CN102055826B - Method and system for maintaining multi-dimensional related information related to contacts in address list - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and a system for maintaining multi-dimensional related information related to contacts in an address list. The method comprises the following steps of: confirming that an event affecting the multi-dimensional related information data has happened; analyzing the event, and identifying the multi-dimensional related information data; and storing the multi-dimensional related information data and maintaining the association between the multi-dimensional related information data and the contacts. The method and the system can automatically analyze, create and maintain time, place and related person information related to a certain contact in the address list of a mobile phone, and allow a user to search the address list from multiple dimensions. Under the condition that the burden of the user is not increased, the available address list search conditions of the user are enlarged, and the efficiency of managing the address list of the mobile phone of the user with more contacts is greatly improved.

Description

Method and system for maintaining multi-dimensional related information about contacts in an address book

technical field

The present invention relates to personal communication terminal technology, and more specifically, to a method and device for managing personal address books.

Background technique

With the development of mobile communication technology, mobile phones have become one of the most important communication tools for people. Most mobile phones provide address book storage and management functions. Users can record contact names/phone numbers/company names and other information as business cards; and can search for contacts based on names or phone numbers.

The combination of address book and communication tools has brought great convenience, and people are becoming more and more accustomed to recording phone numbers in their mobile phones. At the same time, due to the development of the Internet, e-mail, and instant chat tools, it is more and more convenient for people to communicate and contact each other, and the social circle is wider than before, which leads to the rapid growth of the address book. For some business people, other The contacts in the mobile phone address book often reach hundreds or even thousands of people.

However, in a fixed time frame, people often contact only dozens of people, and most of the people in the mobile phone will not be in contact for a long time. This brings troubles to the management of the address book: without contact for a long time, the user can easily forget who a certain contact in the address book is. Therefore, many users with large address books often encounter the following problems: You want to call someone you don't know, but you can't remember the name and number of the other party. Even if you have saved the other party's business card in the address book, you can't look it up because you don't remember the name.

Although most current mobile phone address book management software allows users to store more attributes of contacts, such as company, email, address and other information, users can also use these attributes to search.

However, on the one hand, these attributes need to be manually input by the user, which is a lot of work and very low in efficiency. On the other hand, for contacts that have not been in touch for a long time, users can often recall more vague information, and cannot search for results through these attributes. For example, the user can only remember the contact person at a certain time (or place); or only remember that a certain time (or place) had a call or text message with the contact person; A certain friend is related (recommended by a friend).

Contents of the invention

The present invention provides a method and system, which can automatically analyze, create and maintain the time, place and relevant person information related to a certain contact in the mobile phone address book, and allow users to search the address book from multiple dimensions. Without increasing any burden on the user, the search conditions of the address book available to the user are expanded, and the efficiency of managing the mobile phone address book of the user with many contacts is greatly improved.

According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for creating and maintaining multi-dimensional related information data related to contacts in the address book, comprising the following steps: determining that an event affecting the multi-dimensional related information data has occurred; analyzing the obtained and identifying the multi-dimensional related information data; and storing the multi-dimensional related information data and maintaining the association between it and the contact person.

Multi-dimensional related information data includes time, place and related persons; events affecting the multi-dimensional related information include creating a new contact card, modifying the content of an existing contact card, calling a phone, answering a phone, sending a short message or receiving a short message information.

As an example, when the event of creating a new contact card occurs, the step of analyzing the event and identifying the multi-dimensional related information data includes: reading and recording the current mobile phone system time as the relevant time when the card was created ; read and record the location of the mobile phone at that time as the relevant location when the business card was created, and obtain the location of the mobile phone at that time; analyze the communication records of the system and record the relevant communication time; analyze the SMS inbox and/or outbox of the system, Get information about people involved.

As another example, when the event of modifying the content of an existing contact card occurs, the step of analyzing the event and identifying the multi-dimensional related information data includes: analyzing the system communication records, recording the relevant communication time; analyzing the system SMS inbox and/or outbox for the relevant person.

As another example, when the event of making or receiving a phone call occurs, the step of analyzing the event and identifying the multi-dimensional related information data includes: reading and recording the current mobile phone system time as the relevant communication time; And record the location of the mobile phone at that time as the location of the relevant communication.

