KR20040089329A - Short message management method for mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for managing a short message of a mobile phone is provided to set the term of validity for a received short message in order to not only delete a short message automatically in moderation according as the term of validity is expired, but also extend the term of the validity if necessary. CONSTITUTION: When a user selects a 'message reception' item(SA1), a deletion list count value is initialized as '0'(SA2). It is checked whether there is a received message(SA3). If there is a received message, the received message is read from an NV(Nonvolatile)-RAM(SA4). It is checked whether the user has checked the read message(SA5). It is checked whether the received message is a message for keeping permanently(SA6). If the received message is not a message for keeping permanently, remaining dates for a term of validity is calculated(SA7). The calculated remaining dates for the term of validity is not greater than '0'(SA8), a data position of the short message is stored and the deletion list count value is increased by 1(SA9).

Description

How to manage short messages on your mobile phone {SHORT MESSAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR MOBILE PHONE}

The present invention relates to a technology for managing a short message received by a mobile phone, and in particular, sets a validity period for each received short message so that the short message is automatically deleted when the validity period expires. A short message management method.

In recent years, the penetration rate of mobile phones has been increasing rapidly and is becoming a necessity for modern people. In addition to normal voice communication, various information communication services are provided in mobile phones. In particular, recently, a short message service (SMS) has been widely used.

In general, the capacity of a buffer for storing short messages received by a mobile phone is set to a constant value. Therefore, when many short messages received in a mobile phone are not deleted without being deleted, new short messages may not be received due to lack of storage space.

Nevertheless, in the conventional mobile phone, there is a problem in that a new short message cannot be received because a function for appropriately deleting the short message received and stored is not provided.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to set a validity period for each received short message so that the short message is automatically deleted when the validity period expires, and manage the short message of the mobile phone to extend the validity period as necessary. In providing a method.

Figure 1 (a)-(e) is an exemplary view showing a confirmation process of the received message according to the present invention.

Figure 2 (a)-(c) is an exemplary view showing a menu related to SMS settings according to the present invention.

3A-3L are diagrams illustrating an operation after setting an alarm according to the present invention.

Figure 4 (a)-(f) is another exemplary diagram after the alarm setting according to the present invention.

5 (a)-(c) are diagrams illustrating an operation when the deletion scheduled alarm according to the present invention is turned off.

6 is an SMS data management format diagram in a user interface task in accordance with the present invention.

7 is a data format diagram of a short message according to the present invention;

8A is a signal flow diagram of a processing procedure for creating a message list for which an expiration date has passed, in the present invention;

8B is a signal flowchart of a process of deleting a message whose validity period has expired in the present invention.

8C is a signal flowchart of a process of extending the validity period of a short message received in the present invention.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of managing a short message of a mobile phone, the method comprising: a first step of displaying a list of received short messages and setting a retention validity period of each short message according to a user's request; A second step of setting an alarm function for notifying that a deletion period is imminent for each short message received when a user request is made; A third step of displaying a list of short messages whose expiration validity period has expired, and extending or validating the validity period in accordance with a user's request; In a received message viewing mode, when displaying a list of each received short message, notifying that a list to be deleted exists and if there is no deletion request, displaying the list together with the list of valid periods remaining; When the alarm function is not set for each received short message, a fifth process of deleting the message and displaying the result on the screen is provided. A detailed description with reference to FIGS. 1 to 8 is as follows.

First, the process of setting the validity period of the received short message will be described with reference to FIG. 1.

When the user inputs a specific key signal, a list of the received short messages is displayed on the screen as shown in FIG. 1 (a), and when the user selects an arbitrary short message using the selection button, the content of the short message is displayed. Display as shown in (b).

In this state, when the user selects the OK button, a message storage menu is displayed with items of "immediate deletion", "specified retention period" and "permanent retention" as shown in (c), and the "specify retention period" item is displayed. If selected, a retention period designation menu for selecting an expiration date is displayed as shown in (d).

Here, when the user selects each short message, sets a desired validity period (day) at that time, and selects the save button, the user displays the validity period of each short message set as described above (e). For example, in FIG. 1 (e), [02] means validity period is 2 days, [...] means permanent retention message, and [??] has not yet been confirmed. It means that the message is not.

