Method of sending an sms type message and a corresponding radio-communication terminal

• US 20040072585A1
• Filed: 08/19/2003
• Published: 04/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Le, Minh, Lejay, Frederic
• Application Number:
  US10/468,294
• Publication Number:
  US 20040072585A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2746 Sorting, e.g. according to history or frequency of use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/60 logging of communication history, e.g. outgoing or incoming calls, missed calls, messages or URLs
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

The invention relates to a method of sending a message, such as an SMS message comprising an address field, from a first radio terminal to a recipient radio terminal, the address field of said SMS message being filled in with the number of the recipient terminal, which method is characterized in that said recipient terminal number is selected from numbers stored automatically in the first terminal, said stored numbers consisting of the numbers of the last few caller and/or called terminals.

Claims

1. A method of sending a message, such as an SMS message comprising an address field, from a first radio terminal to a recipient radio terminal, the address field of said SMS message being filled in with the number of the recipient terminal, which method is characterized in that the first terminal automatically prompts its user to choose said recipient terminal number from an ordered list of numbers stored automatically in the first terminal, said stored numbers consisting of the numbers of the last few caller and/or called terminals, and in that the recipient terminal number is chosen from the ordered list by a user of said first terminal using said control means.

2. A method according to claim 1 characterized in that the first recipient terminal number in the ordered list is that of a terminal with which the first terminal is in radio communication.

3. A radio terminal (1) including means for sending an SMS message comprising an address field (7) and at least one memory area (6 or 10) adapted to store the numbers of the last few caller and/or called radio terminals, which terminal is characterized in that said means for sending an SMS message include:

means for ordering a list of recipient terminal numbers from numbers stored automatically in said memory area,

means for prompting its user to choose said recipient terminal number from said ordered list, and

means for commanding the copying of the selected number from said memory area (6 or 10) into said address field (7).

4. A radio terminal according to claim 3, characterized in that it includes configuration parameters, at least one of which is dedicated to copying the number into the address field, and means for configuring said parameter with a view to said copying.