ES2213456B1 - ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR THE TRANSFER OF INFORMATION OPTIMALLY BY MOBILE PHONE. - Google Patents

Abstract

Electronic system for the transfer of information optically by mobile telephony. It is an electronic system formed by a mobile telephony communications module (1), with the ability to send short messages (SMS), a microprocessor system (2), a keyboard (3), one or more communications ports (4), a display (5), all powered autonomously by batteries or from the mains (6). The information that arrives to the system via keyboard or through any of the communications ports is stored; temporarily by the microprocessor system, also noting the destination number. When a certain number of characters is reached, the system automatically sends the information via short telephony messages.

Description

Electronic system for the transfer of information optimally by mobile telephony.

Technical sector

The present invention relates to a system electronic that temporarily stores the information entered by a keyboard or other data entry device, and when under certain conditions, such information is sent through a short telephone message (SMS), thus optimizing the cost in telephone consumption for sending information.

State of the art

To our knowledge, there is no electronic system that allows the introduction of information by a keyboard or other data entry device, your storage in a digital memory, along with the number of phone to which it is addressed, and when the maximum limit is reached, or another lower threshold, allowed for sending by means of a short telephone message (SMS), the system automatically send the information, optimizing in this case the cost of transmissions.

The system is useful in those cases in which should be frequent data transmissions encoded that generally do not involve a high amount of information; by way of example, it could be used by libraries, to store a certain code of the products requested by your customers and that will normally be distributed by the same warehouse; when a limit is reached determined information, a short telephone message is sent Requesting the order. The way to optimize the costs of telephony consists of temporarily storing this information and when you reach the maximum character length that allows a SMS, it is automatically sent.

One solution could be to send an SMS each time that information was entered or arrived at the system, but in many cases would be sent a number of characters much lower than allowed by a short message; with an electronic system with the ability to temporarily store the information to be transmitted, It could be sent at any time at the request of the user or information generating device or when the system detects that a certain threshold of characters, below or equal to the maximum number of characters Allowed for an SMS.

The short telephone message system allows you to send alphanumeric messages of up to 160 characters, with 7-bit ASCII encoding; the cost of the transmission is the same, regardless of the number of characters sent, of there is an interesting device that reaches you information, stores it temporarily and when it detects that it has reached a certain threshold, automatically perform the transmission.

The existence of a patent or model of any utility whose characteristics are the object of this invention.

Explanation of the invention.

To implement a system that allows transmission of small amounts of information, to one or more recipients, using short mobile phone messages, an electronic system is proposed for the transfer of information optimally by mobile telephony. The present invention serves as an interface between the source generating the information, which can be a person through a keyboard or another electronic system, and a message transmission system Telephone shorts The advantage of the invention is that it stores temporarily and manages the information to be transmitted to one or multiple recipients, determining the number of characters corresponding to each recipient and when it has been stored certain number of characters the information is sent by the Telephone system via SMS.

It consists of an electronic system in which enter the information by a keyboard or by another system any information transmission, in addition to the number of recipient's phone; At first, the information entered is temporarily stored in a digital memory and when a certain threshold has been reached in the number of characters, equal to or less than the maximum limit for an SMS message, the system electronic automatically sends the information to each addressee; In addition to the idea presented, the system has more versatility, because it manages the information addressed to several numbers or different recipients, and has other functions, such as send the information at any given time to any of the recipients in response to a command received by any of communications ports or by keyboard, send the information at certain specific times or to store in a EEPROM memory information, in order to preserve it even if the electrical connection of the system is disconnected.

At the hardware level, the invention is formed by:

to)

Telephony Communications Module mobile that allows the transfer of short telephony messages; both the process of sending the messages and the content of the They are controlled by the system microprocessor.

b)

Microprocessor system with memory Volatile and non-volatile digital. Take control of all the system, reading the information received by the different peripherals and interpreting it, especially distinguishing whether These are data that must be transmitted or commands. Too stores the information in an EEPROM memory and implements the routines to display on a display the appropriate information for the user.

C)

Peripherals input information. Those elements that allow the Introduction of information to the electronic system. By way of example, it can be a keyboard for the introduction of information directly by a user or it can be a serial communications port; in the latter case the information will arrive in a data frame from another machine or electronic system in which the number of the recipient and the data to be transmitted. A series is also defined of commands that allow the logical connection to the external equipment, so that the latter recognizes that the data it sends has been received or the amount of information addressed to a given recipient stored in memory at any given time.

d)

Display Its function is to implement the user-machine interface for proper handling of the invention.

and)

Power supply, which provides the electrical energy necessary for the operation of the different elements; it can be obtained from the network electric or from a set of electric batteries that allow an autonomous system.