As another example, after the event of sending a short message occurs, the step of analyzing the event and identifying the multi-dimensional related information data includes: reading and recording the mobile phone system time at that time as the relevant short message contact time; And record the location of the mobile phone at that time as the location when the relevant short message is contacted; analyze the content and attributes of the short message, and identify the relevant person who is related to the contact person who received the short message.

As another example, after the event of receiving a short message occurs, the step of analyzing the event and identifying the multidimensional related information data includes: reading and recording the mobile phone system time at that time as the relevant short message contact time; And record the location of the mobile phone at that time as the location when the relevant short message is contacted; analyze the content and attributes of the short message, and identify the relevant person who is related to the contact person who sent the short message.

According to the method of the present invention, analyzing the communication records of the system includes: if the received call, dialed call or missed call record of the mobile phone system includes the number, then record the time at that time as the relevant communication time. Obtaining the location of the mobile phone at that time includes: if the GPS device is available, read the latitude and longitude data of the user's location at that time; if the GPS device is not available, read the Cell data in the mobile phone device at that time.

According to the above method of the present invention, the step of saving the multidimensional related information data and maintaining its association with the contact further includes: if it is a newly created contact card event, creating a new multidimensional related information data record and and Relevant contacts are associated and saved, otherwise, the created multi-dimensional related information data records are found and updated according to the contacts. Furthermore, if a new related person is identified, the identified related person is added to the related person list of the contact, preferably the contact is added to the related person list of all newly identified related people.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for creating and maintaining multi-dimensional related information data related to contacts in the address book, including: a mobile phone event monitor, used to determine whether an event affecting the multi-dimensional related information has been Occurrence; multi-dimensional related information analyzer, used to analyze and identify contacts affected by the event and related multi-dimensional related information; multi-dimensional related information recorder, used to record and update multi-dimensional related information data; multi-dimensional related information data repository, The multi-dimensional relevant information data is stored in the repository in a manner of being associated with corresponding contacts.

Preferably, the system further includes a GPS device, which is used to obtain the geographic location information of the mobile phone when an event affecting the multi-dimensional related information data has occurred.

Preferably, the system also includes a data transfer device. When the user exports the address book data in the mobile phone, the multi-dimensional related information data is simultaneously exported, and the associated relationship with the relevant contacts is maintained; when the user imports the address book into When the mobile phone is in the mobile phone, the multi-dimensional relevant information data is imported into the address book at the same time, and the association relationship with the relevant contacts is maintained.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a device for performing multi-dimensional retrieval and searching contacts based on the multi-dimensional related information described in the preceding claims, including: a multi-dimensional search condition receiving module for inputting search keywords; multi-dimensional related information The data retrieval module is used to retrieve the system address book and the multi-dimensional related information data according to the keyword input by the user and return the matching contact list; the search result presentation module is used to display all the retrieved matching contact list.

Preferably, the device for searching contacts further includes a geographic information database to allow users to input place names instead of longitude and latitude information to perform multi-dimensional retrieval.

Using the present invention, the user can search the address book from more dimensions, for example, time, place, relevant person and other dimensions, without increasing any burden on the user, the search conditions of the address book available to the user are expanded, and the contact list is greatly improved. More users manage the efficiency of mobile phone contacts.

Description of drawings

Those skilled in the art may better understand the various advantages, features and characteristics of the present invention by referring to the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment of the invention, when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings; The content is only one embodiment of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1A is a schematic block diagram of a system for analyzing and maintaining multi-dimensional related information data related to contacts in an address book according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 1B is a schematic block diagram of a system for analyzing and maintaining multi-dimensional related information data related to contacts in an address book according to a further embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a flowchart of a method for analyzing and maintaining multi-dimensional related information data related to contacts in an address book according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for searching contacts according to another aspect of the present invention, performing retrieval according to the above-mentioned multi-dimensional relevant information data.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart of a method for searching contacts according to another aspect of the present invention, according to the above-mentioned multi-dimensional related information data.

Detailed ways

The invention relates to a method and a system for creating, maintaining, and providing users with multi-dimensional relevant information data related to contacts in a mobile phone address book.

The present invention provides a system for creating and maintaining multi-dimensional related information data related to contacts in the address book, including: a mobile phone event monitor for determining whether an event affecting the multi-dimensional related information has occurred; a multi-dimensional related information An information analyzer for analyzing and identifying contacts affected by the event and related multidimensional related information; a multidimensional related information recorder for recording and updating multidimensional related information data; a multidimensional related information data repository (such as a database), The multi-dimensional relevant information data is stored in the repository in a manner of being associated with corresponding contacts, preferably, the repository can be configured to be queried for contacts and associated multi-dimensional relevant information.

