KR20060086474A - Method for merging of short message and phone-book data in portable terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for merging a short message and a phone book in a portable terminal. The present invention relates to a process of creating a message including a merge distinguishing tag, and analyzing a content of the message and transmitting a message to the merge terminal. Checking a presence or absence of a message, reading a phone book entry corresponding to the checked tag, rewriting the message by inserting the read phone book entry at a position of the checked tag; Including the process of transmitting the rewritten message to the corresponding recipient, the sender can send a personalized short message to a plurality of recipients in one writing, so that the short text is easily created and various services using this function are possible.

Terminal, Phonebook, Merge, Merge, Send Short

Description

METHODO FOR MERGING OF SHORT MESSAGE AND PHONE-BOOK DATA IN PORTABLE TERMINAL}             

1 is a view showing the configuration of a portable terminal according to the present invention;

2 is a diagram illustrating a procedure for merging a short message and contents of a phone book in a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention; and

3 is an exemplary diagram illustrating an input method of a merge classification tag according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a method for merging short messages in a portable terminal, and more particularly, to a method for merging short messages and contents of a phone book.

In general, the mail merge function used in a word program (eg, Hangul, Hunminjeongeum, MS-Word, etc.) is a function for changing the same letter contents to various people and sending them personalized contents. In other words, if you store the information such as the name and address of the recipient in a single file, and specify a specially set code in place of the name and address when composing the mail, the mail of the same content can be sent to multiple recipients as personalized mail. can send. For example, the sender said, "In our records, [NAME] 's address is [ADDRESS]. If this information is incorrect, please reply to us." If you create an e-mail, the word program refers to the contents in the data file, replaces the parts of the e-mail contents marked with [NAME], [ADDRESS] with the actual contents, and sends them to each recipient.

In this way, the merge function can be used for mass advertisements and promotions through e-mail because it can transmit a personalized message to multiple recipients in one write. However, in the case of short message service (SMS) in a portable terminal, a function such as mail merge in a word program is not yet provided. That is, there is a function to designate multiple recipients, but there is no function to change the content of short text by dividing by recipient. Thus, when sending the same message to multiple recipients, it is inconvenient to change the contents manually. This is not a big problem when there are only a few recipients, but it is inconvenient to suffer a great waste of time and labor in the case of a short message to be sent in large quantities.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for transmitting a personalized short message to a plurality of recipients in one writing in a portable terminal.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for merging short messages and contents of a phone book in a portable terminal.

According to an embodiment of the present invention to achieve the above object, a method for performing a merge of a short message and the contents of the phone book in a portable terminal, the process of creating a message including a merge tag, and when transmitting the message, Analyzing the contents of the message and checking the presence or absence of a merge classification tag, reading out a phone book entry corresponding to the checked tag, and placing the read phonebook entry at the position of the checked tag. Inserting the message and rewriting the message; and transmitting the rewritten message to a corresponding recipient.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In describing the present invention, when it is determined that a detailed description of a related known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described a technique for merging a short message and the contents of the phone book in a portable terminal.

1 shows a configuration of a portable terminal according to the present invention. In the following description, the portable terminal includes a cellular phone, a personal communication system (PCS), a personal data assistant (PDA), an IMT-2000 (International Mobile Telecommunication-2000) terminal, and the like. It is meant to include all, the following description will be described with the general configuration of the above examples.

Referring to FIG. 1, a control unit (MPU: Micro-Processor Unit) 100 controls the overall operation of the portable terminal. For example, it performs processing and control for voice communication and data communication, and processes functions for merging short messages and phonebook contents in accordance with the present invention in addition to the usual functions. Therefore, in the following description, the description about the process and control of the normal control part 100 is abbreviate | omitted.

The ROM 102 may store microcodes and various reference data of a program for processing and controlling the controller 100. In particular, according to the present invention stores a program for performing the merge function of the short message and the contents of the phone book. A random access memory (RAM) 104 is a working memory of the controller 100 and stores temporary data generated during execution of various programs. The flash ROM 106 stores various updatable storage data such as a phone book.

The keypad (key pad) 108 is a numeric key buttons of 0-9, menu button (menu), cancel button (clear), confirmation button, call button (TALK), end button (END), Internet access button, A plurality of function keys such as navigation key (or direction key) buttons (▲ / ▼ / ◀ / ▶) are provided, and key input data corresponding to a key pressed by the user is provided to the controller 100. The display unit 110 displays status information generated during the operation of the portable terminal, a limited number of characters, a large amount of video and still images, and the like. The display unit 110 may use a color liquid crystal display (LCD).

A coder (Coder-Decoder) 112 connected to the control unit 100 and a speaker 116 and a microphone 114 connected to the codec 112 are voice input / output blocks used for telephony communication and voice recording. . The codec 112 converts the digital data provided from the control unit 100 into an analog voice signal and transmits it through the speaker 116, and converts the voice signal received through the microphone 114 into digital data. Provided to the controller 100.

In addition, the RF unit (Radio Frequency unit) (120) is the frequency of the radio frequency signal received via the antenna 118 is provided to the baseband processing unit 122 by lowering the frequency, the baseband signal from the baseband processing unit 122 Increase the frequency to transmit through the antenna. The baseband processor 122 processes a baseband signal transmitted and received between the RF unit 120 and the controller 100. For example, in the case of transmission, the channel coding and spreading of data to be transmitted are performed, and in the case of reception, the function of de-spreading and channel decoding of the received signal is performed. Perform.

