KR20050104948A - Method for grouping received messages in mobile terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a method of simply checking or deleting only a message desired by a user among messages received by a mobile communication terminal. To this end, the present invention checks the sender number of the received message and groups the received message according to the sender number. Accordingly, the user can simply check or delete the desired message without having to check the caller numbers of the received messages.

Description

How to group incoming messages on a mobile terminal {METHOD FOR GROUPING RECEIVED MESSAGES IN MOBILE TERMINAL}

The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly to a method for managing a received message.

These days, functions such as SMS (Short Message Service), MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service), Voice Message (Voice Message) of mobile communication terminals are general. These message services refer to a service that enables users of mobile communication terminals to exchange multimedia data including short sentences, voices, images and texts between mobile communication terminals without additional equipment. In addition, the spread of mobile communication terminals is rapidly spreading, and the proportion of the population using these services is increasing rapidly. As such, the number of such messages has increased so that the users of current mobile communication terminals receive or transmit dozens of messages a day.

FIG. 1 illustrates an example of a display screen for a process of confirming only received messages desired by a user among dozens of messages in a mobile communication terminal. Referring to this, in (a) of FIG. 1, a user may check a message received from a 'message management' menu of a mobile communication terminal and the number of a sender who sent the message. When the desired message is selected and 'OK' is selected, the content of the corresponding message can be checked as shown in FIG. If the user wants to check only the message of the caller number '016-000-1111', the user selects the message of the caller number 4 '016-000-1111' in FIG. 1 (a). Pressing 'OK' displays the contents of the corresponding message as shown in FIG. Then, to check the message of the caller number '016-000-1111' again, check the caller number of each message. As shown in (c) of FIG. 1, if message 7 of the second '016-000-1111' caller number is selected and the message is pressed again, the content of the corresponding message is displayed as shown in FIG. . In order to find the message of the third '016-000-1111' calling party number, the user selects message 12 as shown in (e) of FIG. 1 and confirms the contents of the message as shown in FIG. Can be.

Therefore, in the conventional message management method of the mobile communication terminal, the user has to check the caller number of each message received by the mobile communication terminal, and find only the desired received messages among them. Therefore, the user has to check the sender number of each message in order to find the messages he wants.

In recent years, spam messages are increasing in the message service of mobile communication terminals. These spam messages refer to commercial and advertising messages that you do not want. However, in the normal message management method of the mobile terminal, the contents of the message service cannot be checked until the user checks these spam messages, so to delete them, delete all the message management boxes or check all the spam messages. There was a problem that the message should be deleted after confirming that it is a spam message.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for easily checking only messages desired by a user among messages received by a mobile communication terminal.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a method in which a user can delete messages that the user does not want without having to check them individually.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a menu selection step of selecting one of grouping menus for grouping the received messages according to a caller number included in each of the received messages. And grouping the received messages according to the grouping criteria of the grouping menu selected in the step and displaying the received messages on the display unit of the mobile communication terminal.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description and the annexed drawings, detailed descriptions of well-known functions and configurations that may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention will be omitted.

Referring to FIG. 2, which shows the configuration of a mobile communication terminal that groups received messages according to an embodiment of the present invention, the memory unit 202, the key input unit 204, the RF (radio frequency) module 210, and the baseband are described. A baseband processor 212 and a coder-decorder 214 are connected to the controller 200. In addition, the control unit 200 performs voice signal and data processing and controls each part of the mobile communication terminal according to a protocol for a general telephone call, data communication, or wireless Internet connection, and receives a message when the message is received according to the present invention. The messages are grouped according to the calling party number or the group of the telephone book stored in the memory unit 202.

The memory unit 202 connected to the controller 200 includes a read only memory (ROM), a flash memory, a random access memory (RAM), and the like. The ROM stores a program for processing and controlling the controller 200 and various reference data. The RAM provides a working memory of the controller 200. The flash memory provides an area for storing various updatable archiving data, which is used in the present invention to store received messages.

In addition, the keypad 204 includes various keys including numeric keys to provide the controller 200 with a key input input by the user. The display unit 206 typically includes an LCD to display various types of information as images under the control of the controller 200. The RF module 210 converts a signal received in transmitting and receiving an RF signal with a base station through an antenna 208 to an intermediate frequency (IF) signal and outputs it to the baseband processor 212 and from the baseband processor 212. The input IF signal is converted into an RF signal and transmitted.

The baseband processor 212 is a baseband analog ASIC (BBA) that provides an interface between the controller 200 and the RF module 210. The baseband processor 212 converts a baseband digital signal applied from the controller 200 into an analog IF signal. By applying to the RF module 210, the analog IF signal applied from the RF module 210 is converted into a digital signal of the baseband and applied to the control unit 200. In addition, the codec 214 connected to the control unit 200 is connected to the microphone 218 and the speaker 220 through the amplifying unit 216, and the PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) encoding of the voice signal input from the microphone 218 is performed. Encoding and outputting the voice data to the control unit 200, PCM decoding (decoding) the voice data input from the control unit 200 and outputs the voice signal to the speaker 220 through the amplifier 216. The amplifying unit 216 amplifies a voice signal input from the microphone 218 or a voice signal output to the speaker 120. The volume of the speaker 220 and the gain of the microphone 218 are controlled by the control unit 200. Adjust accordingly.

