Bookmarking method and apparatus for an electronic phone book
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorSun-Kyoung Kang
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus for using an electronic phone book in a communication terminal are provided. If a user manually requests a phone number to be registered as a bookmark, or the number of calls to the phone number exceeds a predetermined first threshold, the phone number is saved in a bookmark DB. Upon user request for a bookmark mode operation, bookmarked phone numbers are presented. If the number of calls to a phone number stored in the bookmark DB for a predetermined time period does not exceed a predetermined second threshold, the phone number is deleted from the bookmark DB. Therefore, the user can give a call without memorizing frequently used phone numbers or direct dialing.
Claims11
A bookmarking method in a terminal having a phone number database (DB) for storing phone numbers in an electronic phone book and a bookmark DB, comprising the steps of:
- counting the number of calls to each phone number;
- and
- storing a phone number in the bookmark DB if the number of calls to the phone number exceeds a predetermined first threshold.
A bookmarking method in a terminal having a phone number DB for storing phone numbers in an electronic phone book and a bookmark DB, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a phone number in the terminal;
- storing the received phone number in the phone number DB in response to a phone number registration request for the phone number;
- and
- storing the received phone number in the bookmark DB in response to a bookmark registration request for the phone number.
A bookmarking method in a terminal having a phone number DB for storing phone numbers in an electronic phone book and a bookmark DB, comprising the steps of:
- displaying bookmarked phone numbers stored in the bookmark DB upon a user request for a bookmark mode operation;
- and
- automatically dialing a phone number if the phone number is selected among the displayed bookmarked phone numbers.
A terminal using an electronic phone book, comprising:
- a phone number DB for storing at least one phone number entered by a user;
- a bookmark DB for storing at least one manually user-registered phone number and/or at least one automatically registered phone number;
- and
- a controller for searching the phone number DB for the at least one phone number or searching the bookmark DB for the at least one bookmarked phone number in response to a user request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.