KR20060080950A - Method for checking whether short messages are received or not - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for acknowledging a short message, which provides whether or not the receiving side of a short message according to the service is used, in particular in using a short message service (SMS) of the mobile communication. A short message reception acknowledgment method suitable for informing a transmitting side whether a transmitting mobile terminal has received the SMS message to the receiving side properly and whether the receiving user has confirmed the SMS message.

Short Message Service (SMS), read receipt

Description

Method for checking whether short messages are received or not}

1 is a diagram illustrating a procedure of a transmitter for acknowledgment of short message transmission and acknowledgment according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram illustrating a procedure of a receiving side for receiving and confirming a short message according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to mobile communication, and more particularly, to a method for acknowledging a short message, which provides whether or not the receiving side of the short message according to the service is used in using the short message service of the mobile communication.

In general, a short message service (hereinafter, abbreviated as SMS) transmits a relatively short string (a string consisting of numbers, symbols, and letters) in one-to-one or one-to-multi format. It is a service.

The user writes a desired character string using the SMS function built into his mobile communication terminal and transmits the corresponding SMS message to a desired counterpart. Also, when sending a reply to a predetermined SMS message received by the user's mobile communication terminal, a desired character string is prepared and transmitted to the other party. On the other hand, when creating a character string in the above, the user uses a keypad of the mobile communication terminal.

In addition, the mobile terminal of the receiving side receiving the SMS message notifies the user of the reception of the message through an alarm. Then, the user recognizes that the SMS message has been received and reads the contents of the received SMS message through a menu that supports sending and receiving SMS messages.

However, in the prior art as described above, the sender who sent the SMS message could not confirm whether the message was properly delivered to the other party.

An object of the present invention has been made in view of the above, and it is determined whether the sending mobile communication terminal which has sent a predetermined SMS message has received the SMS message correctly at the receiving end and whether the receiving user has confirmed the SMS message. The present invention provides a method for acknowledging a short message that is suitable for verifying the message.

The short message reception acknowledgment method according to the present invention for achieving the above objects comprises the steps of: setting, by a sending terminal, an acknowledgment request according to a request of a sending user; Transmitting the message created by the receiving terminal to a predetermined receiving terminal, receiving the message by the receiving terminal, and selecting the received message by the receiving user, the receiving terminal requests the acknowledgment request. And informing the receiving user that there is a message, and transmitting a reply to the receiving confirmation request to the transmitting terminal as the receiving user responds to the acknowledgment request.

More preferably, if the acknowledgment request is a confirmation of whether the reception was successful, the reply includes at least one or more of a content indicating the reception success of the message, a reception time, and a part of the message content.

Also, preferably, if the acknowledgment request is confirmation of whether to read the contents of the message, the reply includes at least one or more of contents, a reading time, and a part of the contents of the message.

Also preferably, the sending terminal receives the reply, the sending terminal searches for a transmission message corresponding to the received reply in a transmission message list, and the searched transmission in the transmission message list. And displaying the acknowledgment in the message. The search may be performed by the transmitting terminal comparing a partial content of a message included in the reply with transmission messages included in the transmission message list, and transmitting the transmission message that matches the partial content of the message included in the reply. Look in the message list. The acknowledgment indication is also a reception success indication for the transmission message. Or the acknowledgment indication is a content reading fact indication of the transmission message.

Also preferably, the receiving terminal informs the receiving user that there is a request for acknowledgment when the contents of the received message are browsed.

Also preferably, the receiving terminal displays an acknowledgment alarm indicating that the acknowledgment request is made.

Also preferably, the receiving terminal outputs an acknowledgment alarm as a voice to inform that the acknowledgment request is made.

A feature of a short message transmitting and receiving device according to the present invention for achieving the above objects is a receiving terminal for receiving a message and sending an acknowledgment for receiving the message, and transmitting the message and receiving the acknowledgment. It is configured to include a transmitting terminal for displaying any one of the success of receiving the message and the fact of reading the contents of the message.

Other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the detailed description of the embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings illustrating the configuration and operation of the embodiment of the present invention, the configuration and operation of the present invention shown in the drawings and described by it will be described by at least one embodiment, By the technical spirit of the present invention described above and its core configuration and operation is not limited.

