KR100676415B1 - Searching Method of Short Message Service for Mobile Terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a text message retrieval method of a mobile communication terminal capable of searching a text message quickly and simply.

The present invention provides a method of entering a text message search mode by a key input in a text message mode, displaying a plurality of text message search means lists, selecting one text message search means from the displayed list, and Inputting a predetermined search word corresponding to the selected message searching means, searching for the inputted predetermined search word by a predetermined field unit corresponding to the predetermined search word in a stored text message, and inputting the predetermined search word by the search When the search word is in the stored text message, an index of the text message including the predetermined search word is stored as a list, and an 'indicator' is displayed on the display unit corresponding to the index list of the stored text message. In the step, the displayed indicator is selected, the character containing the predetermined search word And the step of displaying the contents of the message on the display unit. According to the configuration as described above, there is an advantage that the text message search in the mobile communication terminal can be quickly and simply.

Mobile terminal, text message, SMS, search, field

Description

Searching method of short message service for mobile terminal}

1 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a text message searching method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a menu diagram illustrating a text message menu and a message search menu of FIG. 2.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a case of searching for a message by the telephone number of FIG. 2.

5 is a diagram illustrating a menu displayed on a display unit according to the method of FIG. 4.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a case of searching for a message by the main content of FIG. 2.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a menu displayed on a display unit according to the method of FIG. 6.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a case of searching for a message by date / period in FIG. 2.

9 is a diagram illustrating a menu displayed on a display unit according to the method of FIG. 8.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a case of message searching by full search in FIG. 2.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a menu displayed on a display unit according to the method of FIG. 8.

       Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

100; MSM 110; Key input

120; Display section 130; Memory

140; RF processing unit

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to a text message retrieval method of a mobile communication terminal suitable for quickly and simply retrieving an outgoing / receiving text message stored in a mobile communication terminal by a predetermined search type input. .

Current mobile communication terminals perform data transmission services such as short message service (SMS) in addition to voice communication.

In addition, according to the improvement of the performance and memory of the mobile communication terminal, only 10 text messages or less have been stored in the past, but recently, more than 100 text messages have been stored.

When such a large number of text messages have been stored, a technique for quickly searching stored text messages has emerged.

Hereinafter, a method of searching for a text message according to the prior art will be described.

According to the prior art, text messages are stored in the order in which they are received / sent, and the user selects a desired text message using up, down, left, and right keys on the mobile communication terminal, checks the contents, and checks the contents of the message to be found. If it is different, the content of the message is checked one by one by repeating the process of selecting and moving another message with the up, down, left, and right keys.

However, the conventional text message retrieval method of the mobile communication terminal has the following problems.

First, the text message retrieval method according to the prior art has been selected by checking the contents of the message one by one in the order in which the outgoing or received text messages are stored, and thus, all the contents of the stored text message had to be checked. There was this.

Second, there was a problem that it takes a lot of time to search for the message to find because it has to select and confirm the contents of the text message stored as described above one by one.

The present invention was created to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, and an object of the present invention is to quickly search for a text message by configuring a text message to be searched through a specific search expression. The present invention provides a text message retrieval method of a mobile communication terminal.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a text message retrieval method of a mobile communication terminal, which is suitable for quickly retrieving a text message by performing a search by dividing an outgoing message and a received message.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a text message retrieval method of a mobile communication terminal suitable for easily retrieving a text message by a structure capable of retrieving a text message stored by a simple input search word.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a text message retrieval method of a mobile communication terminal, which is suitable for quickly retrieving a message by a configuration of retrieving only a specific field of the message content, instead of retrieving the entire message content. have.

In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a text message search method of a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising: entering a text message search mode by a key input in a text message mode, and displaying a list of a plurality of text message search means. Selecting one text message search means from a displayed list, inputting a predetermined search word corresponding to the selected message search means, and inputting the predetermined search word corresponding to the predetermined search word in a stored text message. Searching in a field unit, and if the predetermined search word input by the search is in the stored text message, an index of the text message including the predetermined search word is stored as a list. 'Indicator' is displayed on the display part corresponding to index list of text message The step, characterized in that the content of the displayed indicator is so selected that contains the predetermined search text message comprising the steps displayed on the display unit.

The following will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings a preferred embodiment of a text message search method of the present invention mobile communication terminal.

