JP2002051115A - Portable wireless terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Problem] To acquire target information with good operability. SOLUTION: When a connection time has come (YES in S3), a CPU 1 determines whether or not a call for wireless connection is possible, and when a call is possible (YES in S4), a wireless connection is made. Is performed, and it is determined whether the wireless connection is normally completed (S5). When the wireless connection is completed (Y in S5)
ES), connection processing to the set homepage address is executed (S8). An attempt is made to connect to the homepage, and if there is a response from the web server (NO in S9), the acquisition of the information on the homepage is continued, and it is determined whether or not the acquisition of the information is completed (S10). If the information acquisition has been completed (YES in S10), an automatic save setting process (S13) for automatically saving the acquired information is executed, and then a wireless disconnection process (S14) is executed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable telephone having a browser function, a PHS (Personal Handyphone System).
m; PHS relates to a portable wireless terminal such as a registered trademark, and particularly to a portable wireless terminal capable of automatically acquiring homepage information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order for a user of a portable wireless terminal to connect to the Internet and browse a target homepage, it is necessary to manually input an address of the homepage and manually make a call. The user also manually saves the acquired homepage information. Furthermore, when image data is downloaded, an operation for setting the image data on a screen displayed during standby for incoming call (hereinafter referred to as a “standby screen”), or when receiving melody data, receiving the incoming melody data The operation for setting the sound was manually performed by the user.

[0003]

As described above, an operation for receiving data is required to access a homepage. For this reason, when the homepage is frequently accessed and information acquisition takes a long time, it is necessary for the user to manually attempt the connection again with a delay. In addition, in the case of a circuit-switched portable wireless terminal, if information acquisition takes a long time, the connection time to the line increases, and there is a problem that communication costs increase. Furthermore, there is a case where it is not possible to connect to the line itself during a time period when there are many line users.

In order to obtain frequently updated information such as news and weather forecasts, the user has to manually perform the operation for obtaining information many times even in a situation where the information on the homepage is easily obtained. And the operation is troublesome.

Further, in order to set the acquired information as image data and to set the image data on the standby screen of the portable wireless terminal, the standby screen must be manually set every time the image data is acquired. In addition, there is a problem that it takes time and effort. Also, if the acquired information is ringtone melody data, each time the ringtone melody data is obtained, the ringtone must be manually set.
There is a problem that it takes time.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide a portable wireless terminal capable of acquiring desired information with good operability.

[0007] Another object of the present invention is to provide a portable radio terminal capable of suppressing communication time and communication cost and acquiring target information.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a portable radio terminal capable of automatically executing a process based on acquired information.

[0009]

According to one aspect of the present invention, a portable wireless terminal is connected to a setting unit for setting a storage destination of information and a connection time to the storage destination,
An information acquisition unit for wirelessly connecting to the storage destination at the connection time and acquiring the information stored in the storage destination; an information storage unit connected to the information acquisition unit for storing the acquired information; A process execution unit connected to the storage unit and configured to execute a process predetermined for each type based on the type of the acquired information.

At a desired time, a wireless connection is automatically made to a target homepage. For this reason, by setting the connection time so as to avoid a time zone in which the homepage is frequently accessed, communication time and communication cost can be reduced.

[0011] Further, since the acquired information is stored in the information storage means, the user can view the information on the homepage even in the offline state.

Preferably, the portable radio terminal further includes a display unit for displaying a predetermined message, and the processing execution unit displays the image information when waiting for an incoming call if the acquired information is image information. The screen includes a unit for setting the display unit.

When the acquired information is image information, a process of setting the image information on the standby screen is automatically executed. Therefore, there is an effect that operability is improved.
In addition, the user can enjoy the standby screen that changes from time to time.

[0014] More preferably, the processing execution means includes means for setting the melody information as a ring tone if the acquired information is melody information.

If the acquired information is melody information,
The process of setting the melody information as the ring tone is automatically executed. Therefore, there is an effect that operability is improved. Also, the user can enjoy the ringtone that changes from time to time.

More preferably, the setting means includes first means for setting a storage location of the information, a storage location of the update information of the information, and a connection time to the two storage locations, and the information obtaining means includes: An update information acquisition unit that is connected to the first unit, connects to a storage location of the update information when the connection time comes, and acquires update information of the information stored in the storage location of the information; And a selective information acquisition unit for selectively executing acquisition or non-acquisition of the information stored in the storage location of the information based on the update information acquired by the update information acquisition unit.

