CN102932533B - Method and device for third-party application program to call contact person - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention is applicable to the field of mobile communication, and particularly relates to a method and a device for a third-party application program to call a contact. In the embodiment of the invention, the method for the third-party application program to call the contact person comprises the following steps: receiving the call of a third-party application program to the contact; and displaying the called contact and the attribute information of the called contact according to the calling of the third-party application program to the contact. The method provided by the embodiment of the invention can enable a user to select a proper contact when using the third-party application program, avoids the problem of wrong selection under the condition of a plurality of contacts with the same name but different attribute information, has flexible rule and strong expansibility, can perform adaptive display as long as the attribute information called by the third-party application program is matched with the attribute information of the contacts, and has stronger compatibility for various third-party application programs needing to be combined with the contacts in the future.

Description

A method and device for a third-party application program to call contacts

technical field

The invention belongs to the field of mobile communication, and in particular relates to a method and a device for a third-party application program to call a contact.

Background technique

For current smart mobile terminals, the functions are becoming more and more powerful. In addition to the most basic call function, text messages, E-mail (e-mail) addresses, and instant messaging (for example, QQ, MSN, etc.) are already very popular functions of current smart mobile terminals. Considering that the call function is the most basic function of a mobile terminal, when a user adds a contact to the address book, in addition to adding the contact number of the contact to the address book as a necessary attribute of the contact, the newly added The contact's E-mail address and instant messaging account are added to the address book as additional attributes of the contact. The additional attributes of a contact can often uniquely identify a contact, and at the same time, the additional attributes of a contact are essential for invoking a third-party application. For example, to send an e-mail to a contact, the e-mail application as a third-party application must invoke the E-mail address of the contact in the address book.

Although the address book of the existing smart mobile terminal provides the function of saving additional attributes of contacts, it also provides a unified interface and an interface display module for calling these additional attributes to third-party applications. However, when the third-party application program calls the target contacts, after completing the calling of these target contacts, only the name of the target contact is displayed to the user, and at most the telephone contact information of the contact (fixed phone number or phone number).

Therefore, the above-mentioned existing unified interface and interface display module bring a lot of inconvenience to the invocation of third-party application programs. For example, because the additional attributes of the contacts that need to be called cannot be visually seen, it is possible that a contact is incorrectly called among multiple contacts with the same name and additional attributes; in business applications, this kind of error sometimes brings difficulties make up for the loss.

Contents of the invention

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method and device for a third-party application to call a contact, aiming to solve the problem of inconvenience caused to users when a third-party application calls a function module provided by an existing mobile terminal.

The present invention is implemented in this way, a method for calling a contact by a third-party application, the method comprising:

Receive calls from third-party applications to contacts;

According to the calling of the contact by the third-party application program, the called contact and the attribute information of the called contact are displayed.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a device for a third-party application program to call a contact, the device includes a receiving module and a display module;

The receiving module is configured to receive a call from a third-party application to a contact;

The display module is configured to display the called contact and the attribute information of the called contact according to the calling of the contact by the third-party application.

It can be known from the above-mentioned embodiments of the present invention that after receiving a call from a third-party application to a contact, the system can display the called contact and the called contact according to the call from the third-party application to the contact. Personal attribute information. Therefore, on the one hand, it can make the user select the appropriate contact more delicately when using a third-party application, and avoid the problem of wrong selection in the case of multiple contacts with the same name but different attribute information; on the other hand, The method provided by the present invention has flexible rules and strong expansibility. As long as the attribute information called by the third-party application matches the attribute information of the contact, it can be displayed adaptively. The program has relatively strong compatibility.

