KR20070076267A - Method for managing sms message in mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for managing an SMS message in a mobile communication terminal is provided to allow a user to quickly determine a causal relationship of text messages because at least a portion of an original message is added to a lower portion of a received text message when a plurality of text messages are transmitted/received to/from other users for a predetermined time interval, or when a plurality of text messages are stored in a message box after a predetermined time interval lapses. It is determined whether a phone number of a caller of a received text message is identical to a phone number of a receiver of a text message originated before a preset time(S25,S26). The originated text message is added to the received text message if the two phone numbers are identical to each other(S28). The originated text message and the received text message have different colors.

Description

How to manage SMS text message in mobile terminal {METHOD FOR MANAGING SMS MESSAGE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL}

1 is a flowchart illustrating a transmission procedure of an SMS text message according to the prior art.

2 is a flow chart illustrating an SMS text message management procedure according to the present invention.

3 is an exemplary view showing an original message added to a reply message.

The present invention relates to a method for managing SMS text messages in a mobile communication terminal. More specifically, when a reply text message for a text message sent from a calling party is received within a predetermined time, the text message is received in the received reply text message. The present invention relates to a method for managing an SMS text message in a mobile communication terminal storing the contents of the present invention.

With the spread of mobile communication terminals, subscribers of data communication services as well as voice communication services are steadily increasing, and mobile communication providers are providing various data communication services as additional services.

The most widely used supplementary service among these data communication services is an SMS (Short Message Service) supplementary service. The SMS supplementary service is a service that provides additional information to the basic SMS service to the subscriber or performs a function other than basic message delivery through a special type of message.

In order to provide the SMS supplementary services, a mobile communication network supporting SMS supplementary services must be basically established, and each mobile communication terminal must also support the SMS supplementary service in addition to the basic call processing function.

In order to configure such a mobile communication network, a base station / base international controller (BSC / BTS) for controlling a mobile communication terminal to access a communication network using a wireless protocol; A personal communication exchange / visitor information processing system (PCX / VLR) for relaying / exchanging short service requests from the base station / base international controller and short messages resulting from the requested additional service; A short message processing system (SMC) for temporarily storing and forwarding additional service requests from the exchange / visitor information processing system and short message data for processing the requested additional service; Additional service integrated management system (VAS) that performs SMS additional service management such as overall subscriber management, billing management and operation management for all SMS additional services according to subscriber's additional service request received from short message processing system (SMC) and; One or more SMS units for generating a short message corresponding to the requested supplementary service under the direction of the supplementary service integrated management system (VAS) and the location of the called terminal for processing the short message, There is a need for a subscriber information processing system (HLR) for notifying whether a mobile communication terminal can receive a short message. However, it may be possible to configure the entire communication network to provide SMS additional services while basically performing different functions depending on the mobile communication method and the communication equipment.

1 is a flowchart illustrating a transmission procedure of an SMS text message according to the prior art.

Referring to FIG. 1, a caller first selects a text message sending menu by operating a key input unit provided in a mobile communication terminal (S10), and inputs phone numbers of a caller and a receiver, respectively (S11). At this time, it is also possible to configure the system so that the caller's telephone number is automatically entered.

Subsequently, the sender manipulates various keys provided in the key input unit to create a desired text message (S12). In this case, the length of the text message is mostly less than 80 characters, the number of characters of the text message is allowed only within the number of characters allowed by the operator of the mobile communication service.

Subsequently, the sender presses the send button (or the send button or the confirm button) provided in the key input unit and transmits the created text message to the input recipient phone number (S13).

At this time, the control unit of the mobile communication terminal maintains the call waiting state until all the call operation is completed to the input recipient phone number (S14), and controls to store the text message complete the call is stored in the box.

Subsequently, the control unit determines whether there is an additional text message to be sent (S15), and when there is an additional message to be transmitted, executes the text message transmission procedure described above in order to transmit a new text message to a new recipient's telephone number.

However, if there is no additional text message to send, the caller operates the key input unit of the mobile communication terminal to exit the text message sending menu.

Next, when the receiver sends a text message in response to the text message sent by the sender, the sender's mobile terminal stores the received text message in memory and notifies the reception status, or displays the text message on the display window of the mobile terminal. Show the contents of the message.

Recently, however, users of mobile communication terminals have used text messages for various purposes, and have also tended to communicate with users of a plurality of mobile communication terminals. Therefore, in a situation where multiple text messages are transmitted or received to different people in a certain time frame, when multiple text messages are stored in the text message inbox, there may be a confusion about which text message each is a reply to. .

In addition, even though a lot of text messages are stored in the text message inbox, the menus of the text message inbox and the outbox are different so that the contents of the text message sent by the user are not forgotten or memorized after a certain period of time. There were problems that it was difficult to quickly grasp the content or interests of a text message.

The present invention has been made in view of the related art described above, and an object of the present invention is to provide a text message sent by the sender when a reply text message to the text message sent by the sender is received within a predetermined time. The present invention provides a method for managing an SMS text message in a mobile communication terminal that can automatically add all or part of the content of a reply text message.