At the logical level, the program implemented in the Microprocessor system allows the following functions:

to)

Reading and interpretation of the information entered by the keyboard or other device. At If the information is entered by the keyboard, the user you must enter the recipient's phone number and the information to transmit In case the information arrives from another electronic device, through a port of communications of the invention, it will be formatted in such a way make clear the part that corresponds to the information and what part corresponds to the telephone number to which it should be sent. Be provides for the possibility of the microprocessor returning messages to the peripheral system connected to any of the ports of communication indicating that you have received the information from the peripheral system The information received is stored in the EEPROM memory of the microprocessor system, relating each recipient with the data to be sent, according to a map of memory similar to that shown in figure 2.

b)

Information management. For each recipient is controlling the number of characters stored in EEPROM memory and when a certain threshold is reached By default, the SMS is sent to that recipient. Also in any time, either at the user's request through the keyboard, or by a special command received by any of the communications ports, the system can send the information related to one or more of the recipients. Other criteria to proceed to send the information to one or several recipient can be by timing, scheduling the time of day on which the messages are sent.

In order to realize a more economical system, the communications module can be formed by a telephone Mobile with data transmission modem. In this case, the connection with the microprocessor system it will be done by a cable serial data transmission and microprocessor system, by sending the appropriate commands to the module communications, has the possibility of detecting the presence of module; in the case where the module is not connected communications, the information is still stored in memory even if the maximum length of an SMS is exceeded, the expected timing for that recipient or the user or a peripheral system activate the command to send information; when the presence of the module is subsequently detected communications, the system sends the message or messages to each of recipients that meet some of the conditions indicated above.

Brief description of the drawings

For the best compression of how much is described in the present report, some drawings are attached in which, so just as an example, a case study of embodiment of the invention.

Figure 1 shows a block diagram of the hardware of the invention.

Figure 2 shows a memory map, in which the phone number of the SMS recipient and the data or characters associated with said recipient.

Embodiment

As an illustrative and non-limiting example, shows an embodiment of the present invention.

The electronic system for the transfer of information optimally by mobile telephony is formed by an electronic card that integrates the different circuits that allow the functionality of the invention. The different elements that make up the system are shown in the figure one:

a) Mobile telephony communications module, With the ability to transmit short messages (SMS). This module it can be physically and mechanically integrated with the rest of the hardware or it can be a mobile phone with data connection by cable. In any case, your government is done through commands AT, with which the element is configured for the transmission of short messages, the recipient's phone number is indicated and the information to be transmitted in each message.

b) Microprocessor system with digital memory volatile and nonvolatile Performs control of the entire system. This formed by a microprocessor system with RAM and EEPROM memory, and It is connected to the communications module for sending the appropriate commands for sending short messages, to keyboard, for reading information or commands introduced by a user, to the data entry ports and to the display of the invention.

c) Peripherals for information entry. Be consider as such those elements that allow the Introduction of information to the electronic system. In figure 1 a keyboard for entering information is displayed directly by a user and a communications port generic via series; in the latter case the information arrives in a serial data frame from another machine or electronic system in the clearly distinguish the number of the recipient and the data to to transmit. A series of commands are also defined that allow the logical connection with the external equipment, so that the latter acknowledge that the data you send has been received or the amount of information addressed to a specific recipient stored in Memory at any given time.

d) Display. Its function is to implement the user-machine interface for proper handling of the invention.

e) Power supply, with the possibility of connect to the mains or use batteries.

At the logical level, the program implemented in the Microprocessor system allows the following functions:

a) Reading and interpretation of information entered by the keyboard or other device. In the case where the information is entered by the keyboard, the user must enter the recipient's phone number and information to be transmitted In the case where the information arrives from another electronic device, through a communications port of the invention, it will be formatted so that the part that corresponds to the information and which part corresponds to the phone number to which it should be sent. The possibility is foreseen that the microprocessor returns messages indicating that it has Received the information from the peripheral system. Information received are stored in the system EEPROM memory microprocessor, relating each recipient to the data that should be sent, according to a memory map similar to the one shown in figure 2.

Information management. For each recipient, control of the number of characters stored in EEPROM memory and when a threshold is reached, the SMS is sent. Also at any time, either at the user's request for middle of the keyboard, or by a special command received by any of the communications ports, the system sends the information related to one or more of the recipients. Another of the possibilities caused by sending a message to one or more Recipients is by timing: the microprocessor system implements a clock in real time and at predetermined times for each recipient, which can be programmed by the user, the information is sent, in the event that it exists

In order to realize a more economical system, the communications module can be formed by a mobile phone with data transmission modem. In this case, the connection with the microprocessor system will be made by a serial data transmission cable and the microprocessor system, by sending the appropriate commands to the communications module, has the possibility of detecting the presence of the module; in the case where the communications module is not connected, the information is still stored in memory even if the maximum length of an SMS is exceeded; when the presence of the communications module is subsequently detected, the system automatically sends the information to the recipient, distributed in the number of short telephony messages that are
adequate.

