Patent Application
20090325541
1. Technical Field
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to providing communication services of mobile phones, and more particularly to a mobile phone and method for managing communication fees of the mobile phone.
2. Description of Related Art
With the continuous development of wireless network technology, it has become common to use mobile communication devices, such as mobile phones or personal data assistants (PDA), which are capable of engaging in wireless communications. A relatively large charge to use mobile communication services is imposed in a user of a mobile phone. For example, large communication fees are often incurred when the user of the mobile phone uses the mobile communication service.
In order to restrict the large communication fees to use the mobile communication service, a communication charge system has been offered. The communication charge system can report communication times at the end of every communication. However, the communication charge system has a disadvantage that it cannot report communication fees to the user at the end of the every communication.
Therefore, there is an improved system and method for managing communication fees to overcome the above-mentioned disadvantages.
The storage device 12 stores a plurality of charge standards of different telecommunication providers, such as China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecommunication, for example. Each of the mobile telecommunication providers can provide different communication services to the user of the mobile phone 1 when the user accepts a charge standard of the mobile telecommunication provider. In one embodiment, the storage device 12 may be a smart media card, a secure digital card, a compact flash card, a multi media card, or extreme digital card, and so on.
The display screen 13 is operable to display a plurality of user interfaces generated by the communication fees management system 10. Referring to
The communication fees management system 10 may include a charge standard configuring module 101, a communication detecting module 102, a charge standard selecting module 103, and a communication fees calculating module 104. Each of the function modules 101-104 can be executed by the at least one processor 11 of the mobile phone 1.
The charge standard configuring module 101 is operable to configure a plurality of charge standards of different telecommunication providers in the storage device 12, and store the charge standards into the storage device 12. For example, the user can configure a charge rate as 0.06 Yuan per second according to the charge standard of China Mobile by using the charge standard configuring module 101. Each of the charge standards can be reconfigured when the charge standard of a corresponding telecommunication provider changes.
The communication detecting module 102 is operable to detect a current call when the user of the mobile phone 1 makes a call, and generate the communication time reporting interface 120 on the display screen 13. The communication detecting module 102 is further operable to determine whether the current call needs to be recorded according to an input selection form the communication time reporting interface 120, and record the current communication time into the storage device 12 if the current call needs to be recorded. Referring to
The charge standard selecting module 103 is operable to generate the charge standard selecting interface 122 on the display screen 13, and select a charge standard for the current call according to a destination phone number of the current call. Referring to
The communication fees calculating module 104 is operable to calculate a current communication fee of the current call according to the selected charge standard, and record the current communication fee into the storage device 12. Referring to
The communication fees calculating module 104 is further operable to generate the communication fees reporting interface 124 on the display screen 13, calculate a total communication time and a total communication fee according to all previous communication times and communication fees recorded in the storage device 12, and display the total communication time and the total communication fee on the communication fees reporting interface 124. Referring to
In block S21, the charge standard configuring module 101 configures a plurality of charge standards of different telecommunication providers, and stores the charge standards into the storage device 12. For example, a user of the mobile phone 1 can configure a charge rate as 0.06 Yuan per second according to the charge standard of China Mobile using the charge standard configuring module 101.
In block S22, the communication detecting module 102 detects a current call when the user of the mobile phone 1 makes a call, and generates a communication time reporting interface 120 on the display screen 13.
In block S23, the communication detecting module 102 determines whether the current call needs to be recorded according to an input selection from the communication time reporting interface 120. Referring to
In block S25, the charge standard selecting module 103 generates a charge standard selecting interface 122 on the display screen 13, and selects a charge standard for the current call according to a destination phone number of the current call. Referring to
In block S26, the communication fees calculating module 104 calculates a current communication fee of the current call according to the selected charge standard and the current communication time, and records the current communication fee into storage device 12. Referring to
In block S27, the communication fees calculating module 104 generates a communication fees reporting interface 124 on the display screen 13, calculates a total communication time and a total communication fee according to all previous communication times and communication fees recorded in the storage device 12, and displays the total communication time and the total communication fee on the communication fees reporting interface 124. Referring to
All of the processes described above may be embodied in, and fully automated via, functional code modules executed by one or more general purpose processors of electronic devices. The functional code modules may be stored in any type of readable medium or other storage devices. Some or all of the methods may alternatively be embodied in specialized the electronic devices.
Although certain inventive embodiments of the present disclosure have been specifically described, the present disclosure is not to be construed as being limited thereto. Various changes or modifications may be made to the present disclosure without departing from the scope and spirit of the present disclosure. For example, the above-described mobile phone 1 and communication fees management system 10 may be applied to other national or international telephone communication providers.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 200810302420.X | Jun 2008 | CN | national |
