CN100502425C - Hand-held mobile communication device with information hiding function and data hiding method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a hand-held mobile communication device with information hiding function and a data hiding method thereof, and the hand-held mobile communication device comprises: the user interface is used for providing data editing, reading or displaying operation for a user; the data hiding setting unit is used for sequentially establishing related secondary catalogues according to the telephone number or the contact person in the data as a main catalog, and providing a user with setting activation or closing of the data to be in a hidden state or a non-hidden state; the database comprises a hidden data storage block and a non-hidden data storage block and is used for storing data so as to provide a processing program for selectively activating the hidden data for a user. The invention sets the hidden or non-hidden state of data by user to correspondingly display the data stored in the memory or SIM card of hand-held mobile device, avoiding the people except user from browsing, reading or inquiring data, and improving information security.

Description

Handheld mobile communication device with information hiding function and data hiding method thereof

technical field

The invention relates to an information security system and a security method thereof, in particular to a hand-held communication device with an information hiding function and a data hiding method thereof.

Background technique

With the development of the information industry and the communication industry, the speed and paths for people to obtain information are getting faster and faster, and the handheld mobile communication device has become one of the indispensable communication tools in people's life.

Current handheld mobile communication devices generally have multimedia functions such as taking pictures, image capture, music, video playback, wireless transmission, and network connection. Generally speaking, such data are stored in the memory of the handheld mobile communication device, or The address book, communication data, etc. are stored in the SIM card, however, this will cause the problem of information leakage.

When the owner of the handheld mobile communication device is not paying attention or leaves (referring to the situation that the handheld mobile communication device is not carried around, etc.), unscrupulous people can steal the information through the function of wireless transmission (such as infrared transmission, Bluetooth, etc.) The consequences of the communication data stored in the handheld mobile communication device (for example, customer information, contact phone number or data about user privacy) are disastrous, although some handheld mobile communication devices also provide the function of password setting, so that People other than the owner cannot directly operate or use the handheld mobile communication device, but most of such password setting functions are designed to be used at the startup stage. After the handheld mobile communication device is turned on, there is no other way to protect the data content. In addition, when the owner loses his hand-held mobile communication device, or when the hand-held mobile communication device fails to be repaired, the communication data may be leaked.

Therefore, how to provide a handheld communication device with information hiding function has become one of the problems to be solved by researchers.

Contents of the invention

The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a hand-held mobile communication device with information hiding function and its data hiding method. By activating or deactivating the information hiding function, the data set up with a specific phone number as a group is set as Hidden or non-hidden to prevent its data from being viewed or read by people other than the user.

To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a hand-held mobile communication device with information hiding function, including: a database, a user interface, a data hiding setting unit and a password setting unit.

The database is used to store data, and the database can be divided into two storage blocks, namely a hidden data storage block and a non-hidden data storage block.

Among them, the hidden data storage block is used to store the data set as the hidden state, which is set to close the hidden state through the password setting unit or provide read permission to browse, read or query the data stored in the hidden data storage The data of the block; the non-hidden data storage block is used to store the data that is set to be non-hidden, and it is set to the general read permission to browse, read or query the data stored in the non-hidden data storage block .

The user interface has a display operation screen to provide users with data editing, reading or display operations, and the data types include: address book data, call records, calendar or short message data (for example, short message service SMS, Enhanced Short Message Service (EMS) and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) etc.

The data hiding setting unit judges and compares the data according to the correlation established by the data, so as to classify the data as a hidden state or a non-hidden state, and provides users with setting to enable or disable the data as hidden or non-hidden state to determine the storage area for storing data (for example, a hidden data storage block or a non-hidden data storage block).

The password setting unit is used for password setting and confirmation operations, and checks the password input by the user on the user interface. When the password is confirmed to be correct, the hidden state is released and the authority to read data is obtained.

In addition, in order to achieve the above object, the present invention also provides a data hiding method of a hand-held mobile communication device, which includes the following steps: first, establish a data, and the type of data includes: the type of data includes: address book Data, call records, short message data (for example, short message service SMS, enhanced short message service EMS and multimedia information service MMS), picture data or audio-visual data, etc.; data attribute status of received data (for example, hidden state or non-hidden state) The setting of the data (you can also use the contact name or phone number as the key word to determine the data attribute status of the data, that is, according to the phone number or contact person in the data as the main directory, establish its related sub-categories in order to establish a phone number or contact Human-based related data groups and correlations, judging and comparing the data to determine the data attribute status of the data); according to the received data attribute status, determine the read permission of the data, when the received data is set to a hidden state , its read permission is obtained through a password mechanism; and the data corresponding to the data attribute status is displayed according to the read permission, that is, only the data set to the non-hidden state is displayed on the operation screen, and when the received data is set to the hidden state , you need to pass the password confirmation step to close its hidden function, so as to display its data.