The options allowed by the software executed in The microprocessor is achieved with the following subroutines:

Routine one

It stores the information received by any of the peripherals entering the system in a single register for each recipient. If the information is for a new recipient, create a memory record to store that recipient's data. If the information is addressed to a recipient that has data stored in memory, the new information is written after the information
ancient.

Routine 2

It automatically counts the characters of each record and in case they exceed a threshold value, it automatically sends an SMS with that data to the corresponding recipient. This routine also periodically checks the time on the microprocessor's real-time clock and whether the information should be sent to a recipient. Once the data has been sent, it is deleted in the memory
EEPROM.

Routine 3

Check that there is a connection with the module communications and that it responds correctly to commands sent by the microprocessor. In the case where this is not the case, the routine 2 is not performed, since the module is inoperative communications This can be frequent if used as a module. of communications a conventional mobile phone; in this case, it they store the data that keep coming and when the system detects that the communications module has been connected, the routine 2.

Routine 4

Interpret the commands received from any of the input peripherals. Among others, the Meaning of the commands can be: send the information of one or several records, edit on the display the information of one or several records, erase part or all of the memory information corresponding to one or more recipients.

For the implementation of the previous routines, At the software level, the following are also implemented subroutines:

Subroutine one

Send the commands and data to the module communications so that it transmits the data in an SMS to a determined recipient. The communication between the system microprocessor and the communications module is done by AT commands.

Subroutine 2

Check that the communications module is operational The microprocessor system sends an appropriate command to the communications module and wait for a time of 10 milliseconds if the latter responds appropriately to the command.

Subroutine 3

Reading data and commands entered by the keyboard. Determine what information corresponds to the number of the recipient and associated data and what information corresponds with commands for system control.

Subroutine 4

Presentation of information on the display. Allows the display of certain information on the display relative to the operation of the system.

Subroutine 5

Reading data from a serial port. Determine what information corresponds to the number of the recipient and associated data and what information corresponds with commands for system control.

Subroutine 6

Writing, reading and deleting data in a Unique registration for each recipient. Perform dynamic management of the system memory, relating at all times the number of the recipient and the associated information.

Subroutine 7

Implement a real-time clock with the Internal hardware resources of the microprocessor.

Claims (11)

1. Electronic system for the optimal transfer of information by mobile telephony characterized in that it is constituted by the functional association of a mobile telephony communications module, a microprocessor system with digital memory, a keyboard, a display, one or several ports of communication. Communications and a power supply. 2. Electronic system for optimally transferring information via mobile telephony according to claim 1, characterized in that a user enters the recipient's telephone number and the information to be sent by the keypad. 3. Electronic system for the optimal transfer of information by mobile telephony according to claim 1, characterized in that the information and the telephone number of the recipient can arrive through one or several communication ports. 4. Electronic system for optimally transferring information via mobile telephony according to claim 1, characterized in that the information indicated in claims 2 and 3 is stored in the non-volatile digital memory of the microprocessor system. 5. Electronic system for the optimal transfer of information by mobile telephony according to claim 1, characterized in that the microprocessor system manages the information indicated in claims 2 and 3 and when it detects that the information addressed to a certain recipient reaches the maximum limit allowed for a Short telephone message (SMS) or other lower threshold, automatically sends the information. 6. Electronic system for optimally transferring information via mobile telephony according to claim 1, characterized in that the information indicated in claims 2 and 3 is sent to its recipient when an appropriate combination of keys is activated or when a special command arrives for some of the system communication ports. 7. Electronic system for the optimal transfer of information by mobile telephony according to claim 1 characterized in that the information indicated in claims 2 and 3 is sent to its recipient at certain times of the day, set by a real-time clock implemented in the system microprocessor 8. Electronic system for optimally transferring information by mobile telephony according to claim 1, characterized in that the mobile telephony communications module can be formed by a modem or a mobile telephone connected to the rest of the elements by a data transmission cable. 9. Electronic system for the optimal transfer of information by mobile telephony according to claim 1, characterized in that the microprocessor system automatically detects the presence of the mobile telephony communications module. 10. Electronic system for the optimal transfer of information by mobile telephony according to claim 1, characterized in that if the microprocessor system detects the non-presence of the communications module, the information entered by keyboard or by any of the communication ports is still stored in the digital memory of the system; The information will be sent when the system automatically detects that the communications module has been connected. 11. Electronic system for optimally transferring information via mobile telephony according to claim 1, characterized in that the information stored in the system memory, in particular the numbers of the recipients, can be edited from the keyboard for display , the associated information and the number of characters. In addition, part or all of the information stored in the system's digital memory can be deleted and / or modified.