The mobile communication terminal of the present invention provides the following functions to the user for SMS.

That is, the mobile communication terminal provides basic functions such as writing an SMS message, sending an SMS message, receiving an SMS message, viewing a message list of received SMS messages, and contents of each message. Provides a function for informing whether the SMS message has been successfully received and whether the contents of the received message are read.

A more detailed procedure for the function of notifying whether the SMS message has been successfully received and whether the received message has been confirmed will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

1 is a diagram illustrating a procedure of a transmitter for transmitting and receiving a short message according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, when a transmitting user requests an SMS, the mobile communication terminal provides an SMS message writing function (S10). Accordingly, the sending user creates a desired SMS message through the SMS message content writing function of the mobile communication terminal.

Afterwards, when the user selects an acknowledgment option of the SMS message and requests an acknowledgment (S11), the mobile communication terminal receives the SMS message through a function of informing whether the SMS message has been successfully received and whether the received message has been acknowledged. Set the confirmation function (S12).

The mobile communication terminal provides the above-described acknowledgment option when the transmitting user sets the receiving identifier number so that the transmitting user can set the acknowledgment function.

Then, the SMS message is transmitted to the receiving side input by the transmitting user (S13).

On the other hand, when the mobile communication terminal receives a response to the request for acknowledgment of the sender's user (S14), the mobile communication terminal indicates that reception of the SMS message transmitted by the receiver is successful based on the reply (S15). Alternatively, the mobile communication terminal indicates that the contents of the SMS message sent from the receiving side are read based on the reply.

The display according to the message reception success or the message content viewing in the transmitting-side mobile communication terminal will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

2 is a diagram illustrating a procedure of a receiving side for receiving and confirming a short message according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, a predetermined SMS message is received at a mobile communication terminal of a transmitting user (S20). In this case, the received SMS message is a message for which a successful reception request or a message content read confirmation request of the message is set.

As the receiving user requests a message list of the received SMS messages, the receiving mobile communication terminal displays the received SMS message list. When the receiving user selects a desired received SMS message, the content of the corresponding message is displayed (S21).

On the other hand, the receiving side mobile communication terminal checks whether the receiving SMS message selected by the receiving side user is a message for which receipt confirmation (acknowledgment of receipt of the message or reading of the contents of the message) is requested (S22).

If the received SMS message is a message for which acknowledgment is requested, the receiving mobile communication terminal receives the acknowledgment of acknowledgment when the receiving user tries to read the contents of the received SMS message or when the contents of the received SMS message are read. The acknowledgment alarm is displayed or output by voice to inform the receiving user that there is a request for acknowledgment of the message from the transmitting side (S23). In response thereto, the receiving user performs a selection operation corresponding to one of a positive response and a negative response (rejection acknowledgment) to the acknowledgment request.

If the receiving user selects a positive response to the acknowledgment request (S24), a reply to the acknowledgment is transmitted to the sender identifier number of the received message (S25). In this case, if the acknowledgment request is a confirmation of successful reception, the reply includes a typical content indicating the successful reception of the message and a reception time, and in some cases, the corresponding received message so that the sender user can check a part of the message content at the time of transmission. Include some details of In addition, if the acknowledgment request is acknowledgment of whether or not the contents of the received message have been read, the reply includes typical contents and a reading time indicating that the contents of the received message have been read, and in some cases, part of the contents of the message at the time of transmission to the sender user Include some details of the received message so that you can check.

In particular, it attaches a specific symbol such as "Re:" to the reply message, indicating that the reply is an acknowledgment.

Accordingly, when "Re:" is attached to the received message, the transmitting mobile terminal determines that the reply is an acknowledgment for the SMS message previously sent from the sender.

The transmitting mobile terminal searches for a transmission message corresponding to the received reply in the temporarily stored transmission message list.

The above-described transmission message searching method compares a part of the contents of the message included in the reply with respective transmission messages in the transmission message list to find a predetermined transmission message that matches.

In addition, an acknowledgment according to SMS message transmission is displayed on the corresponding transmission message found in the transmission message list. That is, the transmitting mobile terminal displays the success of receiving the SMS message in the transmission message based on the acknowledgment reply. Alternatively, the sending mobile terminal displays the contents of the sent SMS message on the receiving side in the transmission message based on the acknowledgment. On the other hand, examples of the above display are shown in Table 1.