With this hand-held communication device with data hiding function and its data hiding method, the user sets the hidden or non-hidden state of the data to correspondingly display the data stored in the internal memory of the hand-held mobile device or the SIM card, so as to avoid People other than the user browse, read or query its data, so as to improve the confidentiality of information.

The present invention will be described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments, but not as a limitation of the present invention.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a system block diagram of the present invention;

2A is a flow chart of the steps of the data hiding method of the present invention;

FIG. 2B is a flowchart of steps of another data hiding method of the present invention; and

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of the operation screen of data editing in the present invention.

Detailed ways

Please refer to FIG. 1 , which is a system block diagram of the present invention, including: a user interface 10 , a data hiding setting unit 20 , a password setting unit 30 and a database 40 .

The user interface 10 has a display operation screen, which provides the user with data 1 input, editing, association establishment, reading or display operations, and the data 1 (the data 1 referred to here can be multiple or single) The establishment can be based on the main directory of phone numbers or contacts, and its related sub-directories can be established in order to establish related data groups and associations based on phone numbers or contacts (that is, association establishment), and based on hidden or non-hidden The state corresponds to displaying its data 1, and the type of data 1 includes: address book data, call records, calendar, SMS data, picture data or audio-visual data, etc. After 1 is input through the user interface 10, the storage block (for example, the hidden data storage block 41 or the non-hidden data storage block 42) in which the data 1 is stored in the database 40 is determined via the data hiding setting unit 20.

In addition, the types of SMS data can include: Short Message Service (Short Message Service, SMS), Enhanced Message Service (Enhanced Message Service, EMS) and Multimedia Message Service (Multimedia Message Service, MMS), etc., and the content of the SMS can be Data formats such as pictures, animations or sounds.

The data hiding setting unit 20 is connected with the user interface 10, and is used to set the data display attribute of the data 1, and provides the user to set the data attribute of the data 1 in the user interface 10 as a hidden state or a non-hidden state , and according to the state set by the user, determine the storage area for storing the data 1 (for example, the hidden data storage block 41 or the non-hidden data storage block 42).

The password setting unit 30 is connected with the user interface 10 and the data hiding setting unit 20 respectively, in order to carry out the password setting and confirmation operation, when the data hiding setting unit 20 is set to open the hidden state, cooperate with the user interface 10 It is further provided that the user sets a password corresponding to closing the hidden state, and checks the password entered by the user on the user interface 10. When the password is confirmed to be correct, the hidden state is released and the authority to read data 1 is obtained, that is, through The password confirmation action is to obtain the read authority of the hidden data storage block 30 . In addition, the password setting unit 30 can also set its password confirmation processing program for all or each piece of data 1 in the database 40 .

The database 40 is used to store the data 1 and provide the required data for the user interface 10 to read, and the database 40 can be divided into two storage blocks, namely a hidden data storage block 41 and a non-hidden data storage block 42 In addition, the database 40 can be stored in the built-in memory of the handheld mobile communication device, SIM card or embedded memory and other memory modules with data storage properties.

The hidden data storage block 41 is connected with the password setting unit 30, and provides a storage area for storing the data 1 set as the hidden state, which is set to need to close the hidden state through the password setting unit 30 or provide reading Permission to browse, read or query the data stored in the hidden data storage block 41 .

The non-hidden data storage block 42 is connected with the user interface 10 and provides a storage area to store the data 1 set as the non-hidden state, which can be browsed, read or queried and stored in the The data of the non-hidden data storage block 42, and the hidden data storage block 41 and the non-hidden data storage block 42 are through different data reading paths (as shown in the figure, the user interface 10 is respectively set by data hiding The unit 20 reads the non-hidden data storage block 42, and the password setting unit 30 reads the hidden data storage block 41) to limit its read authority.

