KR20070033720A - How to check receipt of messages on mobile terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for acknowledging a message in a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising: checking whether a message acknowledgment menu is selected when the message is created, and adding an acknowledgment code to the created message when the message acknowledgment menu is selected. And, if the acknowledgment code is added, including the step of transmitting the message to which the acknowledgment code is added, adding a acknowledgment request code to the outgoing message to obtain the consent of the receiver to confirm that the message is received By using the mobile communication terminal, it is possible to provide an acknowledgment message transmission function by itself, and it is possible to transmit the acknowledgment message only for a specific message requesting acknowledgment, By determining accordingly, it is possible to reduce the possibility of privacy infringement of the recipient. .

Message, Message Receipt, Message Receipt Confirmation, Acknowledgment Service, Mobile Communication Terminal

Description

How to check message receipt on mobile terminal {METHOD FOR MESSAGE RECEIVING CONFIMATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL}

1 is a diagram illustrating a screen for transmitting an acknowledgment message in a mobile communication terminal according to the prior art;

2 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention;

3 is a diagram illustrating a message writing procedure for requesting an acknowledgment message in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a diagram illustrating a procedure for transmitting an acknowledgment message in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention; and

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a screen configuration for obtaining consent of a receiver for transmitting an acknowledgment message in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG.

The present invention relates to a message acknowledgment method in a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to a method for enabling a caller to confirm that a receiver has received a message when the message is transmitted in the mobile communication terminal.

Recently, due to the convenience of the portable terminal, the use of the mobile communication terminal is rapidly spreading. Accordingly, service providers (terminal manufacturers) are competitively developing terminals having more convenient and special functions to secure a large number of users.

For example, the mobile communication terminal may include a phone book, a game, a scheduler, a short message service, a multimedia message service, a broadcast message, and the internet. It offers various technologies such as Internet, E-Mail, Morning Call, MP Layer 3, and Digital Camera.

Message applications such as short messages, multimedia messages, e-mails, and broadcast messages are most frequently used by users among additional functions of mobile communication terminals. Even though the messages are transmitted, they are sometimes not correctly transmitted due to a special situation. Therefore, recently, communication service companies support a message acknowledgment service that notifies the sender that the receiver has received the message.

1 is a view illustrating a screen for transmitting an acknowledgment message in a mobile communication terminal according to the related art.

Referring to FIG. 1, when transmitting a message written as shown in FIG. 1 (a), in order to enable the caller to recognize that the receiver has received the message, as shown in FIG. Send the message by entering a special character (eg #).

When the transmitted message is received at the receiver's mobile communication terminal, the communication service provider recognizes that the message has been received at the receiver's mobile communication terminal, and sends a message indicating the acknowledgment of the transmission message as shown in FIG. Send to caller. Thereafter, when the reception message is confirmed by the receiver, the communication service company recognizes that the receiver has confirmed the message, and transmits a message indicating that the reception message is confirmed to the sender as shown in FIG.

As described above, the message acknowledgment service according to the prior art transmits unilaterally from the communication service company to the sender without the receiver's consent to transmit the acknowledgment message, which poses a problem of privacy infringement of the receiver. In addition, it is impossible to control the transmission of the acknowledgment message in the mobile communication terminal, and there is a problem in that a fee other than the message transmission fee is additionally charged every time the message acknowledgment service is used.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for efficiently checking a message reception in a mobile communication terminal.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for controlling acknowledgment of a message in a mobile communication terminal.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for efficiently confirming a message reception using an acknowledgment code in a mobile communication terminal.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a method for acquiring a message by acquiring a recipient's consent for acknowledgment of a message in a mobile communication terminal.

