KR101467364B1 - Apparatus and method for processing message in portable terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for a message service of a portable terminal, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for selectively storing a specific content or a specific area among received messages in order to solve a memory problem of a limited portable terminal And a control unit for storing data edited by the message editing unit. In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention provides a portable terminal, Memory can be handled efficiently

Memory, messages, message editing, partial storage

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a message processing apparatus and method for a portable terminal,

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for a message service of a portable terminal, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for selectively storing a specific content or a specific area among received messages in order to solve a memory problem of a limited portable terminal have.

In recent years, portable terminals have been used indispensably for modern people regardless of whether they are male or female, and service providers and terminal manufacturers are developing products (or services) competitively in order to differentiate them from other companies.

For example, the portable terminal may include a phone book, a game, a short message, an e-mail, a morning call, an MP 3 (MPEG Layer 3) , Digital cameras, and multimedia devices capable of wireless Internet services.

Since the SMS message service is relatively inexpensive compared to voice communication, the user of the mobile terminal tends to prefer the SMS service rather than the call function. In recent years, a multimedia message service (MMS), which is a message service with added video, pictures, music files, etc., is provided. The multimedia message service is a representative wired / wireless integrated service that combines the advantages of the short message service and the advantages of the e - mail service, and the use frequency of the portable terminal is high not only at home but also abroad.

The multimedia message may include a method of receiving a message body as it is and a method of receiving a simple message (e.g., message title, sender, message capacity, etc.) can do.

Recently, a multimedia message can be attached to a multimedia message, thereby increasing the capacity of the multimedia message. Also, since the e-mail used on the wired side can be received by the phone, the large-capacity e-mail processed by the PC can also be received in the phone memory. Accordingly, the memory of the portable terminal, which is limited due to the reception of the multimedia message having the high capacity, may be insufficient.

Accordingly, there is a need for an apparatus and method for solving memory shortage due to message reception in the portable terminal.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and method for efficiently using a memory of a portable terminal.

It is another object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and method for efficiently using a memory through message editing in a portable terminal.

It is another object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and method for efficiently using a memory by selecting and storing a specific area of a message received from a portable terminal.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a message processing apparatus for a portable terminal, the message processing apparatus comprising: a message editor for selecting a region to be edited after outputting a received message and editing data of the selected region, And a controller for storing data edited by the message editor.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a message processing method for a portable terminal, the method comprising: selecting a region to be edited after outputting a received message; And a step of storing the edited data.

As described above, according to the present invention, in order to efficiently use a limited memory of a portable terminal, unnecessary contents included in a received high-capacity message are deleted or only desired data is edited and stored, thereby efficiently limiting a limited memory of the portable terminal It can be processed for use. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce a program execution failure problem that can not be performed due to insufficient memory in the portable terminal. In addition, since the desired portion of the long message contents is edited and stored, the convenience of providing the user with a quick search for the desired information is provided.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Reference will now be made in detail to the preferred embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. In the following description, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.

In the following description, an apparatus and a method for selectively storing a specific content or a specific area among received messages in order to solve a memory problem of a limited portable terminal will be described.

In the following description, the message editing is performed by securing a storage area (e.g., memory) of the portable terminal or by deleting unnecessary parts of the received message so that the user can remove unnecessary information to easily and quickly search for necessary information later And selectively storing only the content that is determined to be absolutely necessary in the received message. In addition, the message may include at least one of a multimedia message system (MMS) and an e-mail (e-mail) capable of attaching multimedia data such as moving pictures,

1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a portable terminal capable of editing a received message according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1, the portable terminal includes a control unit 100, a message editing unit 102, a memory unit 104, an input unit 106, a display unit 108, and a communication unit 110.

First, the controller 100 of the portable terminal controls overall operation of the portable terminal. For example, processing and control for voice communication and data communication are performed, and according to the present invention, in addition to ordinary functions, processing is performed such that a user-selected portion of the received message content is deleted or only the selected portion is edited and stored do.

That is, the control unit 100 instructs the message editing unit 102 to delete or store a certain portion of the received message.

The message editing unit 102 processes the received message in response to an instruction from the control unit 100. In other words, the message editing unit 102 deletes the content that the user has determined to be unnecessary to secure a storage area (e.g., memory unit) of the portable terminal, or edits and stores the contents that the user deems necessary. At this time, the message editing unit 102 may delete a content that the user has determined to be unnecessary, and then generate a new storage message based on only the contents of the portion that has not been deleted.

