KR100663480B1 - Method for deleting message in mobile telephone - Google Patents

Abstract

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of deleting a message in a mobile terminal, after selecting a message type to delete, displaying a message of a selected type, displaying a check box on each of the displayed messages when selecting and deleting a message, and Selecting messages, marking the check boxes of the selected messages to determine the messages to be deleted, and when the delete command is generated, deleting the messages marked with the check box collectively.

Select Delete Mode Key, Position Shift Key, Check Box

Description

How to delete messages on your mobile device {METHOD FOR DELETING MESSAGE IN MOBILE TELEPHONE}             

1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a message deletion procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3A and 3C are diagrams for explaining a message deletion operation of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a message processing method of a portable terminal, and more particularly, to a method of selecting and collectively deleting a message.

In general, a portable terminal can communicate text messages and video messages in addition to a voice communication function. The text message includes a short message service (hereinafter referred to as SMS) that a user writes a sentence. When the SMS is received, it is stored in the internal memory of the portable terminal, and the user can select it and display it on the display if necessary. In addition, when the user of the portable terminal makes an outgoing call, the telephone number of the calling party is stored in the internal memory, and the telephone number of the called party is also stored in the memory. In addition, the current portable terminal may capture and store a screen through a camera or transmit the screen to a base station, and may store screen data received from the base station in a memory.

Accordingly, in order to store the above messages, the portable terminal has a larger memory capacity. At this time, the messages stored in the memory can be deleted by the user's selection. However, when deleting a message stored in the memory of the conventional portable terminal, there was a method of selecting and deleting messages one by one or deleting all stored messages in a batch. However, the former method of deleting a message requires selecting and deleting messages one by one. Therefore, the process of deleting a message is cumbersome. The latter method of deleting a message deletes all messages. There was a problem that the delete method could not be used.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for selecting and deleting at least two messages in a portable terminal.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method of collectively deleting the selected messages after selecting the messages to be deleted among the messages stored in the portable terminal in the delete mode.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of deleting a message of a portable terminal, after selecting a message type to be deleted, displaying a message of a selected type, and checking the displayed messages when selecting and selecting a deletion. Displaying the box, selecting the messages to be deleted, marking the check boxes of the selected messages, determining the messages to be deleted, and deleting all the messages marked with the check box when the delete command is generated. Lose.

In addition, the message deletion method of the portable terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention, after selecting the message type to be deleted, displaying the selected type of messages, and when the deletion mode is selected in the state of displaying the message, delete, delete all and Displaying a menu of selective deletion, and when selecting selective deletion from the deletion menu, displaying checkboxes on the displayed messages, selecting the messages to be deleted, and marking the checkboxes of the selected messages. Determining the messages to be deleted, the process of collectively deleting the messages marked with the check box when the delete command is generated, the process of deleting the displayed messages collectively when selecting the delete all in the delete menu, the cursor when selecting the delete in the delete menu The process consists of deleting the located messages.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION A detailed description of preferred embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.                     

In the following description, a message will be described by taking a text message as an example. However, the message in this application is used to collectively mean text messages, telephone numbers, and video messages.

1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the RF unit 21 performs communication of a portable telephone. The RF unit 21 includes an RF transmitter for upconverting and amplifying a frequency of a transmitted signal, and an RF receiver for low noise amplifying and downconverting a received signal. The data processor 23 includes a transmitter for encoding and modulating the transmitted signal and a receiver for demodulating and decoding the received signal. That is, the data processor 23 may be configured of a modem and a codec CODDEC. The audio processor 25 plays a function of reproducing a received audio signal output from the data processor 23 or transmitting a transmission audio signal generated from a microphone to the data processor 23.

The keypad 27 has keys for inputting numeric and text information and function keys for setting various functions. In addition, the keypad 27 may include a selective delete mode key, a position shift key, a message select key, and a delete key according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. The memory 29 may be composed of program memory and data memories. The program memory stores programs for controlling a general operation of the portable telephone, and programs for selecting and collectively deleting messages to be deleted from stored messages according to an embodiment of the present invention. In addition, the data memory temporarily stores data generated during the execution of the programs.