The information acquired and stored in the past is not acquired, but only the latest updated information can be acquired. Therefore, unnecessary communication cost and communication time are not required.

[0018]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS [First Embodiment] Referring to FIG. 1, a portable radio terminal according to a first embodiment of the present invention has an antenna 6 and radio waves connected to and transmitted from antenna 6. A radio unit 3 for setting the frequency of the data and performing modulation or demodulation; a control circuit unit 2 connected to the radio unit 3 for controlling the radio unit 3 according to a data communication protocol to realize a data transmission function; An input unit 7 including a numeric keypad used by a user to input commands and the like.
And a color LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) that displays the contents of the homepage, menus for various settings, and settings.
Display) or a display unit 4 composed of a monochrome LCD;
A CPU connected to the output unit 5 for outputting a ringtone and the like, the control circuit unit 2, the input unit 7, the display unit 4, and the output unit 5 for controlling each unit of the portable wireless terminal and executing an automatic connection process to a homepage ( Central Processing Unit) 1.

The CPU 1 has an R which stores various programs.
OM (Read Only Memory) (not shown) and RAM (Random Access Memory) used when executing the program
ry) (not shown).

The program stored in the ROM of the CPU 1 will be described with reference to FIG. In the ROM, the application 11, the browser 12, the HTTP (HyperTex
t Transfer Protocol) 13, TCP / IP (Transmiss
ion Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) 14, PP
P (Point-to-Point Protocol) 15, network layer (layer 3) 16, wireless section data communication protocol 1
7. Physical layer (layer 1) 18 and OS (Operating Sy)
stem) 19 are stored.

The layer 3 of the PHS is used for radio management (R
T), the role of mobility management (MM) and the role of call control (CC), for controlling circuit-switched connections.

The application 11 is a program for executing processing for setting the connection time and address of the home page, processing for automatically connecting to the home page, and the like.

The browser 12 is a program that analyzes an HTML (HyperText Markup Language) file of the acquired homepage and displays the contents of the homepage on the display unit 4 according to the analysis result. The browser 12 is a compact HT that can be easily mounted on a mobile phone or PHS.
ML-compatible browsers (for example, NTT DoCoMo (trademark of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) i-mode (registered trademark of NTT Mobile Communication Network Inc.)) and Internet Explorer (trademark of Microsoft Corporation) Spec Browser, WAP (Wireless Application P
H used in a portable wireless terminal operating according to
There is a browser compatible with DML (Handheld Device Markup Language).

The HTTP 13 is a WWW (World Wide Web).
b) A standard protocol used when transferring an HTML file or the like between the server and the browser 12,
It supports TML and compact HTML.

TCP / IP 14 and PPP 15 are standard protocols used when connecting to the Internet and performing communication.

The programs of the network layer 16, the wireless section data communication protocol 17, and the physical layer 18 are plans for a protocol required for data communication by wireless connection of the portable wireless terminal, and are determined for each portable wireless terminal operator. For example, as a wireless section data communication protocol, PIAFS (PH
SInternet Access Forum Standard).

The OS 19 is a program for multi-task management of the above-mentioned program modules, and includes, for example, μITRON which is a built-in OS.

These programs have a hierarchical structure, and information received from a wireless section as a communication destination is processed by the physical layer 18 to assemble information while performing retransmission request processing at the time of error. And passed to the higher hierarchy. Conversely, when transmitting information to the wireless section, data generated by the application 11 is passed to a lower-layer program.

In the present embodiment, HTTP 13, TCP
Although the standard protocols / IP14 and PPP15 are used, a protocol uniquely determined by a mobile wireless terminal operator may be used. For example, NTT DOCOMO i
An AL (Application Layer) and a TLP (Transport Layer Protocol) used in the mode may be used. AL and TLP represent a user information transmission protocol, and when corresponding to a general Internet protocol, AL corresponds to HTTP and TLP corresponds to TCP.
/ IP respectively.

Referring to FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, the setting process of the connection time and the homepage address will be described.

When the user selects a menu called “daily connection” from various menus of the portable wireless terminal displayed on the screen 31 and presses a rightward movement key or a function key, the menu “daily connection” is selected. , A screen 33 is displayed. On the screen 33, the user can set up to six connection times. Each menu displays the registered connection time and whether or not the connection time is set. For example, "6: 3" in the first menu
"0" indicates that the time of 6:30 is registered. The character "M" indicates that a time of 6:30 has been set.
The setting of the time indicates that the automatic connection is actually attempted when the registered time comes. Although the connection time is registered, if the connection time has not been set, the character "M" is not displayed on the right end as in the screen 39. In this case, the connection to the homepage is not executed even at the connection time. Further, the connection time itself is not registered in the second and fourth to sixth menus.