Description of drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic flowchart of a method for calling a contact by a third-party application provided by the first embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2-a is a schematic diagram showing the called contact and the mobile phone number of the called contact on the human-computer interaction interface provided by the first embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2-b is a schematic diagram showing the called contact person and the email address of the called contact person on the human-computer interaction interface provided by another embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2-c is a schematic diagram showing the called contact and the instant messaging account of the called contact on the human-computer interaction interface provided by another embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 3-a is a schematic diagram of a human-computer interaction interface prompting "no contact suitable for selection" provided by another embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 3-b is a schematic diagram of contacts including instant messaging accounts and instant messaging accounts of these contacts in the attribute information displayed on the human-computer interaction interface provided by another embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a device for calling a contact by a third-party application program according to the first embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a device for calling a contact by a third-party application provided by another embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 6-a is a schematic structural diagram of a device for calling a contact by a third-party application provided by another embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 6-b is a schematic structural diagram of a device for calling a contact by a third-party application provided by another embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 6-c is a schematic structural diagram of a device for calling a contact by a third-party application provided by another embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 6-d is a schematic structural diagram of a device for calling a contact by a third-party application program according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

In order to make the object, technical solution and advantages of the present invention clearer, the present invention will be further described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described here are only used to explain the present invention, not to limit the present invention.

Fig. 1 shows a schematic flowchart of a method for calling a contact by a third-party application provided by the first embodiment of the present invention, including step S101 and step S10, which are described in detail as follows:

Step S101, receiving a call from a third-party application to a contact.

In the embodiment of the present invention, when a third-party application program needs to use attribute information of a contact, for example, an electronic mail (E-mail) application program needs to use the contact's email address when sending an email. When clicking the email address input box on the email application interface, the system converts this operation into an event message and sends it to the address book application module, and the address book application module regards the event message as an email application to the contact call, to receive its call to the contact.

Step S102, displaying the called contact and attribute information of the called contact according to the calling of the contact by the third-party application.

In this embodiment of the present invention, a third-party application program generally refers to any other application program that needs to use the contacts provided by the address book application program except for the address book application program, which may be a text message application program, an email application program, or an instant Communication (Instant Messenger, IM) applications, such as MSN, WeChat, or Tencent QQ, etc., the attribute information of the called contact includes the contact number, email address, or instant messaging account of the called contact. Generally, the contacts in the address book at least have their contact phone number (fixed phone number or mobile phone number), e-mail address or instant messaging account number, etc. can be saved as additional attributes. The so-called instant messaging account can be Tencent QQ application software account, WeChat account or MSN account, etc.

As an embodiment of displaying the called contact and the attribute information of the called contact according to the calling of the contact by the third-party application, it is possible to provide the third-party The corresponding Application Programming Interface (Application Programming Interface, API) function of the application program, and then, the API function displays the called contact and the attribute information of the called contact on a human-computer interaction interface. For example, if the third-party application program is a short message application program, and its own attribute is the mobile phone number of the contact that needs to be called when sending a short message, then the system provides an API function corresponding to the short message application program, and then, the API function transfers the described The called contact and the mobile phone number of the called contact are displayed on the human-computer interaction interface, as shown in Figure 2-a.

For another example, if the third-party application program is an e-mail application program, and its own attribute is the e-mail address of the contact that needs to be called when sending an e-mail, then the system provides an API function corresponding to the e-mail application program, and then, the The API function displays the called contact person and the email address of the called contact person on the human-computer interaction interface, as shown in Figure 2-b.

For another example, if the third-party application is an instant messaging application, and its own attribute is the instant messaging account (for example, QQ number) that needs to be invoked when sending an instant message, the system provides an API corresponding to the instant messaging application function, and then, the API function will display the called contact and the instant messaging account of the called contact on the human-computer interaction interface, as shown in Figure 2-c.