In order to achieve the above object, the SMS text message management method in a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention, when receiving a text message, the receiving of the text message sent before the preset time of the caller's telephone number of the received text message A first step of checking whether or not it matches the telephone number of the side; And a second step of adding the outgoing text message to the received text message when the two phone numbers match.

Hereinafter, an embodiment according to a data synchronization method using a short message of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an SMS text message management procedure according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, first, a caller selects a text message call menu by operating a key input unit provided in a mobile communication terminal (S20), and inputs a phone number of a caller and a receiver, respectively (S21). At this time, the telephone number of the caller configures the system of the mobile communication terminal to be automatically input, and can be designed to modify the caller's phone number by the user's operation if necessary.

In this case, the receiver's telephone number may be inputted with the receiver's e-mail address or other unique identification number of the mobile communication terminal according to the interworking performance of the mobile communication network.

Subsequently, the sender manipulates various keys provided in the key input unit of the mobile communication terminal to create a desired text message (S22). In this case, the length of the text message is mostly less than 80 characters, the number of characters of the text message is allowed only within the number of characters allowed by the operator of the mobile communication service.

Subsequently, the sender presses the send button (or the send button or the confirm button) provided in the key input unit and transmits the created text message to the input recipient phone number (S23).

Subsequently, the controller of the mobile communication terminal controls the outgoing text message together with the recipient's phone number and transmission time information to be stored in the outbox storage box of the mobile communication terminal and maintains a standby state (S24).

Subsequently, when the mobile communication terminal receives a random text message in the standby state (S25), the control unit of the mobile communication terminal reads the calling party's telephone number information included in the received text message, and sets a predetermined time from receiving the text message. (For example: 1 hour, 2 hours, etc.) It is determined whether the received message is a reply text message by checking whether there is a matching number among the telephone numbers of the receiving party of the text messages previously transmitted (S26). .

If it is determined that the telephone number does not match, it is determined that a new text message has been received, the received text message is stored in the text message inbox of the mobile communication terminal and the user is notified of the reception status or the display window of the mobile communication terminal. Shows the contents of the text message (S27).

However, in the S26 determination result, if there is a matching number, the currently received text message is judged as a reply text message for the message sent by the user, and the original text message stored in the outgoing text message is read, as shown in FIG. 3. As described above, the text message is added to the bottom of the currently received reply text message and stored in the text message inbox, and the user is notified of the reception status or the contents of the updated text message with the original text message added to the display window of the mobile communication terminal are displayed (S28).

At this time, the control unit of the mobile communication terminal controls to automatically delete the original text message stored in the text message box (S29), the reason for automatically deleting the outgoing text message is the same content is added to the currently received text message This is because it is possible to manage the entire memory capacity as much as possible.

In addition, the control unit of the mobile communication terminal may be controlled to be easily distinguished from the reply text message by changing the text color or font of the original text message added to the currently received reply text message or block processing.

In addition, the controller of the mobile communication terminal may perform the following operation to efficiently operate the capacity of the entire memory.

That is, in the S26 determination result, in the case of the phone number of the recipient who transmitted the text message within the preset time, the text message currently received is determined as a reply to the text message transmitted within the preset time, and the original text message stored in the outgoing memory. Read to determine the data capacity of the full text message.

Next, when the data capacity of the full text message is compared with the preset data capacity value, and the data capacity value of the full text message exceeds the preset data capacity value, the preset portion of the full text text message (for example, , Lines 2-4) are added to the bottom of the currently received reply text message.

Therefore, the user of the mobile communication terminal can read a part of the original text message and the received reply text message together, so that the contents and the cause relations of the original text message and the reply text message can be quickly identified.

As described above, according to the SMS text message management method in the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention, when the mobile communication terminal receives a predetermined text message, the original text transmitted by the control unit of the mobile communication terminal received a predetermined time ago It is determined whether the text message is a reply text message, and in such a case, all or part of the content of the original text message is automatically added to the text text of the reply text message and stored.

Therefore, even if you send or receive multiple text messages to other people at certain times, or even if you have several text messages stored in your text message inbox after a certain period of time, All or part of the original text message sent is added, so that the content and cause of the text message can be quickly identified.

On the other hand, the present invention is not limited only to the above-described embodiment, but may be modified and modified within the scope not departing from the gist of the present invention, such modifications and changes should be regarded as belonging to the following claims. something to do.

Claims (3)

A first step of confirming whether, when receiving a text message, whether the calling party's telephone number of the received text message matches the receiving party's telephone number of the text message sent before the preset time; And And if the two phone numbers match, adding and storing the sent text message to the received text message. The method of claim 1, SMS text message management method in a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that different from the color or font of the received text message and the added outgoing text message. The method of claim 1, And when the sum of the received text message and the appended outgoing text message exceeds a preset data capacity, adding only a part of the outgoing text message to the SMS text message management method of the mobile communication terminal.

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