Preferably, the system for creating and maintaining multi-dimensional related information data related to contacts in the address book of the present invention further includes a data transfer device. When the user exports the address book data in the mobile phone, the multi-dimensional related information data can be exported at the same time, and the association relationship with the related contacts can be maintained. When the user imports the address book into the mobile phone, the multi-dimensional related information data can be imported into the address book at the same time, and the association relationship with the related contacts can be maintained.

The principles and specific implementations of the present invention will be described in detail below through non-limiting examples in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

Referring to FIG. 1A , a system 100 for creating and maintaining multi-dimensional related information data related to contacts in an address book is shown according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the system 100 includes a mobile phone event monitor 101, which is used to monitor various events occurring in the mobile phone, and determines that an event affecting multi-dimensional relevant information has occurred; a multi-dimensional relevant information analyzer 102, which is used to analyze and identify the occurrence Contacts affected by the event and related multi-dimensional related information; a multi-dimensional related information recorder 103, configured to record and update multi-dimensional related information data related to contacts in the address book. A multi-dimensional relevant information data repository 104, where the multi-dimensional relevant information data is stored in a manner associated with corresponding contacts.

The multi-dimensional relevant information data storage library 104 can be in the mobile phone system (including the built-in memory and external memory card of the mobile phone). Preferably, the multi-dimensional related information data storage library 104 may be located in a server in a network environment or in an independent storage device connected to the server.

Additionally, the repository 104 can be configured to be queried for contacts and associated multi-dimensional related information.

FIG. 1B shows a system 100 for analyzing and maintaining multi-dimensional related information data related to contacts in an address book according to a further embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, in a further embodiment of the present invention, in addition to the mobile phone event monitor 101, the multi-dimensional related information analyzer 102 and the multi-dimensional related information recorder 103, the system 100 can also include a data transfer device 105 and a GPS device 106 .

Considering that mobile phone users will replace their mobile phones, or use other external storage devices (such as external memory cards) to back up data, the data transfer device 105 can share the user's multiple storage devices (or among multiple mobile phones) multi-dimensional related information and maintain the association between these information and contacts.

The multi-dimensional relevant information analyzer 102 can acquire the user's current precise geographic location information through the GPS device 106 . However, in the mobile phone system, even if there is no GPS device, the Cell ID data can be used to obtain the user's current base station identifier, thereby indirectly obtaining the user's geographic location information.

Note that in further embodiments of the present invention, the data transfer device 105 and the GPS device 106 are optional, and the system 100 may lack the above optional components, but it will not depart from the scope of the basic principles of the present invention.

The present invention also provides a method for analyzing and maintaining multi-dimensional related information data related to contacts in the address book, comprising the following steps: determining that an event affecting the multi-dimensional related information data has occurred; analyzing the event and identifying The multi-dimensional relevant information data; and storing the multi-dimensional relevant information data and maintaining the association between it and the contact person.

Events that affect multi-dimensional related information may include, but are not limited to, events such as incoming and/or outgoing calls, creating and/or modifying contacts, receiving and/or sending short messages, and the like. Multi-dimensional related information data includes but not limited to time, place and related people.

Preferably, the events affecting the multi-dimensional related information include: creating a new contact card, modifying the content of an existing contact card, calling a phone, answering a phone, sending a short message, receiving a short message, and so on.

As an example, when an event of creating a new contact card occurs, the event is analyzed and the multi-dimensional related information data is identified, wherein identifying the multi-dimensional related information data may include but not limited to:

Read and record the mobile phone system time at that time as the relevant time when the business card was created;

Read and record the location of the mobile phone at that time as the relevant location when the business card was created, and obtain the location of the mobile phone at that time;

Analyze system communication records and record relevant communication time;

Analyze the system's SMS inbox and/or outbox for information about the person involved.

Preferably, the method for obtaining the location of the mobile phone at that time may include: if the GPS device is available, reading the latitude and longitude data of the user's location at that time; if the GPS device is not available, then reading the Cell data in the mobile phone device at that time. According to the latitude and longitude data or Cell data, the geographical database can be queried to obtain the determined location as the relevant location when the business card is created.