As mentioned above, since e-mail addresses or instant messaging accounts are additional attributes of contacts, not all contacts in the address book have these additional attributes. When there are many contacts in the address book, in order to enable the user to quickly find the required contacts and improve the use efficiency, in the embodiment of the present invention, the called contacts can be displayed according to the call of the third-party application program. Before or at the same time as the attribute information of the contact and the called contact, according to the attribute information of the third-party application, match the attribute information of the contact with the attribute information of the third-party application, and filter the attribute information with the attribute information of the third-party application. Contacts whose attributes do not match the third-party application’s own attributes, display contacts whose attribute information matches the third-party application’s own attributes and whose attribute information matches the third-party application’s own attributes The attribute information of the contact. For example, if the third-party application program is an instant messaging application program, its own attribute is an instant messaging account that needs to be invoked when sending an instant message, for example, QQ. If the attribute information does not include the contact of the instant messaging account, it will definitely not be matched when matching the own attributes of the instant messaging application. The interactive interface only displays the contacts whose attribute information includes the instant messaging account and the attribute information of these contacts, that is, the instant messaging account, as shown in Figure 3-a and Figure 3-b, which respectively prompt " There is no suitable contact for selection" and a schematic diagram showing contacts whose attribute information includes instant messaging accounts and the instant messaging accounts of these contacts.

It can be seen from the above method for a third-party application to call a contact that after receiving a call from a third-party application to a contact, the system can display the called contact according to the call from the third-party application to the contact And the attribute information of the called contact. Therefore, on the one hand, it can make the user select the appropriate contact more delicately when using a third-party application, and avoid the problem of wrong selection in the case of multiple contacts with the same name but different attribute information; on the other hand, The method provided by the present invention has flexible rules and strong expansibility. As long as the attribute information called by the third-party application matches the attribute information of the contact, it can be displayed adaptively. The program has relatively strong compatibility.

Please refer to FIG. 4 , which is a schematic structural diagram of a device for calling contacts by a third-party application program according to the first embodiment of the present invention. For ease of description, only parts related to the embodiments of the present invention are shown. Accompanying drawing 4 example is provided for the device that the third-party application calls contact person and includes receiving module 401 and display module 402, wherein:

A receiving module 401, configured to receive a call from a third-party application to a contact;

The display module 402 is configured to display the called contact and attribute information of the called contact according to the calling of the contact by the third-party application.

It should be noted that, in the above embodiments of the device for third-party applications to call contacts, the division of each functional module is only an example, and in actual applications, it can be adjusted according to needs, such as the configuration requirements of corresponding hardware or the convenience of software implementation. Considering that the above function allocation is completed by different functional modules, that is, the internal structure of the device for calling contacts by third-party applications is divided into different functional modules to complete all or part of the functions described above. Moreover, in practical applications, the corresponding functional modules in this embodiment may be implemented by corresponding hardware, or may be completed by corresponding hardware executing corresponding software. For example, the aforementioned receiving module may be capable of executing the aforementioned receiving third party The hardware that the application program calls the contacts, such as the receiver, can also be a general processor or other hardware device that can execute the corresponding computer program to complete the aforementioned functions; The calling of the contact by the third-party application program, the hardware for displaying the function of the called contact and the attribute information of the called contact, such as a display, may also be a general processor capable of executing a corresponding computer program to complete the aforementioned functions Or other hardware devices (the above description principles can be applied to each embodiment provided in this specification).

In the device for a third-party application to call a contact shown in Figure 4, the third-party application generally refers to any other application that needs to use the contacts provided by the address book application except for the address book application. It is an SMS application, an email application or an Instant Messenger (IM) application, such as MSN, WeChat or Tencent QQ, etc. The attribute information of the called contact includes the contact number and email address of the called contact Or instant messaging account and so on.

The display module 402 illustrated in FIG. 4 includes an interface unit 501 and a first display unit 502. As shown in FIG. 5, another embodiment of the present invention provides a device for a third-party application to call a contact, wherein:

An interface unit 501, configured to provide an application program interface function corresponding to the third-party application program according to its own attributes of the third-party application program;

The first display unit 502 is configured to display the called contact and the attribute information of the called contact on a human-computer interaction interface by using the API function.