First, the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention is a communication terminal capable of transmitting and receiving SMS including, for example, a cellular phone, a personal communication system (PCS) phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), and the like.

1 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the mobile communication terminal for text message searching according to the present invention includes a mobile station modem (MSM) 100, a key input unit 110, a display unit 120, a memory 130, It is configured to include an RF (Rdadio Frequency) processor 140.

The key input unit 110 is a user interface for inputting a predetermined command key. The key input unit 110 is a text message search command key input according to the present invention. Input a predetermined search word, key input for selecting a desired message, and the like.

The MSM 100 performs a predetermined control and operation based on the command of the key input unit 110.

The display unit 120 displays a message or a picture under the control of the MSM 100 and may be implemented by, for example, a liquid crystal device (LCD).

The memory 130 stores a predetermined program, stores data such as a text message, and the RF processor 140 refers to a comprehensive configuration of a high frequency processor, an intermediate frequency processor, and a baseband processor, and is divided into a transmitter and a receiver.

Next, a text message searching method in a mobile communication terminal having the above configuration will be described in detail.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a text message retrieval method according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a menu configuration diagram of the text message menu and the message retrieval menu of FIG. 2.

First, when the text message menu is input through the text message menu input key of the key input unit 110 (S210), the text message menu list as shown in FIG. 3A is displayed on the display unit 120 (S212). ).

If the message search menu is selected from the text message menu list, the message search menu list as shown in FIG. 3B is displayed on the display unit 120 (S216).

That is, the display unit 120 includes four 'message searching means' (hereinafter, simply referred to as 'search means') according to one embodiment of the present invention, that is, 1. searching by phone number, 2. searching by body content, 3. Search by date / period, 4. Full search is displayed, and the user selects the desired message search means from the displayed list (i.e., message search means list) and selects the desired text message by each search method. Search.

First, the search method in the case where the search means is "search by telephone number" will be described.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a case of searching for a message by the phone number of FIG. 2, and FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a menu configuration of the display unit according to the method of FIG. 4.

If (b) selects 'search by phone number' from the message search list of FIG. 3, as shown in FIG. 5 (a), an outgoing message search and a received message search menu are displayed (S402). The outgoing message search is a menu for searching only the outgoing message area stored in the memory 130, and the incoming message search is a menu for searching only the stored outgoing message area, which is the same concept throughout the present specification.

When the outgoing message search menu is selected by the key input unit 110, a 'phone number input window' 510 as shown in FIGS. 5B and 5C is displayed (S410). The phone number input window 510 is a window in which a phone number or name can be input. In the 'phone number input window', the user can search for a message by inputting a phone number or a name corresponding to the message to be searched.

In the phone number input window 510 displayed in step S410, the 'recipient's phone number' (for example, 0101234567) or 'name' of the outgoing message to be searched is input through the key input unit 110, and a search command key is input. (S411).

When the step S411 is performed, the MSM 100 determines whether the input search word is a 'phone number' or a 'name' (S412). In the case of the phone number, the MSM 100 receives the input search word from the stored outgoing message based on the input key. Search for the telephone number (0101234567 in the example above).

The text message consists of fields such as body, date / time of receiving / receiving, caller / recipient's telephone number, and header (emergency / express / duplicate, etc.). Instead of searching the entire contents of the outgoing message, only the corresponding field, that is, the phone number field of each outgoing message, is searched (S420).

In addition, since only the phone number field is searched without searching the entire contents of the outgoing message, the search speed is very fast and as a result, the search time is very short.

On the other hand, if a name other than a phone number is input in step S411, a process of extracting a phone number corresponding to the input name is performed to extract a phone number and then performs step S420.

That is, when the 'name' is input in step S411, the MSM (100) recognizing this is searched whether there is a phone number corresponding to the 'name' input from the entire 'phone book' storage unit of the memory 130 ( S414).

If there is no matching phone number in step S414, an indication that the corresponding name is not in the phone book is displayed through the display unit 120 (S415). If there is a matching name, the phone corresponding to the matching name is displayed. Extract the number (S416).

If the extracted phone number is one, the process proceeds to step S420, and if the extracted phone number is two or more (S417), the extracted phone numbers are displayed on the display unit 120 as a list as shown in FIG. (S418).

