KR100732994B1 - Mobile communication terminal having a mass email processing function and controlling method therefore - Google Patents

Abstract

A mobile communication terminal having a function of processing a large capacity e-mail and a control method thereof are provided to easily process a large capacity e-mail by using storage spaces of neighbor PCs regardless of a storage space of the mobile communication terminal such that functionality of the mobile communication terminal can be maximized. A mobile communication terminal having a function of processing a large capacity e-mail comprises a wireless module(4), a bluetooth module(6) and a main controller(7). The wireless module(4), installed at a body of the mobile communication terminal, processes an e-mail signal transmitted from an e-mail server of a base station system. The bluetooth module(6), installed at the mobile communication terminal, searches for a PC which can transmit or receive wireless data, and performs a near field data communication with the searched PC. The main controller(7) controls the PC searching function of the bluetooth module(6) and the large capacity e-mail information of the bluetooth module(6) to the searched PC. The main controller(7) checks whether a size of the received e-mail is large. If so, transmits the received e-mail to the PC searched by the bluetooth module(6).

Description

Mobile communication terminal having a mass email processing function and controlling method therefore}

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

2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a mobile communication terminal equipped with a large-capacity email processing function of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart of the present invention.

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1: mobile communication terminal 2: base station system unit

3: email server 4: wireless module

5: PC 6: Bluet's module

7: Main control part 8: Memory part

9: infrared data transceiver 10: handset phone

11: codec part 12: display

13: key panel unit 14: terminal

The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal with a generous capacity e-mail processing function and a control method thereof. In particular, the present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal capable of wirelessly receiving a large amount of e-mail and storing the received e-mail without storing the received e-mail in the terminal. A mobile communication terminal having a large-capacity email processing function for transmitting and storing an email and a control method thereof.

In general, a mobile communication system, for example, a GSM (Global system for mobile communication) service was established by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in 1989 as a pan-European standard, applying narrowband time division multiple access (TDMA) scheme. The 17 European countries are grouped into a single currency. In addition, since the GSM service is connected to an ISDN, a mobile data service can be directly connected to a telephone terminal, a facsimile, a laptop computer, a teletext terminal, or the like without using a modem. 960MHz, the base station reception frequency is 890∼915MHz, so the transmission and reception frequency interval is 45MHz. Accordingly, the digital cellular system standardized by the ETSI is called GSM, which stands for 'Global System for Mobile telecommunication'.

Then, referring to the conventional mobile communication system as described above with reference to FIG. 1, a GSM type terminal 70 for transmitting and receiving a wireless call signal or receiving an e-mail signal, and a function signal transmitted from the plurality of terminals 70. For example, a base station 71 that wirelessly processes a call signal or SMS message or transmits an email signal to a corresponding terminal 70 and controls a call signal or an e-mail transmission function input through the base station 71. An MSC 72 and an email server 73 connected to the MSC 72 to provide an email message to the terminal 70.

On the other hand, looking at the operation of the conventional mobile communication terminal as described above, if the user of the terminal 70 wants to transfer the information desired by the user, for example, in the SMS message to the other terminal, the user of the terminal 70 terminal 70 Select the corresponding menu displayed on the LCD panel 75 through the keypad 74, and then input the required character. When the text input is completed through the above process, the user of the terminal 70 presses a transmission button together with the destination telephone number. Then, the terminal 70 transmits the text data input by the current user in an SMS message. Accordingly, the SMS message signal of the terminal 70 is input to and stored in the SMS message center 76 via the base station 71 and the MSC 72. The SMS message center 76 then checks the destination telephone 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 message center 76 to the counterpart terminal 77. The counterpart terminal 77 analyzes the received SMS message signal and displays the corresponding signal on the display.

In addition, when an e-mail arrives at the e-mail server 73 connected to the MSC 72 during the process, the e-mail server 73 checks the terminal information from the received e-mail information, and then connects the MSC 72 and the base station 71. Via the e-mail reception information is transmitted to the corresponding terminal 70. Then, the terminal 70 receives the e-mail contents and stores them in the internal memory space when the e-mail is stored in the storage space provided in the terminal with reference to the received e-mail information. If the capacity is larger than the storage capacity of the internal memory, the contents of the email are not retrieved from the email server 73.

However, the conventional mobile communication terminal as described above, due to the limitation of the storage space of the mobile communication terminal when receiving e-mail can not receive any e-mail of a certain size (for example 200KB) at the terminal at all, thereby significantly reducing the usability of the terminal Causing problems.

Accordingly, the present invention has been invented to solve the above problems, and regardless of the limitation of the storage space provided in the terminal, it is possible to easily handle a large amount of email using the storage space of the PC around An object of the present invention is to provide a mobile communication terminal equipped with a large-capacity email processing function for maximizing the functionality of the terminal and a control method thereof.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a large-capacity email processing function that significantly improves the usability of the terminal according to the user's desired receiving method without rejecting the received email without having a large storage space in the terminal accordingly. The present invention provides a mobile communication terminal and a control method thereof.

