KR20050009918A - Transmission Method by Memorizing Text Message Temporarily - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for intermediately storing and transmitting a short message is provided to prevent a message to be transmitted from being lost, due to power off, etc., by temporarily storing an inputted short message in the middle of inputting. CONSTITUTION: A user enters a message transmission mode(310), and sets a message interim storage mode. If the message interim storage mode is set, a control part orders the user to input an interim storage period(312). The user inputs a desired interim storage period according to the order(314). If the user starts to input a short message(316), the control part judges whether it reaches the inputted interim storage period(318). If the inputted interim storage period comes, the control part temporarily stores the short message, inputted until the interim storage period, in the first memory part(320). Then the control part judges whether the input of the short message has been completed(S324).

Description

Transmission Method by Memorizing Text Message Temporarily}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a telephone. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for intermediately storing and transmitting a text message, by temporarily storing a message being input in the middle, thereby preventing a loss due to a power off of the telephone during input of a transmission message.

Generally, telephones are classified into landline telephones using a public switched telephone network (PSTN) as a communication terminal and mobile telephones using a wireless data network. It has evolved to be able to transmit and receive text data.

Representative among the text data that can be transmitted and received by the phone, Short Message Service (hereinafter, abbreviated as 'SMS'), LMS (Long Message Service, Long Message Service) in MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service, Multimedia Messaging Service) ).

The present invention relates to the transmission and reception of text messages, regardless of SMS, MMS, LMS, for the convenience of description will be described taking an example of SMS data transmission and reception.

The present invention relates to a telephone capable of transmitting and receiving text messages regardless of a mobile telephone or a landline telephone.

1 is a schematic block diagram of a network for general SMS transmission and reception.

As shown in Fig. 1, an exchange station 120 performing a switching function is located as one component of a mobile communication network. The switching center 120 is networked with the mobile telephones 100 and 180 by wireless data networks 110 and 160.

The exchange server 120 is connected to the SMS server 140. The SMS server 140 recognizes and stores the SMS data received from the mobile phone 100, which is the calling party terminal, and transmits the SMS data to the mobile phone 180, which is the called party terminal.

The receiver side terminal 180 is connected to the switching center 120 by the wireless data network 160. The receiver terminal 180 is a mobile telephone, as shown in FIG.

On the other hand, the calling terminal 100 and the receiving terminal 180 is a mobile phone, but may be configured as a wired telephone, in this case, the wireless data network (110, 160) is composed of a public telephone network Will be.

In addition, when the calling terminal 100 is a mobile phone and the receiving terminal 180 is a wired phone or vice versa, a gateway device that is a protocol conversion device because the communication protocols of the wireless data network and the public telephone network are different. Not shown).

However, when transmitting a text message by the network configuration as described above, the following problems are raised.

That is, in the process of inputting a text message, when the battery of the mobile phone is discharged and the power is turned off, or when the battery pack is detached from the mobile phone and the power is turned off, all the text messages that are being written are lost and the user texts again from the beginning. There was a problem with rewriting the message.

The present invention was created to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, and an object of the method for storing and transmitting a text message according to the present invention is to temporarily store a text message input during a text message input process. The present invention provides a method for storing and storing an intermediate text message to prevent transmission messages from being lost due to power off.

1 is a schematic block diagram of a network for general SMS data transmission and reception.

2 is a schematic block diagram of a mobile telephone for intermediate message storage transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a message intermediate storage transmission process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

100, 180; Mobile terminal 120; Exchange

140; Message center 110, 160; Wireless data network

210; Control unit 212; First memory section

214; Key button portion 216; Display part

213; Second memory section

In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, a text message intermediate storage transmission method includes: a first step of setting an intermediate message storage mode after entering a message transmission mode; and a second storage of an input message in a first memory; And a third step of transmitting a message when the message input is completed.

According to the above configuration, there is an advantage in that the text message being input can be prevented from being lost due to power off.

In the method for intermediate storage of text messages according to the present invention, in the second step, the intermediate storage is performed every predetermined period.

According to the above configuration, since the text message being input is periodically stored in the middle, there is an advantage of preventing the loss of the message being input more efficiently.

According to the present invention, the method for storing intermediate text messages is characterized in that the predetermined period is set by the user through an input through a user interface.

According to the configuration as described above, since the text message being input by the user (that is, the user) desired by the period of time is stored in the middle, there is an advantage that can prevent the loss of the text message being input in the optimal user environment.

According to the present invention, a method of intermediate storage and transmission of a text message may include: determining whether an input message is canceled after performing the second step; and when the input message is canceled as a result of the determination, the message stored in the first memory Deletion is further characterized in that it is configured to include.

According to the above configuration, when the user does not want to send a message, there is an advantage that the temporary interim stored text message is automatically deleted.

In the intermediate message storage transmission method according to the present invention, after performing the second step, when the message input is completed, storing the message to be transmitted in the second memory, and further comprising the step of deleting the intermediate message stored in the first memory It is characterized by including the configuration.

According to the above configuration, when the text message input is completed, there is an advantage that only the message to be transmitted is input and the stored data is deleted during the message input process.

In addition, the present invention provides a first function for setting an intermediate message storage mode, a second function for intermediately storing an input message in the first memory at predetermined intervals, and a message to be transmitted when the message input is completed. A computer readable recording medium for realizing a third function of storing and a fourth function of deleting a message intermediately stored in the first memory when the message to be transmitted is stored in the second memory.

