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Contact searching method and apparatus, and applied mobile terminal

US8775969B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 5, 2012
Grant dateJul 8, 2014
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Expiry dateSep 5, 2032

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04M1/2746
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention provides a contact searching method, including: receiving first input of a user; selecting a first grapheme from a first graphemes sequence according to the first input, the first graphemes sequence being displayed on a display; where the first graphemes sequence is associated with an initial unit of characters in multiple contact labels; receiving second input of the user; selecting a second grapheme from a second graphemes sequence according to the second input, the second graphemes sequence being displayed on the display, and the second graphemes sequence being associated with a secondary unit of characters in the multiple contact labels; where each of the contact labels comprises at least two units of characters, and a unit character is formed or represented by at least one grapheme; and searching for and displaying a contact label on the display, where contact label is matched with the first grapheme and the second grapheme.

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