The memory unit 104 includes a ROM (Read Only Memory), a RAM (Random Access Memory), and a flash ROM. The ROM stores microcode of a program for processing and controlling the control unit 100 and the message editing unit 102, and various reference data.

The RAM is a working memory of the controller 100, and stores temporary data generated during execution of various programs. In addition, the flash ROM stores various updatable storage data such as a phone book, an origination message, and a received message.

The input unit 106 includes numeric key buttons 0 to 9 and a menu key, a cancel button, an OK button, a talk button, an end button, an Internet access button, a navigation key And a character input key), and provides the controller 100 with key input data (e.g., a message editing request, etc.) corresponding to a key pressed by the user. The input unit 106 may be a touch pad or a touch screen.

The display unit 108 displays status information, a limited number of characters, a large amount of moving images, still images, and the like that occur during the operation of the portable terminal. The display unit 108 may be a color liquid crystal display (LCD).

The communication unit 110 performs a function of transmitting / receiving a radio signal of data input / output through an antenna (not shown). For example, in the case of transmission, channel coding and spreading are performed on data to be transmitted, RF processing is performed for transmission, and in case of a receiver, the received RF signal is converted into a baseband signal And performs a function of de-spreading and channel decoding the baseband signal to recover data.

The role of the message editing unit 102 may be performed by the control unit 100 of the portable terminal. However, the present invention is not limited to the exemplary configuration for convenience of description, It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. For example, the control unit 100 may be configured to process all of them.

In order to solve the memory problem of the limited portable terminal, the above description has been made on an apparatus for selectively storing a specific content or a specific area in received messages. In the following description, the apparatus according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention is used In order to solve the memory problem of the limited portable terminal, a method for selectively storing a specific content or a specific area among the received messages will be described.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of editing a message in a portable terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. As described above, the message editing function deletes an unnecessary portion of a received message in order to secure a storage area (e.g., memory) of the portable terminal, or selects only a content that is determined to be absolutely necessary in the received message And stores it.

Referring to FIG. 2, the controller of the portable terminal receives a message in step 201. FIG. Here, the received message may include at least one of a multimedia message system (MMS) and an e-mail (e-mail) capable of attaching multimedia data such as a moving picture, have,

Thereafter, the controller 100 proceeds to step 203 and determines whether an event of editing the received message is generated from a user of the portable terminal.

If it is determined that the received message does not have an edit event, the controller 100 proceeds to step 211 and performs a corresponding function (e.g., storing a received message or deleting a received message).

On the other hand, if it is determined that an edit event of the received message is generated, the control unit 100 proceeds to step 205 and selects an area to be edited. The step 205 is a step of selecting a region of a message to be edited in order to secure a storage area of the portable terminal or to remove unnecessary information and allow the user to quickly and easily search for necessary information. Selecting a specific area to be deleted or selecting a specific area to be separately stored by the user of the portable terminal. Also, the step 205 may be performed by selecting a page unit or a media unit (e.g., an image area, a text area, etc.) of the received message.

Thereafter, the controller 100 proceeds to step 207 and performs a message editing process for the selected area. Here, the message editing process may be performed by controlling the message editing unit 102, and the message editing unit 102, under the control of the controller 100, may select only a specific area among the contents of the message received by the user of the portable terminal An editing process of selecting and deleting the message, and an editing process of selecting and storing only a specific area among the contents of the received message. The above message editing process will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

Thereafter, the controller 100 proceeds to step 209 to store the message editing process in the memory unit 104, and then ends the algorithm.

3 is a diagram illustrating a screen configuration for performing a message editing process in the portable terminal according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention.

3 (a) is a view illustrating a message editing process of storing only a specific area of a message received from a portable terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention and deleting the remaining area.

Referring to FIG. 3A, the multimedia message received by the portable terminal includes an MMS header describing a recipient's e-mail address, a sender's e-mail address, a title, a presentation, (MMS) body 310 that includes audio, video, audio, video, audio, jpeg, text / plain and audio / wav data.

