Method for displaying call record list in wireless telecommunication terminal

• US 20050085274A1
• Filed: 12/07/2004
• Published: 04/21/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Inventors: Lee, Myung-Jae
• Granted Patent: US 7,260,419 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2746 Sorting, e.g. according to history or frequency of use
• 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 for displaying a call record list in a wireless telecommunication terminal is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: reading a stored call record in response to a call record list searching request; collecting call records having identical caller information in form of a list in sequence of time; and displaying caller information together with more than one icon of the call records.

Claims

1. A method for displaying a call record list in a wireless telecommunication terminal, the method comprising the steps of:

a) reading a stored call record in response to a call record list searching request;

b) collecting call records having identical caller information in form of a list in sequence of time; and

c) displaying the caller information together with more than one icon of the call records.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the step c) includes the steps of:

c1) searching a phone book based on the call records of the call record list and checking whether a name linked to a telephone number identical to a telephone number of the call records, exists or not;

c2) if there is a name linked to a telephone number identical to the telephone number of the call records, displaying more than one icon of the call records according to the telephone number and the name corresponding to the telephone number in order of a predetermined sequence; and

c3) if there is no name linked to a telephone number identical to the telephone number of the call record, displaying more than one icon of the call records according to the telephone number and the telephone number in order of a predetermined sequence.

3. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the call record list stores an event occurring information of a incoming call, a outgoing call, a missed call and a short message reception as the call record.

4. The method as recited in claim 3, wherein the steps c2) and c3) displays the call record icons and the number of call event occurring when the incoming call, the outgoing call, the missed call reception and the short message reception are occurred continuously.

5. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the predetermined sequence is outputted in parallel.

6. A mobile terminal for displaying a call record list, comprising:

a call record list reading means for reading a stored call record list in response to a call record list searching request;

a call record collecting means for collecting call records having identical caller information in form of a list in sequence of time; and

a list displaying means for displaying caller information together with more than one icon of the call records.

7. The mobile terminal as recited in claim 6, wherein the list displaying means includes:

a means for searching a phone book based on the call records of the call record list and checking whether a name linked to a telephone number identical to a telephone number of the call records, exists or not; and

a icon displaying means for displaying more than one icon of the call records according to the telephone number and the name corresponding to the telephone number in order of a predetermined sequence if there is a name linked to a telephone number identical to the telephone number of the call records and displaying more than one icon of the call records according to the telephone number and the telephone number in order of a predetermined sequence if there is no name linked to a telephone number identical to the telephone number of the call record.

8. The mobile terminal as recited in claim 7, wherein the icon displaying means displays the icons of the call records and the number of call event occurring when the incoming call, the outgoing call, the missed call reception and the short message reception are occurred continuously.

9. The mobile terminal as recited in claim 7, wherein the predetermined sequence is outputted in parallel.

10. A method of displaying recent calls in a telecommunication terminal, the method comprising:

receiving a request for displaying recent calls;

upon receiving the request, processing records of recent calls so as to identify two or more calls involving an identical person or telephone number; and

displaying a list of recent calls, wherein the two or more calls involving the identical person or telephone number are displayed as an aggregate in the list of recent calls along with information identifying the person or telephone number.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the aggregate of the two or more calls is displayed as a single entry in the list.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein in the single entry, each of the two or more calls is displayed as an icon.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the icon is configured to identify the type of each call.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the type of the call is selected from the group consisting of an incoming call, an incoming voice mail message, an incoming missed call, an incoming text message, an outgoing text message and an outgoing call.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein if two or more other calls involve another person or another telephone number, the two or more other calls are identified and displayed as an aggregate as well.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein in the aggregate, the two or more calls are displayed as sorted by the time of the occurrence of the calls.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein in the aggregate, the two or more calls are displayed as sorted by the type of the calls.

18. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a memory configured to store recent call data;

a processor configured to process the recent call data to identify two or more calls involving an identical person or telephone number from the recent call data; and

a display connected to the processor and configured to display recent call information such that the two or more calls involving the identical person or telephone number are displayed as an aggregate in the list of the recent calls along with information about the identical person or telephone number.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 18, wherein the display is further configured to display the recent call information such that the aggregate of the two or more calls is displayed as a single entry in the list.