The following will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, a preferred embodiment of the present invention intermediate text message storage transmission method.

2 is a schematic block diagram of a mobile terminal for intermediate message storage transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2, there is a fear that the gist of the present invention may be obscured with respect to the configuration of a telephone which is not related to the technical gist of the present invention, for example, an RF transmitter / receiver, a modulation / demodulation unit, a switch unit, a data processing unit, and a signal discrimination unit. Since it is known before application of the invention, description thereof is omitted.

As shown in FIG. 2, the phone 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention is provided with a controller 210.

The controller 210 determines whether the message transmission mode is the 'message intermediate storage mode', determines a predetermined period for intermediate message storage, and stores the input message every predetermined period 212. ).

In addition, the controller 210 controls a peripheral device connected to the controller 210, for example, the first memory unit 212, the second memory unit 213, and the like. The controller 110 is implemented by a mobile station modem (MSM).

The message intermediate storage mode (hereinafter also referred to as intermediate storage mode) means a transmission mode for transmitting a message according to the present invention.

The first memory unit 212 is connected to the controller 210. The first memory unit 212 temporarily stores text data input in a message input process at predetermined intervals under the control of the controller 110.

The second memory unit 213 is also connected to the controller 210. The second memory unit 213 stores a predetermined time which is a period of intermediate message storage. The predetermined time may be set and stored in advance in the phone, or may be input and stored by the key button unit 214 which the user follows.

The first memory unit 212 and the second memory unit 213 may be implemented by a flash memory.

The key button unit 214 is connected to the controller 210. Through the key button unit 214, a user inputs a predetermined time which is a period of intermediate storage of a message, and inputs message contents to be transmitted. The key button unit 214 is provided with a function key (not shown) for setting a "message transmission mode" and a function key (not shown) for a "message intermediate storage mode."

The display unit 216 is connected to the controller 210. The display unit 216 displays a character input by the key button unit 214.

Next, the present invention is a text message intermediate storage transmission process having the configuration described above.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a message intermediate storage transmission process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The user enters the message transmission mode through the key button unit 216 (step 310), and sets the message intermediate storage mode.

The controller 210 determines that the message intermediate storage mode is set, and displays a command for inputting an intermediate storage period to the user through the display unit 216.

Then, the user inputs an intermediate storage period, for example, 10 seconds through the key button unit 214 (steps 312 and 314).

As a result of the determination in step 312, if the intermediate message storage mode is not set, the message is transmitted in the normal text message transmission mode (operation 350).

In step 314, an intermediate period for intermediate message storage is arbitrarily set by the user. However, it is a matter of course that the user is not defined by the user and may be configured to be stored in the second memory.

After performing step 314, the user inputs a text message to be transmitted through the key button unit 214 (step 316).

Recognizing the input of the text message, the controller 210 determines whether the predetermined cycle time set by the user has been reached after inputting the text message (step 318), and when the predetermined cycle time set by the user is reached, the predetermined time is reached. The text message input until is stored in the first memory unit 212 in the middle (step 320).

On the other hand, when the user does not want to send a message in the process of inputting a message, for example, by pressing a call end button (not shown) to release (or cancel) the message transmission mode (step 322), the first memory unit Message contents intermediately stored in 212 are all deleted under the control of the controller 212 (340).

The reason for deleting the intermediate stored message in step 340 is that it is not necessary to intermediately store the message when the user intentionally cancels the message transmission mode because he does not want to transmit the message.

In addition, the controller 210 determines whether the message input is completed (operation 324), and if the input of the message is completed, the controller 210 displays whether the input message is to be stored to the user through the display unit 216 (operation 326). step).

After the operation 326 is performed, if the user wants to store a message to be transmitted, the controller 210 stores the message to be transmitted to the second memory unit 213 (step 28) and then intermediates the first memory unit 212. The stored message is deleted (step 329).

After performing step 326, if the user does not want to store the message to be transmitted, the controller 210 immediately deletes an intermediate message stored in the first memory unit 212 (step 329).

After performing step 329, the control unit 210 transmits a text message according to a user's transmission command (step 330).

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 present invention has a configuration and operation process as described above, the intermediate storage and transmission method of the text message, by temporarily storing the text message input in the middle of the text message input process, the transmission message is lost in the message input process for reasons such as power off There is an effect that can be prevented.

Claims (6)

A first step of setting an intermediate message storage mode after entering a message transmission mode; A second step of intermediately storing an input message in a first memory; And when the input of the message is completed, transmitting the message. The method of claim 1, wherein the second step, And the intermediate storage is performed every predetermined period. The method of claim 2, And the predetermined period is set by a user through an input through a user interface. The method of claim 1, wherein after performing the second step, Determining whether the message transmission mode is canceled; And if the message transmission mode is canceled as a result of the determination, further comprising deleting the message stored in the first memory. The method of claim 1, wherein after performing the second step, Storing a message to be transmitted in a second memory when the message input is completed; And storing the intermediate message stored in the first memory. A first function of setting an intermediate message storage mode; A second function of intermediately storing an input message in a first memory at predetermined intervals; A third function of storing a message to be transmitted in a second memory when the message input is completed; A computer-readable recording medium for realizing a fourth function of deleting a message intermediately stored in a first memory when a message to be transmitted is stored in a second memory.