Method for searching for contacts in hand-held equipment

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for searching for contacts in hand-held equipment, which belongs to the field of information technology processing. The method of the invention comprises the following steps of: 1) segmenting name character strings in an address book and performing Pinyin reverse-checking on the segmented Chinese characters; 2) saving segmentation results and Pinyin reverse-checking results into a node array; 3) matching input filtered strings with the node array to acquire matched state data, wherein the data structure of the state data comprises the positions and lengths of the matched filtered strings, the positions of a node cluster and a current matching state; and 4) according to the matched state data, acquiring matched result data in the address book. Compared withthe prior art, the method has the advantages of reducing keystroke frequency and improving searching precision.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a method for searching a contact person, in particular to a method for searching a contact person in a handheld device, and belongs to the field of information technology processing. Background technique [0002] With the further improvement of the hardware performance of handheld devices and the increasingly vigorous development of the market, handheld devices of various platforms emerge in an endless stream, and the performance of handheld devices has also been greatly improved, thus providing a broad space for third-party software development. [0003] As the core functional module of handheld devices, the address book plays a very important role in people's daily communication process and becomes an indispensable tool for people's work and life. In the Chinese character search operation, there are multiple search methods such as direct search of Chinese characters, pinyin search, and stroke search, and the pinyin search can...

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Problems solved by technology

[0005] 1) In the Android system address book (up to version 2.1) solution, the search method does not support Chinese pinyin search;

[0006] 2) In the search solution of the iPhone OS system address book, although pinyin and simplified pinyin are supported, only the first Chinese character of the surname or first name is supported in full spelling and simplified spelling;

[0007] 3) In the Symbian platform's smart search solution for Pinyin, the Pinyin and Jianpin search is limited to continuous Chinese characters, and does not support Pinyin and Jianpin searches for non-continuous Chinese characters

[0008] To sum up, although each mobile phone platform provides its own search solutions, none of them can fully tap the characteristics of Chinese search and take advantage of the characteristics of mobile device input to provide efficient and accurate Chinese search methods

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