Patent ID: 9571208
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04M

Claim:
1. An information input device for inputting information coming from outside into the device, comprising: a storage unit having a plurality of destinations for input information received from outside the device, the input information from outside being able to be selectively input to any one of the plurality of destinations, wherein the input information from outside exists prior to an identification of one of the plurality of destinations to which the input information from outside is to be inputted; a display screen of the device to which the input information from outside is inputted, the display screen displaying a plurality of display positions each of which corresponds to a respective one of the plurality of destinations for input information in the storage unit; a receiving unit that receives display information to be displayed on the display screen to control the data input; a detection unit that detects, in response to a touch of a human-body on the display screen, an occurrence of the touch and also detects, in response to the same touch on the screen, a position of the same touch on the display screen on which the display information is displayed, the position of touch being detected among the plurality of the display positions each of which corresponds to a respective one of the plurality of destinations for input information in the storage unit; a control unit that controls the detection unit in accordance with the display information received by the receiving unit; an identifying unit that identifies one of the plurality of destinations for the input information in the storage unit in accordance with the detection unit's detecting of the position of the touch on the display screen among the plurality of the display positions; and a transmission unit that selectively transmits the input information, received from outside the device, to the identified destination in the storage unit in response to the detection unit's detecting of the occurrence of the same touch of the human-body as the touch whose position is detected by the detection unit.