Please refer to FIG. 2A, which is a flow chart of the steps of the data hiding method of the present invention, including the following steps: first, the user stores a data in the database 40 (step 100) through the user interface 10, and the type of data includes: address book Data, call records, SMS data, picture data or audio-visual data, etc. are data created by groups of phone numbers or contacts, and the types of SMS data can include: Short Message Service (Short Message Service, SMS), Enhanced SMS Service (Enhanced Message Service, EMS) and Multimedia Message Service (Multimedia Message Service, MMS), etc., the text message content can be data formats such as pictures, animations or sounds.

Next, after the user stores the data in the database 40 through the user interface 10, the handheld mobile communication device receives the setting of the data attribute state (for example, hidden state or non-hidden state) of the data (that is, directly sets the data as hidden state or non-hidden state) (step 101), and the user sets the data as a hidden state or a non-hidden state through the data hiding setting unit 20; the handheld mobile communication device stores the data in the corresponding Data storage block (for example, hidden data storage block or non-hidden data storage block), and determine its read permission (step 102), wherein the read permission of hidden data storage block and non-hidden data storage block is different .

Next, read and display the data corresponding to the data attribute state according to the read authority (step 103). If the received data is set to a hidden state, the user interface 10 cannot directly read its related information, and This data cannot be displayed in the computer, but after obtaining its read authority through a password mechanism, at this time, the user can browse, read or query the data through the data search mechanism of the user interface 10; if the received data When it is set to a non-hidden state, the user can browse, read or query the data without going through the password mechanism, and the data will also be displayed in the operation screen.

In addition, the information hiding method can use the name of the contact person or the phone number as the keyword, that is, the data hiding setting unit 20 judges and compares each data, and when the keyword condition is met, the data containing the name of the contact person or the phone number will be included. To hide, and the data includes the aforementioned address book data, call records, calendar, SMS data, picture data or audio-visual data, etc. Therefore, the user cannot browse and read from the mobile phone when the data is not hidden. Or query the data and related information set as the hidden state data attribute.

And the information hiding method can also be based on the correlation established by the data, judge and compare each piece of data by the data hiding setting unit 20, to automatically classify the data received by the handheld mobile communication device as a hidden state or a non-hidden state ( It can also be disassociated), for example, to determine whether the incoming call number is a specific phone number (that is, a phone number set to a hidden state), if it is a specific phone number, then activate the data hiding function, that is, it will not be displayed on the operation screen For related information mainly based on specific phone numbers, when a user operates or browses a handheld mobile communication device, only non-hidden data can be read.

Please refer to FIG. 2B, which is a flow chart of the steps of another data hiding method of the present invention, which includes the following steps: first, the user stores a data in the database 40 through the user interface 10 (step 200), and the type of data includes: Address book data, call records, SMS data, picture data or audio-visual data, etc. are data created by groups of phone numbers or contacts, and the types of SMS data can include: Short Message Service (Short Message Service, SMS), Enhanced Short message service (Enhanced Message Service, EMS) and multimedia message service (Multimedia Message Service, MMS) etc., its short message content can be the data format such as picture, animation or sound.

Next, after the user stores the data in the database 40 through the user interface 10, the handheld mobile communication device receives a keyword (for example, the contact name or phone number) to set the data attribute status of the data (for example, hidden state or non-hidden state) (step 201), and the user sets the data as a hidden state or a non-hidden state through the data hiding setting unit 20; the handheld mobile communication device stores the data in the corresponding Data storage block (for example, hidden data storage block or non-hidden data storage block), and determine its read authority (step 202), wherein the read authority of the hidden data storage block and the non-hidden data storage block are different .

Next, read and display the data corresponding to the data attribute state according to the read authority (step 203), if the received data contains the above-mentioned keywords, it is set to a hidden state, that is, the user interface 10 cannot directly read Get its relevant information, and this data cannot be displayed in the operation screen, but after obtaining its read permission through a password mechanism, at this time, the user can browse, read or read through the data search mechanism of the user interface 10 Query the data; if the received data does not contain the above keywords, it will be set to a non-hidden state, that is, the user can browse, read or query the data without going through the password mechanism, and also in the operation screen The data will be displayed.

Please refer to FIG. 3 , which is a schematic diagram of the operation screen of the data of the present invention. First, the user sets and edits the data 61 of the contact person A as a hidden state or a non-hidden state through the setting function in the editing command 62 in the operation screen 60 , when this data 61 is set to a hidden state, the related data 61 created by contact A is immediately stored in the hidden data block 41, so that the user can only browse, read or inquire about the device on the operation screen 60 Data that is defined as non-hidden. When the user needs to browse, read or inquire about the data set as the hidden state, through the password confirmation mechanism, he can obtain the reading authority of the data 61 set as the hidden state, or release the hidden state to display the data 61. Data 61 is on the operation screen 60 .