When the voice message, text message or multimedia message is received by the mobile communication terminal, the received message is stored in the memory unit 202. In addition, the control unit 200 notifies the user of the ringtone or vibration. In addition, the display unit 206 displays a message receiving icon indicating that there is a received message to inform the user that there is a newly received message.

In the present invention, when a message is received, it is checked whether there is a group having the same number among the groups whose caller numbers of the received messages are registered in the phone book. Here, the phone book means that the user of the mobile communication terminal stores phone numbers received from other users. A typical mobile communication terminal is provided with such a phone book function, and when registering a phone number, identification information such as a user's name of the phone number is stored together. In addition, the identification information is stored in the phone book, and then the charge number is set to one of the groups to which the user belongs, that is, a group basically set in the mobile communication terminal such as 'friend', 'family' or 'lover'. . In the present invention, when the received messages are grouped and displayed, groups set for each user of each telephone number stored in the telephone book are used.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of displaying a received message by grouping the received message according to a calling party number or a group of a phone book to which the calling party number belongs. Referring to FIG. 3, in operation 300, a 'grouping' menu is displayed. The 'grouping' menu includes '1. number sorting', '2. by group' and '3. unregistered number' menus as shown in step 302. If the user selects '1. number sorting', the process proceeds to step 304 to sort and display the received messages in the order of the calling party number. Therefore, when step 304 is performed, the received messages are grouped by each number group by sorting the same calling party number. Therefore, the user can easily check only the messages received from the same sender. Although not shown in the figure, the '1. number alignment' may automatically group the received messages by grouping the received messages as soon as the user confirms the received message. For example, if the user selects the '1.Number sorting' menu and sets the grouping of incoming messages to be automatically grouped, after checking for incoming messages that the user has not yet confirmed, the sender number of the incoming messages is automatically included. Include the received message in a group. In this case, a check box in front of the received message is used as a method for knowing that the received message has not been confirmed by the user. Messages not acknowledged by the user are not subject to grouping and are displayed above the already confirmed messages.

In addition, if the user selects '2.by group', the process proceeds to step 306 to display the 'group' menu. When the 'group' menu is displayed, the controller 200 displays each group registered in the phone book on the display unit 206, and receives one of the groups from the user. When any one group is selected by the user, only the received messages received from the owner of the telephone number included in the group are displayed on the display unit 206. Examples of such groups include 'family', 'friends' and 'company'. Therefore, when the user selects the '2. by group' menu among the received messages and selects the group of 'friends' again on the displayed screen, the user can easily check only the messages received from the friends of the user.

In addition, when the user selects '3. unregistered number', the process proceeds to step 310 and compares the caller numbers of the received messages with the numbers of the phone book. In operation 312, the display unit 206 displays only the received messages whose caller ID of the received message is not included in the phone numbers registered in the phone book. Accordingly, spam messages received by the user are displayed on the display unit 206 together with other messages received from callers not registered in the phone book when the user selects the '3. unregistered number' menu.

Among the processes shown in FIG. 3, a process of grouping received messages in numerical order according to the calling party number and displaying according to groups according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5. Referring to FIG. 4, which shows an example of a display screen for grouping received messages in order of number, first, when the user selects a 'grouping' menu in FIG. 4A, which indicates that six messages have been received, FIG. In step 400 of 3, a menu including “1. number sorting”, “2. by group” and “3. unregistered number” is displayed as shown in FIG. 4 (b). Here, a check box included in the front of each caller ID indicates whether the message has been confirmed by the user. When the user selects '1. number alignment' from the menu displayed in FIG. 4 (b), as step 304 of FIG. 3 proceeds, the controller 200 of the mobile communication terminal groups the received messages in the order of caller numbers. 4 (c) shows a screen in which these received messages are grouped and displayed in numerical order.

5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a grouping process for each group during the grouping process according to the embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 3. When a plurality of received messages are received as shown in (a) of FIG. 5, when the user selects the 'align' menu, a menu screen as shown in FIG. 5 (b) is displayed. When the user selects '2. By group', a screen as shown in FIG. 5 (c) is displayed and the groups that the user can select are displayed. In FIG. 5C, such groups are divided into '1.family', '2.friends', and '6.company', '7.unregistered'. Here, '7. unregistered' group refers to a group that is basically set when the user does not set a group even if the phone number is registered in the phone book. FIG. 5D illustrates a screen displayed on the display unit 206 of the mobile communication terminal when the user selects the '2. friend' group in FIG. 5C. When the '2. friend' group is selected in Fig. 5 (c), the caller number of the received message is displayed on the display unit 206 of only one of the phone numbers registered as the 'friends' group in the phone book . Therefore, the display unit 206 of the mobile communication terminal displays only the messages received from the callers set up as a 'friend'. Therefore, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, when messages received from a particular sender are intermingled among several messages received from other senders, grouping incoming messages according to the present invention facilitates only messages received from a particular sender. You can find it and check it.

