Patent ID: 6580928
Filing Date: 2003-06-17
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A handy phone comprising:menu picture displaying means for displaying a plurality of function names representative of a particular function each in a form of a menu; inputting means for inputting information designated by a user of said handy phone; function name setting entering means for allowing the user to select one of the function names appearing on the menu picture and enter one function name on said inputting means; function setting picture calling means for calling a function setting picture corresponding to the function name selected and entered by the user; function history storing means for storing in a memory the function names attached to functions used by the user in the past and a function setting picture corresponding to said function names; function history displaying means for displaying in the menu picture the function names of the functions stored in the memory as function history data; function history setting picture calling means for displaying, when the user selects and enters one of the function names of the function history data appearing in the menu picture on said inputting means, a function setting picture corresponding to said one function name, said function history storing means stores the function history data in a form of a table and comprises: recording means for recording how many times an individual function corresponding to one of the function names registered at said table is used in an entry corresponding to said one function name, a count being â€œ1â€  when said individual function is registered for the first time; updating means for incrementing the count of the individual function by 1; and classifying means for rearranging, after said updating means has updated the count, the entries in a decrementing order of the count and when the count of the entry updated by said updating means is coincident with a count of an entry or entries existing in said table, said classifying means rearranges the entries such that said entry updated is positioned at a head of said entry or said entries existing in said table.