KR20050051087A - Method for sms transmission in mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of transmitting a short message in a mobile communication terminal, and when a short message is transmitted to a plurality of people at a time, the present invention relates to a method of inserting and transmitting information of a receiver into a short message for each recipient. According to the present invention, when a user composes a message including a receiver string and specifies a plurality of recipients and requests a short message, information corresponding to the receiver string is read from a record for a designated receiver in the phone book. The information corresponding to the receiver string is replaced with the read receiver information, and a short message is sent to the receiver telephone number. This process is repeated for all specified recipients. The present invention allows a user to input a recipient's name or information separately by transmitting a short message to a large number of people and simultaneously allowing the recipient's name or recipient's personal information to be automatically transmitted instead of the same message. In this case, the short message service can be conveniently used without having to send a short message individually.

Description

Message transmission method in mobile communication terminal {Method for SMS transmission in mobile phone}

The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a short message in a mobile communication terminal. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method of inserting a receiver's information into a short message for each recipient and transmitting the short message to a plurality of people at once.

The mobile communication terminal may perform various additional functions such as a short message function in addition to a simple phone call function. Here, the short message service refers to a two-way text service that can send and receive short messages regardless of whether a mobile communication terminal has a call. That is, the user of the mobile communication service sends a short sentence of about 100 bytes to the other mobile phone terminal, and the receiver (that is, the user of the other mobile communication terminal) can receive a message through a public telephone network, a data communication network, or the Internet. have.

The short message service function can be used to send a message regardless of the call status of the other party's terminal, and to send a message when the voice call is difficult in a situation where the recipient is in a difficult situation (for example, when a voice call is impossible in a conference room). In terms of transmission, the call cost is relatively low compared to voice calls. In addition, through a short message, you can use services such as news information, weather information, sports information, exchange rate information, traffic information, games, e-mail transmissions, bulletin boards, fan clubs, and the like.

 Because of these advantages, many users are using short message service instead of voice telephony. In particular, the use of short text messages is very high among teenagers, and a business strategy that targets text transmission between friends and lovers is unlimited and 400 free transmission services have been created.

However, there is a problem that it is cumbersome and time-consuming to send individual messages by sending a message such as event notifications to a large number of modern people. In order to secure this, a function of sending a short message to a plurality of people at the same time was added. However, when a user wanted to send a message by slightly changing the recipient's name or information, the user had to send a short message individually.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-described circumstances, and when providing a short message to a plurality of recipients, a method of inserting a recipient string into the message content so that the recipient's name or the recipient's information can be inserted for each message. .

That is, when a short message is transmitted to a plurality of users using a short message inserted in a receiver string, a message transmission method in a mobile communication terminal that can be transmitted is included in the receiver string.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention creates a message including a receiver string and specifies a plurality of recipients to request a short message transmission. The receiver reads the information corresponding to the string from the record for the specified receiver in the phone book. Replace the information of the recipient that read the information corresponding to the receiver string, and send a short message to the receiver's telephone number. This process is repeated for all specified recipients. In addition, after replacing the information of the recipient, it is desirable to display the contents on the screen.

The information corresponding to the receiver string is preferably a name, a telephone number, or an address, and the receiver string is preferably displayed in parentheses. In addition, if there is no receiver information corresponding to the receiver string, the user is notified through an alarm.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of a mobile communication terminal of the present invention.

The mobile communication terminal 100 includes a transmitter 110 including a modulator and a transmission amplifier, a receiving amplifier, and a demodulator to transmit and receive signals to and from a mobile communication system including a base station, a mobile switching center, and a short message center. It includes a receiver 120 that includes.

The display unit 150 may be formed of a liquid crystal display (LCD) or the like, and outputs various display data and text messages generated from the mobile communication terminal. The key input unit 140 may include a keypad or the like, and includes a plurality of numeric / character input keys, a function key for interfacing with a user, a key for a call, and the like.

The controller 130 includes a digital signal processor (DSP), a microprocessor, and other circuits. The controller 130 controls the transmitter 110 and the receiver 120 so that a user of the mobile communication terminal may use the speaker 170 and the microphone 180. Allows you to make voice calls with other users.

The storage unit 160 includes a read only memory (ROM) and a voice memory for storing a plurality of programs and data, and stores a receiver's telephone number and information.

2 is a block diagram showing a short message transmission process of the present invention.

3A is a screen example showing a phone book registration process;

3B illustrates an example of a process of creating a short message including a receiver string.

3C is a screen example showing a state where a receiver string is replaced with receiver information and displayed on the screen.