Preferably, the system communication record is analyzed, if any number of the contact is included in the received call, dialed call or missed call record of the mobile phone system, then record the time at that time as the relevant communication time.

Preferably, the text message inbox of the analysis system: if the contact person is added to the address book by a business card sent by text message, and the sending number of the text message is not the newly created contact number, then the sender of the text message is related person; if any number or name of the contact exists in a text message in the system inbox, and the number sending the text message is inconsistent with the number of the contact, the sender of the text message is the relevant person; if in the system If there is a text message sent by the contact number in the inbox, and other numbers or contact names in the address book appear in the content of the text message, then the relevant person is the contact or number appearing in the content of the text message.

Analyze the SMS outbox of the system: If any number or name of the contact exists in the content of a text message sent by the system, and the number receiving the text message is inconsistent with the contact number, the recipient of the text message is the relevant person ; If there is a text message sent to the contact number in the system sent text message box, and other numbers or contact names in the address book appear in the text message content, then the relevant person is the contact person appearing in the text message content.

As another example, when an event of modifying the content of an existing contact card occurs, analyze the event and identify the multi-dimensional related information data, wherein identifying the multi-dimensional related information data may include but not limited to:

Analyze system communication records and record relevant communication time;

Analyze the system's SMS inbox and/or outbox for information about the person involved.

Preferably, the system communication records are analyzed, and if the number is included in the received calls, dialed calls or missed calls records of the mobile phone system, the time at that time is recorded as the relevant communication time.

Preferably, analyze the SMS inbox of the system: if the phone number exists in a certain text message in the system inbox, and the number sending the text message is inconsistent with the phone number, then the sender of the text message is a relevant person; if If there is a text message sent by the phone number in the system inbox, and other numbers or contact names in the address book appear in the content of the text message, the relevant person is the contact person or number appearing in the content of the text message.

Preferably, analyze the SMS outbox of the system: if the phone number exists in the content of a certain text message sent by the system, and the number receiving the text message is inconsistent with the phone number, the recipient of the text message is a relevant person; If there is a text message sent to the phone number in the sent text message box, and other numbers or contact names in the address book appear in the content of the text message, then the relevant person is the contact person appearing in the content of the text message.

As another example, when the event of making a phone call occurs, analyze the event and identify the multi-dimensional related information data, where identifying the multi-dimensional related information data may include but not limited to:

Read and record the current mobile phone system time (when the call is initiated) as the relevant communication time;

Read and record the location of the mobile phone at that time as the location of the relevant communication (the acquisition method is the same as above).

As another example, when the event of answering a phone call occurs, analyze the event and identify the multi-dimensional related information data, where identifying the multi-dimensional related information data may include but not limited to:

Read and record the mobile phone system time at that time (when the phone is connected) as the relevant communication time;

Read and record the location of the mobile phone at that time as the location of the relevant communication, (the acquisition method is the same as above).

As another example, after the event of sending a short message occurs, analyze the event and identify the multi-dimensional related information data, where identifying the multi-dimensional related information data may include but not limited to:

Read and record the mobile phone system time at that time as the relevant SMS contact time;

Read and record the location of the mobile phone at that time as the location of the relevant SMS contact (the acquisition method is the same as above);

Analyzing the content and attributes of the short message to identify the relevant person related to the contact person receiving the short message. Preferably, if the format of the short message is a business card format, the contact person represented by the business card is the relevant person; The number or contact person is the relevant person.

As another example, when the event of receiving a short message occurs, analyze the event and identify the multi-dimensional related information data, wherein identifying the multi-dimensional related information data may include but not limited to:

Read and record the mobile phone system time at that time as the relevant SMS contact time;

Read and record the location of the mobile phone at that time as the location of the relevant SMS contact (the acquisition method is the same as above);

The content and attributes of the short message are analyzed to identify the relevant person related to the contact person who sent the short message. Preferably, if the format of the short message is a business card format, and the number sending the short message does not belong to the contact number represented by the business card, then the contact person who sends the short message is the relevant person; if other numbers appear in the content of the short message Or the name of an existing contact in the address book, the number or contact that appears in the content of the message is the relevant person.

Preferably, the step of saving the multi-dimensional related information data and maintaining its association with the contact includes but not limited to: if it is a newly created contact card event, creating a new multi-dimensional related information data record and related Otherwise, find and update the created multi-dimensional related information data record according to the contact. In addition, if a new related person is identified, the identified related person is added to the related person list of the contact, and preferably the contact is also added to the related person list of all newly identified related people .

