KR100504807B1 - Method for searching character message of mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a technique for easily searching for a desired message on the basis of caller's telephone number related information in a telephone such as a mobile phone. The present invention includes a first step of receiving a caller's telephone number information to be searched for from a user when a text message menu is selected by the user; A second process of searching for text message items related to the telephone number information input by the user and displaying them on a screen among text messages stored and received so far; A third process of displaying the contents of the text message selected by the user from the displayed list on the screen is achieved.

Description

How to search for text messages on your phone {METHOD FOR SEARCHING CHARACTER MESSAGE OF MOBILE PHONE}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technique for retrieving a message received from a telephone such as a cellular phone, and more particularly, to a text message retrieval method of a cellular phone that enables retrieval of a message based on caller-related information.

Recently, due to the development of related technologies such as electronics, telecommunications and semiconductors, the penetration rate of mobile phones is rapidly increasing, and moreover, it is becoming a necessity for modern life. In the case of the mobile phone, a voice call service is basically provided, and a voice and text message service and various content transfer services are also provided.

However, in the conventional text message search technology, when a user wants to check a message (for example, a text message) transmitted from the other party, the user selects the text message search menu and operates the up, down, left, right arrow keys to select a text message. Was to check if it arrived.

As described above, in the text message retrieval technology of a mobile phone according to the prior art, a message is sequentially searched by using a direction key, which causes a lot of searching time and inconvenience in use.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a text message retrieval method of a mobile phone for retrieving a text message using information related to the caller's telephone number as a keyword.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a text message searching method, comprising: a first step of receiving telephone number information of a caller to search from a user when a text message menu is selected by a user; A second step of searching for and displaying a text message item related to the telephone number information input by the user from a text message received and stored in the meantime; A third process of displaying the contents of the text message selected by the user from the displayed list on the screen will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1 attached to the text message searching method of the present invention.

When the user wants to check the message received on his mobile phone, the user first selects the received message (eg, text message) menu in the menu selection mode, and performs another function when another menu is selected. (S1, S2) )

Then, if you want to selectively search only the text messages transmitted by a specific person among the various text messages received, the purpose can be achieved by using information associated with the phone number.

For example, when using a phone number as information related to a phone number, a user directly inputs the person's phone number using a key matrix, or extracts the person's phone number using a phone book search function. S3)

Subsequently, when the user presses a preset text message search button, only the text message items transmitted by the other party having the phone number are extracted from the text message list stored in the memory of the mobile phone, and are arranged in order of arrival time and displayed on the screen. (S4-S6)

In this state, the user selects a desired text message from the displayed text message list by using up, down, left, and right arrow keys. Accordingly, the contents of the selected text message are displayed on the screen (S7).

Therefore, the user can easily and quickly select and view only the text message transmitted from the desired counterpart among the various text messages received and stored.

For reference, even when only a part of the entire phone number is input when the phone number is directly input, most of the text message callers having the phone number can achieve the purpose without any difficulty. For example, when there are several counterparts having a part of the telephone number, the text message of all of them may be selected and displayed so that no particular problem occurs.

As described in detail above, the present invention extracts the message sent by the caller based on the information related to the caller's phone number, so that only the text message transmitted from the other party is desired from among the received text messages. There is an effect that can be selected and viewed conveniently and quickly.

1 is a signal flow diagram illustrating a process of a text message retrieval method of a mobile phone according to the present invention.

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S1-S7: steps 1-7

Claims (3)

A first step of receiving a caller's telephone number information to search for when the text message menu is selected; A second step of detecting text message items related to the received caller's telephone number information and displaying them on a screen among text messages stored and received so far; And a third process of displaying the contents of the text message selected by the user on the screen from the displayed list. The method of claim 1, wherein the telephone number information is all or part of a caller's telephone number. delete