The present invention for achieving the above object is a wireless communication unit for processing wireless data and e-mail, a wireless module unit is installed on the body of the mobile communication terminal to process the e-mail signal transmitted from the e-mail server of the base station system unit; ,
A Bluetooth module unit provided in the mobile communication terminal to search for a PC capable of transmitting and receiving wireless data and performing short-range data communication with the searched PC, and a PC searching function of the Bluetooth module unit and transmitting a large amount of email information to the searched PC. A large-scale email processing function including a subject control unit for controlling the function, and determining whether the received email is a large volume when the email is received, and transmitting and storing the email to a PC searched by the Bluetooth module unit in the case of the large email. Provided is a mobile communication terminal provided.

Another feature of the present invention is an email capacity checking step of checking whether the received email is a large amount of email when an email is received in the mobile communication terminal, and a communication means if the current received email is large as a result of checking during the email capacity checking step. A PC search step of searching for a PC capable of receiving and storing a large amount of e-mail, and a PC setting step of selecting a PC to send a large amount of e-mail from among the PCs searched in the vicinity of the PC search step, and after the PC setting step. Provided is a control method of a mobile communication terminal equipped with a large-capacity email processing function consisting of a large-capacity email processing step of allowing a terminal to transmit and store a large-capacity email through a communication means to the set PC.

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

The present invention is installed in some of the body of the mobile communication terminal 1, as shown in Figure 2 to process the radio signal and the processing of the email signal transmitted from the email server (3) of the base station system unit (2) A wireless module unit 4, a Bluetooth module unit 6 provided in the mobile communication terminal 1 to search for a PC 5 capable of transmitting and receiving wireless data and transmitting information set to the retrieved PC 5; A main control unit 7 for controlling the PC search function of the Bluetooth module unit 6 and the function of transmitting a large amount of email information to the searched PC 5 and controlling the overall function of the mobile communication terminal 1; And a memory unit 8 for storing e-mail information of low capacity and various information processed by the mobile communication terminal 1 according to the storage control signal of the main controller 7.

In this case, an infrared data transmitting and receiving unit 9 is connected to one end of the main control unit 7 to search for a PC 5 capable of transmitting and receiving infrared data and to carry information set in the retrieved PC 5 in the infrared.

In addition, one end of the main control unit 7 converts an analog voice signal input through the handset 10 according to a call connection control signal of the main control unit 7 into a corresponding communication network, for example, a packet digital signal or a digital voice signal. To a codec unit 11 for converting the signal into an analog signal, and outputting the same, and a display 12 for displaying various information signals therein and displaying various information processed therein, including GSM / GPRS. The key panel unit 13 for inputting a function setting signal of the user is connected.

Next, a control method applied to the above apparatus will be described.

The method of the present invention proceeds from the initial state S1 to the e-mail acknowledgment step S2 as shown in Fig. 3 to check whether the e-mail has been received at the current terminal. At this time, if the e-mail is not received at the terminal as a result of checking during the e-mail acknowledgment step (S2), the terminal proceeds to the general function execution step (S3) to execute the general function provided in the terminal.

That is, when power is applied to the terminal 1 of the present invention, the main control unit 7 of the terminal 1 proceeds to an initialization state, forms necessary information from the memory unit 8, executes an initialization process, and then waits. Proceed to

At this time, the main control unit 7 of the terminal 1 recognizes when the user inputs a phone number through the key panel unit 13 and presses a call button, and the user inputs the phone number to the memory unit 8. In addition to the storage, the system accesses the base station system unit 2 through the access channel, and then transmits an outgoing signal to the corresponding telephone number. Then, the base station system unit 2 processes the outgoing signal sent from the terminal 1 and transmits an incoming call to the counterpart terminal 14 to form a call. That is, when a user of the terminal 1 inputs a voice signal through the handset phone 10, the codec unit 11 of the terminal 1 signals the voice signal input through the handset phone 10. The process is input to the main control unit 7. The main controller 7 of the terminal 1 wirelessly processes the voice signal input through the codec unit 11 and transmits the voice signal to the counterpart terminal 14 via the base station system unit 2 so that a normal call can be made. Is achieved.

On the other hand, if the e-mail is received at the current terminal as a result of the confirmation check step (S2) proceeds to the e-mail list receiving step (S4) and the terminal receives the e-mail list from the e-mail server to select the e-mail to receive from the list. . After the e-mail list receiving step (S4), the e-mail capacity checking step (S5) is performed to check whether the capacity of the e-mail to be received is greater than or equal to the capacity set by the terminal. In this case, if the capacity of the currently received email is less than the capacity set by the terminal, the terminal proceeds to the terminal storage step (S6) to receive the email data and stores it in the memory of the terminal. However, as a result of checking during the e-mail capacity checking step (S5), if the capacity of the current e-mail to be received is greater than or equal to the capacity set by the terminal, it proceeds to the receiving PC setting checking step (S7) to determine whether the PC to receive a large amount of e-mail is currently set. Check it. At this time, if the PC is currently set to receive a large volume of e-mail as a result of the check in the received PC setting step (S7) proceeds to the large-scale email processing step (S8) to transfer the large-capacity email data received by the current terminal to the set PC Save it.