If it is assumed that the user of the portable terminal having received the multimedia message saves only the text data (Text / plain) among the contents of the received message, the portable terminal first issues a message editing function . Thereafter, the portable terminal will output a predetermined selection area for selecting an area to be subjected to the message editing process. Accordingly, the portable terminal selects the text, which is a message to be stored, using the selected area, and the portable terminal leaves the remaining data (presentation, image (image / jpeg), text Text / plain) is deleted (320) and stored.

If the user of the portable terminal stores only the image data (Image / jpeg) and wants to delete the remaining data, the portable terminal leaves the image data image (Image / jpeg) selected by the user, Presentation, text / plain, audio / wav) will be stored.

At this time, the portable terminal may briefly output the editing result (e.g., deleted data item, the capacity of the edited message, etc.) according to the message editing to the display unit 108 of the portable terminal. Also, the portable terminal may delete the data to be deleted and generate new stored data including only data to be stored.

3 (b) is a diagram illustrating a message editing process for deleting a specific area of a message received from the portable terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3B, when it is assumed that the user of the portable terminal desires to remove only a specific part of the content of the received message, media information is present as shown in FIG. Therefore, when the deleted data is deleted after the corresponding data is deleted, information indicating that the corresponding data does not exist can be output. This is a disadvantage in that it can be determined that an abnormal message is output by outputting a message indicating that the actual data is deleted and the data is deleted although the attached file list of the original message exists and the deleted data is known.

Although FIG. 3 illustrates a process of editing a multimedia message according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the present invention can be similarly applied to an e-mail.

4 is a diagram illustrating a screen for performing a message editing process in a portable terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

4A is a diagram illustrating a screen outputting a multimedia message received from the portable terminal according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4A, when the portable terminal receives a multimedia message, the portable terminal can output a title 401, an image 403, and a message content 405 of the multimedia message. The contents of the message can be divided into a plurality of pages according to the screen size and output. At this time, the portable terminal can also output information indicating the current page status among the total number of pages of the multimedia message.

4 (b) is a diagram illustrating a screen for selecting an area for performing a message editing process in the portable terminal according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4B, the portable terminal can perform a message editing process by selecting a specific area from the contents of the received message. 4B illustrates a process of selecting a page unit of the received message as a specific region (shaded region) 410 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 4B, The user can perform an editing process of deleting a selected specific area or deleting a part excluding the specific area selected as described above.

4C is a diagram illustrating another screen for selecting an area for performing a message editing process in the portable terminal according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4C, the portable terminal selects a specific area among the contents of the received message and performs the message editing process. 4C illustrates an example in which a specific area is selected (a shaded area) in a page unit or a media unit (e.g., an image area, a text area, and the like) The portable terminal can perform the editing process of deleting the selected specific region or deleting a portion excluding the specific region selected as described above.

By using the message editing function for editing a specific area in the portable terminal according to the present invention as described above, the storage area of the portable terminal can be efficiently used.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a message editing process of the portable terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. In the following description, FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a message editing process performed in a portable terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Here, the portable terminal may first select a region of a message to be edited in order to secure a storage area of the portable terminal or remove unnecessary information from the user so that the user can easily and quickly search for necessary information. It is assumed that a user of the terminal has selected a specific area to be deleted or a user has selected a specific area to be stored separately.

Referring to FIG. 5, the portable terminal determines whether it detects a request to delete data of a region selected in operation 501.

)로 나타낼 수 있다. 즉, 도 6(a)에 도시한 바와 같이 상기 휴대용 단말기는 선택한 영역의 이미지만을 삭제하여 저장하고, 상기 이미지가 삭제되었음을 알리는 메시지(601)로 출력하도록 처리한다. 상기 도6(a)와 같이 그대로 출력할 수도 있으나, 추가적으로 도6(a)에서 (

)를 없도록 즉, 도 6(c)에 도시한 바와 같이 저장하고자 하는 영역의 데이터만을 모아 놓은 저장 메시지로 생성할 수도 있다. 즉, 상기 휴대용 단말기는 상기 도 6(a)에 도시한 데이터 삭제를 알리는 이미지(601)를 삭제하고 제목과 내용으로 구성된 저장 메시지를 재생성하도록 처리하는 것이다.If the mobile terminal detects a request to delete data of the selected area (only data of the selected area is deleted but the remaining data is stored), the mobile terminal proceeds to step 503 and deletes the data of the selected area , The process advances to step 505 to display a message indicating that the data of the selected area is deleted. Here, the message indicating that the data of the selected area is deleted may be a simple message informing of data deletion or a simple image informing deletion of data (e.g.,