5 (d) shows three telephone numbers matching the input name, and when one or more telephone numbers to be searched are selected (checked in a check box) (S419), the selected telephone number is sent out. Search in the phone number field.

In step S419, when a plurality of telephone numbers, for example, two telephone numbers are selected as shown in (d) of FIG. 5, the MSM 100 sequentially searches the input telephone numbers in the telephone number field of the outgoing message. That is, the MSM 100 first searches whether there is '0101234567' in the phone number field of the outgoing message, and sequentially searches whether '0107114567' is in the phone number field of the outgoing outgoing message.

On the other hand, when selecting the received message search (S404, S406), as in the case of selecting the outgoing message, the 'phone number input window' 510 is displayed (S430), the reception to find in the phone number input window 510 Enter the 'caller's phone number' or 'name' of the message, and enter the search command key (S431).

When the step S431 is performed, the MSM 100 determines whether the input search word is a 'phone number' or a 'name' (S432). Search whether there is a phone number (S440).

On the other hand, if the name is entered in step S431 rather than the phone number, and performs the process of extracting the phone number corresponding to the input name as in the case of the outgoing message search.

That is, if the 'name' is entered in step S431, the phone book search for whether there is a phone number matching the 'name' entered in the storage (S434), if there is no corresponding phone number, the matching name is An indication that there is no phone book is displayed through the display unit 120 (S435), and if there is a matching name, a phone number corresponding to the matching name is extracted (S436).

If the extracted phone number is one, the process proceeds to step S440. If the extracted phone number is 2 or more (S437), the extracted phone numbers are displayed as a list, and one or more phone numbers to be searched are selected from the displayed phone numbers. If (S439), for each of the selected phone number sequentially search in the caller phone number field of the received message (S440).

If there is no phone number equal to the phone number entered by searching the phone number fields in the outgoing message and the received message, the display unit 120 indicates that there is no message including the entered phone number (S452). If there is a phone number, the index and the phone number of the message in which the searched phone number exists are stored as a list (S444), and the stored 'phone number' (0101234567 in the above example) is illustrated in FIG. As shown in the list on the display unit 120 (S446).

In the case of (e) of FIG. 5, it indicates that there are four messages in which the telephone number '0101234567', which is an input search word, exists. In this case, the 'indicator' displayed on the display unit 120 is, for example, 0101234567 Becomes a 'phone number'.

When a phone number, which is an indicator, is sequentially selected from the 'searched phone number' list displayed as described above (S448), the entire contents of the stored message are displayed on the display unit 120 based on the index of the stored message corresponding thereto (S450).

On the other hand, if the phone number selected in step S419 and step S439 are two of '0101234567' and '1017114569' as shown in (d) of FIG. 5, the telephone number list displayed in step S446 is the selected two telephones. Of course, the numbers '0101234567' and '1017114569' are sequentially displayed as a list of messages.

Next, a description will be given of a search method in the case where the search means is “search by text content”.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a message search based on the contents of FIG. 2, and FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a menu of the display unit according to the method of FIG. 6.

If (b) selects 'search by body content' in the message search list of FIG. 3 (b), as shown in FIG. 7 (a), an outgoing message search and a received message search menu are displayed (S602).

When the outgoing message search menu is selected, a search text input window 710 as shown in (b) of FIG. 7 is displayed (S612), and a specific character (eg, 'fine') of the outgoing message body to be searched is input. In operation S614, a search command key is input in operation S616.

The specific character which is the input search word includes all Korean characters, English characters, and special characters, and a character mode conversion key (not shown) is used to change the input characters (eg, Korean characters or English characters).

When the step S616 is performed, the MSM 100 searches for a specific character which is an input search word (in the case of the above example) in the body of the stored outgoing message based on the input key. Only the field area is searched (S618), and as a result, the search time is very short as described above.

On the other hand, in the case of selecting the received message search (S620), as in the case of selecting the outgoing message, the telephone number input window 710 of the receiver is displayed (S622), enter a specific character (S624) and press the search command key If input (S626), the MSM 100 searches for a specific character in the body field of the stored received message (S628).

If there is no specific character equal to the specific character input by searching the body of the outgoing message and the received message, the display unit 120 indicates that there is no message including the input character (S642), and the same character is the message. If present in the body, for example, each 4 bytes of characters before and after the predetermined character including the index of the message in which the searched character exists and the input character ('jeongma' in the example above) ') Is stored as a list (S634).

