KR20040100739A - Short message service method in mobile communication network - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An SMS(Short Message Service) method in a mobile communication network is provided to include origination time information in a short message to be transmitted to a callee's terminal, so that a callee can exactly know the origination time of the received short message. CONSTITUTION: If the subscriber of a calling terminal inputs the phone number of a called terminal and desired contents and makes a transmission request for the inputted short message, the calling terminal transmits the short message to a calling-side MSC(Mobile Switching Center) together with its own phone number. When receiving the short message from the calling terminal, the calling-side MSC adds the received time of the short message as origination time information to the received message and sends the short message to an associated SMSC(Short Message Service Center). The SMSC, based on the message transmitted from the calling-side MSC, creates a short message and transmits it to a called-side MSC. The called-side MSC extracts the phone number of the called terminal and transmits the short message to the called terminal. The called terminal displays the short message including the phone number of the calling terminal, the contents, origination time, and received time according to a preset message display environment or the user's selection.

Description

SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE METHOD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK}

The present invention relates to a short message service (SMS) method of a mobile communication network, and more particularly, to a short message service method of a mobile communication network in which an outgoing time by an originating terminal of a short message can be displayed in an incoming message. It is about.

As is well known, the mobile communication network provides convenience for subscribers to move freely within the service area and to perform voice communication, and news information, weather information, and sports using a short message service (SMS) capable of simple message transmission. It provides subscribers with information, securities information, exchange rate information, and traffic information.

Such a short message service refers to an interactive service capable of sending and receiving short text messages regardless of whether a call exists between terminals.

Referring to the form of a short message transmission service between subscribers according to the prior art, when a subscriber requests a short message of about 105 bytes to another subscriber, the short message service center transmits the requested short message to a corresponding destination terminal. It takes a form to say.

However, according to the conventional short message service, the message transmitted from the destination exchange station to the destination terminal does not include the origination time information of the message by the originating terminal, and thus does not display the origination time when the terminating terminal displays the short message. Only the content of the message and the incoming time are displayed. If the callback number field of the short message is filled with the telephone number of the calling terminal, the content of the short message, the incoming time, and the telephone number of the calling terminal are displayed together.

Accordingly, the subscriber of the terminating terminal has no choice but to estimate the origination time of the short message based on the message terminating time. There was a problem that the transmission time of the short message is not known exactly.

The present invention has been proposed to solve such a conventional problem, and the destination terminal displays the incoming message including the outgoing time of the message by transmitting the message including the outgoing time information of the originating terminal in the message transmitted from the destination exchange station to the destination terminal. An object of the present invention is to provide a method of short message service in a mobile communication network.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a short message service method for transmitting a short message to a called terminal in response to a request by a calling terminal in a mobile communication network, the content of a message input by the calling terminal and the short message. The short message including the origination time information is transmitted to the called terminal so that the called terminal outputs a short message having a structure including the message content and the origination time.

1 is a block diagram of a mobile communication system for performing a short message service method according to the present invention;

2A is a structural diagram of a message transmitted from an originating terminal to an originating exchange station by the short message service method according to the present invention;

2b is a structural diagram of a message transmitted from an originating switching center to a short message center by the short message service method according to the present invention;

2c is a structural diagram of a message transmitted from the destination exchange station to the destination terminal by the short message service method according to the present invention;

2d is a structural diagram of a short message displayed on the called terminal by the short message service method according to the present invention.

There may be a plurality of embodiments of the present invention, hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a preferred embodiment. Through this embodiment, it is possible to better understand the objects, features and advantages of the present invention.

In the mobile communication system for performing the short message service method according to the present invention, as shown in the block diagram of FIG. 1, a mobile station (MS) 101 and a mobile switching center (MSC) 103 are described. ), A ShortMessage Service Center (SMSC) 105, a destination switching center 107, and a destination terminal 109. In this case, detailed configurations of a base station transceiver subsystem (BTS), a base station controller (BSC), a base station manager (BSM), and a home location register (HLR) are omitted. As shown, the illustrated mobile communication system has the same configuration as a known mobile communication system, and thus a description of the function of each component will be omitted. In addition, the function of each component for the short message service according to the present invention will be fully understood from the description of the short message service process to be described below.

Hereinafter, the short message service process according to the present invention performed by the mobile communication system configured as described above will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

First, the calling terminal 101 transmits a message having the structure of FIG. 2A further including the telephone number of the calling terminal 101 when the subscriber requests the transmission of the telephone number of the called terminal 109 and the content of the short message. Transmit to the switching center 103.

When the message is transmitted from the originating terminal 101, the originating switching center (MSC) 103 further includes the reception time of the message as the originating time information, so that the message having the structure of FIG. The phone number is transmitted to the corresponding short message center 105 that manages the number.

The Short Message Service Center (SMSC) 105 generates a short message having the structure of FIG. 2B to enable a callback call based on a message sent from the originating exchange 103, and to the destination exchange 107. send.

When the short message is transmitted from the short message center 105, the destination switching center 107 extracts the telephone number of the destination terminal and transmits the short message having the structure of FIG. 2C to the destination terminal 109.

When the short message is transmitted from the destination switching center 107, the called terminal 109 has a structure including a telephone number and a message of the calling terminal, a calling time, and a called time as shown in FIG. 2D according to a preset message display environment or a user's selection. The short message is displayed on the display window.

In the above description, but limited to one embodiment of the present invention, it is obvious that the technology of the present invention can be easily modified by those skilled in the art. Such modified embodiments should be included in the technical spirit described in the claims of the present invention.

As described above, the present invention transmits a message transmitted from a destination exchange station to a destination terminal by including the origination time information of the originating terminal so that the destination terminal displays the incoming message including the origination time of the message. The effect of knowing exactly when the message is sent is effective.

Claims (2)

In a short message service method for transmitting a short message to a called terminal in response to a request by a calling terminal in a mobile communication network, Transmitting a short message including the message content input by the originating terminal and the time information of the short message to the called terminal, the called terminal outputs a short message having a structure including the message contents and the originating time. A short message service method of a mobile communication network. The method of claim 1, The outgoing time information is a short message service method of a mobile communication network, characterized in that the source exchange receiving the request for the transmission of the short message from the originating terminal includes the reception time of the short message in the short message.