Message creating apparatus and method for mobile phone

• US 20040171392A1
• Filed: 09/22/2003
• Published: 09/02/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mbridge Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Mbridge Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Kwon, Hyuk, Lee, Jae-Yeong
• Granted Patent: US 7,130,649 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

This invention is a message crating apparatus and message writing method for mobile phone. The above message (SMS or LMS) of mobile phone is including an attribute information(letter color, background color, background scene, letter blink, etc.). Therefore, message creating apparatus and message writing method of the present invention add an attribute information that can select freely that letter color, background color, background scene, letter blink, etc., and use non-print code of ASCII code to keep compatibility with a short message service (SMS) function of existing mobile phone.

Claims

1. A system for creating text message on mobile phone display wherein attribute information(character colors, background colors and blink) is added to the message, comprising;

a means for creating a first message signal by combining character codes which are outputted from a character input means by a user and then inputted thereinto;

a means for selecting a character color to output the corresponding character color attribute value selected among a plurality of color values by the user;

a means for selecting a background color to output the corresponding background attribute value selected among a plurality of color values by the user;

a means for selecting a blink mode to output the corresponding blink attribute value selected among a plurality, of blink modes by the user;

a means for creating a second message signal by combining each of the attribute values outputted from the selecting means for character color, background color and blink function; and

a means for transmitting the first and the second message signals.

2. The system for creating text message on mobile phone display according to claim 1, wherein the first message signal comprises a header part including ID or specific number and a message data part comprising ASCII values, and the second message signal comprises a header part including ID or specific number and an attribute information part of character color, background color and blink.

3. The system for creating text message on mobile phone display according to claim 1, wherein the blink modes comprise a non-blink mode, a mode for blinking in an odd number of the characters and a mode for blinking in an even number of the letters.

4. The system for creating text message on mobile phone display according to claim 1, characterized in that the means for selecting character colors and background colors include scroll buttons on a side of the phone.

5. The system for creating text message on mobile phone display according to claim 1, characterized in that the means for selecting blink mode includes left-right shifting button on the keypad of the phone.

6. The system for creating text message on mobile phone display according to claim 1, wherein the first and the second messages are included in one message signal.

7. The system for creating text message on mobile phone display according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting means transmit the second message signal to be followed by the first message signal.

8. The system for creating text message on mobile phone display according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting means transmit the first and second message signals at the same time.

9. The system for creating text message on mobile phone display according to claim 1, wherein the background color selecting means includes a background scene selecting means which allows a user to select one among a plurality of background scene indexes stored in a memory thereby outputting a background scene attribute value for the selected background scene.

10. A method for creating text message on mobile phone display for the text message services[both of short message service(SMS) and long message service(LMS)] wherein the text message is made by combining character information and attribute information(character color, background color and blink, etc.), comprising the steps of;

forming text message information in accordance with the character string inputted by a user;

inserting identifier indicating the start of attribute information followed by the character string;

inserting an attribute values(character blink and character color value), which are selected from the region of non-printable codes among ASCII codes, after said identifier.

11. The method for creating text message on mobile phone display according to claim 10, further comprising the step of inserting an index value for selecting one among a plurality of background scenes in addition to the message information.

12. The method for creating text message on mobile phone display according to claim 10, characterized in that the attribute values are assigned to the rest 5 bits exclusive of the upper of 3 bits from 1 byte data row.

13. The method for creating text message on mobile phone display according to claim 10 or 12, wherein the character blink value among the attribute values may be 1 bit and the character color value may be 2 bits.