In addition, the user can also use the name or phone number of the contact person in the data 61 as a keyword to hide the data containing the name or phone number of the contact person, and according to the association established in the data 61, the data stored in the handheld mobile communication device will be automatically Received data is classified as hidden or non-hidden.

If the data received by the user is multimedia data (for example, photos or pictures), because such data does not necessarily contain keywords, the file name of the multimedia data may be stored according to the default file name, for example, picture 1, Picture 2..., and so on, unless the user edits the file name, at this time, the user can directly set the data attribute status of the data without changing the file name, and the file can be hidden pen multimedia data. Through this hand-held mobile communication device with information hiding function and its data hiding method, the user can set the data to be hidden or non-hidden, so as to display the data correspondingly, so as to avoid browsing and reading by people other than the user. Or query the data in the handheld mobile communication device, so as to improve the information security of the handheld mobile communication device.

Certainly, the present invention also can have other multiple embodiments, without departing from the spirit and essence of the present invention, those skilled in the art can make various corresponding changes and deformations according to the present invention, but these corresponding Changes and deformations should belong to the scope of protection of the appended claims of the present invention.

Claims (14)

1, a kind of hand-held mobile communicating apparatus of tool information hidden function is characterized in that, includes:

One database comprises a hiding data and stores block and non-hiding data storage block, in order to deposit data;

One user interface, has a display-operation picture, set up, read or show operation with the editor that provides the user to carry out these data, relevance, wherein this relevance is established as according to telephone number or gets in touch with artificial master catalogue, sets up the relevance that relevant subdirectory is set up in regular turn; And

One data hidden setup unit, providing the user to set in this user interface and activating or close these data is a hidden state or a non-hidden state, wherein, the relevance that this data hidden setup unit is set up according to these data, judging and these data relatively, is a hidden state or a non-hidden state to sort out these data.

2, hand-holding communication device according to claim 1 is characterized in that, also includes a password setting unit, is connected with this data hidden setup unit, in order to carry out a password setting and to confirm operation.

3, hand-holding communication device according to claim 2 is characterized in that, the user carries out this password setting and confirms operation by this user interface.

4, hand-holding communication device according to claim 3 is characterized in that, when confirming that this password is correct, it is non-hidden state that this data hidden setup unit is set these data, reads this data for this user interface.

5, hand-holding communication device according to claim 1 is characterized in that, the type of these data includes: address book data, conversation record, calendar, note data, image data or video-audio data.

6, hand-holding communication device according to claim 5 is characterized in that, the type of this note data includes: short message service SMS, Enhanced Message Service EMS and MMS (Multimedia Message Service) MMS.

7, hand-holding communication device according to claim 1 is characterized in that, this data hidden setup unit is that this hidden state set in keyword with this contact name.

8, hand-holding communication device according to claim 1 is characterized in that, this data hidden setup unit is that this hidden state set in keyword with this telephone number.

9, hand-holding communication device according to claim 1 is characterized in that, when this data hidden setup unit was set these data for this hidden state, the user can't browse, read or inquire about this data from this display-operation picture at this user interface.

10, a kind of data-hiding method of hand-held mobile communicating apparatus is characterized in that, includes:

Store data in a database;

Receive the setting of a keyword, wherein this keyword is a contact name or telephone number, according to the telephone number in the data or get in touch with artificial master catalogue, set up its relevant subdirectory in regular turn, to set up with telephone number or contact artificial main related data group and relevance, judge and these data relatively, to determine the data attribute state of these data;

According to this data attribute state, determine the authority that reads of these data; And

Reading authority according to this shows these data that should the data attribute state.

11, data-hiding method according to claim 10 is characterized in that, this data attribute state includes a hidden state and a non-hidden state.

12, data-hiding method according to claim 11 is characterized in that, when this data attribute state was this hidden state, this read authority and also obtains by a cipher mechanism.

13, data-hiding method according to claim 10 is characterized in that, the type of these data includes: address book data, conversation record, calendar, note data, image data or video-audio data.

14, data-hiding method according to claim 13 is characterized in that, the type of this note data includes: short message service SMS, Enhanced Message Service EMS and MMS (Multimedia Message Service) MMS.

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