KR20060023633A - Management method of short message in mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a method of managing a text message that can be stored in a text message received by a mobile communication terminal for each caller and receiving time zone to collectively check and delete the text message received from a specific person, the user can use the key on the keypad A first step of displaying, on the LCD screen, a list of names, telephone numbers, groups, and the like registered in the telephone book stored in the memory, as the " phone book " Displaying a list registered in the phone book and, in the state, when a user presses a key to select a specific person's name, displaying a screen displaying registration information and a "menu" item about the selected person; A third step of displaying an item such as a text message, a text message, or a shortcut dial set in a sub path of the selected "menu" item as the user presses a key to select the "menu" item on the screen of the second step; And a fourth step of displaying all text messages received from the person selected in the second step by time zone when the user presses a key to select an item "text message" from the items displayed in the third step. .

Mobile communication, incoming, text message, confirmation, deletion

Description

Receiving text message management method of mobile communication terminal {Management method of short message in mobile phone}             

1 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal to which the present invention is applied.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of managing a received text message of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3A to 3D are exemplary views illustrating screens for confirming and deleting a text message of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

10: keypad 20: memory

30: control unit 40: LCD screen

50: radio frequency processor 60: speaker

The present invention relates to a method of managing a received text message of a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to a method of storing and receiving a received text message for each sender to collectively check and delete a text message received from a specific person.

As mobile communication terminals become more common, various wireless communication services using them are provided. In general, wireless communication services used by users of mobile communication terminals include voice calls for sending and receiving voices between senders and receivers, and text and voice messages for transmitting and receiving texts and voices. In addition, in recent years, a wireless Internet service for accessing an Internet service wirelessly without using a wire, and a location tracking service for supporting a current location as the mobile communication terminal moves from time to time are provided.

Among these wireless communication services, a text message service is a method of exchanging short messages between terminals or between a terminal and a message input device using an access channel, a paging channel, and a traffic channel of a CDMA digital mobile communication network. Is used.

Such text messages have the advantage of providing various contents and exchanging information, and also increase the usage amount by allowing quick responses to each other. In recent years, new text messages have emerged, including WAP Push Messages, advertising messages, and credit card usage messages. Accordingly, the amount of text messages that a user receives through a mobile communication terminal is also greatly increased. Despite this situation, the conventional mobile communication terminal stores all received text messages in one place without classifying the message by sender, and thus, a lot of time is required to check the text message that the user needs or delete unnecessary text messages. There was an issue that took place.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, the management of text messages that can be confirmed and deleted the text messages received from a specific person collectively by storing the text messages received by the mobile communication terminal for each caller and receiving time zone The purpose is to provide a method.

An object of the present invention is to provide a method for managing a text message that can significantly reduce the time required for checking and deleting a received text message by identifying and deleting text messages received by a mobile communication terminal by sender. have.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a method for managing a received text message stored separately for each person, phone number and group registered in the phone book of the mobile communication terminal. A first step of displaying a list of names, telephone numbers and groups registered in the telephone book stored in the memory on the LCD screen as the item is selected; Displaying a list registered in the phone book and, in the state, when a user presses a key to select a specific person's name, displaying a screen displaying registration information and a "menu" item about the selected person; As a user presses a key to select a "menu" item on the screen of the second step, items such as text messages, texts, and shortcut dials set in a lower path of the selected "menu" item are displayed on the LCD screen. A third step of doing; And when the user presses a key to select the “text message” item among the items displayed in the third step, all text messages received from the person selected in the second step are classified by reception time zone and displayed on the LCD screen. It includes a fourth step.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal to which the present invention is applied.

Referring to FIG. 1, a mobile communication terminal includes a keypad 10 for inputting user commands and various user commands related to management of a text message, and a memory 20 for storing various information such as a received text message and a phone book. And storing the received text message in the memory 20 according to the caller and the receiving time, and controlling the output and deletion of the text message stored in the memory 20 according to a user's instruction input through the keypad 10. The control unit 30, the liquid crystal display (LCD) 40 for displaying text messages and various information transmitted by the control unit 30, and the baseband signal transmitted by the control unit 30 is converted into a high frequency signal A radio frequency processing unit 50 for transmitting to the outside and converting a high frequency signal received through a base station or the like into a baseband signal and connecting the control unit 30, and a voice signal transmitted by the control unit 30. A and a speaker 60 for outputting to the outside.

The keypad 10 is implemented as a push button and consists of a plurality of numeric keys and function keys. A user presses a key on the keypad 10 to input a command regarding checking and deleting a text message according to the present invention.

The controller 30 stores the text message received through the radio frequency processor 50 in the memory 20 for each caller registered in the phone book in the memory 20. In this state, when the received text message is stored for each caller and a reception time registered in the phone book, when the user presses the keypad 10 to instruct confirmation of the text message received from the specific person, the controller 30 searches the memory 20. All the text messages requested by the user are simultaneously displayed on the LCD screen 40 together with the caller's name. In this state, when the user presses a key of the keypad 10 to instruct deletion of the currently confirmed text messages on the liquid crystal display 40, the controller 30 simultaneously deletes text messages received from a specific person.