When the down key is pressed once on the screen 33, a menu for setting the next connection time is selected, and the display is switched to a screen 41 as shown in FIG. Similarly, the menu can be selected by operating the down key or the up key.

In order to set, cancel or delete the connection time for the first menu on the screen 33, the user presses the right key or the function key. Then, the display is switched to a display such as the screen 35.

To cancel the connection time, press the right key or the function key by pressing the numeric key "2" or by highlighting the "cancel" menu with the up or down key. Then, the setting of the connection time is released, and the display is switched to a display such as the screen 37. On the screen 37, a message indicating that the setting of the connection time has been released is displayed, and a predetermined time (for example, 2 seconds) is displayed.
After elapse, the display is switched to a display such as a screen 39. On the screen 39, the letter "M" is missing from the first menu, indicating that the setting of the registered connection time has been canceled.

In order to delete the connection time, the screen 3
In step 1, press the right key or the function key with the numeric key "3" pressed or the "erase" menu highlighted with the up or down key.
Then, the registered connection time is deleted, and the screen 44
Is displayed. On the screen 44, a message indicating that the registered connection time has been deleted is displayed. After a predetermined time (for example, 2 seconds) has elapsed, the screen 46 is displayed.
Is displayed. On the screen 46, the connection time and the letter "M" displayed in the first menu are gone, indicating that the registered connection time has been deleted.

In order to set the connection time and the homepage address, on the screen 31, press the numeric key “1”, or move right while the “setting” menu is highlighted with the up key or down key. Press the key or function key. Then, referring to FIG.
Is displayed. On the screen 47, three menus, a “setting completed” menu, a “time input” menu, and an “address input” menu, are displayed.
The "Setting Complete" menu is selected.

Pressing the right key or the function key with the number key "1" pressed or the "set complete" menu highlighted by operating the up key or the down key, the current processing target is displayed. Is set, and a message is displayed as shown on a screen 53. Then, after a predetermined time (for example, 2 seconds) has elapsed, the screen 5
The display is switched to a display like 5. On the screen 55, the set connection time is highlighted, and the letter "M" is displayed beside it.

Pressing the clear key or the left movement key on the screen 53 cancels the time setting and returns to the screen 47.
Other settings become possible.

In order to select the "time input" menu, the user presses the numeric key "2" on any of the screens 47 to 51, or highlights the "time input" menu by using the up key or the down key. In this state, press the right movement key or function key. Then, the display is switched to a display such as the screen 57. On the screen 57, if the time is already registered, the time is displayed, and otherwise, "00:00" is displayed. The user operates the number keys to set the time to be registered as 2
Enter in 4 hour system. After that, when the function key is pressed, the input time is registered, and the screen returns to the screen 49.

Pressing the clear key or the left shift key on the screen 57 cancels the time registration and returns to the screen 49.
Other settings become possible.

In order to select the "address input" menu, the number key "3" is pressed on any of the screens 47 to 51, or the "address input" menu is highlighted by an up key or a down key. In this state, press the right movement key or function key. Then, the display is switched to a display such as the screen 61. On the screen 61, a message prompting the user to input the address of the home page is displayed. If an address has already been registered, the address is also displayed. When the user inputs an address, the address is displayed as shown on a screen 63, and then the address is registered by pressing a function key.
Return to 1.

When the clear key or the left shift key is pressed on the screen 61, the address registration is canceled, the screen returns to the screen 51, and other settings can be made.

With the above operations, the connection time and the homepage address are set.

Referring to FIG. 5, the homepage automatic connection process will be described. The CPU 1 performs an initial setting for setting the number of reconnections to be described later to 0 (S2). CPU1
The process waits until the current time counted by the RTC (real-time clock) reaches a set connection time or a reconnection time described later (S3).

When the connection time or the reconnection time has come (YES in S3), CPU 1 determines whether or not transmission for wireless connection is possible (S4). That is, it is determined whether the portable wireless terminal is within the service area and can make a call.

If transmission is possible (YES in S4), a wireless connection is made and it is determined whether or not the wireless connection has been normally completed (S5).

