KR20060074374A - Mobile communication terminal having a text message transferring function and controlling method therefore - Google Patents

Abstract

According to the present invention, when the text message transmission function is set in the mobile communication terminal, a sender name write transmission step of creating a text message and writing the sender's name in the header of the written text message and sending the message to the destination; When the message is received, the sender name checking step confirms whether the sender name is included in the header of the currently received text message, and the sender name is included in the header of the currently received text message. In this case, the present invention provides a control method of a mobile communication terminal equipped with a text message transmission function consisting of a text message immediately displaying step of displaying a name of a sender together with an instant text message reception alarm signal without searching a terminal phone book.

In the present invention as described above, by inputting the sender's name in the header portion of the text message and transmitting it, the receiving terminal searches for it and displays it on the display, so that the user of the receiving terminal receiving the text message comes to himself. Since the sender of the message can be clearly recognized, the usability of the terminal is greatly improved accordingly.

Text message, text message header, SMS message, outgoing phone number, sender's name

Description

Mobile communication terminal having a text message transmission function and control method thereof

1 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a conventional mobile communication terminal.

2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a mobile communication terminal equipped with a text message transmission function of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating the method of the present invention.

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1: Mobile communication terminal 2: LCD panel

3: MSM 4: Memory

5: handset phone 6: codec unit

7: Key panel unit 8: Base station system unit

9: terminal

The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal equipped with a text message transmission function and a control method thereof. In particular, the sender enters a sender's name in a header part of a text message and transmits the text. The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal equipped with a message transmission function and a control method thereof.

In general, in the early 1980s, mobile communication system divided service area into hexagonal cells of several km to several ten kilometers in diameter in North America, and then repeatedly used the same frequency channel in geographically separated cells, The first commercialization of a cellular-phone mobile communication system that implements wireless channel switching has grown rapidly. In addition, recently, a third generation mobile communication system called IMT-2000 has been developed and used. Such a system can be used for various communication services supported by a fixed communication network such as PSTN / ISDN / B-ISDN, etc. A mobile communication system that enables access to an information service network including audio and video data using a wireless link.

Then, referring to the conventional mobile communication system as described above with reference to FIG. 1, a base station 71 for wirelessly processing function signals transmitted from a plurality of terminals 70, for example, a call signal or an SMS message, and the base station ( 71) MSC 72 for controlling the transmission function of the call signal or SMS message input via the; and the SMS message center 73 is connected to the MSC (72) for providing an SMS message to the terminal (70) do.

On the other hand, looking at the operation of the conventional mobile communication system as described above, when the user of the terminal 70 wants to send the information desired by the user to the other terminal to the SMS message, the user of the terminal 70 is a finger portion folder Put between the 74 and the body portion to open the folder portion 74 or hold the folder portion 74 with both hands to open it, then select the menu through the keypad 75 and then enter the necessary characters. When the character input is completed through the above process, the user of the terminal 70 selects a destination telephone number to be transmitted from a list of phone books stored therein and presses the transmit button. Then, the terminal 70 transmits the text data input by the user in the SMS message to the base station 71. Accordingly, the SMS message signal of the terminal 70 is input to and stored in the SMS message center 73 via the base station 71 and the MSC 72. Then, the SMS message center 73 checks the destination phone number of the input SMS message and transmits it to the MSC 72. Then, the MSC 72 transmits the SMS message signal transmitted from the SMS server 73 to the counterpart mobile phone 74. The counterpart terminal 76 analyzes the received SMS message signal and displays the signal on the display.

On the other hand, when the incoming call signal is received from the external mobile phone 74 through the MSC 72 and the base station 71, the clamshell terminal 70 rings a ring signal to inform the user that the current call has been received. In this case, when the user of the terminal 70 wants to answer the call, the user inserts a finger between the folder portion 74 and the body portion to open the folder portion 74 or hold the folder portion 74 with both hands to open the corresponding portion. The call is made with the terminal 70 on the ear and the mouth. By the way, if the user of the terminal 70 does not want to answer the call in the state of the call, open the folder 74 and press the call end button located on the keypad 75 to end the call.                         

However, since the conventional mobile communication terminal transmits a text message, for example, an SMS message, only the other party's phone number is input to the text message, the user of the receiving terminal has a considerable difficulty in determining who the sender is. In addition, since the sender is not included in the received text message, the internal process of the terminal has to perform a complicated process of searching for a memory to find a related telephone number or name, thereby wasting resources of the terminal.