Then, as described above, stored in each of the four bytes before and after the input character including the input character ('today's well-known notice' in the above example) is displayed on the display unit 120 as shown in FIG. Display as a list (S634).

In the case of FIG. 7C, it is indicated that there are two messages in which the text 'Jeong', which is an input search word, exists. In this case, the 'indicator' displayed on the display unit 120 is, for example, today. A string such as "announcement notice", "morning location tomorrow".

When the character string that is an indicator is sequentially selected from the list of the searched contents displayed as described above, the entire contents of the stored message are displayed on the display unit 120 based on the index of the stored message corresponding thereto (S638).

On the other hand, according to another embodiment in the case of a search method when the search means is "search by text content", it is possible to display on the display unit 120 as another indicator for the same input search word.

That is, when the input search word is 'jeongma' as in the above example, as an indicator, a string from the start character of the message body to a predetermined byte, for example, 12 bytes of characters, for example, 'Gangnam station today', 'where meeting place is river' Displayed on the display unit 120, this is illustrated in FIG. 7D.

Next, a description will be given of a search method when the search means is 'search by date / period'.

8 is a flowchart illustrating a case of searching for a message by the date / period in FIG. 2, and FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a menu of the display unit according to the method of FIG. 8.

If (b) selects 'search by date / period' from the message search list of FIG. 3 (b), as shown in (a) of FIG. 9, a search menu is displayed by date / period (S802).

If you select 'Search by Date' or 'Search by Date', the Incoming Message Search and Outgoing Message Search menus are shown in Figure 9 (b) The menu configuration in the case of selection is displayed on the display unit 120 as shown in (S812, S852).

When the outgoing or incoming message menu is selected in the 'search by date' menu (S814, S824), a date input window is displayed as shown in (c) of FIG. 9 (S816), and a desired date (for example, August 7). (S818, S828) and a search command key is input (S820, S830), the originating date or receiving date field of the outgoing message or the received message is searched (S822, S832).

As described above, since only the origination date or the reception date field of the origination message or the reception message is searched in steps S822 and S832, the search time is very short.

If there is no date equal to a specific date entered by searching the date field in the outgoing message or the received message, the display unit 120 indicates that there is no message including the input date (S836), and displays the same date. If there is a message including the message, the index and the input date (August 7 in the above example) of the message in which the searched date exists are stored as a list (S880), and the stored date (August 7 in the above example) is shown. As shown in 9 (e), the display unit 120 displays the list (S882).

In case (e) of FIG. 9, there are two messages in which the date of the input search word 'August 7' exists. In this case, the 'indicator' displayed on the display unit 120 is 8 It will be 7 days a month.

When the date list is selected in order from the list of searched dates displayed as described above (S884), the entire contents of the stored message are displayed on the display unit 120 based on the index of the stored message corresponding thereto (S886).

On the other hand, when the outgoing or incoming message menu is selected in the 'search by period' menu (S854, S864), the same process as the case of selecting the outgoing / incoming message menu in the 'search by date' menu is performed.

That is, when the step S854 or S864 is performed, a period input window is displayed as shown in FIG. 9D (S856 and S866), and the desired period and end of the period (for example, from August 7 to August 8). (S858, S868), and if a search command key is input (S860, S870), the originating date or the receiving date field of the outgoing message or the incoming message is searched (S862, S872). In this case, since only the transmission date or reception date field of the stored message is searched, the search time is very short, as described above.

If the date field in the outgoing message or the received message is searched and there is no date that is equal to the date of the inputted specific period, the display unit 120 indicates that there is no message including the date of the inputted period (S876). ), If there is a message that includes the same date as the date of the inputted period, the index of the message in which the date of the searched period exists and the date of the inputted period are stored as a list (S880), and the stored date is displayed on the display unit 120. In the display (S882), the following process is the same as in the process of 'search by date', detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Finally, a description will be given of a search method in the case where the search means is 'full search'.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating a message search in the entire search in FIG. 2, and FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a menu configuration of the display unit according to the method of FIG. 10.

If (b) selects 'All Search' in the message search list of FIG. 3 (b), as shown in FIG. 11 (a), an outgoing message search and a received message search menu are displayed (S1002).