). That is, as shown in FIG. 6 (a), the portable terminal deletes only the image of the selected region, stores the image, and outputs the message 601 indicating that the image has been deleted. As shown in FIG. 6 (a), it may be output as is. However, in FIG. 6 (a)

As shown in FIG. 6 (c), a storage message including only the data of the area to be stored may be generated. That is, the portable terminal deletes the image 601 indicating the data deletion shown in FIG. 6A and processes the stored message composed of the title and contents to be regenerated.

On the other hand, when a request to store data of the selected area is sensed (data of the selected area is stored and the remaining part is deleted), the portable terminal proceeds to step 507 and deletes all data excluding the selected area And then proceeds to step 509 to generate a storage message composed only of data of the selected area. That is, as shown in FIG. 6 (b), the portable terminal can generate and store a storage message composed of only the selected image 610.

Then, the portable terminal proceeds to step 209 of FIG. 2 to process the edited message.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but is capable of various modifications within the scope of the invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited by the illustrated embodiments, but should be determined by the scope of the appended claims and equivalents thereof.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a portable terminal capable of editing a received message according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of editing a message in a portable terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. FIG.

FIG. 3 (a) is a diagram illustrating a message editing process of storing only a specific area of a message received from a portable terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention and deleting the remaining area,

FIG. 3 (b) illustrates a message editing process for deleting a specific area of a message received by the portable terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 4 (a) is a view showing a screen outputting a multimedia message received by the portable terminal according to the present invention, FIG.

4B is a view illustrating a screen for selecting an area for performing a message editing process in the portable terminal according to the present invention.

4C is a diagram illustrating another screen for selecting an area for performing a message editing process in the portable terminal according to the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a message editing process of a portable terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention,

FIG. 6 is a view illustrating a message editing process performed in a portable terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

Claims (22)

1. A portable terminal for message management, An output unit outputting a message composed of at least two data; And And a controller for selecting at least one data item from the data output in response to the input, editing the selected data item, changing the configuration of the output message, and storing the modified message. The method according to claim 1, Wherein, And to output the message in a state in which the configuration is changed, corresponding to an input for outputting the stored message. 3. The method of claim 2, Wherein, And to output information for displaying data whose configuration has changed on a message output screen output in a state in which the configuration has been changed. The method according to claim 1, Wherein, And to change the configuration of the message by generating a message in which the selected data in the output message is deleted or generating a message composed only of the selected data. 5. The method of claim 4, Wherein, And reconstructs the message for the deleted data area in response to the deletion of the selected data to change the configuration of the message to be output. 5. The method of claim 4, Wherein, And to change the configuration of the message so that the message is output without being reconfigured for the area of the deleted data corresponding to the deletion of the selected data. The method according to claim 1, The data constituting the message includes, Wherein the portable terminal includes at least one of an image, text, and audio. The method according to claim 1, The message comprises: A multimedia message, and an e-mail. delete delete delete A message management method of a portable terminal, Outputting a message composed of at least two data; Selecting at least one data item of data configured in a message output in response to an input; Editing the selected data to change the configuration of the output message; And And storing the changed configuration message. 13. The method of claim 12, The method of claim 1, And outputting the message in a modified configuration corresponding to an input for outputting the stored message. 14. The method of claim 13, The operation of outputting the message with the configuration changed, And outputting information indicating a configuration changed data to a message output screen output in a state in which the configuration has been changed. 13. The method of claim 12, And editing the selected data to change the configuration of the output message, Generating a message in which the selected data in the output message is deleted, or generating a message composed only of the selected data. 16. The method of claim 15, And editing the selected data to change the configuration of the output message, And reconfiguring a message for an area of deleted data corresponding to deletion of the selected data to change the configuration of the message to be output. 16. The method of claim 15, And editing the selected data to change the configuration of the output message, And changing the configuration of the message so that it is output as it is without reconstructing the message for the area of the deleted data corresponding to the deletion of the selected data. 13. The method of claim 12, The data constituting the message includes, Image, text, and audio. 13. The method of claim 12, The message comprises: A multimedia message, and an e-mail. delete delete delete

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