According to a first aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, a method for requesting a message acknowledgment in a mobile communication terminal, when the message is created, checking whether a message acknowledgment menu is selected, and receiving the message When the confirmation menu is selected, adding the acknowledgment code to the created message, and if the acknowledgment code is added, transmitting the message to which the acknowledgment code is added.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a method for providing a message acknowledgment in a mobile communication terminal, when the received message is confirmed, a step of confirming whether an acknowledgment code exists in the received message, and the acknowledgment code If present, the process of confirming whether or not the transmission of the acknowledgment message, and if agreeing to transmit the acknowledgment message, checking the outgoing telephone number of the received message, and if the outgoing telephone number is confirmed, the outgoing call And transmitting an acknowledgment message to the number.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description of the present invention, detailed descriptions of related known functions or configurations will be omitted if it is determined that the detailed description may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with respect to a technique for efficiently managing a message acknowledgment using an acknowledgment code in a mobile communication terminal. In the following description, a message means an email, a short message, or a multimedia message.

2 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention. The mobile communication terminal described below includes a cellular phone, a personal communication system (PCS), a personal data assistant (PDA), and an international mobile communication-2000 (IMT2000) terminal. The following description will be given with the general configuration of the above examples.

Referring to FIG. 2, a controller (MPU: Micro-Processer Unit) 200 controls the overall operation of the mobile communication terminal. For example, there is a function for performing processing and control for voice calls and data communication, adding an acknowledgment code to a message created for transmission in accordance with the present invention in addition to the usual functions, and an acknowledgment code in the received message. It handles the function of checking whether a message is sent, and the function of sending an acknowledgment message. Therefore, in the following description, description about the process and control of the normal control part 200 is abbreviate | omitted.

The read only memory (ROM) 202 stores microcodes of programs and various reference data for processing and control of the controller 200. In particular, a program for adding an acknowledgment code to a message created for transmission according to the present invention, a program for confirming whether an acknowledgment code exists in a received message, and a program for transmitting an acknowledgment message. A random access memory (RAM) 204 is a working memory of the controller 100 and stores temporary data generated during execution of various programs. Flash ROM 106 stores various updatable archiving data such as phone books, outgoing messages and incoming messages. In particular, according to the present invention stores data for confirming the acknowledgment code.

Key pad 208 is a numeric key buttons of 0-9, menu button (menu), cancel button (clear), confirmation button, call button (TALK), end button (END), Internet access button, A plurality of function keys such as navigation key (or direction key) buttons (▲ / ▼ / ◀ / ▶) are provided, and key input data corresponding to a key pressed by the user is provided to the controller 200. The display unit 210 displays status information generated during the operation of the mobile communication terminal, a limited number of characters, a large amount of video and still images, and the like. The display unit 210 may use a color liquid crystal display (LCD).

The codec (Coder-Decoder) 212 connected to the control unit 100 and the speaker 216 and the microphone 214 connected to the codec 212 are voice input / output blocks used for phone calls and voice recording. . The codec 212 converts the PCM data provided from the controller 200 into an analog voice signal, transmits the same through the speaker 216, and converts the voice signal received through the microphone 214 into PCM data. It provides to the control unit 200.

In addition, the RF unit 220 reduces the frequency of the radio frequency signal received through the antenna 218 to the baseband processor 222 and provides the baseband signal from the baseband processor 222. The frequency is raised and transmitted through the antenna 218. The baseband processor 222 processes a baseband signal transmitted and received between the RF unit 220 and the controller 200. For example, in the case of transmission, the channel coding and spreading of data to be transmitted are performed, and in the case of reception, the function of despreading and channel decoding of the received signal is performed. To perform.

3 illustrates a message writing procedure for requesting an acknowledgment message in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the controller 200 checks whether a message is prepared in step 301. If the message is written, the control unit 200 proceeds to step 303 to check whether an acknowledgment menu is selected by a user's key operation. That is, it is checked whether a menu for adding a function for requesting an acknowledgment message to the created message is selected.

If the acknowledgment menu is not selected, that is, the caller does not add a function for requesting the acknowledgment message, the controller 200 proceeds to step 309 and transmits the created message. Thereafter, the controller 200 ends the present algorithm.

On the other hand, if the acknowledgment menu is selected, that is, if the caller adds a function for requesting the acknowledgment message, the control unit 200 proceeds to step 305 and adds the acknowledgment code to the created message. In other words, a special code is added to the written message to indicate that the written message is a message requesting the acknowledgment message.

Thereafter, when the acknowledgment code is added, the controller 200 proceeds to step 307 and displays a message indicating that the function of requesting the acknowledgment message is added to the display unit 210.