The controller 10 performs a function of controlling the overall operation of the portable telephone. In addition, the controller 20 may include the data processor 23. In addition, the control unit 10 displays a check box on the messages of the selected item when setting the selection deletion mode from the keypad 27 according to an embodiment of the present invention, and displays a check box on the corresponding message according to the user's selection. And deletes the selected messages in a batch when a delete key is generated.

The camera 50 photographs image data and includes a camera sensor that converts the photographed optical signal into an electrical signal. It is assumed here that the camera sensor is a CCD sensor. The signal processor 60 converts the video signal output from the camera 50 into an image signal. The signal processor 60 may be implemented with a digital signal processor (DSP). The image processor 70 performs a function of generating screen data for displaying an image signal output from the signal processor 60. The image processor 70 transmits an image signal received under the control of the controller 10 to conform to the standard of the display unit 80, and compresses and decompresses the image data. The operation of the signal processor 60 and the image processor 70 is described in detail in Korean Patent Application No. 2002-22844 filed by the present applicant.

The display unit 80 displays messages generated during program execution under the control of the controller 10. In addition, the display unit 80 displays an image signal output from the image processing unit 70 in a camera shooting mode, and displays user data output from the control unit 10. The display unit 80 may use an LCD. In this case, the display unit 80 may include an LCD controller, a memory capable of storing image data, and an LCD display device. In this case, when the LCD is implemented in a touch screen manner, the keypad 27 and the LCD may be input units.

Looking at the operation of the portable telephone with reference to FIG. 1, when the user performs a dialing operation through the keypad 27 during the call, and sets the dialing mode, the controller 10 detects this and dial information received through the data processor 23. After processing the RF signal through the RF unit 21 to output. Thereafter, when the counter subscriber generates a response signal, the counter subscriber detects this through the RF unit 21 and the data processor 23. Thereafter, a user establishes a voice call path through the audio processor 25 to perform a communication function. In addition, in the incoming mode, the controller 10 detects the incoming mode through the data processor 23 and generates a ring signal through the audio processor 25. Thereafter, when the user responds, the controller 10 detects this, and a voice call path is formed through the audio processor 25 to perform a communication function. In the outgoing and incoming modes, voice communication is described as an example, but a data communication function for communicating packet data and video data may be performed in addition to the voice communication. In addition, when performing a standby mode or text communication, the controller 10 displays text data processed by the data processor 23 on the display 80.

In addition, the portable telephone may perform an operation of capturing a person or an environment and displaying or transmitting the image on a video screen. First, the camera 50 may be mounted on a portable telephone or connected to a predetermined location outside. That is, the camera 50 may be an external camera or an internal camera. The camera 50 may use a charge coupled device (CCD) sensor. The image captured by the camera 50 is converted into an electrical signal by an internal CCD sensor and then applied to the signal processor 60. Then, the signal processor 60 converts the image signal into digital image data and outputs the image signal to the image processor 70.

Looking at the operation of processing the message in the portable terminal, the memory 29 stores the telephone numbers of the originating and incoming subscribers generated during the call, the text message created and transmitted by the user of the portable terminal, and the incoming text message Are stored. In addition, information (phone number, name, etc.) of a phone book registered by a user of the portable terminal may be stored. In addition, image data received from the base station or photographed from the camera 50 may be stored. Here, the message will be used as a term that includes all such data.

The memory 29 storing the above messages cannot store all the information due to the capacity limitation. Therefore, the user can select and delete the messages stored in the memory 29 at an appropriate time. At this time, in the embodiment of the present invention, first select the type of the message to be deleted, then display a check box on the selected message, mark the messages to be deleted by using the position movement key, and select all the messages to be deleted. If so, a delete command is issued to collectively delete the selected messages.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a message deletion procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention. 3A to 3C illustrate an operation of the display unit 80 during the message deletion procedure. In the embodiment of the present invention, it is assumed that the message is a text message.