If the call cannot be transmitted or the wireless connection is not completed normally (NO in S4 or N in S5)
O) In order to reconnect wirelessly after a certain time,
The number of times of reconnection is counted up by one. Also, a time for reconnection (reconnection time) is set. For example, in order to reconnect five times every five minutes, a set time or a time five minutes after the immediately preceding reconnection time is set as a new reconnection time (S
6). Next, the number of reconnections is a predetermined number (for example, 5 times)
Is checked (S7). If the number of reconnections has reached the predetermined number (YES in S7), it means that the wireless connection at the set connection time has failed, and the process returns to S2.

If the number of times of reconnection has not reached the predetermined number (NO in S7), the flow returns to S3, and the wireless connection processing for the reconnection time is executed.

When the wireless connection is completed (YE in S5)
S), connection processing to the set homepage address is executed (S8). If there is no response from the WWW server and a timeout occurs (YE in S39)
S), the number of times of reconnection (the number of retries) is counted up by one (S11). It is checked whether the number of retries has reached a predetermined number of times (S12). If the number of retries has not reached the number of times (NO in S12), the processing from S8 is executed.

If the number of retries has reached the set number of times (YES in S12), a wireless disconnection process (S14) is executed, and the process returns to S2.

Attempt to connect to the homepage, and if there is a response from the Web server (NO in S9),
The acquisition of the homepage information is continued, and it is determined whether the acquisition of the information is completed (S10). If the information acquisition has not been completed (NO in S10), the process returns to S9.

If information acquisition is completed (YE in S10)
S) After executing the automatic save setting process (S13) for automatically saving the acquired information, the wireless disconnection process (S14) is executed.

Referring to FIG. 6, an automatic save setting process (FIG. 5)
S13) will be described in detail.

CPU 1 determines whether the information obtained from the home page is an image file (S16). To determine whether an image file is an image file, the extension of the acquired file is g
The determination is made based on whether or not the file has an extension indicating an image file such as if, jpg, and png (S16).

If the acquired information is an image file (YES in S16), the CPU 1
The image data is copied to the standby screen area (S1).
8) Based on the image data, the standby screen is redrawn (S19).

If the acquired information is not an image file (NO in S16), it is determined whether or not the information is an incoming melody file (S17). As the incoming melody file, for example, there is an i-melody format file of NTT DOCOMO having an extension of mld.

If the acquired information is a ring tone melody file (YES in S17), CPU 1 copies the ring tone melody data to the ring tone area of the RAM in CPU 1 (S22), and converts the ring tone melody data into a ring tone. It is set (S23).

If the acquired information is neither an image file nor a ringing melody file (NO in S16, S17
NO), the CPU 1 transmits the acquired information to the R
The screen memo is copied to the screen memo area of the AM (S20), and the screen memo for displaying the acquired information is updated (S2).
1).

Referring to FIG. 7, a screen display at the time of automatic connection to a homepage will be described. Standby screen 75
Shows an example of PHS public mode area display. At the set time, a connection to the home page is made by wireless connection, and a display indicating that the home page information is being acquired is displayed on the screen 76. At this time, H Pict (Homepage (H
(figure representing the initial letter H of the word “page”) blinks to indicate that the user is connected to the homepage more clearly.

When the acquisition of the homepage information is completed, the H-pict is turned on on the screen 77 to display a message indicating that the acquisition of the homepage is completed. Thereafter, after a predetermined time (for example, 2 seconds) has elapsed, the screen returns to the standby screen 79.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, a wireless connection is automatically made to a target homepage at a desired time. For this reason, by setting the connection time so as to avoid times when the homepage is frequently accessed,
Communication time and communication cost can be reduced.

Further, even when the line is busy at the time of connection or when the connection state is poor, the reconnection can be attempted with a delay.

Further, by acquiring the target homepage at a desired time and automatically saving the contents, the user can go off-line without worrying about the radio condition or the time of day when the homepage is frequently accessed. You can see the information of the saved homepage. In particular, even if the information is frequently updated information such as news and weather forecast, new information can be viewed.

When the information acquired from the home page is an image file or a melody file, processing for setting the image data on the standby screen or setting the melody data as the ring tone is automatically executed. Therefore, there is an effect that operability is improved. In addition, since the standby screen and the ringtone automatically change from time to time, the user can enjoy them.

[Second Embodiment] A portable radio terminal according to a second embodiment of the present invention has a hardware configuration similar to that of the first embodiment. Therefore, description thereof will not be repeated here.

The configuration of the program stored in the ROM of CPU 1 is the same as that shown in FIG. 2, and the description thereof will not be repeated here. In this embodiment, the contents of the application 11 are partially different. In the present embodiment, two homepages, that is, a homepage of the update information of the data to be stored in the portable wireless terminal and a homepage of the data to be stored, are accessed, and only the information of the updated homepage is acquired.

