KR20030037329A - Apparatus method for transmitting short message in mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method of transmitting a text message in a mobile communication terminal is provided to give additional functions such as background music attachment, background screen attachment, and reservation transmission to a text message transmission functions, thereby increasing more profits for a service provider. CONSTITUTION: A controller checks whether a message transmission key is inputted(201). If so, the controller displays a message requesting to attach a background screen(203), and checks whether a key to select a background screen attachment is inputted(205). If so, the controller displays background screen lists(207). The controller checks whether a key to select one of the background screen lists is inputted(209). If so, the controller reads a selected background screen from a memory, and displays the background screen on an LCD(211). If a completion key is sensed, the controller stores the background screen where a text message is inputted in the memory(217). The controller displays a message requesting to attach background music on the LCD(219). The controller checks whether a key to select a background music attachment is inputted(225). If so, the controller attaches selected background music to the stored message(227).

Description

How to send a text message from your mobile device {APPARATUS METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SHORT MESSAGE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL}

The present invention relates to a text transmission method of a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to a method for giving an additional function to a text transmission function.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Mobile communication terminals are rapidly spreading due to the convenience of portability, and thus service providers (terminal manufacturers) are competitively developing terminals having better functions to secure a large number of users. For example, recent mobile communication terminals are not merely for making and receiving calls, but have various functions such as accessing the Internet to obtain necessary information and sending and receiving text.

In particular, one of the most used functions of the mobile communication terminal is "text transfer (or SMS)". The conventional text transmission service is simply a function of delivering a sender's message. Nowadays, technologies such as ringtones of 16 chords and color LCDs are developed so much that there is a need for differentiated services with additional functions. In other words, a character transmission function is required to satisfy the unique personality expression of 10-20s, the main user.

On the other hand, the conventional SMS does not have a reservation transmission function. That is, when there is a message to be transmitted at a fixed time, there is a hassle of waiting for the transmission time and transmitting the message.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for attaching a background screen when a message is transmitted in a mobile communication terminal.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for attaching background music when transmitting a message in a mobile communication terminal.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a method for transmitting a message at a scheduled time in a mobile communication terminal.

According to an embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object, a text transmission method in the mobile communication terminal, the process of displaying a predetermined background screen on the display unit when the text message transmission, and the text message input by the user is displayed And a process of writing on the background screen, formatting the background message on which the text message is created in a transmission standard, and transmitting the formatted text message to a designated counterpart.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of transmitting a text in a mobile communication terminal comprises: inputting and storing a text message written by a user; and storing a predetermined background screen corresponding to the stored text message when attaching background music; And formatting the stored text message and the background screen according to a transmission standard, and transmitting the formatted text message to a specified counterpart.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a text transmission method in a mobile communication terminal, a process of inputting and storing a text message written by a user; And checking whether the reservation time has been reached, and transmitting the text message to a designated counterpart when the reservation time has been reached.

1 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2A and 2B illustrate a control procedure for participating in a special additional function in text transmission in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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

The present invention will now be described with respect to techniques for adding special additional functions to SMS. For example, the additional function may be background music attachment, background wallpaper attachment, and reservation transmission.

1 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, a control unit (MPU: Micro-processor unit) 100 controls the overall operation of the communication terminal. For example, it performs processing and control for voice calls and data communications, and handles the operation of adding special additional functions to text transmission according to the present invention in addition to the usual functions. Therefore, in the following description, description about the process and control of the normal control part 100 is abbreviate | omitted.

The read only memory (ROM) 102 stores microcode and various reference data of a program for processing and controlling the control unit 100. In particular, it stores a program for adding a special additional function to text transmission according to the present invention. Random Access Memory (RAM) 104 is a working memory of the controller 100. Stores temporary data generated during the execution of various programs. Flash RAM 106 stores various updatable storage data such as a phone book. In particular, the flash RAM 106 stores background music (for example, MP3 file), background screen (for example, MPEG file), etc., attached to the text transmission, and responds to the input message of the reservation time according to the reservation transmission. Save it.

