KR101043760B1 - SMS message transmission method of mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

According to the present invention, when the SMS message input function is set in the mobile communication terminal, the recent call list is automatically displayed on the display. When it is confirmed that the number is selected, the SMS sending mode screen display step of displaying the SMS sending mode screen in which the specific phone number selected by the user in the phone number input window is displayed on the display window, and the SMS message after the displaying step of the SMS sending mode screen. When the input operation is completed, the user provides an SMS message transmission method comprising an SMS message transmission step of transmitting an SMS message written by a phone number selected from a recent call list.

As described above, the present invention adds an editing function to a call list for storing incoming and outgoing phone numbers, and immediately transmits an SMS message by selecting a received phone number for sending an SMS message from the call list and transmitting the SMS message. The user does not need to enter the phonebook mode to search and input multiple recipients, thereby maximizing the ease of use of the SMS message transmission function.

SMS message, recent call list, automatic search, recipient details, recipient name and phone number

Description

Method for transferring a SMS message of the mobile communication terminal

1 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a communication terminal system having a conventional SMS message transmission and reception function.

2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a communication terminal system to which the present invention is applied.

3 is a flowchart of the present invention.

4 (a) to 4 (e) are explanatory views for explaining an example to which the method of the present invention is applied.

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1: transceiver 2: codec section

3: MSM unit 4: communication terminal

5 memory unit 6 key panel unit

7: LCD panel 8: terminal

9: base station 10: MSC

11: SMS server 12: email server

The present invention relates to a method for transmitting an SMS message of a mobile communication terminal, and in particular, adds an editing function to a call list for storing incoming and outgoing phone numbers, and when receiving an SMS message, receives an incoming call number for transmitting an SMS message from the call list. The present invention relates to an SMS message transmission method of a mobile communication terminal which is selected and immediately transmitted.

In general, wireless data communication refers to a communication function of wirelessly transmitting and receiving various data such as letters, numbers, and images through a base station system using a portable terminal capable of wireless transmission and reception. For example, it is a mobile communication system that exchanges or retrieves data in both directions while moving by using various terminals such as a cellular phone, a portable computer, and a wireless local loop (WLL). Especially in the early 1980s, mobile phones divided the service area into hexagonal cells of several km to several ten kilometers in diameter in North America, and then repeatedly used the same frequency channel in geographically separated cells. As a result, cellular phones that implement radio channel switching between cells have grown rapidly for the first time. In addition, such a mobile phone provides various service menus on the terminal for the convenience of the user. For example, a short message service (SMS), an e-mail transmission, and an Internet connection are provided.

Then, referring to the conventional communication system as described above with reference to FIG. 1, the base station 71 for wirelessly processing function signals, for example, call signals or SMS messages transmitted from the plurality of terminals 70, and the base station 71 MSC 72 for controlling the transmission function of the call signal or SMS message input via the) and the SMS message center 73 is connected to the MSC 72 to provide an SMS message to the terminal 70 do.

Here, the SMS data processed by the SMS message center 73 can be largely divided into a point to point method and a broadcasting method, and the double point to point method checks the state of the terminal in the SMS message center 73 and transmits it to the end. Responsible and complete. On the other hand, the broadcasting method is a method of transmitting a message to all terminals that can simultaneously receive a message through a paging channel.

On the other hand, looking at the operation of the conventional communication system as described above, first, when the user of the terminal 70 wants to send the information desired by the other terminal to the other terminal to the other terminal, the user of the terminal 70 of the terminal 70 Use the keypad (not shown) to select the menu, then enter the required characters.

In this case, the terminal 70 first completes the text input of the SMS message, and then inputs or searches for the other party to receive the corresponding message, where the user of the terminal 70 receives a telephone number from the receiving number menu window. Set the search menu and search and set the phone number or name of the other party to receive his message as many as the number of people to send. Then, when the setting operation of the recipient number is completed through the above process, the user of the terminal 70 presses the transmission button together with the destination telephone number. Then, the terminal 70 attaches an SMS message to the telephone number set by the current user, that is, when the length of the text message is short, the data burst message is transmitted through the access channel, while the length of the text message is long. As service option 6, it is transmitted in reverse traffic channel in data burst message.                         

Then, the SMS message signal of the terminal 70 is input to and stored in the SMS message center 73 via the base station 71 and the MSC 72. The SMS message center 73 checks the destination phone numbers of the input SMS message and transmits it to the MSC 72. Then, the MSC 72 transmits the SMS message signal transmitted from the SMS message center 73 to the mobile phone 74 of the other party's telephone number.

Of course, the SMS function is equally applicable to WLL terminals and wired and wireless telephones including the mobile communication terminal described above.