The display module 202 exemplified in Fig. 4 or Fig. 5 or the device for third-party applications to call contacts may also include a matching unit 601 and a second display unit 602, as shown in Fig. 6-a to Fig. 6-d , another embodiment of the present invention provides a device for a third-party application to call a contact, wherein:

A matching unit 601, configured to match the attribute information of the contact with the own attributes of the third-party application according to the own attributes of the third-party application;

The second display unit 602 is configured to filter contacts whose attribute information is inconsistent with the third-party application's own attributes and display contacts whose attribute information is consistent with the third-party application's own attributes on the human-computer interaction interface; The attribute information of the contact whose attribute information matches the own attribute of the third-party application program.

It should be noted that the information interaction and execution process between the modules/units of the above-mentioned device are based on the same idea as the method embodiment of the present invention, and the technical effect it brings is the same as that of the method embodiment of the present invention. The specific content can be Refer to the descriptions in the method embodiments of the present invention, and details are not repeated here.

Those of ordinary skill in the art can understand that all or part of the steps in the various methods of the above-mentioned embodiments can be completed by instructing related hardware through a program, and the program can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, and the storage medium can include: Read Only Memory (ROM, Read Only Memory), Random Access Memory (RAM, Random Access Memory), disk or CD, etc.

The above descriptions are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention. Any modifications, equivalent replacements and improvements made within the spirit and principles of the present invention should be included in the protection of the present invention. within range.

Claims (8)

1. for third party application, call contact person's a method, it is characterized in that, described method comprises:

Receive third party application calling contact person;

According to the self attributes of described third party application, contact person's attribute information is mated with the self attributes of described third party application;

The contact person's that the contact person that filter attribute information does not conform to the self attributes of described third party application the contact person who conforms to the self attributes of described third party application at human-computer interaction interface displaying attribute information and attribute information conform to the self attributes of described third party application attribute information;

According to described third party application, to the calling of contact person, show described called contact person and described called contact person's attribute information.

2. for third party application, call as claimed in claim 1 contact person's method, it is characterized in that, described called contact person's attribute information comprises described called contact person's telephone number, E-mail address or instant messaging account.

3. for third party application, call contact person's method as claimed in claim 2, it is characterized in that, described according to described third party application to the calling of contact person, show that described called contact person and described called contact person's attribute information comprises:

According to the self attributes of described third party application, provide and the corresponding application program interface function of described third party application;

By described application program interface function, described called contact person and described called contact person's attribute information is illustrated in to human-computer interaction interface.

4. as described in claims 1 to 3 any one, for third party application, call contact person's method, it is characterized in that, described third party application is short message application program, email application or instant messaging application program.

5. for third party application, call contact person's a device, it is characterized in that, described device comprises receiver module and display module, and described device or display module also comprise matching unit and the second display unit;

Described receiver module, for receiving third party application calling contact person;

Matching unit, for according to the self attributes of described third party application, mates contact person's attribute information with the self attributes of described third party application;

The second display unit, the contact person's that the contact person who does not conform to the self attributes of described third party application for filter attribute information the contact person who conforms to the self attributes of described third party application at human-computer interaction interface displaying attribute information and attribute information conform to the self attributes of described third party application attribute information;

Described display module, for according to described third party application to the calling of contact person, show described called contact person and described called contact person's attribute information.

6. for third party application, call as claimed in claim 5 contact person's device, it is characterized in that, described called contact person's attribute information comprises described called contact person's telephone number, E-mail address or instant messaging account.

7. for third party application, call as claimed in claim 6 contact person's device, it is characterized in that, described display module comprises:

Interface unit, for according to the self attributes of described third party application, provides and the corresponding application program interface function of described third party application;

The first display unit, for being illustrated in human-computer interaction interface by described application program interface function by described called contact person and described called contact person's attribute information.

8. as described in claim 5 to 7 any one, for third party application, call contact person's device, it is characterized in that, described third party application is short message application program, email application or instant messaging application program.