Key pad 108 includes numeric keys 0 through 9, menu, text transfer key, TALK, clear (CLR), end (END), *, #, scroll key (UP /). And a plurality of function keys, such as a DOWN key, and provide key input data corresponding to a key pressed by the user to the control unit 100. The display 110 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 100 may use a color liquid crystal display (LCD).

The codec (Coder-Decoder) 112 connected to the control unit 100, and the transmitter and receiver 116 and the receiver 114 connected to the codec 112 are voice input / output blocks used for phone calls and voice recording. to be. The codec 112 converts the PCM data provided from the control unit 100 into an analog voice signal, transmits the same through the talker 116, and converts the voice signal received through the receiver 114 into PCM data. To the control unit 100.

In addition, the RF unit (Radio Frequency unit) (120) is the frequency of the radio frequency signal received via the antenna 118 is provided to the baseband processing unit 122 by lowering the frequency, the baseband signal from the baseband processing unit 122 The frequency is raised and transmitted through the antenna 118. The baseband processor 122 processes the baseband signal transmitted and received between the RF unit 120 and the controller 100. For example, in case of transmission, channel coding and spreading of data to be transmitted are performed, and in case of reception, despreading and channel decoding of a received signal are performed. .

2A and 2B illustrate a control procedure for participating in a special additional function in text transmission in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. For example, the add-on represents background and background music attachments and scheduled transfers. In particular, FIG. 2A illustrates a procedure for attaching a background screen and background music, and FIG. 2B illustrates a procedure for performing reservation transmission.

First, referring to FIG. 2A, the controller 100 checks whether a message transmission key is input in step 201. If the message transmission key is input, the controller 100 proceeds to step 203, otherwise proceeds to step 229 to perform a corresponding function. In operation 203, the controller 100 displays a request message for attaching a background screen, and checks whether a key for selecting the attachment of a background screen is input in step 205. If a key for selecting attaching a background screen is input, the controller 100 proceeds to step 207 to display a list of background screens held. For example, it displays as "(1) love, (2) friendship, (3) mountain, (4) sea". The user then looks at the list and selects a background to use for the message transmission. That is, the controller 100 checks whether there is a key input for selecting a specific one from the background screen list in step 209. If there is a key input for selecting the specific background screen, the control unit 100 reads the selected background screen from the memory in step 211 and displays it on the display unit (liquid crystal LCD). The background image may be a still image or a moving image, and the controller 100 displays image data stored in a memory on a display unit through an image related application.

In operation 213, the controller 100 receives a character input by the user from the keypad 108 while displaying the selected background screen, and displays the input character on the background screen. The controller 100 checks whether a character input completion key is input by a user. If the input of the completion key is detected, the controller 100 proceeds to step 217 and stores the background screen in which a character is input in the memory. That is, after compressing the image data for the background image input the character is formatted as a transmission message and stored in the memory.

After storing the transmission message, the controller 100 displays a request message with background music on the display unit in step 219. In operation 225, the controller 100 checks whether a key for selecting the background music attachment is input. If a key for selecting to attach a background music is input, the control unit 100 proceeds to step 223 and displays a list of held background music. For example, "1 (wax), (2) UN (wave), (3) Yoo Seung-jun (passion)" is displayed. The user then looks at the list and selects background music to attach to the transmission message. That is, the controller 100 checks whether there is a key input for selecting a specific one from the background music list in step 225. If there is a key input for selecting the specific background music, the control unit 100 proceeds to step 227 and attaches the selected background music to the stored transmission message. That is, the controller 100 stores data (eg, MP3 data) corresponding to the background music in a corresponding message area according to a predetermined message format. That is, the stored transmission message and background music are formatted and stored in a transmission standard.

If the background screen attachment is not selected in step 205, the controller 100 proceeds to step 231 and displays a text (text) input request message on the display unit. In operation 233, a character input by the user is received from the keypad 108, and the received character is displayed on the display unit 110. In operation 235, the controller 100 checks whether a character input completion key is input according to a user's key input. When the input of the completion key is detected, the control unit 100 formats the input text into a transmission message in step 237 and stores it in a memory. Then, the controller 100 proceeds to step 219 to attach background music according to a user's request.

