JP2006073015A - Mobile device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: A conventional mobile terminal has a problem that it is very inconvenient because it requires a complicated operation of pressing a key many times to transmit the URL of the page being browsed by e-mail. However, the present invention provides a portable terminal that can transmit a URL being browsed with a simple operation and improves convenience.
When a control unit 7 is in a state where a Web page is displayed (1) and an instruction to paste the URL of the Web page into an email is input (2), a screen for creating a transmission email is displayed. The URL of the Web page is pasted in the transmitted mail (3), and when the mail transmission instruction is input, the mail is transmitted (4) The mobile terminal.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a portable terminal capable of browsing web pages on the Internet and sending / receiving mails, and more particularly to a portable terminal capable of easily sending the URL of a web page being browsed by mail and improving convenience. Is.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, wireless mobile terminals (mobile terminals) that can browse web pages on the Internet at any time and that can use various mail services such as e-mail and short mail (hereinafter referred to as e-mail) have been widely used as convenient devices. It is provided.

  In this type of mobile terminal, it is possible to send an email with the address (hereinafter referred to as URL) of the Internet web page currently being browsed to another person. However, unlike a personal computer having a pointing device such as a mouse, a portable terminal has a limited number of keys, and the user has to perform complicated operations.

  Here, the operation of the user when sending an e-mail attached with the URL of the Web page being browsed will be described. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a user operation when pasting a URL of a Web page being browsed into an email in a conventional portable terminal.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the user first selects a key (for example, registering a bookmark, browsing a URL of a currently displayed web page, saving a screen memo, etc.) that can be executed while browsing a web page. Thereafter, the function key is pressed (S11).

  Then, the user selects the “URL display” function from the function menu (S12). Next, a URL copy operation is performed (S13). This copy operation will be described later with reference to FIG.

  Next, the user inputs an instruction to move to the mail creation screen (S14), and pastes the URL copied in S3 on the mail creation screen in the mail text (S15). In this manner, the URL mail pasting operation is performed.

Next, the copy operation shown in S3 of FIG. 5 will be specifically described with reference to FIG. FIG. 6 is a flowchart specifically showing the copy operation shown in S3 of FIG.
As shown in FIG. 6, the user first presses the function key (S21). Then, the “copy” function is selected and pressed (S22).

  Then, the user moves the cursor to the copy start point (S23), presses the function key (S24), and selects the function having the current cursor position as the copy start point (S25). Similarly, the cursor is set to the copy end point (S26), the function key is pressed (S27), and the function having the current cursor position as the copy end point is selected (S28). Then, the copy operation ends. Thus, the copy operation is performed.

  As a conventional technique using a portable terminal, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-244971 published on September 8, 2000, “Breaking News Transmission System Using a Portable Information Terminal” (Applicant: Sansui Co., Ltd., Inventor: Tomo Takashi Sosei. This prior art includes a breaking news registration means for providing a registration input form to a client machine in response to a request from a client machine in a wide area network, a database management means for storing and managing registration data by the breaking news registration means, and a breaking news. This is a bulletin transmission system having an electronic mail management means that includes the content in an electronic mail and transmits it to the destination address of the portable information terminal, and a bulletin transmission control means that instructs the electronic mail management means to transmit the bulletin. Thus, information with high promptness can be transmitted to a portable terminal quickly, simply, and at low cost through a wide area network at an arbitrary time designated by a client.

JP 2000-244971 A

  However, in the conventional portable terminal, in order to send the URL of the Web page being browsed by e-mail, the user needs to press a small key many times, and has to perform a complicated operation, which is very inconvenient. There was a problem that there was.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a portable terminal capable of transmitting the URL of a Web page being browsed with a simple operation and improving convenience.

  The present invention for solving the above-described problems of the conventional example receives an audio signal or a signal other than an audio signal sent via a transmission / reception antenna, and transmits the input audio signal or a signal other than the audio signal to the transmission / reception antenna. A radio unit that transmits as radio waves, an input unit that includes operation keys such as numeric keys and function keys for displaying a function list, a display unit that displays input data, and a control unit that controls the mobile terminal Is a portable terminal that is connected to the Internet to browse web pages, create mails, and send and receive emails. The control unit is pressed while the web page is displayed on the display unit. When the function for pasting the URL of a Web page to an email is selected, an email creation screen is displayed on the display unit, and the URL of the displayed Web page is pasted into the body of the email. Only, when the instruction for email transmission is inputted from the input unit, it is characterized by performing a process of transmitting the mail to the specified destination.