Preferably, the step of saving the multi-dimensional related information data and maintaining the association between it and the contacts also includes transferring the multi-dimensional related information data and maintain the association relationship between the contacts in the address book and the multi-dimensional related information data.

As an embodiment, the operation and various components of the system 100 will be described in detail below in conjunction with the method for analyzing and maintaining multi-dimensional related information data related to contacts in the address book shown in FIG. 2 .

It should be noted that the method of the present invention for analyzing and maintaining multi-dimensional related information data related to a contact can also be implemented in other systems similar to the system 100, as long as the method of the present invention for analyzing and maintaining information related to a contact It only needs to execute each step of the method for the multi-dimensional related information data.

As shown in FIG. 2, at the beginning (usually after the user's mobile phone is turned on), the mobile phone event monitor 101 will start.

When the user uses the mobile phone as needed, in step 201, the mobile phone event monitor 101 monitors the user's operation to determine whether an event affecting the multi-dimensional related information occurs. When the mobile phone event monitor 101 confirms that an event affecting the multi-dimensional related information has occurred, the identified event is sent to the multi-dimensional related information analyzer 102 for analysis, and the procedure goes to step 202 .

In step 202, the multi-dimensional related information analyzer 102 analyzes and updates the multi-dimensional related information of the contacts affected by the event according to the type of the event. Once the multi-dimensional related information analyzer 102 completes the event analysis, it sends the identified contacts and related multi-dimensional related information data to the multi-dimensional related information recorder 103 and proceeds to step 203 .

In step 203, the multi-dimensional related information recorder 103 saves the multi-dimensional related information data into the multi-dimensional related information data store 104, and maintains the association between it and the contact person.

The process of each step is further described below by taking specific monitored events as examples.

According to the needs of the user and the functions provided by the mobile phone, various operational events usually occur, such as making or answering calls, creating or modifying contacts in the address book, sending or receiving text messages, and even playing games. In this embodiment, preferably, the events that will affect the multi-dimensional related information generally include creating a new contact card, modifying the content of an existing contact card, making a call, answering a call, sending a short message, receiving a short message These 6 events. The mobile phone event monitor 101 will recognize these 6 events from various operations of the user.

If the event that takes place is the event of creating a new contact name card, then the multidimensional related information analyzer 102 will perform the following steps: read and record the mobile phone system time at that time as the relevant time when the name card is created; if the GPS device 106 (it is Optional) is available, then read and record the latitude and longitude data of the location of the mobile phone from the GPS device at that time, otherwise read and record the Cell ID data of the mobile phone device at that time, this geographic location data is used as the relevant location when the business card is created; analysis system to obtain the relevant communication time; analyze the SMS inbox and/or outbox of the system to obtain relevant persons.

If the event that occurs is to modify the content of an existing contact card (for example, including adding a new phone number, modifying an existing phone number, etc.) event, then the multi-dimensional related information analyzer 102 will perform the following steps: analyze the communication Logging to get relevant communication times; analyzing the system's SMS inbox and/or outbox for relevant people.

If the event that takes place is a call event, then the multi-dimensional relevant information analyzer 102 will perform the following steps: read and record the mobile phone system time when the call is initiated as the relevant communication time; if the GPS device 106 (it is optional) is available , then read and record the latitude and longitude data of the location of the mobile phone at that time from the GPS device 106, otherwise read and record the Cell ID data of the mobile phone device at that time, and this geographic location data is used as the relevant communication location.

If the event that takes place is to receive a phone event, then the multidimensional relevant information analyzer 102 will perform the following steps: read and record the mobile phone system time when the incoming call is connected as the relevant communication time; if the GPS device 106 (it is optional) ) is available, then read and record the latitude and longitude data of the mobile phone's place at that time from the GPS device 106, otherwise read and record the Cell ID data of the mobile phone device at that time, and this geographic location data is used as the relevant communication location.

If the event that takes place is to send a short message event, then the multidimensional related information analyzer 102 will perform the following steps: read and record the mobile phone system time when the user sends a short message as the relevant short message contact time; if the GPS device 106 (it is optional) ) is available, then read and record the latitude and longitude data of the mobile phone's place at that time from the GPS device 106, otherwise read and record the Cell ID data of the mobile device at that time, and the location when this geographical location data is used as a relevant short message contact; analyze and send out The content and attributes of the short message to identify the relevant person.