Here, in the large-capacity email processing step (S8), the email is received in the form of a packet of a specific size (samely received through POP3 or IMAP4, which is an existing email receiving method), and immediately retransmitted to a PC without storing it in the memory of the terminal. It further includes a retransmission step.

When the PC is not currently set to receive a large volume of e-mails, the procedure proceeds to the PC searching step S9 to check whether there is a PC capable of receiving e-mails around the terminal. In this case, if there is no PC capable of receiving an e-mail near the terminal as a result of checking during the PC searching step (S9), the current step ends and proceeds to the standby state. However, if there is a PC capable of receiving emails near the terminal as a result of checking during the PC searching step (S9), proceed to the receiving PC setting step (S10) to set a PC to send a large amount of emails and proceed to the mass email processing step (S8). Transfer large amount of email data to the configured PC and save it.

In other words, when an alarm signal indicating that an e-mail has been received from the base station system unit 2 is received at the terminal 1 of the present invention, the user of the terminal 1 is connected via the key panel unit 13.

Set the e-mail list information receiving function. Then, the main control unit 7 of the terminal 1 receives the e-mail list from the e-mail server 3 via the base station system unit 2 and displays it on the display 12. In this case, the e-mail list brings only the headers of the e-mails to be received, and the size of the e-mail can be known through this header.

Accordingly, the user of the terminal 1 selects an email to be received from the list displayed on the display 12 and checks whether the email to be received is a large email. The data capacity of the selected email does not meet the set criteria. In other words, if it is not a large amount of e-mail, the same process as the existing e-mail is performed through POP3 or IMAP4 and stored in the memory unit 8. However, if the received e-mail is a large amount of e-mail, the user of the terminal 1 transmits it. If the PC is not selected, the peripheral PCs to which the email is to be transmitted are searched through the Bluetooth module 6 or the infrared data transmitting / receiving unit 9. In this case, when the searched PCs 5 are numerous, the terminal user transmits the PCs. (5) When the receiving PC 5 is selected as described above, the main control unit 7 of the terminal 1 receives the existing e-mail receiving room through the wireless module unit 4. The large-capacity email is received in the form of a packet of a specific size through POP3 or IMAP4. In this case, the main control unit 7 does not store the received large-capacity email data in the memory unit 8 of the terminal 1. The wireless port of the selected PC 5 is transmitted via the connection of the infrared data transmission / reception unit 9 or the Bluetooth module 6 to be stored in the storage space of the PC 5. This is confirmed through the stored PC 5. Here, the PC 5 stores the received email in the form of a file.

As described above, the present invention searches for a PC that can be wirelessly received without storing the received large-capacity email on the terminal, and then transmits and stores the large-capacity email to the storage space of the PC, thereby saving the storage space provided in the terminal. Regardless of the limitation, it can easily handle large amounts of email using the storage space of the PC nearby, which has the advantage of maximizing the functionality of the terminal accordingly.

In addition, according to the present invention, since the user can process the received e-mail without rejecting the received e-mail without having a large storage space in the terminal, there is also an effect of significantly improving the usability of the terminal.

Claims (6)

In the mobile communication terminal for processing wireless data and email, A wireless module unit installed in a part of the mobile communication terminal to process an e-mail signal transmitted from an e-mail server of a base station system unit; A Bluetooth module unit provided in the mobile communication terminal to search for a PC capable of transmitting / receiving wireless data and performing short-range data communication with the searched PC ; Control the PC search function of the Bluetooth module unit and the function of transmitting a large amount of email information to the searched PC, and when the email is received, it is determined whether the received email is large by the Bluetooth module module in case of the large email. Mobile communication terminal with a large-capacity email processing function, characterized in that it comprises a main control unit for transmitting and storing the email to the searched PC . The mobile device of claim 1, wherein an infrared data transceiver is connected to one end of the main controller to search for a PC capable of transmitting / receiving infrared data and to transmit information set to the searched PC in infrared. Communication terminal. When the email is received from the mobile communication terminal, an email capacity checking step of confirming whether the received email is a large amount of email, and when the email received is large as a result of checking during the email capacity checking step, a large amount of email is received through a communication means. The PC search step of searching for a PC that can be stored, the PC setting step of selecting a PC to send a large amount of e-mail among them when the PCs are searched during the PC search step, and the PC is set after the PC setting step. A control method of a mobile communication terminal equipped with a large-capacity email processing function, characterized in that the large-capacity email processing step of transmitting and storing a large-capacity email through a communication means. The method of claim 3, wherein the mass email processing step further comprises an immediate resend step in which the terminal immediately retransmits the received mass email data to a PC without storing the received large email data in its memory. Control method of the provided mobile communication terminal. According to claim 3, The PC search step and the large-capacity email processing step is a mobile communication with a large-capacity email processing function, characterized in that it further comprises a Bluetooth transmission step for transmitting a large email with a PC set through the Bluetooth module unit. Terminal control method. [4] The mobile communication system of claim 3, wherein the PC searching step and the mass email processing step further comprise an infrared data transmission step of transmitting a mass email with a PC set through the infrared data transmission / reception unit. Terminal control method.

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