  According to the present invention, when the function of pasting the URL of the Web page to the mail is selected while the Web page is displayed, the control unit displays the outgoing mail creation screen and When the URL of the web page is pasted and an email transmission instruction is input from the input unit, the mobile terminal performs the process of sending the email, so the URL of the web page being browsed by a simple operation can be sent by email. It is possible to transmit, and there is an effect that convenience can be improved.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
The portable terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention displays a new mail creation screen when the control unit inputs an instruction to notify the URL of the Web page being browsed using a mail, and displays the web being browsed. The URL of the page is pasted in the transmission mail, and the user can paste the URL of the Web page being browsed into the mail and transmit it with a simple operation, which can improve convenience. It is.

FIG. 1 is a configuration block diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 1, a portable terminal (this device) according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a transmission / reception antenna 1, a radio unit 2 connected to the transmission / reception antenna 1, an audio CODEC 3, a microphone 4, and a speaker 5. And an input unit 6, a control unit 7, a ROM 8, a RAM 9, and a display unit 10.

  The radio unit 2 including the transmission / reception antenna 1 performs processing such as detection on the received electrical signal transmitted through the transmission / reception antenna 1 under the control of the control unit 7 to generate a digital audio signal or a digital signal other than audio. Thus, the digital audio signal is output to the audio CODEC 3 and the digital signal other than the audio is output to the control unit 7.

  Further, the wireless unit 2 takes in a digital audio signal for transmission input from the audio CODEC 3 and a digital signal other than the audio for transmission input from the control unit 7, and modulates a specific frequency signal using the digital signal. The modulated wave is transmitted from the transmission / reception antenna 1 as a radio wave.

  The voice CODEC 3 outputs a digital voice signal input from the radio unit 2 to the speaker 5 and sends a digital voice signal for transmission input from the microphone 4 to the radio unit 2 in a normal mode in which a normal call is performed. It is a circuit part.

  The microphone 4 is a circuit unit that receives a transmission voice, converts it into a digital voice electric signal, and sends it to the voice CODEC 3. The speaker 5 obtains a digital audio electrical signal input from the audio CODEC 3 and converts it into audio.

  The input unit 6 includes operation keys such as numeric keys and function keys, and outputs a corresponding input signal to the control unit 7 when there is an input such as a key press.

  The ROM 8 fixedly records programs related to various operations of the portable terminal, and sequentially outputs the stored programs to the control unit 7 under the control of the control unit 7.

  The RAM 9 is a circuit unit that stores data input via the control unit 7 or the control unit 7 under the control of the control unit 7 and outputs the stored data to the control unit 7. The RAM 9 or a non-volatile storage element (not shown) is provided with a storage area for storing a telephone book and mail arbitrarily written by the user. The display unit 10 is a display device that displays data input from the control unit 7.

  The control unit 7 controls the entire portable terminal, and is generally composed of a CPU. The control unit 7 processes and outputs input data, and sends control signals to connected circuit units to control them. It is a circuit part.

  In addition, the control unit 7 of the present apparatus has a general browser function and a mail function, so that the apparatus can browse web pages on the Internet and create and send / receive mail.

  As a feature of this apparatus, the control unit 7 includes a URL pasting function for opening a mail creation screen and pasting the URL in a transmitted mail when a specific instruction is input.

A user operation when a URL of a Web page is pasted on an e-mail will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a user operation when a URL of a Web page being browsed is pasted to an e-mail using this apparatus. As shown in FIG. 2, while browsing a Web page, the user first presses the function key of the input unit 6 (S1). Then, from the displayed function menu, the “Attach URL to Mail” function is selected (S2).

  The URL can be pasted on the mail only by the above two operations, and the user's operation which has been very complicated conventionally can be greatly simplified. After that, the user transmits a mail with a URL pasted by designating a destination by an operation similar to that of normal mail transmission.

Next, the operation when the URL of the Web page being browsed is pasted to an e-mail using this apparatus will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 3 together with a display example on the display unit 10 and user operations. FIG. 3 is a screen transition diagram when the URL of the Web page being browsed is pasted to the outgoing mail.
FIG. 3 shows an operation and a display screen example when the URL of the page is pasted on the body of the outgoing mail when browsing the web page “XX Electric”. The URL of the Web page being browsed is assumed to be http://www.OOdenki.co.jp.

  As shown in FIG. 3, when the user presses a function key while a web page is displayed (1), the display unit 10 displays a list of functions (function menu) that can be used on a pop-up screen. Functions include: “Bookmark registration”, 2. “View the bookmark”; 3. “Screen memo”; 4. “URL reference”; “Attaching URL email”, 6. “End” is present and the user “Attach URL URL” is selected (2).

  When the user selects “Attach URL URL”, the screen of the display unit 10 shifts from the Web page browsing screen to the mail creation screen. The mail creation screen has input areas for “To” and “Subject” as in the case of normal new mail creation. Furthermore, as a feature of this device, the Web that was being browsed earlier in the area where the text of the mail is written. The page URL (http://www.OOdenki.co.jp) is pasted (3).