If the event that takes place is to receive short message event, then multi-dimensional relevant information analyzer 102 will carry out the following steps: read and record the mobile phone system time when the user receives short message as relevant short message contact time; Selected) is available, then read and record the latitude and longitude data of the mobile phone's place at that time from the GPS device, otherwise read and record the Cell ID data of the mobile phone device at that time, and this geographic location data is used as the location when the relevant SMS is contacted; analyze the received The content and attributes of the short message to identify the relevant person.

Preferably, in step 203, the multidimensional related information recorder 103 can judge: if the contact identified in step 102 is a newly created contact, create a new multidimensional related information record and associate it with the contact Otherwise, the multi-dimensional related information recorder 103 will first find and update the multi-dimensional related information record related to the contact.

Preferably, if a new related person is identified in step 202, the multidimensional related information recorder will not only update the related person list of the contact, but also find the multidimensional related information recorder of the newly identified related person, and set The contact is added to the related persons list of the newly identified related persons.

Preferably, after the multidimensional related information recorder 103 finishes saving the multidimensional related information data to the multidimensional related information storehouse 104, if the user transfers the address book as needed (for example, transfers the business card data or backup data in the address book when changing a mobile phone), Then the user can use the data transfer device 105 (which is optional) to transfer the multidimensional related information data from the multidimensional related information storehouse 104 at the same time, so as to keep in the new mobile phone system, the contacts in the address book and the multidimensional related information Association and synchronization relationship between information data.

In another aspect of the present invention, there is also provided a device 300 for performing multi-dimensional retrieval and searching contacts according to the multi-dimensional relevant information data related to the contacts in the address book. As shown in FIG. 3 , the device 300 includes The multi-dimensional search condition receiving module 301 is used to receive the multi-dimensional search condition input by the user; the multi-dimensional related information data retrieval module 302 is used to retrieve the multi-dimensional related information data according to the search condition to find out the target contact person searched by the user; the search result presentation module 303 , for presenting to the user the list of target contacts matched by the multi-dimensional related information data retrieval module, and presenting the list to the user by using the mobile phone user interface 306 .

Preferably, the device for performing multi-dimensional retrieval and searching contacts based on multi-dimensional related information of the present invention may further include a geographic information database 304 to allow users to input place names instead of longitude and latitude information to perform multi-dimensional retrieval.

It should be noted that the geographic information database 304 is optional, even without this component, users can also input longitude and latitude as search conditions to perform multi-dimensional search, so the device 300 may lack the component 304, but it will not depart from the scope of the basic principles of the present invention.

In addition, it should be pointed out that the device 300 for performing multi-dimensional retrieval and searching contacts according to the multi-dimensional relevant information data related to the contacts in the address book of the present invention is an independent device, especially for retrieving and presenting the information provided by the system of the present invention. 100 creates and maintains multi-dimensional related information data related to contacts in the address book. And the component multi-dimensional related information data repository 104 in the system 100 becomes the data source of the component multi-dimensional related information data retrieval module 302 of the device 300 .

As an embodiment, the operation of the device 300 and its components will be described in detail below in conjunction with the method of performing retrieval and searching contacts according to the above-mentioned multi-dimensional related information data shown in FIG. 4 .

As shown in Figure 4, in step 401, the multi-dimensional search condition receiving module 301 receives the query condition 305 input by the user. The query condition 305 can be a combination of the three dimensions of time, place and related person, and can be combined with time and place In related conditions, users can also specify event types, including business card creation, calls, and text messages. Then, in step 402, the multidimensional relevant information data retrieval module 302 finds out the multidimensional relevant information satisfying the condition from the component multidimensional relevant information data repository of the system 100 and the geographic information database (which is optional) according to the query condition 305 data record. Then, in step 403, according to the association relationship between the multi-dimensional related information data and the contacts in the mobile phone address book, the mobile phone address book 307 is searched, and the contacts related to the multi-dimensional related information data records searched in step 402 are further found. Finally, in step 404 , the search result presentation module 303 presents the found results to the user through the mobile phone user interface 306 .

The following takes a specific search event as an example to further describe the process of the above steps.