Meanwhile, a process for setting a deletion scheduled alarm for the received short message will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

When the user selects the "Short message management" item on the menu screen as shown in (a) of FIG. 2, the "Alarm scheduled to be deleted" item is displayed as shown in (b), and when the user selects the item, (c) and The items "Alarm on" and "Alarm off" are displayed as well. If the user wants to select a function for notifying that the deletion period is imminent, the "alarm on" item is selected.

Meanwhile, a first processing example of the short message in which the deletion scheduled alarm is set will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

When the user selects the "Message Receive" item on the menu screen as shown in FIG. 3A, a message including "Text Message (1/16)", "Voice Message", "Delete Inbox", and "Receive Notification" items as shown in FIG. 3B. Display the Receive Menu.

At this time, if the user selects the “text message (1/16)” item, the alarm is output over a predetermined time (for example, 2 seconds), and as shown in FIG. ), And then the items "View Received Message (1/16)" and "View Deletion Message" are displayed as shown in FIG. 3D.

When the user selects the “view deleted message” item, as shown in FIG. 3E, a message (eg, message 3, message 8, message 11, and message 12) having a remaining retention period of 0 or less is displayed. At this time, when the user selects an arbitrary message (for example, message 3), as shown in FIG. 3F, information such as message content and reply telephone number time is displayed.

When the user selects the OK button on the menu screen of FIG. 3F, a deletion message management menu including items of a next message, extended retention period, and permanent retention is displayed as shown in FIG. 3G. At this time, when the user selects the extension of the retention period, a screen for setting the extension of the retention period is displayed as shown in FIG. 3H. The user selects the desired extension days by pressing a key and then presses the save button.

Accordingly, when the menu for viewing the message to be deleted is displayed later, as shown in FIG. 3I, the remaining message 8, message 11, and message 12 except for message 3 are displayed. 3D and 3J, the " deleted scheduled message view 4 " is changed to the deleted scheduled message view 3 and displayed on the deleted scheduled message view screen.

Then, when selecting the "view message to be deleted (3)" item 3k the user's intention to delete the list to be deleted as shown in 3k.

Thereafter, only messages that have a valid period of use are displayed, as shown in FIG. 3L, on the deletion scheduled message view screen, and it can be seen that the message includes a message having a three-day extension period.

Meanwhile, a second processing example of the short message in which the deletion scheduled alarm is set will be described with reference to FIG. 4.

When the user selects the "Message Receive" item on the menu screen as shown in (a) of FIG. 4, the "Text Message (1/16)", "Voice Message", "Delete Inbox", and "Receive Notification" as shown in (b). Displays a message receiving menu containing an item.

In this case, when the user selects the item "text message (1/16)", as shown in (c), the number of deletion messages (eg, four) is displayed. In this case, if the list of received messages is not immediately checked as shown in FIG. 3D, and the received message view (1/16) item is selected, the message “Do you want to delete four deleted lists?” Is displayed as shown in (d). Get confirmation from the user. In this case, when the user selects the "no" button, the message lists whose expiration date has elapsed are also displayed on the screen as shown in (f).

On the other hand, the processing of the short message set when the deletion schedule setting is off will be described with reference to FIG.

When the user selects the "Message Receive" item on the menu screen as shown in (a) of FIG. 5, the "Text Message (1/12)", "Voice Message", "Delete Inbox", and "Receive Notification" as shown in (b). Displays a message receiving menu containing an item.

In (b), it can be seen that the result of deleting the four messages to be deleted among the original 16 text messages (14) is displayed. Here, when the user selects the item " text message (1/12) ", as shown in (c), a message list in which the retention period is valid is displayed.

On the other hand, the process of creating the message list has passed the validity period will be described with reference to Figure 8a as follows.

When the user selects the "receive a message" item, the deletion list count value is initialized to 0, and if it is determined that there are more received messages, the message is read from the non-volatile RAM (NV-RAM). SA4)

If the read message is a message that the user has confirmed the contents and is not a message that is stored permanently, and the conditions are established, the remaining days of validity period are calculated as follows. (SA5-SA7)

Validity days remaining = current time of the system in seconds-{time of confirmation of contents (seconds) + validity (day) * 86400}

If the number of days remaining validity period is greater than 0 and it is found to be greater than zero, the process returns to the third step (SA3). If it is found to be small, the data position of the short message is stored in the "expected deletion list" and the deletion risk count value Increase one (SA8, SA9)

Meanwhile, a process of deleting the message after the validity period has been described will be described with reference to FIG. 8B.

