JPH02288647A - Electronic telephone directory - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To retrieve a desired caller quickly by using plural sets of retrieval information so as to retrieve the destination. CONSTITUTION:Plural sets of retrieval information such as destination name and plural telephone numbers are stored to a storage medium 4 such as an IC card corresponding to each telephone number. A control circuit 7 selects a destination corresponding to plural sets of retrieval information entered by an input means 6 from the storage medium 4 and the destination selected by the control circuit 7 is displayed on a display section 9. A dial key 10 dials automatically the destination telephone number displayed on the display section 9 from a dialer 5. Thus, the desired destination is quickly retrieved.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[Industrial application field] The present invention relates to an electronic telephone directory.

[Conventional technology]

A conventional electronic telephone directory stores a plurality of telephone numbers and also stores the calling name of each telephone number as search information. In order to call a desired telephone number, the caller's name, such as a company name or individual name, must be searched manually using the keys, but entering the full name would make key operations cumbersome. Therefore, people usually search manually using only the first letter or the first few letters. [Problem to be solved] In the conventional method described above, a call destination is searched based on one piece of search information, for example, by company name, and since the search information is only a few characters, it is difficult to find the corresponding call destination. There are often too many to narrow down. In this case,
It is necessary to manually search for the desired call destination, which is troublesome and takes a lot of time. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention aims to provide an electronic telephone system that allows a user to quickly search for a desired call destination. [Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention includes a storage medium storing a plurality of telephone numbers and a plurality of search information such as the name of a called party corresponding to each telephone number, and a dialer for dialing the telephone number. , an input means for inputting a plurality of pieces of search information, a control circuit for selecting a call destination corresponding to the plurality of pieces of search information manually input by the human-powered means from the storage medium, and a call destination selected by the control circuit. The above-mentioned problem is solved by providing a display section for displaying the called party and a dial key for automatically dialing the telephone number of the called party displayed on the display section from the dialer. [Example 1] An example of the present invention will be described below based on the drawings. In FIG. 1, 1 is a telephone line, 2 is a telephone set consisting of a handset, a calling device that acoustically announces the arrival of a dialed call, etc., and 3 is a line control that controls connection switching between telephone line 1 and telephone 2. The circuit 4 is a storage medium such as an IC card that stores a plurality of telephone numbers as call destination data and both a company name and a name corresponding to each telephone number as search information. 5 is a dialer, 6 is an input means for inputting the company name and name as search information, and 7 is a control circuit for selecting call destination data corresponding to the search information manually input by the input means 6 from the storage medium 4. . 8 is a RAM that stores the address of the called destination data selected by the control circuit 7, and a work area that stores the address of the called destination data selected from the storage medium 4 based on the company name input by the input means 6. 8a, and a work area 8b for storing the address of the called destination data corresponding to the name from among the called destination data corresponding to the address stored in the work area 8a according to the name entered manually by the input means 6. Consisted of. Reference numeral 9 indicates a display unit for displaying the called party based on the called party data corresponding to the address stored in the work area 8b, and 1o indicates a display unit for automatically dialing the telephone number of the called party displayed on the display unit 9. This is the dial key. Next, the operation when searching for a call destination based on search information will be explained along the flowchart of FIG. First, when a search mode key (not shown) is operated, the display section 9 displays a display as shown in FIG. 3, and enters a state of waiting for input of search information. In the same figure, MEYl and KIEY
2 are input fields for a company name and a name, respectively, and the input means 6 is used to input the company name in KEY 1 and the name in KEY 2. For example, 5EIKO3IIA (company name) YATA
When searching for (individual name),)
Enter the characters YA. Next, when a search key (not shown) is operated, the control circuit 7 determines whether search information is input to KEYI (step 2). Currently, SE is entered in KEYI, so the call destination data in the storage medium 4 whose first two characters of the company name are SE is searched, and if there is a corresponding one, the call destination data is searched. The addresses are sequentially stored in the work area 8a (step ■). On the other hand, if there is no corresponding call destination data, a message "No data available" is displayed on the display section 9. When the control circuit 7 determines that the KEYII:U search information has not been input in the input means 6, the addresses of all call destination data stored in the storage medium 4 are stored in the work area 8a (step ■). Next, the control circuit 7 determines whether or not the KEY 2 has the ability to retrieve information (step 2). Currently, YA is input to KEY2, so among the call destination data in the storage medium 4 corresponding to the address stored in the work area 8a, the call destination data whose name has the first two characters YA is It is searched and if there is a matching item,
The addresses are sequentially stored in the work area 8b (step ■). On the other hand, if there is no corresponding call destination data, a message "No data available" is displayed on the display section 9. When the control circuit 7 determines that the search information has not been manually entered into the KIEY 2 by the input means 6, all addresses stored in the work area 8a are transferred to the work area 8.
b (step ■). Next, the call destination data corresponding to the first address among the addresses stored in the work area 8b is read out from the storage medium 4, and the call destination data, that is, the telephone number, company name, and The name will be displayed (step ■
). If there are multiple addresses stored in the work area 8b, each time the up/down key (not shown) is operated, the call destination data corresponding to each address is sequentially read out from the storage medium 4 and displayed. It will be displayed in section 9. When the dial key 10 is operated, the control circuit 7
The telephone number of the called party displayed on the display section 9 is sent from the dialer 5 to the telephone line 1 via the line control circuit 3. Therefore, if the dial key 10 is operated while the desired call destination is displayed on the display section 9, the telephone number will be automatically dialed to the call destination. With the above operations, the search information KEY l and KEY2
A call destination that simultaneously satisfies both conditions is searched. Note that the number of work areas constituting the RAM 8 is not limited to two, but can be set to any number and the number of items of search information can be set accordingly, so that even more search information can be displayed on the display section 9. You can further limit the destinations to call. Further, in the above embodiment, the search information is input in Roman characters, but the invention is not limited to this, and the search may be performed by inputting in kana characters. [Effects] According to the present invention, a call destination can be searched using a plurality of pieces of search information, so the call destinations to be selected can be extremely limited. Therefore, the number of call destinations to be selected is reduced, the desired call destination can be quickly displayed with a simple operation, and the telephone number can be automatically dialed.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the search operation in FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the display on the display section. 4...Storage medium 5...Dialer 6...Input means 7...Control circuit 9...Display section 10...Dial key Figure 1 and above Applicant Seikosha Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A storage medium storing a plurality of telephone numbers and a plurality of search information such as the name of a called party corresponding to each telephone number; a dialer that sends a telephone number; and a plurality of search information. an input means for inputting information; a control circuit for selecting a call destination from the storage medium that corresponds to the plurality of pieces of search information input by the input means; and a display for displaying the call destination selected by the control circuit. and a dial key for automatically dialing the call destination telephone number displayed on the display section from the dialer.