2 illustrates a procedure for merging a short message and contents of a phone book in a portable terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the controller 100 checks whether a message input key is input by a user's key manipulation in step 201. When the message input key is input, the controller 100 proceeds to step 203 to display a message input window and receive a message written by a user. In this case, the user inputs a merge classification tag in the middle of the message composition according to the present invention. The merge classification tag may be input by the user directly or through a menu selection. An input method through menu selection will be described in detail later with reference to FIG. 3.

After that, the controller 100 proceeds to step 205 and checks whether message input is completed. If the message input is completed, the controller 100 proceeds to step 207 to display a receiver telephone number input window and at least one receiver telephone number created by the user. Get input. Next, the control unit 100 checks whether the input of the receiver's telephone number is completed in step 209, and if the input of the receiver's telephone number is completed, the controller 100 proceeds to step 211 to determine whether there is an input of a transmission key by a user's key operation. Check it.

When the transmission key is input, the controller 100 analyzes the contents of the message written by the user in step 213 before processing the transmission of the message, and proceeds to step 215 to classify items to be merged into the contents of the message. Checks for the presence of a tag (eg [[]]). If the merge classification tag is not inspected, the control unit 100 performs a normal transmission. If the merge classification tag is inspected, the control unit 100 proceeds to step 217 and the predetermined sequence of telephone numbers of the input recipients. Choose one according to. Here, the selection of the recipient telephone number may be sequential or non-sequential.

In step 219, the controller 100 searches for a phone book with the selected phone number, and proceeds to step 221 to display data of an item (eg, name, phone number, address, etc.) corresponding to the tag. Read out. In step 223, the control unit 100 rewrites the message by inserting the read data into the merge classification tag position. In other words, it performs the SMS merge function. If the short length exceeds the maximum transmittable short length due to the merge function, the controller 100 divides the message and processes the transmission. With two splits, short messages can be handled even if they exceed 80 bytes due to the phone number or e-mail merged into the message. Alternatively, the control unit 100 may notify the user that the maximum length of the short text that can be transmitted is exceeded, and may cancel the transmission, edit, or divide the transmission by the user's selection.

After rewriting the message as described above, the control unit 100 proceeds to step 225 to transmit the message to the recipient, and in step 227 to update the number of recipients by reducing the number of recipients. The controller 100 checks whether the updated number of recipients is greater than '0' in step 229, and if greater than '0', proceeds to step 231 to select the next recipient in the predetermined order and returns to step 219. If the step is smaller than 0, the controller 100 ends the algorithm according to the present invention. Here, an embodiment according to the present invention shows a method of transmitting a message to a next recipient after rewriting and transmitting a message for the first selected recipient, but may also transmit all of the messages for each recipient at once.

3 is an exemplary view illustrating an input method of a merge classification tag according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.                     

Referring to FIG. 3, a tag for classifying items to be merged is various, such as <>, / * * /, {}, [], [[]], but uses [[]] as an example. If you want to write the same text in one message and put the name of those stored in the phone book into a personalized text message, you can use the tag [[name]]. Here, if the user is familiar with the tag, the user may directly input '[[name]]', but also provides a selection function through the menu 303 to prevent a user's input mistake. That is, as shown in 301 of FIG. 3, there is a menu 303 item at the bottom of the message 301, and when the user selects it, the user selects a desired item from 1. merge 2. temporarily save 3. add emoticon 4. erase all Can be. Here, when the user selects 1. Merge function, merge items such as name, mobile number, home phone, office, FAX, e-mail, etc. are displayed as shown in 305, and the user selects one of them (name) to display the message. You can enter merge break tags in the middle. That is, the phrase is automatically inserted in the message window 301 as [[name]] even if the user does not input the tag directly.

In another embodiment, when a tag is detected in a message, such as [[Hong Gil-dong], [Kim Chul-su]], etc., there is a method of reading a number corresponding to Hong Gil-dong and Kim Chul-soo from the telephone directory, and then designating the called number and sending a message. .

The embodiment of the present invention described above focuses on the SMS merge function using a tag. However, as multimedia messages (MMS) are becoming more common in recent years, tag functions may be used as a function of decorating messages (eg, color designation and text size designation) as in HTML writing.                     

Meanwhile, in the detailed description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the scope of the following claims, but also by the equivalents of the claims.

As described above, the present invention provides the ease of writing a short message by providing a merge function with a phone book in the short message sending of the portable terminal, and sends a personalized short message to a plurality of recipients in one writing, thereby using various functions. There is an advantage that a service (eg, user-specific advertisement using SMS) is possible. That is, when sending a personalized message to a plurality of recipients with a single input, it is possible to eliminate the inconvenience of manually changing the contents, thereby greatly reducing the waste of time and labor.

Claims (6)

In the method for merging a short message and the phone book content in a portable terminal, Creating a message containing the merge delimiter tag, When the message is transmitted, analyzing the contents of the message and checking whether there is a merge distinguishing tag; Reading a phone book entry corresponding to the checked tag; Inserting the read phonebook entry at the position of the checked tag to change the message; Transmitting the changed message to a corresponding recipient. The method of claim 1, And the merge separation tag uses "[[]]". The method of claim 1, And said telephone book entry is a name. The method of claim 1, And said telephone book entry is a telephone number. The method of claim 1, The merge distinguishing tag may be directly inputted by a user or input through a menu selection. In a message transmission method using a tag in a mobile terminal Creating a message including a predetermined tag, When the message is transmitted, analyzing the contents of the message and checking whether a tag exists; Reading a phone number according to the checked tag; And transmitting the written message to the recipient of the read phone number.

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