A process of executing the text message management method according to the present invention on the mobile communication terminal having such a configuration will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 2.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of managing a received text message of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. However, the present invention is applied to a mobile communication terminal provided with the caller service.

Referring to FIG. 2, when a text message is received from a specific person (S201), the mobile communication terminal checks whether the specific person sending the text message is a person registered in the phone book in the memory 20 (S202). If not registered, register the caller name and calling number in the phone book and store the received text message (S203).

If the sender is registered as a result of the check, the mobile communication terminal stores the received text message in the "text message item" column of the specific person registered in the phone book (S204). In this case, when the text messages previously received from a specific person are stored, the currently received text message is stored after the previously received text message.

When the text message received in the mobile communication terminal is stored for each caller registered in the phone book through the above process, the user confirms and deletes the received text message through the following process.

When the user presses a menu key on the keypad 10 to select an item "Phone Book" (S205), as shown in FIG. 3A, the mobile communication terminal registers a name, phone number and group registered in the Phone Book in the memory 20. As shown in FIG. The list of the display is displayed on the liquid crystal display 40 (S206). Here, a group is a group of family members, friends, and colleagues.                     

On the screen of FIG. 3A, when a user presses a key to select a specific person's name (for example, Hong Gil-dong) (S207), as shown in FIG. 3B, the mobile communication terminal displays a list of names, contacts, and photo information on the LCD screen (40). ), And a "menu" item for displaying a received text message item is displayed at the bottom of the list (S208).

On this screen, when the user presses a key to select a "menu" item (S209), the mobile communication terminal displays items such as text message, text sending and speed dial editing on the LCD screen 40 as shown in the screen of FIG. 3C. (S210). Here, when the user presses a key to select the "text message" item (S211), as shown in FIG. 3D, the mobile communication terminal divides all text messages received from a specific person (for example, Hong Gil-dong) by reception time zone and displays the LCD screen ( 40) and display (S212).

As described above, the present invention enables the user to collectively check the text message received from a specific person through several key operations, so that the user can check the text message that he / she wants to check more easily and quickly.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 3D, when a text message received from a specific person is all displayed on the LCD screen 60, the user presses a key to instruct deletion of the text message, the mobile communication terminal displays only the text message selected by the user. Delete or delete all text messages (S213). Here, when the user presses a key to designate one text message among a plurality of text messages displayed on the screen and instructs the text message to be deleted, the mobile communication terminal deletes only the text message and the user deletes the text message. When the displayed "delete all" item is selected to instruct to delete all text messages, the mobile communication terminal deletes all text messages received from the specific person currently displayed on the screen. However, the method of deleting all text messages is not limited thereto.

As described above, the present invention allows the user to delete all text messages received from a specific person at the same time through a simple key operation, so that the user can simply delete unnecessary text messages.

Although the technical spirit of the present invention has been described in detail according to the above-described preferred embodiment, it should be noted that the above-described embodiment is for the purpose of description and not of limitation. In addition, those skilled in the art will understand that various embodiments are possible within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, text messages received by the mobile communication terminal are identified and deleted collectively for each sender, thereby facilitating the user's convenience, thereby increasing the user's reliability of the product.

Claims (5)

In the method for managing received text messages stored separately by name, phone number and group registered in the phone book of the mobile communication terminal, A first step of displaying a list of names, telephone numbers and groups registered in the telephone book stored in the memory on the LCD screen as the user selects the "phone book" item by pressing a key on the keypad; In a state in which a list registered in the phone book is displayed, when a user presses a key to select a specific person's name, displaying a screen in which registration information about the selected person and a "menu" item are displayed; As a user presses a key to select a "menu" item on the screen of the second step, items such as text messages, texts, and shortcut dials set in a lower path of the selected "menu" item are displayed on the LCD screen. A third step of doing; A fourth step of displaying all text messages received from the person selected in the second step on the LCD screen when the user presses a key to select an item " text message " among the items displayed in the third step; Receiving text message management method of a mobile communication terminal comprising a. The method of claim 1, In the state in which all text messages received from the person selected in the second step are displayed, the user presses a key to instruct to delete the text message, thereby deleting only the text message selected by the user or all text messages currently being displayed. 5th step to delete Received text message management method of the mobile communication terminal further comprising. The method of claim 1, In a state in which all text messages received from the person selected in the second step are displayed, the user presses a key to designate one text message among a plurality of text messages displayed on the screen, and instructs the text message to be deleted. , Step 5 to delete just that text message Received text message management method of the mobile communication terminal further comprising. The method of claim 1, In the state in which all text messages received from the person selected in the second step are displayed, when the user selects the "delete all" item displayed on one side of the screen to instruct to delete all text messages, the received text message is received from the selected person. 5th step to delete all text messages Received text message management method of the mobile communication terminal further comprising. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, In the second step, The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication terminal displays information such as a contact and picture registered with respect to the selected person on the screen together with a "menu" item.

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