Accordingly, the present invention has been invented to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems. Since the user of the receiving terminal receiving the text message can clearly recognize the sender of the text message that has been sent to him, the convenience of use of the terminal is also considerably increased. It is an object of the present invention to provide a mobile communication terminal having a text message transmission function for improving and a control method thereof.

 Another object of the present invention is to provide a mobile communication terminal with a text message transmission function and its control method that can be used exclusively for a specific function without adding a separate complex circuit configuration, thereby significantly improving the functionality of the terminal. have.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a text message transmission function in a mobile communication terminal, which is installed on a part of the body of the mobile communication terminal and writes a text message and a sender name that the user creates along with various information signals therein. The LCD panel is displayed on the screen, and the sender's name is inputted to the header of the text message from the user, and the sender's name is read. The part of the header of the received text message is read to determine whether or not the sender's name exists. Provided is a mobile communication terminal having a text message transmission function including an MSM unit.

Another feature of the present invention is a sender name write transmission step of creating a text message when the text message transmission function is set in the mobile communication terminal, writing the sender's name in the header of the text message, and sending the message to the destination; When the terminal receives the text message, the sender name is checked in the header of the currently received text message and the sender name is displayed in the header of the currently received text message. If included, the sender is displayed in the header of the currently received text message as a result of checking the sender's name immediately and displaying the sender's name together with the text message receiving alarm signal without having to search the terminal phonebook. If no name is included, Provides a control method of a mobile communication terminal having a text message transmission function consisting of a text message normal processing step of checking whether a call number is a phone number registered in a terminal phone book and processing a text message receiving alarm signal according to the result. .

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

The apparatus of the present invention is installed on a part of the body of the mobile communication terminal 1 as shown in FIG. 2 and displays a text message, for example, an SMS message and a sender's name, created by the user together with various information signals therein. The panel unit 2 receives the sender's name in the header of the text message from the user, transmits the name, and reads a part of the header of the received text message to determine whether or not the sender's name exists. (1) the mobile station modem (3) for controlling the overall call connection situation, and the memory unit for storing various information of the mobile communication terminal (1) in accordance with the storage control signal of the MSM (3) ( 4) and converts the analog voice signal inputted through the handset 5 into a digital signal or converts the digital voice signal into an analog signal according to the call connection control signal of the MSM unit 3 and outputs the analog signal. The codec section 6 is included.

One end of the MSM unit 3 is connected to a key panel unit 7 for inputting a function setting signal of the user to the MSM unit 3.

Here, the header of the text message secures a 20-byte storage space for inputting a number or a maximum of 10 letters.

Next, a control method applied to the terminal of the present invention as described above will be described.

As shown in FIG. 3, the method of the present invention proceeds to the determination step of setting the text message transmission function in the initial state S1 and checks whether the text message transmission function is set in the current mobile communication terminal. At this time, if the text message transmission function is set in the current mobile communication terminal as a result of the determination during the text message transmission function setting determination step (S2), the process proceeds to the sender name write transmission step (S3) to create a text message and the created text message. Enter the sender's name in the header and send it to the destination.

That is, when the user sets the text message transmission function through the key panel unit 7 of the terminal 1 of the present invention, the MSM unit 3 of the terminal 1 generates a text message menu from the memory unit 4. Is called out and displayed on the LCD panel (2). At this time, when the user of the terminal 1 completes the writing of the text message, the MSM unit 3 requests the sender's name to be entered into the corresponding text message through the LCD panel 2. Here, the MSM unit 3 of the terminal 1 has 20 bytes allocated to input a number or a character of a header of a text message to be transmitted when the user inputs the name of the sender, that is, the header of the text data format. Enter the sender's name in the box and send it to the destination phone number.

However, if it is determined during the text message transmission function setting determination step (S2) that the text message transmission function is not set in the current mobile communication terminal, the process proceeds to the text message acknowledgment step (S4) to determine whether the text message has been received at the current terminal. Check it. At this time, if the text message is not received at the current terminal as a result of the acknowledgment of the text message acknowledgment step (S4), the process proceeds to the general call processing step (S5) to execute the general call processing function.