However, the SMS message transmission method of the conventional mobile communication terminal system as described above, when sending SMS messages to one or several users simultaneously, enter the recipient's phone number one by one or press the search button and then search for the name of the person who is looking in the phone book menu. Since it has to be found and set up one by one, the usability of the terminal is considerably degraded accordingly. Even if the SMS message is transmitted by using the SMS reply function previously received, the received SMS is erased or the message is only for a person who has just made a call. There was a problem that it could not be transferred.

Accordingly, the present invention has been invented to solve the conventional problems as described above, and since the use of a call list with an editing function, the terminal user enters the phonebook mode when SMS messages are transmitted, and searches for and inputs a plurality of recipients. Therefore, the object of the present invention is to provide an SMS message transmission method of the mobile communication terminal maximizing the ease of use of the SMS message transmission function accordingly.                         

Another object of the present invention is that the user can conveniently perform the recipient number search according to the SMS message transmission through the editing function without having a separate search device in the mobile communication terminal, thereby significantly improving the functionality of the mobile communication terminal. The present invention provides a method for transmitting an SMS message of a communication terminal.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a recent call list automatic display step of automatically displaying a recent call list on a display when an SMS message input function is set in a mobile communication terminal, and after the latest call list automatic display step. The specific telephone number selection confirmation step of confirming whether the user selects a specific telephone number from the recent call list currently displayed on the display, and the user selected a specific telephone number from the recent call list by the specific telephone number selection confirmation step. If it is confirmed, the SMS sending mode screen display step of displaying the SMS sending mode screen in which the specific phone number selected by the user is entered in the phone number input window on the display window, and after the SMS sending mode screen displaying step, the SMS message input operation is completed. When the user initiates an SMS message with the phone number selected in the recent calls list. The present invention provides an SMS message transmission method of a mobile communication terminal comprising a step of transmitting an SMS message.

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

As shown in FIG. 2, the communication terminal system to which the present invention is applied includes a codec unit 2 for processing a voice signal input and output through the handset 1, and a voice signal input and output through the codec unit 2. MSM unit 3 which processes RF signal and transmits it to other communication equipment or automatically processes call list search function according to edit control signal after inputting SMS message, and SMS which has been processed by call list search processing by MSM unit 3 A memory unit 5 for storing various processing information of the terminal 4 including a message signal, a key panel unit 6 connected to one end of the MSM unit 3 and inputting a function setting signal of a user; And an LCD panel 7 for externally displaying telephone number and name information on the automatically searched call list according to the edit search control signal of the MSM unit 3 generated after the SMS message is written.

In addition, the mobile communication system for processing the call of the mobile communication terminal 4 as described above has a base station 9 which wirelessly relays function signals transmitted from a plurality of terminals 8, for example, call signals or SMS phone number messages. And an MSC 10 analyzing the call signal and time information input through the base station 9 and controlling the corresponding function, and connected to the MSC 10 and transmitted from the terminals 4 and 8. An SMS server 11 for processing an SMS message and an email server 12 connected to the MSC 10 and storing email data transmitted from the terminal 4 at a corresponding email address.

Here, the communication terminal system includes both wired and wireless telephones, WLL terminals and mobile communication terminals.

Next, a control method applied to the apparatus of the present invention as described above will be described.

The method of the present invention proceeds to the SMS message input function setting determination step S2 in the initial state S1 as shown in FIG. 3 to determine whether the user of the current terminal has set the SMS message input function. At this time, if it is determined during the SMS message input function setting determination step (S2) that the user of the current terminal has not set the SMS message input function, proceeds to the general function execution step (S3) to execute the normal call mode.

That is, when the user of the terminal 4 wants to call, the telephone panel 6 inputs a telephone number. Then, when all the normal telephone numbers are input within a predetermined time, the MSM unit 3 of the terminal converts them into radio signals and transmits them to the corresponding terminal 8 via the base station 9 and the MSC 10. When a call is made with the counterpart terminal 8, the call is notified to the user through the handset 1 through a call tone. Then, the user allows the desired word to be input to the codec unit 2 of the terminal through the handset (1). The codec unit 2 converts a voice signal of the user input through the handset 1 into a voice signal processing, for example, an analog voice signal into a digital signal and inputs it to the MSM unit 3. In addition, the MSM unit 3 modulates the digital voice signal input from the codec unit 2, processes the RF signal, and transmits the RF signal to the counterpart terminal 8 to perform a normal voice call.

In this case, the terminal 4 normally transmits a registration message through a neighboring base station 9 even if the terminal does not transmit or receive a call signal to another terminal. The home location register (HLR) or the visitor location (VLR) of the MSC 10 is transmitted. register will continue to register.