In particular, in the present invention, in order to use the memory of the mobile communication terminal more efficiently, it is more preferable to separately implement a list of transmission messages with an acknowledgment request rather than a transmission message list. Accordingly, Table 1 below shows a list of transmission messages requiring acknowledgment and each line corresponds to a transmission message requiring acknowledgment.

One Six o'clock today ... ∨ 2 Well home ... 3 019-111 -... ∨ 4 Gift well ...

In Table 1, four transmission messages 1 to 4 are messages for which a user of a sending side requests reception confirmation. An example of a case in which an acknowledgment is received from a receiver for transmission messages 2 and 4 among the four transmission messages described above is shown.

On the other hand, as a method of displaying on the message whether or not the message is confirmed by the receiving party (confirmation of successful reception of the message or confirmation of the contents of the message), there is a method of displaying a predetermined symbol in front of the number of each message as shown in Table 1 above. There is also a way to display the message in different colors or by shading.

∨ One Well home ... 019-111-1234 ∨ 2 Gift well ... 010-222-1234

As a further example, the present invention sorts only outgoing messages for which an acknowledgment has been received. That is, as shown in Table 2, only the messages that have received the acknowledgment reply among the required transmission messages (acknowledgment of message reception success or message content viewing confirmation) of Table 1 are separately arranged and managed separately. At this time, as shown in Table 2 above, the identification number of the receiving party that sent the acknowledgment is displayed together.

In the present invention described above, since the receiving side mobile communication terminal that has received the predetermined SMS message informs the transmitting side whether the receiving SMS message has been properly received at the receiving side and whether the receiving user has confirmed the SMS message, the transmitting side sends the SMS. It is possible to confirm whether the message is properly delivered to the other party, and also to confirm whether the receiving user has confirmed the contents of the received message.

Accordingly, there is an effect of further improving the quality of the SMS service using the mobile communication terminal.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that various changes and modifications can be made without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention. Therefore, the technical scope of the present invention should not be limited to the contents described in the detailed description of the specification but should be defined by the claims.

Claims (11)

Setting, by the sending terminal, an acknowledgment request according to the request of the transmitting user; Sending, by the sending terminal, a message created by the sending user to a predetermined receiving terminal; Receiving, by the receiving terminal, the message; As the receiving user selects the received message, informing the receiving user of the receipt confirmation request by the receiving terminal; And transmitting a reply to the acknowledgment request to the transmitting terminal as the receiving user responds to the acknowledgment request. The short message of claim 1, wherein, if the acknowledgment request is a confirmation of whether the reception is successful, the reply includes at least one of a content indicating the reception success of the message, a reception time, and a part of the message content. How to confirm receipt of a message. The method of claim 1, wherein, if the acknowledgment request is confirmation whether the contents of the message are read or not, the reply includes at least one of contents indicating the fact of reading the contents of the message, a reading time, and a part of the contents of the message. Short message receiving confirmation method characterized in that. The method of claim 1, Receiving, by the transmitting terminal, the reply; Searching, by the transmitting terminal, a transmission message corresponding to the received reply in a transmission message list; And displaying the acknowledgment in the searched outgoing message in the outgoing message list. 5. The method of claim 4, wherein the search is performed by the sender terminal comparing a partial content of a message included in the reply with transmission messages included in the transmission message list, and matching the partial content of a message included in the reply. The method of acknowledging a short message, characterized in that a transmission message is found in the transmission message list. 5. The method of claim 4, wherein the acknowledgment indication is a receipt success indication for the transmission message. 5. The method of claim 4, wherein the acknowledgment indication is a content reading fact indication of the transmission message. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving terminal informs the receiving user that there is an acknowledgment request when the contents of the received message are read. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving terminal displays an acknowledgment alarm to indicate that the acknowledgment request is received. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving terminal outputs an acknowledgment alarm as a voice to notify that the acknowledgment request is received. A receiving terminal for receiving a message and transmitting an acknowledgment for receiving the message; And a transmitting-side terminal which transmits the message, receives the confirmation acknowledgment, and indicates one of whether the message has been successfully received and the fact of reading the content of the message.

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