In step 309, the control unit 200 transmits the message to which the acknowledgment code is added. When the message is transmitted, the controller 200 ends the present algorithm.

4 illustrates a procedure for transmitting an acknowledgment message in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, the controller 200 determines whether a message is received in step 401. If the reception of the message is confirmed, the control unit 200 proceeds to step 403 to check whether the message is confirmed by the user's key operation.

If the message is confirmed, the controller 200 proceeds to step 405 and checks whether an acknowledgment code exists in the received message. That is, it is checked whether a code for requesting an acknowledgment message exists in the received message.

If the acknowledgment code does not exist in the reception message, that is, the message does not request the acknowledgment message, the controller 200 terminates the algorithm.

On the other hand, if the acknowledgment code is present in the received message, that is, if the message is a message requesting the acknowledgment message, the control unit 200 proceeds to step 407 to confirm whether or not to agree to the transmission of the acknowledgment message. . That is, the display unit 110 displays a message asking whether to agree to the transmission of the message indicating that the received message has been received, and confirms whether the recipient agrees.

In other words, after the reception of the message as shown in FIG. 5 (a) is confirmed, when a menu such as a confirmation menu, a message menu, a next message, a previous message, and an end is selected by a user's key operation, a screen change occurs. As shown in (b) of FIG. 5, it is notified that the sender of the received message has requested to send the acknowledgment message, and displays a message asking whether to send the acknowledgment message.

If the receiver does not agree to the transmission of the acknowledgment message in step 305, the controller 200 ends the present algorithm.

On the other hand, if it is confirmed that the receiver agrees to the transmission of the acknowledgment message, the controller 200 proceeds to step 409 and checks the outgoing telephone number of the received message.

In step 411, the controller 200 transmits a message containing basic information such as a time when a received message is confirmed and a caller's phone number to the caller's phone number.

Thereafter, the controller 200 ends the present algorithm.

Meanwhile, in the detailed description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described. However, various modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the scope of the following claims, but also by the equivalents of the claims.

As described above, the mobile communication terminal adds an acknowledgment code to the outgoing message and uses the method for confirming that the message is received by receiving the consent of the receiver, thereby receiving the message within the mobile communication terminal without depending on the communication service company. Acknowledgment message transmission function can be provided, the acknowledgment message can be transmitted only for a specific message requesting an acknowledgment, and by determining whether to transmit the acknowledgment message according to the authority of the recipient, the privacy of the recipient Less room for infringement

In addition, by providing the acknowledgment message transmission function in the mobile communication terminal, when using the message acknowledgment function in the prior art, it is possible to solve the problem of having to pay a separate service fee in addition to the message transmission fee.

Claims (7)

A method for requesting confirmation of receipt of a message in a mobile communication terminal, When the message is written, checking whether a message acknowledgment menu is selected; If the message acknowledgment menu is selected, adding an acknowledgment code to the created message; If the acknowledgment code is added to the message, transmitting the message to which the acknowledgment code is added. The method of claim 1, And when the acknowledgment code is added, displaying a message indicating that an acknowledgment message request function is added to the message. The method of claim 1, The acknowledgment code, characterized in that the code for requesting the transmission of the message that can confirm that the message is received. A method for providing a message acknowledgment in a mobile communication terminal, When the message is received, checking whether an acknowledgment code exists in the received message; If the acknowledgment code exists, confirming whether or not to accept the acknowledgment message; Confirming the outgoing telephone number of the received message when agreeing to transmit the acknowledgment message; And if the outgoing call number is confirmed, transmitting an acknowledgment message to the outgoing call number. The method of claim 4, wherein If the acknowledgment code exists, checking whether a screen change occurs in a display unit; If the screen change occurs, further comprising the step of displaying a message asking whether to agree to the transmission of the acknowledgment message. The method of claim 5, And the screen change occurs by selecting any one of a message menu, a next message, a previous message, a confirmation, and an end menu by a user's key operation. The method of claim 4, wherein The acknowledgment message, characterized in that the transmission including the time the receipt message is confirmed.

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