However, if the user of the current terminal has set the SMS message input function as a result of the determination during the SMS message input function setting determination step (S2), the process proceeds to the automatic display of the recent call list step (S4) and the latest call list is automatically displayed on the display. Mark it.

Here, when the user selects during the automatic display of the recent call list (S4), the detailed information of the selected recipient may be further included.

Then, after the automatic recent call list display step S4, the process proceeds to the specific telephone number selection judging step S5 to determine whether the user selects a specific telephone number from the recent call list currently displayed on the display. At this time, if the user has not selected a specific telephone number from the recent call list currently displayed on the display as a result of the determination during the specific telephone number selection determination step S5, the process returns to the previous step S4 and repeats the loop.

However, when the user selects a specific telephone number from the recent call list currently displayed on the display as a result of the determination during the specific telephone number selection determination step (S5), the process proceeds to the SMS sending mode screen displaying step (S6) and a telephone number input window. Displays the SMS transmission mode screen in which the specific phone number selected by the user is entered. Then, after the SMS sending mode screen display step (S6) to proceed to the SMS message input determination step (S7) to determine whether the current SMS message input operation is completed. At this time, when the message input completion determination step (S7) is determined as the result of the current SMS message input operation is not completed, returns to the SMS sending mode screen display step (S6) to repeat the loop.

However, as a result of determining during the message input completion determination step (S7), if the current SMS message input operation is completed, the process proceeds to the SMS message transmission step (S8) and carries the SMS message written by the user selected from the recent call list. send.

In other words, the MSM unit 3 of the communication terminal 4 is the LCD panel 7 as shown in (a)-(b) of FIG. 4 when the user of the terminal 4 has set the SMS message input function. Automatically display recent call list on the screen.

Here, the MSM unit 3 may search for and display detailed information of the selected recipient, for example, the recipient name and the e-mail address, when the user selects the selective recipient detail information display function on the automatic display of the recent call list.

In addition, the MSM unit 3 randomly wants the user to send an SMS message among the outgoing or received telephone numbers displayed on the recent call list displayed on the LCD panel 7 through the key panel unit 6. If you select the phone number of the memory unit 5 to store it. In addition, the MSM unit 3 proceeds to the SMS sending mode after the process, and displays the SMS sending mode screen on the LCD panel 7 as shown in (c)-(d) of FIG. The telephone number input window of the SMS sending mode screen displayed on the LCD panel 7 displays the telephone number selected by the user in the recent call list.

On the other hand, during the process, the MSM unit 3, when the user inputs the SMS message through the key panel unit 6, the SMS message input by the user in the window of the LCD panel 7 in letters, numbers or graphical Display. The MSM unit 3 stores the currently input SMS message in the memory unit 5.

In addition, the MSM unit 3 of the communication terminal 4 is the MSM unit 3 is shown in (e) of FIG. 4 when the user gives a transmission command after the SMS message input operation is completed through the above process. As described above, the SMS message currently stored in the memory unit 5 is added to the telephone number selected by the user in the recent call list and transmitted to the SMS server 11 through the data burst message. Then, the SMS server 11 receives this and sends the corresponding SMS messages to the attached phone number to the corresponding terminal 8 through the MSC 10.

As described above, the present invention adds an editing function to a call list for storing incoming and outgoing phone numbers, and when sending an SMS message, selects an incoming phone number for sending an SMS message from the call list and immediately sends it, thereby sending an SMS message. City terminal users do not need to enter the phone book mode to search and input a number of recipients, which has the advantage of maximizing the ease of use of the SMS message transmission function accordingly.

In addition, according to the present invention, since the user can conveniently perform the recipient number search according to the SMS message transmission through the editing function without having a separate search device in the mobile communication terminal, thereby significantly improving the functionality of the mobile communication terminal. It also works.

Claims (2)

When the SMS message input function is set in the mobile communication terminal, the recent call list automatic display step of automatically displaying the recent call list on the display and the recent call list displayed on the current display after the recent call list automatic display step When the user selects a specific phone number from the recent call list by the specific phone number selection confirmation step of confirming whether or not a specific phone number is selected, and the specific phone number selection confirmation step, the user selects a phone number input window. SMS sending mode screen displaying step of displaying SMS sending mode screen in which a specific phone number is inputted; and when SMS message input operation is completed after displaying SMS sending mode screen, the user selects the phone number selected from the recent call list. SMS message sending step of carrying a written SMS message SM message transmission method of a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that. The method of claim 1, wherein when the user selects the display of the detailed information of the selected recipient on the automatic display of the recent call list during the automatic display of the recent call list, the detailed information of the selected recipient is displayed. SM message transmission method of a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that it further comprises.

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