Telephone directory address storing method and information...

Details Telephone directory address storing method and information... Telephone directory address storing method and information...

1999-09-09

2004-09-14

Tran, Quoc (Department: 2643)

Telephonic communications

Reception of calling information at substation in wireline...

Having display unit

C379S142010, C379S142150, C379S201040, C379S245000, C379S247000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06792090

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an information terminal apparatus which can originate a telephone call to a telephone circuit, and more particularly to a method which provides a simplified telephone number operation for an information terminal apparatus having an operation system (hereinafter referred to simply as OS) for displaying a window screen.
2. Description of the Related Art
An OS by which display data processed by a plurality of programs are displayed on windows (for example, the Windows 95 of Microsoft) is conventionally available. An information terminal such as a computer in which such an OS as just described is installed is connected to a circuit by means of a modem having a circuit interface with a telephone circuit in order to originate a telephone call, and can display a window by the OS and effect telephone communication.
Also an information terminal having such a telephone call origination function as just described has been proposed wherein character information including a telephone number displayed on a window screen (second window) for a word processor document or the like displayed as a result execution of a controlling OS is extracted and only the number is taken out from within the character information and displayed in a telephone call originating window (first window) under the control of a telephoning OS and then a telephone call is originated to a telephone circuit based on the displayed number. The information terminal saves a time for inputting the telephone number and allows a telephone call to be originated simply and rapidly.
FIG. 15
shows the information terminal just described. Referring to
FIG. 15
, the information terminal includes a circuit interface
1
connected a telephone circuit L, a control circuit
2
for controlling the entire information terminal, a mouse
3
, a keyboard
4
, a display memory
5
and a display unit
6
all connected to the control circuit
2
, and a telephone set
12
connected to the circuit interface
1
.
The control circuit
2
includes a controlling OS execution circuit
7
for executing a basic OS for causing a window to be displayed and a controlling OS which is initiated under the basic OS and includes, for example, a word processor OS, a telephoning OS execution circuit
8
for executing a telephoning OS, and input/output interfaces (I/O)
9
,
10
and
11
connected to the mouse
3
, keyboard
4
and display memory
5
, respectively.
The telephoning OS of the telephoning OS execution circuit
8
allows a telephone call to be originated to a telephone circuit through the controlling OS of the controlling OS execution circuit
7
. In particular, the telephoning OS execution circuit
8
controls a display application of the controlling OS execution circuit
7
to cause the display unit
6
to display such a telephone call originating window (first window)
111
as shown in FIG.
16
through the display memory
5
.
Further, the telephoning OS execution circuit
8
extracts character information
113
for telephone call origination from within an arbitrary window display screen (second window)
112
in response to an operation of the mouse
3
or the keyboard
4
, extracts only numeral information from within the character information and displays the numeral information as telephone number information on the telephone call originating window
111
.
Finally, when the telephone number of a display portion
116
in the telephone call originating window
111
designates an extension line, an extension button
117
is clicked, but when the telephone number designates a line wire, a line wire button
118
is clicked, by means of the mouse
3
. Consequently, the circuit interface
1
is controlled so that it may originate a telephone call to the telephone circuit L based on the number displayed on the display portion
116
.
In this manner, arbitrary telephone number information displayed in a window of a word processor document or some other window screen displayed as a result of execution of the controlling OS can be extracted by a simple operation and a telephone call can be originated automatically.
With the information terminal described above, a time required to cause a telephone key screen to be displayed on the display unit
6
and input a telephone number is saved and a telephone call can be originated simply and rapidly. However, when a character train is clicked for dialing, information of an address, a name, a post and so forth included in the clicked character train is abandoned after the dialing, and in order to originate a telephone call to the same designation again, the same character train must be clicked again. Similarly, when, upon reception, a relating character train is displayed and the displayed information is clicked, even if information of an address, a post and so forth is included in the information, the information is abandoned.
Further, also with apparatus which use the OS of the Windows CE of Microsoft published as the most novel type, no screen link for receiving dial information is available, and a screen on which a telephone number is dialed upon telephone call origination remains within linking in an application such as a scheduler or a business card management application. Therefore, a telephone number must be described in and controlled as a telephone directory address in the application.
It is a further problem that general purpose telephone directory information and a telephone call origination-termination history are not linked except a database for exclusive use for a call center.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide a telephone directory address storing method and an information terminal having a telephone function which achieves further augmentation of the operability.
In order to attain the object described above, according to the present invention, a character train clicked for dialing is made the most of to efficiently manage telephone directory information of an information terminal apparatus.
In particular, according to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a telephone directory address storing method by an information terminal which has an operation system by which a plurality of window screens can be displayed on a display unit and is provided with a telephone function, comprising the steps of selecting character information on a window screen initiated by the operating system and storing the selected character information, and extracting a telephone number from within the selected and stored character information, originating a telephone call to a telephone circuit based on the extracted telephone number and transferring and storing all of the selected character information to and into a telephone directory address storage section.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a telephone directory address storing method by an information terminal which has an operation system by which a plurality of window screens can be displayed on a display unit and is provided with a telephone function, comprising the steps of displaying a first window for controlling origination of a telephone call, selecting character information on a second window initiated by the operating system and displayed separately from the first window and storing the selected character information, and extracting a telephone number from within the stored character information and displaying the telephone number on the first window, originating a telephone call to a telephone circuit based on the telephone number displayed on the first window, and transferring and storing all of the selected character information to and into a telephone directory address storage section.
According to a yet further aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information terminal having a telephone function and having an operation system which allows a plurality of window screens to be displayed on a display unit, comprising character information selection means for

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