When the outgoing message search menu or the received message search menu is selected, three search expression input windows as shown in (b) of FIG. 11, that is, a phone number input window 1110 and a body content input window 1120 and a date, respectively. The input window 1130 is displayed, and logical operator selection screens AND and OR are displayed (S1012 and S1022).

The phone number input window 1110 is a window for inputting a phone number of a message to be searched, a body content input window 1120 is a window for inputting body content of a message, and a date input window 1130 is used for a message. A window for inputting a reception / outgoing date (or a reception / outgoing date period), as described above.

The logical operator selection screens AND and OR are screens for selecting a key for performing an AND operation and an OR operation on the input search expression. When the AND operator selection screen (AND) is selected, the AND operation is performed on the entire search expression. When the OR operation selection screen (OR) is selected, the OR operation is performed on the entire search expression. Of course.

For example, in a phone number input window 1110, 0101234567 is entered in the body content input window 1120, and the user selects a logical product operator selection screen AND (S1014, S1016, S1024, S1026). The MSM 100 searches whether there is an input search expression in each corresponding field (in the above example, a telephone number field and a body) of the stored outgoing or received message based on the input key.

If there is no search expression input in the date input window 130 as described above, the date input window 130 in which the search expression is not input is ignored and the search is performed only for the remaining input windows 1110 and 1120. do.

If there is no message including a predetermined search expression entered by searching the corresponding fields in the outgoing message and the received message (S1030), the display unit 120 indicates that there is no corresponding message (S642), and includes the input search expression. If there is a message (S1030), the message including the input predetermined search expression is displayed as a list (S1032).

If the list displayed in step S1032 is selected (S1034), the contents of the selected message are displayed (S1036).

According to an embodiment of the present invention, four search means of 'search by phone number', 'search by body content', 'search by date / time period', and 'total search' are exemplified, but are not limited thereto. If a technology of displaying a search method, selecting the same, and then inputting a search word belongs to the technical scope of the present invention.

In addition, although an embodiment of the present invention exemplifies performing a predetermined search on a stored outgoing message and a received message basis, the present invention is not limited thereto, and a method of sequentially searching the entire outgoing message and the received message is also described. Of course it belongs.

The above embodiments of the present invention are merely one embodiment of the technical idea of the present invention, and of course, other modifications are possible within the technical idea of the present invention.

The text message retrieval method of the present invention having a configuration and an operation process has the following effects.

First, since a search is performed for a message of a predetermined category through a predetermined search word for an outgoing or received message, the search can be performed quickly.

Second, since the message can be searched by inputting a predetermined search word, the message can be searched simply and easily.

Third, since a message is searched by searching only a specific field in the entire message area, for example, a telephone number field, a body content field, and a date field, the search time is very shortened, thereby speeding up the search speed.

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delete Entering the 'text message search mode' by a key input in the text message mode; Displaying a list of a plurality of text message retrieving means; Selecting one text message retrieving means from the displayed list; Inputting a predetermined search word corresponding to the selected text message searching means; Selecting any one of a 'received message search' for searching only received messages stored and received or a 'sent message search' for searching only outgoing stored messages; Searching the inputted predetermined search word in a predetermined field unit corresponding to the predetermined search word in a stored text message; Storing, by the search, an index of the text message including the predetermined search word as a list when the input search word is in the stored text message; Displaying an 'indicator' on a display unit corresponding to the index list of the stored text message; And displaying the contents of the text message including the predetermined search word by selecting the displayed indicator. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the displayed indicator is selected. delete delete The method according to claim 2, 'Search by text content' means is selected from the text message search means list, 'predetermined text' is input as the predetermined search word, and 'characters of a predetermined capacity before and after the predetermined character including the predetermined character' are displayed on the display. Text message search method of a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that displayed as a letter. The method according to claim 5, The indicator is a text message retrieval method of a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that the character string from the start character of the text message body to the character of the predetermined byte containing the predetermined character. delete The method according to claim 2, In the text message search means list, a 'search by period' means is selected, 'a period of a day of sending or receiving a text message' is entered as the predetermined search word, and a 'a period of a day of sending or receiving a text message' is inputted. Text message searching method of the mobile communication terminal, characterized in that displayed by the indicator. delete

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