Information Terminal Apparatus

• US 20100268721A1
• Filed: 12/10/2008
• Published: 10/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Kitano, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 9,060,070 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/758
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0237 using prediction or retrieval techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails

Abstract

An information terminal device having a higher degree of convenience than conventional ones is provided. The information terminal device according to the present invention is provided with a display 5, a key input device 6, a memory 7 and a control circuit 2. The control circuit 2 is provided with means for storing operation pattern information including character string pattern information and operation information in the memory 7 according to an information input operation on the key input device 6, means for searching, when a document is displayed on the display 5, character string information that matches the character string pattern information stored in the memory 7 in the document, means for displaying the search result on the display 5, and means for specifying, when an operation of selecting one piece of character string information is performed on the key input device 6, operation pattern information including character string pattern information that matches the character string information selected from the plurality of pieces of operation pattern information stored in the memory 7 and starting an application software program specified by the operation information included in the specified operation pattern information.

Claims

1. An information terminal device having a plurality of functions mounted with a plurality of application software programs for realizing the plurality of functions, comprising:

a registering unit registering character string pattern information comprising character information made up of characters, numbers or symbols, attribute information indicating attributes of the characters, numbers or symbols or a combination of such information in association with operation information for specifying an application software program according to a user operation;

a display unit displaying text data;

a searching unit searching for character string information that matches registered character string pattern information in text data displayed on the display unit;

a selection unit for selecting one piece of character string information from one or a plurality of pieces of character string information obtained as a result of the search by the searching unit; and

a starting unit starting an application software program specified by operation information registered in association with character string pattern information that matches the selected character string information.

2. An information terminal device having a plurality of functions mounted with application software programs for realizing the respective functions, each application software program being intended to display an application screen on an information display device at a startup thereof, comprising:

an information input device;

an information storing unit storing operation pattern information including character string pattern information comprising character information made up of characters, numbers or symbols, attribute information indicating attributes of the characters, numbers or symbols or a combination of such information and operation information for specifying an application software program;

an information processing unit storing the operation pattern information including character string pattern information and operation information in the information storing unit according to an information input operation on the information input device;

a searching unit searching for, when a document including one or a plurality of pieces of character string information is displayed on the information display device, one or a plurality of pieces of character string information that match the character string pattern information stored in the information storing unit in the document;

a search result display processing unit displaying the search result by the searching unit; and

a starting unit specifying, when an operation of selecting one piece of character string information from one or a plurality of pieces of character string information obtained as a result of the search by the searching unit is performed on the information input device, operation pattern information including character string pattern information that matches the selected character string information from a plurality of pieces of operation pattern information stored in the information storing unit and starting the application software program specified by operation information included in the specified operation pattern information.

3. The information terminal device according to claim 2, further comprising:

an operation pattern information display processing unit displaying operation pattern information stored in the information storing unit on the information display device according to an information display operation on the information input device;

a read processing unit reading, when an operation of selecting one piece of operation pattern information from operation pattern information displayed on the information display device is performed on the information input device, the selected operation pattern information from the information storing unit; and

a change processing unit changing the operation pattern information read by the read processing unit according to an information change operation on the information input device and storing the operation pattern information in the information storing unit.

4. The information terminal device according to claim 2, wherein the search result display processing unit displays a search result by the searching unit while the document is displayed on the information display device and displays, when a cursor operation is performed on the information input device while the document is displayed on the information display device and when there is character string information obtained as a result of a search by the searching unit at the cursor destination, the character string information in such a way that the character string information is visually distinguishable from other character string information.

5. The information terminal device according to claim 2, wherein the operation pattern information includes character string information supply necessity information indicating whether or not character string information needs to be supplied to an application software program, and

the starting unit supplies, when the character string information supply necessity information included in the specified operation pattern information indicates that the character string information needs to be supplied to the application software program, the selected character string information to an application software program specified by operation information included in the specified operation pattern information.

6. The information terminal device according to claim 2, wherein the starting unit comprises:

a unit judging whether or not the number of application software programs specified by the operation information included in the specified operation pattern information is plural;

a unit starting, when the number of application software programs specified by the operation information is jugged not to be plural, the application software program;

a unit displaying, when the number of application software programs specified by the operation information is judged to be plural, a screen for selecting one application software program from the plurality of application software programs; and

a unit starting, when an operation of selecting one application software program from the plurality of application software programs is performed on the information input device, the selected application software program.