Method and apparatus for storing telephone numbers in a portable terminal

• US 9,495,662 B2
• Filed: 01/09/2012
• Issued: 11/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lim, Heui-Do, Park, Yun-Seon
• Primary Examiner(s): Hwa, Shyue Jiunn
• Application Number:
  US13/346,685
• Publication Number:
  US 20120185495A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,772 Days
• Field of Search: 707/758
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/23 Updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27457 Management thereof, e.g. manual editing of data
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• 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

Abstract

A method and apparatus for storing a telephone number in a portable terminal. The method includes the steps of providing a user with a name input request message; determining whether or not the inputted name exists in a phone book list of the portable terminal; and generating a new entry including the inputted name and its associated telephone number and adding the new entry to the phone book list when the inputted name does not exist in the phone book list.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

displaying a call history list on a touch display screen;

detecting a touch input of selecting a telephone number on the call history list from a user while displaying the call history list on the touch display screen, wherein the selected telephone number is not stored in a phone book list of a portable terminal;

displaying a screen for inputting, via a keyboard displayed on the screen, a name for the selected telephone number;

in response to detecting the touch input of selecting the telephone number on the call history list and an inputting a name for a phone book list entry for the selected telephone number via the keyboard, determining whether at least one entry having a same name as the inputted name for the phone book list entry for the selected telephone number not being stored in the phone book list is already stored in the phone book list of the portable terminal;

when at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name is already stored in the phone book list, displaying, via the touch display screen, the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name;

in response to a request for adding the selected telephone number into an existing entry, while displaying the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name, adding the telephone number into one entry among the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name; and

in response to a request for generating a new entry, while displaying the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name, generating the new entry having the inputted name associated with the selected telephone number in the phone book list,

wherein the name inputted via the keyboard is displayed on an area separate from an area where the keyboard is displayed.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating the new entry comprising the inputted name and the telephone number to store in the phone book list in response to there not being at least one entry in the phone book list having the same name as the inputted name.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising searching for the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name while the inputted name is input.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name includes a respective telephone number.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name is displayed in a list on the touch display screen.

6. A portable terminal comprising:

a touch display screen;

a memory to store a phone book list; and

a controller configured;

to display a call history list via the touch display screen;

to detect a touch input of selecting a telephone number on the call history list from a user while displaying the call history list on the touch display screen, wherein the selected telephone number is not stored in the phone book list of the portable terminal;

to display, via the touch display screen, a screen for inputting, via a keyboard displayed on the screen, a name for the selected telephone number;

in response to detecting the touch input of selecting of the telephone number on the call history list and an inputting a name for a phone book list entry for the selected telephone number via the keyboard, to determine whether at least one entry having a same name as the inputted name for the phone book list entry for the selected telephone number not being stored in the phone book list is already stored in the phone book list of the portable terminal;

when at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name is already stored in the phone book list, to display, via the touch display screen, the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name;

in response to a request for adding the selected telephone number into an existing entry, while displaying the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name, to add the telephone number into one entry among the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name; and

in response to a request for generating a new entry, while displaying the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name, to generate the new entry having the inputted name associated with the selected telephone number in the phone book list,

wherein the name inputted via the keyboard is displayed on an area separate from an area where the keyboard is displayed.

7. The portable terminal of claim 6, wherein the controller is configured to generate the new entry comprising the inputted name and the telephone number to store in the phone book list in response to there not being at least one entry in the phone book list having the same name as the inputted name.

8. The portable terminal of claim 6, wherein the controller is configured to search for the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name while the inputted name is being inputted.

9. The portable terminal of claim 6, wherein each of the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name includes a respective telephone number.

10. The portable terminal of claim 6, wherein the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name is displayed in a list on the touch display screen.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium embodying a computer program that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to:

display a call history list on a touch display screen;

detect a touch input of selecting a telephone number on the call history list from a user while displaying the call history list on the touch display screen, wherein the selected telephone number is not stored in a phone book list of the portable terminal;

display a screen for inputting, via a keyboard displayed on the screen, a name for the selected telephone number;

in response to detecting the touch input of selecting the telephone number on the call history list and an inputting a name for a phone book list entry for the selected telephone number via the keyboard, determine whether at least one entry having a same name as the inputted name for the phone book list for the selected telephone number not being stored in the phone book list is already stored in the phone book list of the portable terminal;

when at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name is already stored in the phone book list, display, via the touch display screen, the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name;

in response to a request for adding the selected telephone number into an existing entry, while displaying the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name, add the telephone number into one entry among the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name; and

in response to a request for generating a new entry, while displaying the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name, generate the new entry having the inputted name associated with the selected telephone number in the phone book list,

wherein the name inputted via the keyboard is displayed on an area separate from an area where the keyboard is displayed.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the computer program further causes, when executed by the processor, the processor to:

generate the new entry comprising the inputted name and the telephone number to store in the phone book list in response to there not being at least one entry in the phone book list having the same name as the inputted name.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the computer program further causes, when executed by the processor, the processor configured to:

search for the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name while the inputted name is being inputted.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein each of the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name includes a respective telephone number.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the at least one entry having the same name as the inputted name are displayed in a list on the touch display screen.