KR20030044313A - Method for transmission of group message of mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for transmitting group messages of a mobile communication terminal is provided to transmit the same message to each group at a time, and to variably designate group members, thereby transmitting the message to all the group members set by a user. CONSTITUTION: An originating terminal configures a transmitting message and a telephone number in a short message service packet, and transmits the message with the telephone number to a communication system(S21). The communication system transmits an ACK message showing the successful receiving of the message(S22). The communication system decides whether the message is a group message. If so, the communication system detects receiving telephone numbers from the short message service packet. The communication system transmits the message to many receivers, and terminals of the receivers transmit a successful message receiving result to the communication system(S23,S24). The communication system retransmits the message to terminals that do not receive the ACK message for a certain time(S25).

Description

METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION OF GROUP MESSAGE OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL}

The present invention relates to a group message transmission method of a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to a group message transmission method of a mobile communication terminal to transmit a message having the same contents for each group in a short message transmission.

In general, in order to transmit / receive a message using a short message service (SMS) using a mobile communication terminal, an individual channel is allocated to a calling party and a called party. Send a message between mobile communication terminals.

The conventional calling party mobile terminal has a phone number in a group (friends, work, family, etc.) already stored in the phone book of the calling party mobile terminal in order to make it easier to transmit a message using a short message service. By selecting, the message is transmitted to the called-party mobile terminal using a group channel allocated between the calling party and the called-party mobile terminal.

Hereinafter, the short message service of the conventional mobile communication terminal will be described in more detail.

First, a user of a calling mobile terminal belonging to a group designates a channel of a group to receive a group message as shown in (a) and (b) of FIG. 1 by using a group message transmission function provided in a menu. Send the desired group message to the communication system.

In this case, since the calling mobile terminal may be subscribed to several groups, the user may select a desired group from among the various groups to which the mobile terminal is subscribed and transmit a group message.

The communication system receives a group message transmitted from the calling mobile terminal and transmits an ACK message, which is a response message, to the calling mobile terminal.

Accordingly, the user of the calling mobile terminal may recognize that all the group messages transmitted by checking the ACK message transmitted from the communication system have been transmitted to the communication system.

Subsequently, the communication system transmits the received group message to each called party mobile communication terminal to which the group channel is assigned.

Then, the mobile communication terminal of the called party group should transmit the ACK message to the communication system side of the transmission state of the message received from the communication system.

At this time, the communication system checks the destination mobile communication terminal that does not transmit the ACK message, and then retransmits the group message to the destination mobile communication terminal that has not received the group message.

When the retransmission is performed for a predetermined time or a predetermined number of times, the communication system stops the retransmission and notifies the originating mobile communication terminal of the transmission result of the group message.

At this time, the transmission result is indicated by transmission declaration, transmission failure, transmission suspension, and the like and is notified as a message.

However, the prior art operating as described above requires a process of subscribing to an additional service of a service company in order to be assigned a personal channel, and in addition to inflexibility in designating a member of a group stored in a phone book of a mobile communication terminal. There was a problem that the mobile communication terminal of the limited number of groups to be transmitted.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and can transmit the same message to the entire group of persons stored in the phone book of the calling mobile terminal, and also stored in the phone book of the calling mobile terminal. It is an object of the present invention to provide a group message transmission method of a mobile communication terminal, which is variable in designating a member of a group to be transmitted to all group members in one short message transmission.

Figure 1 (a), (b) is an exemplary view showing an LCD window when transmitting a group message of a conventional mobile communication terminal.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of transmitting a group message between mobile communication terminals of the present invention.

The present invention for achieving the above object comprises the first step of transmitting a group message to the communication system at the same time by selecting the group name of the phonebook is pre-stored and registered in the calling mobile terminal; Determining whether the message sent to the communication system is a group message; A third step of transmitting the group message to the called party's mobile terminal of the group when the group message is received; Checking whether a response message to the transmitted group message is transmitted from each called terminal; And if the response message is not transmitted according to the check result, a fifth step of retransmitting the group message.

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

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of transmitting a group message between mobile communication terminals according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, a group message of a phone book previously registered and registered in a calling mobile terminal is transmitted to a communication system at the same time. A first step of doing; Determining whether the message sent to the communication system is a group message; A third step of transmitting the group message to the called party's mobile terminal of the group when the group message is received; Checking whether a response message to the transmitted group message is transmitted from each called terminal; When the response message is not transmitted according to the check result, a fifth step of retransmitting the group message is described. Referring to FIG.

First, in order to realize the present invention, the following configuration is required.

First, a phone number registration or a grouping of users in the address book.

Second, a function of specifying a group name in the receiver number input window when sending a short message service (SMS).

Third, implement a short message service (SMS) packet on S / W that can send a flag to confirm group transmission and a plurality of user numbers belonging to a group.

Fourth, an implementation on a communication system capable of confirming message packet information sent from a calling mobile terminal is required.

The user of the mobile communication terminal having such a configuration stores an address book and a phone number in the phone book. At this time, a group name (friend, work, family, etc.) and the number of groups can be stored in various ways according to the user of the mobile communication terminal.

However, because the length of SMS message packets is limited, the number of groups that can belong to a group can be limited.

For example, if you want to send the same message simultaneously to the people in your friend group, select the group name instead of the recipient's number in the recipient's number input window.

The phone number of the users belonging to a group of friends and a group that can be determined that the message to be transmitted and the group transmission message is transmitted to the short message service packet (S21).

The communication system transmits an ACK message for successful message reception (S22).

In the communication system, it is determined whether the message sent from the calling party is a group message.

As a result of the group message determination result of the communication system, the communication system which has confirmed that the message is a group transmission message detects the number of the called party in the short message service packet.

As a result, the communication system transmits a message to a plurality of called parties according to the detected number, and the receiving terminal receiving the message transmits the ACK message for successful message reception to the communication system (S23). , S24).

The message is retransmitted to the called-party mobile communication terminal which has not received the ACK message within a predetermined time (S25).

At this time, the transmission success, transmission failure, transmission hold, etc. according to the result of the retransmission is performed and notified as a message.

In the method of transmitting a group message of the mobile communication terminal described above, the communication system means a base station.

As described in detail above, the present invention not only can transmit the same message to all the group members stored in the phonebook of the calling mobile terminal, but also designates the members of the group stored in the phonebook of the calling mobile terminal. In this case, the short message can be transmitted to all the group members set by the user of the calling mobile terminal.

Claims (4)

A first step of selecting a group name of a phone book previously registered and registered in the calling mobile terminal and simultaneously transmitting a group message to the communication system; Determining whether the message sent to the communication system is a group message; A third step of transmitting the group message to the called party's mobile terminal of the group when the group message is received; Checking whether a response message to the transmitted group message is transmitted from each called terminal; And a fifth step of retransmitting the group message if the response message is not transmitted according to the check result. The method of claim 1, wherein the first step comprises transmitting a plurality of user numbers belonging to a flag and a group by constructing a Short Message Service (SMS) packet. The method of claim 1, wherein the second step determines whether the message is a group message. The method of claim 1, wherein the third step further comprises detecting a telephone number of the mobile communication terminal at the called party in the short message service (SMS) packet.