That is, when power is applied to the terminal 1 of the present invention, the MSM unit 3 of the terminal 1 proceeds to an initialization state, forms necessary information from the memory unit 4, executes an initialization process, and then waits. Proceed to

At this time, the MSM unit 3 of the terminal 1 recognizes when the user inputs a telephone number through the key panel unit 7 and presses a call button, and the user inputs the telephone number to the memory unit 4. In addition to the storage, the system accesses the base station system unit 8 through the access channel, and then transmits an outgoing signal to the corresponding telephone number. Then, the base station system unit 8 processes the outgoing signal sent from the terminal 1 and transmits the incoming call to the counterpart terminal 9 to form a call.

That is, when the user of the terminal 1 inputs a voice signal through the handset 5, the codec unit 6 of the terminal 1 signals the voice signal input through the handset 5. Processing is input to the MSM unit 3. In addition, the MSM unit 3 of the terminal 1 wirelessly processes the voice signal input through the codec unit 6 and transmits the voice signal to the counterpart terminal 9 via the base station system unit 8. Is achieved.

On the other hand, when the text message is received during the text message acknowledgment step (S4), when the text message is received in the current terminal, the process proceeds to the sender name verification step (S6) to check whether the sender name is included in the header of the currently received text message. . At this time, when the sender name check step (S6), if the sender name is included in the header of the currently received text message, the text message immediately proceeds to the display step (S7) immediately without the need to search the terminal phone book text Displays the sender's name along with the message alarm signal.

However, if the sender name is not included in the header of the currently received text message as a result of checking during the sender name verification step (S6), the terminal proceeds to the phone book search step (S8) and the currently received phone number is registered in the terminal phone book. Check if the number is correct. Here, when the terminal telephone directory search step S8 confirms that the currently received telephone number is not the number registered in the terminal telephone directory, the process proceeds to the transmission telephone number display step S9 and the transmission telephone number together with the text message alarm signal. Only display. However, as a result of checking during the terminal phonebook search step (S8), if the currently received phone number is a number registered in the terminal phonebook, the process proceeds to the sender name display step (S10) and the registered name together with the text message alarm signal. Display the phone number.

That is, the MSM unit 3 of the terminal of the present invention reads a part of the header of the text message when a text message is received from outside, for example, 20 bytes allocated to input a number or a character in the header part of the text data format. Read only two bytes and check whether the two bytes are letters or numbers.

At this time, if the data read from the two bytes of the header of the text message is a character, the MSM unit 3 reads all remaining header sections to confirm the sender's name, and then immediately the LCD panel unit 2 without searching the internal telephone directory. The sender name is displayed along with an indication signal indicating receipt of a text message. However, if the data read from the two bytes of the header of the text message is not a letter but a number, the MSM unit 3 stores the received phone number in the memory unit 4 in the same way as a normal text message processing method. Is retrieved and displayed on the LCD panel 2 in the usual manner.

As described above, the present invention inputs the sender's name in the header of the text message, transmits it, and then retrieves it from the receiving terminal and displays it on the display. Since the sender of the on-text message can be clearly recognized, the usability of the terminal can be considerably improved accordingly.

In addition, according to the present invention, it is possible to use a specific function exclusively without adding a separate complicated circuit configuration, and accordingly, the functionality of the terminal is also significantly improved.

Claims (3)

In the mobile communication terminal equipped with a text message transmission function, An LCD panel unit installed on a part of the body of the mobile communication terminal to display a text message and a sender name written by the user together with various information signals therein; And a MSM unit for receiving and writing and reading a part of the header of the received text message to determine whether or not there is a sender name and to process the received text message. When the text message transmission function is set in the mobile communication terminal, a sender name writing transmission step of creating a text message and writing the sender's name in the header of the text message to be sent to the destination, and receiving a text message in the mobile communication terminal; If the sender name is included in the header of the currently received text message and if the sender name is included in the header of the currently received text message. If the sender's name is not included in the header of the currently received text message as a result of checking the sender's name immediately and displaying the sender's name together with the text message receiving alarm signal without searching the directory. Received phone number is terminal phone The control method of a mobile communication terminal equipped with a text message transmission function, characterized in that it comprises a text message normal processing step of checking whether the phone number registered in the phone book and processing the text message reception alarm signal according to the result. The mobile device of claim 2, further comprising a text verification step of reading only a part of the header of the received text message and confirming whether the text is a letter. Control method of communication terminal.

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