Also, although not shown in the drawing, when the user selects '3. unregistered number' in FIG. 5 (b), only the received messages received from a caller not registered in the phone book in steps 310 and 312 of FIG. ) Is displayed. Therefore, when the user selects '3. Unregistered Number', received messages received from a sender unknown to the user, including spam messages, are displayed on the display unit 206 at once.

Thus, the present invention also provides a method for simply deleting such spam messages. In order to simply delete these spam messages, a description will be given with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7. First, referring to FIG. 6, which illustrates a flow of deleting received messages according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, if the content of the received message is displayed on the display unit 206 in step 600, the controller 200 may perform a user operation in step 602. Make sure 'Delete' is selected by. If "Delete" is selected in step 602, the "Delete" menu is displayed in step 604, and proceeds to each step according to the user's selection in step 606. If the user selects '3. Delete' in step 606, the process proceeds to step 512 to delete only the currently displayed received message as in the usual method. However, if the user selects '1. Delete same number' in step 606, all received messages with the same sender number as the currently displayed received message are deleted. In addition, if the user selects '2. Delete unregistered number' in step 606, among the received messages currently stored in the memory unit 202 of the mobile communication terminal, all received messages received from callers not registered in the phone book are displayed. Delete it.

Referring to FIG. 7, which shows an example of a display screen for the same number deleting process among the process of deleting the received message according to the process of FIG. 6. When the user selects the message '3.016-000-1111' among the received messages grouped in numerical order in FIG. 7A, FIG. 7B shows the contents of the message. If the user selects 'delete' to delete the message when the currently displayed message is a spam message as shown in (b) of FIG. 7, the 'delete' menus shown in (c) of FIG. 7 are displayed. In addition, when the user selects '1. Delete same number' in FIG. 7C, all received messages having the same sender number as the currently displayed received message are deleted in step 608 of FIG. 6. Therefore, as shown in (a) of FIG. 7, all the spam messages of the caller number '016-000-1111' among the messages grouped in the order of the calling party number are deleted as shown in (d) of FIG. 7. In the case of FIG. 7, if the user selects '2. Delete unregistered number' in FIG. 7C, the control unit 200 receives the spam message received from the sender of the currently displayed spam message as shown in FIG. 7. In addition, it deletes all incoming messages received from callers not registered in the phone book.

Accordingly, the present invention enables grouping of received messages using the sender number of the received message, thereby displaying only messages received from the sender or group desired by the user. You can also delete all messages received from the same sender as the sender's number of the message you choose to delete, or delete all messages received from senders not registered in the phonebook. Make sure

As described above, the present invention checks the caller number of the message received at the mobile communication terminal and groups the received messages according to the caller number. Accordingly, the user can simply check or delete only the desired messages without having to check the sender numbers of the received messages.

1 is a display example of a process of checking received messages typically;

2 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a flowchart of a process of grouping newly received messages according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a display example for a process of grouping received messages in numerical order according to an embodiment of the present invention;

5 is an exemplary view of a process of displaying a received message according to a selected group according to an embodiment of the present invention;

6 is a flowchart of an operation of deleting received messages according to an embodiment of the present invention;

7 is a view illustrating a display of a same number deletion process among processes of deleting received messages according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (5)

In the method of grouping received messages of the mobile communication terminal, A menu selection step of selecting one of the grouping menus for grouping the received messages according to the calling party number included in each of the received messages from a user; And grouping the received messages according to the grouping criteria of the grouping menu selected in the menu selection step and displaying the group messages on the display of the mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 1, wherein the grouping menu, A method of grouping received messages in a mobile communication terminal, comprising a number sort menu, a group menu, and an unregistered number menu. The method of claim 2, wherein the displaying of the group message comprises: If the sorting menu selected by the user is the number sorting menu, And sorting the received messages based on a calling party number of each of the received messages and displaying the received messages on a display unit of the mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 2, wherein the displaying of the group message comprises: When the sorting menu selected by the user is the menu for each group, A group selecting step of selecting one of the groups registered in the phone book of the mobile communication terminal from the user; And displaying only received messages having the same calling party number as the telephone numbers included in the group selected in the group selecting step on the display unit of the mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 2, wherein the displaying of the group message comprises: If the sorting menu selected by the user is the unregistered number menu, A number comparison step of comparing a telephone number registered in the telephone directory of the mobile communication terminal with caller numbers of each of the received messages; And grouping the received messages in the mobile communication terminal by extracting only the received messages whose caller ID is not registered in the phone book through the number comparison step and displaying them on the display unit of the mobile communication terminal. Way.