For example, when the user wants to search for the phone number of a certain contact, but forgets the name of the contact, using the device 300, the user can use a combination of the three dimensions of time, place, and related person to search for the contact, Among the conditions related to time and place, users can also specify event types, including business card creation, calls and text messages. The following examples illustrate:

Assuming that the current time is September 7, 2009, if the user recalls the contact he met half a year ago, the user can set the search condition as: the type is business card creation, and the time range is 2009-3-1～2009 -3-15 (range adjustable). The device 300 will return newly added business cards within that time frame. This will greatly narrow the scope of the user's search and help the user find the target contact.

Assuming that the user recalls that he had a phone call with this contact in city A about 1 month ago, he can set the search condition as follows: the type is call, and the time range is 2009-08-10～2009-08-20 (the range can be adjusted) , the location range is city A. The device 300 will return contacts who have had a call with the user within the time range and location range. This will greatly narrow the scope of the user's search and help the user find the target contact.

Assuming that the user recalls that the contact person was recommended by another friend F of the user, the search condition can be set to be that the relevant person is the contact F. The device 300 will return all contacts related to the contact F, which will also greatly narrow the scope of the user's search and help the user find the target contact.

It can be seen from the above examples that the present invention expands the address book search conditions available to the user without adding any burden to the user (no need for the user to manually add and maintain any additional information). Even if the user forgets the name or other attributes of the contact, he can perform multi-dimensional search through the three dimensions of time, place and related person, thus greatly improving the probability of finding the target.

Claims (6)

1. a method for the maintenance multidimensional relevant information relevant with contact person in address list, comprises the following steps:

The event of determining the described multidimensional relevant information data of impact occurs;

Analyze described event and identify described multidimensional relevant information data;

Preserve described multidimensional relevant information data and safeguard it and contact person between associated;

Wherein multidimensional relevant information data comprises time, place and relevant people; The event that affects described multidimensional relevant information comprises establishment new contact person's business card, the content of revising existing contact person's business card, called telephone, receives calls, sends SMS message or receive short message;

After the event that sends SMS message occurs, the step of analyzing described event and identifying described multidimensional relevant information data comprises:

The cell phone system time of reading and recording is at that time got in touch with the time as relevant note;

Read and record place when mobile phone Location was got in touch with as relevant note at that time;

Analyze content and the attribute of this note, identify the described relevant people relevant with receiving this note contact person;

After receiving the event of short message and occurring, the step of analyzing described event and identifying described multidimensional relevant information data comprises:

The cell phone system time of reading and recording is at that time got in touch with the time as relevant note;

Read and record place when mobile phone Location was got in touch with as relevant note at that time;

Analyze content and the attribute of this note, identify the described relevant people relevant with sending this note contact person;

After creating the event of new contact person's business card and occurring, the step of analyzing described event and identifying described multidimensional relevant information data comprises:

Correlation time when the cell phone system time at that time of reading and record creates as business card;

Read and record relevant place when mobile phone Location created as business card at that time, obtain mobile phone Location at that time;

Analytical system log, records relevant communication time;

The short message inbox of analytical system and/or outbox, obtain the information of relevant people;

After the content event of the existing contact person's business card of amendment occurs, the step of analyzing described event and identifying described multidimensional relevant information data comprises:

Analytical system log, records relevant communication time;

The short message inbox of analytical system and/or outbox, obtain the information of relevant people.

2. the method for claim 1, in the time that the event dialed or receive calls occurs, the step of analyzing described event and identifying described multidimensional relevant information data comprises:

Read and record cell phone system time at that time as relevant communication time;

Place while reading and record mobile phone Location at that time as relevant communication.

3. the method for claim 1, wherein analytical system log comprises: if the received calls of cell phone system, dialed or missed call record comprises this contact person's number, the record time is at that time as relevant communication time.

4. method as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein obtains mobile phone Location at that time and comprises: if GPS equipment can be used, read the longitude and latitude data of user present position at that time; If GPS equipment is unavailable, read at that time Cell data in cell phone apparatus.

5. the method for claim 1, preserve described multidimensional relevant information data and safeguard it and contact person between associated step further comprise: if the new contact person's business card event creating, create new multidimensional relevant information data record and with the relevant associated preservation of contact person, otherwise find the multidimensional relevant information data having created record and upgrade according to contact person.

6. method as claimed in claim 1 or 2, if identified new relevant people, adds the relevant people identifying in this contact person's relevant people list, and/or this contact person is added in the relevant people list of all relevant people that newly identify.