set with respect to the caller ID and a current time is corresponding to a call neglect set time, the reception information controller stores the reception information.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the ghost setting determining unit searches an address database to determine whether the ghost is individually set with respect to the caller ID, or searches the address database to determine whether the caller ID is included in a group to which the ghost is set.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the reception information controller stores, in the ghost memory unit, reception history or received contents with respect to the call request or the message reception as the reception information.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a search controller to control to search an address database for a ghost register recorded as a character string identical with a character string inputted through an interface, in response to a register search request, excluding a register including a portion of the character string, and to control to display information associated with the retrieved ghost register.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein, when the determining determines that the ghost is not set, the reception information controller stores the reception information in a basic memory unit different from the ghost memory unit.

8. A method of processing a ghost register, the method comprising:

determining whether a ghost is set with respect to a caller ID received in response to a call request or a message reception;

storing reception information with respect to the caller ID in a ghost memory unit when the determining determines that the ghost is set; and

controlling to abstain from displaying the reception information stored in the ghost memory unit,

wherein the ghost register is accessible by inputting a character string identical to a character string of the ghost register.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

determining whether a reception rejection is set with respect to the caller ID,

wherein, when the ghost is set with respect to the caller ID and the reception rejection is set with respect to the caller ID, the storing stores the reception information in the ghost memory unit.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

determining whether a reception rejection is set with respect to the caller ID; and

determining whether a call neglect is set with respect to the caller ID, when the ghost is set with respect to the caller ID and the reception rejection is not set with respect to the caller ID,

wherein, when the call neglect is set with respect to the caller ID and a current time is corresponding to a call neglect set time, the storing stores the reception information.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the determining comprises searching an address database to determine whether the ghost is individually set with respect to the caller ID, or searches the address database to determine whether the caller ID is included in a group to which the ghost is set.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the storing comprises storing, in the ghost memory unit, reception history or received contents with respect to the call request or the message reception as the reception information.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

controlling to search an address database for a ghost register recorded as a character string identical with a character string inputted through an interface, in response to a register search request, excluding a register including a portion of the character string, and to display information associated with the retrieved ghost register.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

storing the reception information in a basic memory unit different from the ghost memory unit when the determining determines that the ghost is not set.