Device for determining sameness between different languages and method thereof

• US 10,223,414 B2
• Filed: 02/16/2016
• Issued: 03/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Song, Gene Wook, Jeon, Byung Joon
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Kim T
• Application Number:
  US15/044,549
• Publication Number:
  US 20160239539A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,113 Days
• Field of Search: 707706, 707756
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24522 Translation of natural language queries to structured queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24528 Standardisation; Simplification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/129 Handling non-Latin characters, e.g. kana-to-kanji conversion
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/53 Processing of non-Latin text kana-to-kanji conversion G06F40/129; vowelisation G06F40/232
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory in which contact information is stored, a communication circuit configured to receive at least one piece of contact information from the outside, and a processor configured to unify language scripts between a name of the stored contact information and a name of the received contact information and determine whether to integrate the stored contact information and the received contact information by comparing the name of the stored contact information with the name of the received contact information in a unified language script.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a memory configured to store a plurality of pieces of contact information;

a communication circuit configured to receive at least one piece of contact information from an external source; and

a processor configured to;

unify, into a third language script, at least one of name among a name of the stored contact information in a first language script and a name of the received contact information in a second language script, wherein the second language script is different from the first language script, and

determine whether to integrate the stored contact information and the received contact information based on comparing, in the third language script, the name of the stored contact information with the name of the received contact information,

wherein the unifying of the language scripts between the name of the stored contact information and the name of the received contact information is performed based on the third language script, and

wherein the third language script includes a same language script as the first language script or the second language script.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first language script and the second language script are identified based on a Unicode.

3. The electronic device of claim 1,

wherein the third language script further includes a different language script than the first language script and the second language script.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein, when one of the name of the stored contact information or the name of the received contact information is written in a Korean script and the other is written in a Roman script, the unifying of the language scripts comprises converting a Korean-script name into a Roman-script name.

5. The electronic device of claim 4, wherein the converting of the Korean-script name into the Roman-script name comprises generating a plurality of Roman character sets by applying a phoneme-based Romanization system to each of a plurality of phonemes included in the Korean-script name.

6. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the phoneme-based Romanization system is differently applied based on whether a first phoneme is placed as an initial consonant or the first phoneme is placed as a final consonant.

7. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the comparing of the name of the stored contact information with the name of the received contact information comprises comparing each of the plurality of Roman character sets, which corresponds to the Korean-script name, with the Roman-script name.

8. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the comparing of each of the plurality of Roman character sets, which correspond to the Korean-script name, with the Roman-script name comprises determining whether at least one of the plurality of Roman character sets, which corresponds to the plurality of phonemes included in the Korean-script name, is included in the Roman-script name.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the unifying of the language scripts between the name of the stored contact information and the name of the received contact information comprises:

transmitting, to an external server using the communication circuit, a request for language script unification between the name of the stored contact information and the name of the received contact information, and

receiving, from the external server using the communication circuit, a result of the language script unification.

10. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the comparing of the name of the stored contact information with the name of the received contact information comprises excluding an unimportant part of the name of the stored contact information and an unimportant part of the name of the received contact information.

11. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the unimportant part of the name of the stored contact information and the unimportant part of the name of the received contact information each comprises at least one of a name suffix, a title, an address term, a number, or a special character.

12. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the comparing of the name of the stored contact information with the name of the received contact information is based on an abbreviation.

13. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the determining of whether to integrate the stored contact information and the received contact information comprises comparing a telephone number or a mail address included in the stored contact information with a telephone number or a mail address included in the received contact information.

14. A method to be performed by an electronic device, the method comprising:

receiving at least one piece of contact information from an external source;

unifying, into a third language script, at least one of name among a name of stored contact information in a first language script, which is stored in a memory, and a name of the received contact information in a second language script different from the first language script;

comparing, in the third language script, the name of the stored contact information with the name of the received contact information; and

determining whether to integrate the stored contact information and the received contact information based on a result of the comparing,

wherein the unifying of the language scripts between the name of the stored contact information and the name of the received contact information is performed based on the third language script, and

wherein the third language script includes a same language script as the first language script or the second language script.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the unifying of the language scripts between the name of the stored contact information and the name of the received contact information is performed based on a Roman script which is a default script.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein, when one of the name of the stored contact information or the name of the received contact information is written in a Korean script and the other is written in a Roman script, the unifying of the language scripts comprises converting a Korean-script name into a Roman-script name.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the converting of the Korean-script name into the Roman-script name comprises generating a plurality of Roman character sets by applying a phoneme-based Romanization system to each of a plurality of phonemes included in the Korean-script name.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the comparing of the name of the stored contact information with the name of the received contact information comprises comparing each of the plurality of Roman character sets, which corresponds to the Korean-script name, with the Roman-script name.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the determining of whether to integrate the stored contact information and the received contact information comprises comparing a telephone number or a mail address included in the stored contact information with a telephone number or a mail address included in the received contact information.

20. At least one non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for storing a computer program configured to be readable by at least one processor, for instructing the at least one processor to execute a computer process for performing a method comprising:

receiving contact information from an external source;

unifying, into a third language script, at least one of name among a name of stored contact information in a first language script, which is stored in a memory, and a name of the received contact information in a second language script different from the first language script;

comparing, in the third language script, the name of the stored contact information with the name of the received contact information; and

determining whether to integrate the stored contact information and the received contact information based on a result of the comparing,

wherein the unifying of the language scripts between the name of the stored contact information and the name of the received contact information is performed based on the third language script, and

wherein the third language script includes a same language script as the first language script or the second language script.