IP Library Granted Patent US 8,095,174
Granted Patent B2
US 8,095,174 · App. 12/525,876 · Granted Jan 10, 2012

Cellular phone, method for customizing cellular phone and program for customizing cellular phone

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Patent No.
US 8,095,174
App. No.
12/525,876
Granted
Jan 10, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

Every time a prescribe function is executed, a history use part 112 stores operation history information in an operation history DB 122 . When an event occurs, an action control part 111 searches a rule DB 121 , extracts an “action” corresponding to the event having occurred, and outputs the extracted action together with information indicating a situation of the occurrence of the event to the history use part 112 . The history use part 112 searches he operation history DB 122 on the basis of the information indicating the situation of the occurrence of the event and extracts a corresponding “function”. The history use part 112 executes an action on the basis of the “action” input from the action control part 111 and the extracted “function”.

Claims (24)

1. A cellular phone comprising:

a rule database that stores rule information in which an event occurring in the cellular phone and process data indicating an event handling process for recommending a prescribed function in response to occurrence of an event are associated with each other;

a history database that successively stores history information in which function data indicating an executed function and situation data indicating a situation where the function is executed are associated with each other;

an action control part that extracts corresponding process data from the rule database in response to occurrence of an event; and

a history use part that extracts, from the history database, function data corresponding to situation data indicating a situation according with a situation of occurrence of the event, and executes a process for recommending a function indicated by the extracted function data as the event handling process.

2. The cellular phone according to claim 1 , further comprising a rule database registration part capable of registering rule information in the rule database.

3. The cellular phone according to claim 1 further comprising an evaluation value calculating part for calculating evaluation values of a plurality of situation data stored in the history database when an event occurs,

wherein the history use part extracts function data corresponding to the situation data with a largest evaluation value from the history database.

4. The cellular phone according to claim 3 ,

wherein when an operation to cancel an executed event handling process is performed, the history use part adds a cancel condition to history information including function data indicating a function recommended by the event handling process, and

the evaluation value calculating part lowers, by a prescribed amount, an evaluation value of the history information to which the cancel condition is added.

5. The cellular phone according to claim 1 ,

wherein the rule database stores, as an action, information indicating a process for displaying, in a display part, a short-cut icon enabling execution of a prescribed function, and

the history use part displays a shot-cut icon enabling execution of the extracted function in the display part and displays information indicating a situation where the function is executed when the short-cut icon is selected.

6. A method for customizing a cellular phone, comprising:

storing, in a rule database, rule information in which an event occurring in the cellular phone and process data indicating an event handling process for recommending a prescribed function in response to occurrence of an event are associated with each other;

successively storing, in a history database, history information in which function data indicating an executed function and situation data indicating a situation where the function is executed are associated with each other;

extracting corresponding process data from the rule database in response to occurrence of an event; and

extracting, from the history database, function data corresponding to situation data indicating a situation according with a situation of occurrence of the event and executing, as the event handling process, a process for recommending a function indicated by the extracted function data.

7. A non-transitory storing medium for storing a program for customizing a cellular phone for allowing the cellular phone to execute processing for:

storing, in a rule database, rule information in which an event occurring in the cellular phone and process data indicating an event handling process for recommending a prescribed function in response to occurrence of an event are associated with each other;

successively storing, in a history database, history information in which function data indicating an executed function and situation data indicating a situation where the function is executed are associated with each other;

extracting corresponding process data from the rule database in response to occurrence of an event; and

extracting, from the history database, function data corresponding to situation data indicating a situation according with a situation of occurrence of the event and executing, as the event handling process, a process for recommending a function indicated by the extracted function data.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 11, 2014
From: NEC CORPORATION
To: LENOVO INNOVATIONS LIMITED (HONG KONG)
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