Referring to FIG. 2, when the user of the portable terminal presses the menu key on the keypad 27, the controller 10 senses this and displays the menu by controlling the display unit 80 in step 211. When the user selects the message management selection through the keypad while the menu is displayed, the controller 10 detects this in step 213 and controls the display unit 80 to display the types of messages. When the user of the portable terminal selects a text message while the types of the messages are displayed, the controller 10 controls the display unit 80 to display text messages stored in the memory 29 as shown in FIG. 3A.

In the state shown in FIG. 3, reference numeral 311 denotes a menu key for which the type of deletion is desired. Therefore, when the user selects the menu key 311, the controller 10 recognizes this as a delete key in step 219 and controls the display unit 80 in step 221 to display a menu indicating a deletion type as shown in FIG. 3B. At this time, the deletion type may be deletion, deletion of all, selection deletion, and the like. If the user selects selection deletion in the state shown in FIG. 3B, the control unit 10 detects this in step 223, and check box as shown in FIG. 3C in front of the text message displayed in FIG. 3A in step 225. ) Is displayed.

After the user performs steps 227-229 and steps 231-233, the user places the cursor on the message to be deleted and selects the selected message at the location of the selected message. Then, the user places the marking on the check box of the selected message as shown in FIG. 3C. do. In this case, the messages marked on the check box become a message that can be deleted collectively. The location selection key may be an up / down key of a navigation key, and the selection key may be a * or # key. It is also possible to cancel deletion of the selected messages as described above. This removes the marking shown in the checkbox and restores the original state by pressing the selection key twice. That is, in steps 235 to 237, when the selection key is input again after the cursor is placed on the message marked on the check box, the controller 10 detects this as cancellation and deletes the marking displayed on the check box of the corresponding message. Cancel.

While performing the steps 227 to 237 while marking the check boxes of the messages to be deleted among the text messages and selecting the deleted messages, when the user inputs a confirmation key, the controller 10 determines that the delete key is entered in step 239. In operation 241, the marked messages are collectively deleted from the memory 29. After performing the selective deletion function, the control unit 10 returns to step 217 and displays the text messages excluding the deleted text messages as shown in FIG. 3A.

In addition, when all deletions are selected while the deletion type menu is displayed as shown in FIG. 3B, the controller 10 detects this in step 251, deletes all text messages stored in the memory 29 in step 253, and when deletion is selected. The controller 10 detects this in step 255, deletes the text message in which the current cursor is located in step 255, and returns to step 217.

The message deletion method as described above has been described taking a text message as an example. However, if a message other than a text message is selected in step 213, the controller 10 detects it and proceeds to step 200 and selects, deletes, or deletes all the selected types of messages by the same procedure. The message type may include phone book information, an outgoing call number, an incoming call number, incoming and photographed video screen information (including still images) as described above.

As described above, when deleting a message stored in a memory, the portable terminal first selects messages to be deleted from the stored messages, and when the selection operation is terminated, a delete command is issued to collectively delete the selected messages. Therefore, the efficiency of message deletion can be improved.

Claims (6)

In the message deletion method of the portable terminal, After selecting the message type to delete, displaying the selected type of message, Displaying a check box on each of the displayed messages when selecting and deleting selection; Selecting messages to be deleted and determining the messages to be deleted by marking the checkboxes of the selected messages; When the delete command is generated, the check box comprises the step of collectively deleting the marked messages. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of the messages to delete comprises: And positioning a cursor on the displayed messages according to a position movement key input, and marking a message check box at the cursor position when a selection key is input. The method as claimed in claim 2, further comprising deleting a marking of a check box of a message in which the cursor is positioned when a cancel key is input. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the message is a text message. 3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the message is still picture data. In the message deletion method of the portable terminal, After selecting the message type to delete, displaying the selected type of message, Displaying a menu of deleting, deleting all, and deleting selected when selecting a deletion mode while displaying the message; When selecting and deleting in the deletion menu, a check box is displayed on each of the displayed messages, the messages to be deleted are selected, the check boxes of the selected messages are marked, and the messages to be deleted are determined. Deleting the messages marked with a check box at once, Deleting all of the displayed messages when selecting delete all in the delete menu; And deleting the messages in which the cursor is located when selecting delete from the delete menu.

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