Check that the alarm function is set for the received message and that the text message item is selected by the user in the menu selection mode (SB1-SB3).

If all of the above conditions are met, if the deletion list count value is greater than zero, and if it is determined to be large, the deletion message count value is displayed, and a user selects an item among "view message" and "view message to be deleted" by the user. (SB4-SB6).

If the "view received message" item is selected, a deletion confirmation message is displayed on the screen. If the user allows deletion, the deletion processing messages whose expiration date has expired are deleted and then the received short message list is displayed on the screen. (SB8-SB10)

However, if it is determined in the first step SB1 that the alarm function is not set for the received message, the deletion scheduled messages whose expiration date has expired are deleted and the count value of the received message is displayed on the screen. (SB11, SB12)

Thereafter, after checking whether the text message item is selected by the user in the menu selection mode, the process proceeds to step 10 (SB10). (SB13, SB14)

Meanwhile, a process of extending the validity period of the received short message will be described with reference to FIG. 8C.

In the sixth step SB6 of FIG. 8B, when the user selects the “view deletion message” item, the deletion expiration messages whose expiration date has expired are displayed on the screen, and the user selects a desired message item or checks the contents. (SC1, SC2)

Subsequently, after checking the menu item selected by the user, if the "next message" item is selected, the process returns to the second step SC2, and if the "extend retention period" item is selected, the validity period is extended according to the user's request. After that, record the attributes of the retention period [1 ... 99 days] or permanent retention period (-1) or unspecified (0) that the user selected. (SC3-SC9)

After that, the short message data is updated, the corresponding item is removed from the list to be deleted, and the deleted list count value is subtracted by one. If it is determined that the 1 subtracted delete list count value is greater than 0 and is found to be large, it is returned to the first step SC1, and if it is found to be small, it is returned to the tenth step of FIG. 8B. (SC10-SC13)

6 shows an SMS data management structure in a UI task according to the present invention. In addition, FIG. 7 shows the data format of the short message according to the present invention. As shown in FIG.

As described in detail above, the present invention sets a validity period of the received short message so that the short message is automatically deleted when the validity period expires, or the validity period can be extended as necessary, thereby providing a new short message. There is no case that the message is not received, and the short message is more efficiently managed.

Claims (8)

Displaying a list of received short messages, and setting a retention validity period of each short message according to a user's request; A second step of setting an alarm function for notifying that a deletion period is imminent for each received short message; And a third step of displaying a list of short messages whose storage validity period has expired, and extending or deleting the validity periods according to a user's request. The method of claim 1, further comprising: informing the user that a list to be deleted exists when displaying a list of each short message received and displaying the list together with a list of validity periods if there is no deletion request. Short message management method of a mobile phone, characterized in that made. According to claim 1, If the alarm function for each received short message is not set, the short message management of the mobile phone, characterized in that further comprising the step of deleting the message and displaying the result on the screen Way. The method of claim 1, wherein when the user inputs a specific key signal, when the user displays a list of received short messages, the first process indicates a validity period, indicates that the message is a permanent retention message, or indicates that the message has not been confirmed. Short message management method of a mobile phone, characterized in that comprising the step of displaying. The method of claim 1, wherein the first process comprises displaying a retention period designation menu for selecting a retention validity period when the user selects an item of "specify retention period". . The method of claim 1, wherein the second step is to display a "scheduled alarm setting" item when the user selects a "short message management" item on the menu screen, and "alarm on" and "alarm" when the user selects the item. Displaying a "off" item. The method of claim 1, further comprising: outputting an alarm and displaying a deletion scheduled message when the user selects the “text message” item on the menu screen; Displaying a list of messages whose retention validity period has expired when the user selects the message item to be deleted; And displaying information such as message contents, reply phone number time, and the like, when a message is selected from the message list whose expiration validity period has expired. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of: when the user selects an extension of the retention period on the menu screen, displays a screen for setting the extension of the retention period, and sets and stores the extension days according to the user's key operation; ; And changing and displaying the corresponding display information in accordance with the extension of the retention period.