The user first enters the electronic notebook menu provided in the mobile terminal in order to register a group of recipients in the telephone directory. 'Register Phonebook' (Screen 300). 'One. When the user selects and inputs a phone book entry, a screen for designating and entering a recipient's name, phone number, address, group, etc. is provided (screen 303). The user inputs the information of the receiver that the user knows, designates the group, and stores it in the mobile communication terminal.

In order to send a short message to the other party, the user selects 'New Message' in the message box and presses the 'OK' button provided beforehand (Screen 306). A new message input mode for inputting is provided on the screen (screen 309).

After entering the short message input mode (step 200), a screen 309 for providing a short message including the receiver string 318 is provided and the user composes a short message to be sent (step 203). That is, the rest of the text except for the receiver string is written as a short message.

The text message thus prepared is additionally designated and sent to a group of recipients or a plurality of recipients (step 206). The recipient group is designated when the user registers the telephone number inside the mobile communication terminal, and it is desirable to be able to change it depending on the situation. In other words, when registering a phone book of 'Hong Gil Dong', enter personal information of Hong Gil Dong such as phone number and address, and specify Hong Gil Dong as a group such as my friend group or company colleagues group, and name the group and the group to which he belongs. Allow change.

When transmitting to a plurality of recipients, it is searched whether information of the recipient corresponding to the telephone number or name exists in the mobile communication terminal (step 209). If it is assumed that information of the receiver exists inside the terminal (YES in step 209), the receiver string included in the short message is replaced with the receiver information and transmitted. A screen example showing this is shown in FIG. 3C.

For example, the user says "Hello [Name] (318). Don't forget to have a meeting at Gangnam Station on December 2, 2003 .... [company number], [address] .." Suppose you enter a message and want to send a message to both the recipient named Hong Gil-dong and the recipient Kim Sa-rang. Where the characters in parentheses are the receiver string 318. After the user enters all the short messages, selects two people to send to Hong Gil-dong (318a) and Kim Sa-rang (318b), and then presses the 'OK' or 'OK' button provided in advance. Search whether the information exists in the mobile communication terminal.

If it is determined that the information of the two persons exists after the search, the information corresponding to the receiver string 318 in the parenthesis is replaced with the receiver information and displayed on the screen. That is, the name of the recipient string [name] 318 is displayed by replacing the name of the recipient to send [honggildong] and [Kimsarang] and the company's phone number, address and the like.

Therefore, the message to the recipient 'Hong Gil-dong' is "Hong Gil Dong, hello. Don't forget to have a meeting at Gangnam Station on December 2, 2003 .... [Hong Gil Dong: 011-123-4567], [Gildong-dong Gildong-gu, Seoul] Gildong Apartment 123-4] .. ", and the message to the recipient of 'Kimsarang' is" Kimsarang Hello. Don't forget to meet at Gangnam Station on December 2, 2003 .... [Kimsarang: 019- 123-4567], [Love apartment love apartment 123-4] .. "

If it is assumed that the receiver's information does not exist inside the terminal (NO in step 209), a message is displayed on the screen indicating that the receiver information does not exist. In this case, the information of the receiver is preferably the name, telephone number, address of the person when the user registers the phone book.

As mentioned above, although this invention was demonstrated to the several example, this invention is not limited to a specific Example. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that various modifications and changes can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, by transmitting a short message to a large number of people and allowing the recipient's name or recipient's personal information to be automatically inputted and transmitted instead of the same message, the user can enter the recipient's name or information. If you want to enter separately, you do not need to send a short message individually. Therefore, it is convenient to use the short message service.

1 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of a mobile communication terminal of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram showing a short message transmission process of the present invention.

3A is a screen example showing a phone book registration process;

3B illustrates an example of a process of creating a short message including a receiver string.

3C is a screen example showing a state where a receiver string is replaced with receiver information and displayed on the screen.

Claims (5)

When a user creates a message that contains a recipient string and requests multiple short messages by specifying multiple recipients, A first step of reading information corresponding to a receiver string from a record for a designated receiver of the phone book; A second step of replacing information corresponding to a receiver string with read receiver information; A third step of sending a short message to a called telephone number; A fourth step of repeating steps 1, 2, and 3 for all designated recipients; Message transmission method in a mobile communication terminal comprising a. The method of claim 1, The information corresponding to the receiver string is a name, a telephone number, an address. The method of claim 1, A receiver string is a message transmission method in a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that the character displayed in parentheses. The method of claim 1, If the receiver information corresponding to the receiver string does not exist, the method for transmitting a message in a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that further comprising informing the user via an alarm. The method of claim 1, And a step of displaying the replaced contents to the user after step 2.