After attaching the background music and the background screen according to the user's request as described above, the control unit 100 displays the transmission request message in step 239 of FIG. 2B. The transmission request message is a message asking whether to "send" or "scheduled" the stored message. Here, the user selects a transmission mode by viewing the message. That is, the control unit 100 checks whether the "send immediately" and the "scheduled transmission" is selected in step 241. If the direct transmission is selected, the control unit 100 proceeds directly to step 257, and if the " reserved transmission " is selected, the control unit 100 proceeds to step 243 and displays a reservation time input request message on the display unit 110. . In step 245, the control unit 100 receives a reservation time input by the user from the keypad, and checks whether a confirmation key is input in step 251. If the input of the confirmation key is detected, the control unit 100 stores the input reservation time in memory in correspondence with the transmission message in step 253; otherwise, in step 249, the controller 100 continues to input the reservation time. Return to

After storing the reservation time, the controller 100 checks the time in step 255 to check whether the reservation time has been reached. If the reservation time is reached, the controller 100 proceeds to step 257 and transmits a transmission message stored in the memory through a transmitter (baseband processing, RF module). For example, as described above, the transmission message is accompanied by background music and / or a background screen. After completing the transmission of the transmission message, the control unit 100 displays a transmission completion message on the display unit 110 in step 259. In operation 261, it is checked whether a confirmation key is input according to a user's key input. If the input of the confirmation key is detected, the program according to the present invention is terminated. Otherwise, the process returns to step 259 to continue displaying the transmission completion message.

That is, as described above, when sending a message, the sender selects a background screen to be sent before (or after writing) the message and creates a message on the background screen as if writing a letter. Then, attach the desired background music and send it. Then, the receiving side can visually confirm the message written on the image (still image or moving image) when checking the message, and at the same time, check the message while listening to the background music. Here, the transmitting terminal attaches the background music using not only the melody (or image) downloaded through the wireless Internet but also an existing melody (or image) stored at the factory.

Also, even if the sender does not attach the background music (or wallpaper), the receiver sets the music (or screen) as default in advance and selects the music (or screen) that is specified in advance when checking the received message. It can also be implemented to send.

In addition, the present invention implements a message reservation transmission function to enable the sender to automatically send a message at a desired time. In other words, when you want to send a message at a specific time, the reservation time is specified in advance so that automatic transmission is performed at the reservation time. This allows you to send messages without forgetting them at a specific time. Of course, it should be possible to cancel the message transmission before the scheduled time.

Meanwhile, in the detailed description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications are possible 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 defined not only by the scope of the following claims, but also by those equivalent to the scope of the claims.

As described above, the present invention has an advantage that a service provider (terminal manufacturer) can create more consumption by adding an additional function to the text transmission function, and the user can be provided with a better function. In addition, there is an advantage that the stored message can be automatically transmitted at the time desired by the user.

Claims (5)

In the text transmission method in the mobile communication terminal, Displaying a predetermined background screen on a display unit when sending a text message; Creating a text message input by the user on the displayed background screen; Formatting a background image in which the text message is written to a transmission standard; And transmitting the formatted text message to a designated counterpart. In the text transmission method in the mobile communication terminal, A process of inputting and storing a text message written by a user; Attaching a predetermined background image to the stored text message when the background music is attached; Formatting the stored text message and the wallpaper as a transmission standard; And transmitting the formatted text message to a designated counterpart. In the text transmission method in the mobile communication terminal, A process of inputting and storing a text message written by a user; Inputting and storing a reservation time to transmit the text message when selecting a reservation transmission; Checking whether the reservation time is reached; And when the reservation time is reached, transmitting the text message to a designated counterpart. The method of claim 3, wherein the storing of the text message comprises: Reading a predetermined background screen and displaying it on the display unit; Creating a text message input by the user on the displayed background screen; And formatting and storing the background image in which the text message is written in a transmission standard. The method of claim 3, wherein the storing of the text message comprises: A process of inputting and storing a text message written by a user; Attaching a predetermined background image to the stored text message when the background music is attached; And formatting and storing the stored text message and the wallpaper in a transmission standard.