  Therefore, the user can easily create a mail notifying the URL by inputting a message arbitrarily before and after the pasted URL and inputting the address and subject as usual. When the mail creation is completed, the user inputs a mail transmission instruction.

  When the transmission of the mail is completed, the display unit 10 displays a message “The transmission of the mail has been completed” (4), and returns to the display of the Web page that has been displayed until the mail creation screen is displayed (5). By automatically returning to the original Web page screen, the screen switching operation becomes unnecessary. In this way, the URL mail is pasted in this apparatus.

  However, “URL mail pasting” for starting the URL pasting function is not necessarily provided in the pop-up menu. That is, here, when “URL mail pasting” is selected from the pop-up menu of the function key, the URL pasting function in the control unit 7 is activated, but “URL mail pasting” For example, a dedicated key may be provided without being provided in the pop-up menu, or a specific key combination may be assigned.

Next, the process of the control part 7 which implement | achieves the said operation | movement is demonstrated using FIG. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing processing of the control unit 7 when “URL mail attachment” is selected from the pop-up menu while browsing a Web page.
While browsing a Web page, the control unit 7 holds the URL and display contents of the page. As shown in FIG. 3, when “Attach URL URL” is selected from the pop-up menu displayed when the function key is pressed, the control unit 7 pastes the held URL into the email. Recognizing that it is an instruction to attach, a new mail creation screen is displayed (100), and the held URL is pasted into the mail text (102).

  Then, in accordance with the instruction from the input unit 6, the control unit 7 performs a normal mail transmission process for transmitting the mail including the input message and subject to the input or designated destination (104).

  Then, the control unit 7 determines whether or not the transmission of the mail is completed (106). If the transmission is completed, the control unit 7 outputs a message “Mail transmission is completed” to the display unit 10 indicating the completion of the mail transmission. (108).

  Then, the control unit 7 closes the mail creation screen, shifts to the display of the Web page that was being browsed (110), and ends the process. In this way, the processing of the control unit 7 of the present apparatus is performed.

  According to the portable terminal (this device) according to the embodiment of the present invention, when a function “URL mail pasting” is selected by pressing a function key of the input unit 6 while browsing a Web page, the control is performed. Since the unit 7 is a portable terminal that displays a new mail creation screen and pastes the URL of the Web page in the text of the transmitted mail, the user can perform a complicated operation of pressing a small key many times without performing a complicated operation. The URL can be pasted into the mail with a simple operation, and the convenience can be improved.

  In addition, according to the present apparatus, when the transmission of the mail with the URL pasted is completed, the control unit 7 ends the mail creation screen, and is a portable terminal that outputs the web page screen that was being browsed to the display unit 10. Therefore, there is an effect that the operation for switching the screen is unnecessary and the convenience can be improved.

  INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention is suitable for a portable terminal that can easily send a URL of a Web page being browsed by e-mail and can improve convenience.

1 is a configuration block diagram of a mobile terminal (this device) according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a flowchart figure which shows a user's operation at the time of sticking URL of the web page under browsing to mail using this device. It is a screen transition diagram at the time of pasting the URL of a Web page being browsed to a transmission mail. It is a flowchart figure which represents the process of the control part 7 when "URL mail attachment" is selected from the pop-up menu during Web page browsing. It is a flowchart figure which shows a user's operation at the time of pasting URL of the web page under browsing to mail in the conventional portable terminal. FIG. 6 is a flowchart specifically showing the copy operation shown in S13 of FIG. 5.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Transmission / reception antenna, 2 ... Radio | wireless part, 3 ... Audio | voice CODEC, 4 ... Microphone, 5 ... Speaker, 6 ... Input part, 7 ... Control part, 8 ... ROM, 9 ... RAM, 10 ... Display part

Claims (1)

A radio unit that receives an audio signal or a signal other than an audio signal transmitted via a transmission / reception antenna, and transmits an input audio signal or a signal other than the audio signal as a radio wave from the transmission / reception antenna;
An input unit having operation keys such as numeric keys and function keys for displaying a function list;
A display for displaying the input data;
A control unit for controlling the mobile terminal,
A mobile terminal connected to the Internet for browsing web pages, creating and sending / receiving emails,
If the function key is pressed while the web page is displayed on the display unit and the function for pasting the URL of the web page to the mail is selected, the control unit creates a mail creation screen on the display unit Is displayed, and the URL of the displayed web page is pasted into the body of the e-mail, and when an e-mail transmission instruction is input from the input unit, the e-mail is transmitted to a specified destination. A mobile terminal characterized by.

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