The processing for setting the connection time and the homepage address is the same as that described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4, but as described above, in this embodiment,
Attempt to access two homepages per connection. For this reason, as shown in FIG.
A screen 71 is used instead of ~ 51, and two addresses can be set. The method of setting the two addresses is the same as the method of setting the addresses described with reference to screens 51, 61, and 63 in FIG. For this reason,
The description will not be repeated here. The first address indicates the address of the homepage where the update information of the data to be stored is stored, and the second address indicates the address of the homepage where the data to be stored is stored.

With reference to FIGS. 9 and 10, an automatic homepage connection process according to the second embodiment will be described.

The processing of S2 to S7 is the same as that of FIG. Therefore, description thereof will not be repeated here.

When the wireless connection is completed (YE in S5)
S), connection processing to the set first address is executed (S25). After that, the processing of S9A to S12A is executed. The processing of S9A to S12A is the same as that of S9 to S12 of FIG.
This is the same as the processing in S12. Therefore, the detailed description will not be repeated here.

If the information of the home page specified by the set first address has been acquired (YES in S10A), the information stored in the home page of the second address has been stored in the second address in the past. It is checked from the information on the homepage of the first address whether the information is newer than the information obtained from the homepage and stored in the portable wireless terminal (S28). If the information stored in the homepage of the second address and the information stored in the portable wireless terminal are the same (NO in S20), the information disconnection processing (S14) is performed without performing the information acquisition processing. Execute and return to S2.

If the information stored in the homepage of the second address is newer, a connection to the second address is made in order to obtain the information of the homepage.
The number of retries is cleared (S29). Then, S9B
The information of the home page of the second address is obtained by the processing of S12B. After performing the automatic save setting process (S13) based on the acquired information, the wireless disconnection is performed (S14), and the process returns to S2.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, at the time of automatic connection, it is possible to acquire only the latest updated information without acquiring the information acquired and stored in the past. . Therefore, unnecessary communication cost and communication time are not required. Especially MP3 (MPEG1-Audio Layer
3) and ATRAC3 (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Cod
ing 3; a trademark of Sony Corporation) is effective when acquiring large-sized music distribution data and the like.

The embodiments disclosed this time are to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive. The scope of the present invention is defined by the terms of the claims, rather than the description above, and is intended to include any modifications within the scope and meaning equivalent to the terms of the claims.

[0075]

According to the present invention, line connection time and communication cost can be reduced,
It is possible to obtain desired information with good operability.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of a portable wireless terminal according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a program stored in a ROM.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining connection time and homepage address setting processing.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining connection time and homepage address setting processing.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a homepage automatic connection process.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of an automatic saving process.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display at the time of automatic connection to a homepage.

FIG. 8 is a diagram for describing connection time and homepage address setting processing according to the second embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a homepage automatic connection process according to the second embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a homepage automatic connection process according to the second embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 CPU, 2 control circuit section, 3 wireless section, 4 display section, 5 output section, 6 antenna, 7 input section.

Claims (4)

[Claims] A setting unit configured to set a storage destination of information and a connection time to the storage destination; connected to the setting unit, wirelessly connected to the storage destination at the connection time, and Information acquisition means for acquiring the information stored in the information acquisition means, connected to the information acquisition means, an information storage means for storing the acquired information, and connected to the information storage means, the type of information acquired And a process execution unit for executing a process predetermined for each type based on the type. 2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a display unit for displaying a predetermined message, wherein the processing execution unit displays the image information as a screen displayed when waiting for an incoming call if the acquired information is image information. 2. The portable wireless terminal according to claim 1, further comprising means for setting the display means. 3. The portable wireless terminal according to claim 1, wherein said processing execution means includes means for setting said melody information as a ring tone if the acquired information is melody information. 4. The information obtaining means, wherein the setting means includes first means for setting a storage destination of the information, a storage destination of the update information of the information, and a connection time to the two storage destinations. Is connected to the first means, connected to the storage location of the update information at the connection time, the update information acquisition means for acquiring the update information of the information stored in the storage location of the information, A selection unit that is connected to the update information acquisition unit and selectively executes acquisition or non-acquisition of information stored in a storage location of the information based on the update information acquired by the update information acquisition unit; 2. An information acquisition means, comprising:
4. The portable wireless terminal according to any one of claims 3 to 3.