Processing method and touch terminal for merge and deduplication operations on contact entries

A method for processing merge and deduplication operations on contact entries, the method comprising:

• opening an address book and displaying contact entries;
• recording selected contact entries according to a selection action performed on the contact entries;
• receiving a drag action to merge contact entries
• merging the selected contact entries according to the drag action;
• removing duplicated information in the selected contact entries during merging;
• and
• detecting conflict information in the selected contact entries
• when merging contact entries, and removing duplicated information in the selected contact entries;
• detecting if there is conflict among information in the selected contact entries;
• if conflict is detected among information in the selected contact entries, outputting a prompt message to prompt a user whether to ignore the conflicted information;
• if the user selects to ignore the conflicting information, saving the conflicted information;
• wherein attributes of each contact entry are compared, if an attribute only exists in one contact entry, no conflict is indicated;
• if multiple contact entries have an identical attribute, and the attributes have a same value, the contact entries are indicated as including duplicated information and to have no conflict;
• when multiple contact entries have an identical attribute and more than two values are different, a conflict will be detected and the conflict information is recorded, including a name of the conflict item and conflict content, and prompting the user whether to ignore the conflicting information, if the user chooses to ignore the conflicting information, then keeping the conflicted information, if the user selects not to ignore the conflicting information, conflicting information is deleted according to the user selection.

A touch terminal according to claim 18, further comprising:

• when merging contact entries, removing duplicated information in the selected contact entries;
• detecting if there is conflict among information in the selected contact entries;
• if conflict is detected among information in the selected contact entries, outputting a prompt message to prompt a user whether to ignore the conflicted information;
• if the user selects to ignore the conflicting information, saving the conflicted information.

A touch terminal for processing merge and deduplication operations on contact entries, the touch terminal comprising:

• an application opening module for opening an address book and displaying contact entries;
• a dragging and merging module for recording selected contact entries according to a selection action on contact entries, receiving a drag action to merge contact entries, and merging the selected contact entries according to the drag action;
• and
• an information processing module for removing duplicated information in the selected contact entries during merging, and detecting conflict information in the selected contact entries.