Automatic short message service notification of powered up mobile phone

• US 20040242247A1
• Filed: 06/02/2003
• Published: 12/02/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: True, Sandra T., Benco, David S., Sheen, Baoling S., Voight, Kenneth J., Overend, Kevin J.
• Application Number:
  US10/452,354
• Publication Number:
  US 20040242247A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• 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 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold

Abstract

A method and system provides for automatically notifying at least one of unanswered callers and a personal chat group that a mobile phone is ready to accept calls. In one embodiment the method may have the steps of: creating, for a first mobile phone, at least one of a first SMS message to be sent for unanswered calls, the unanswered calls occurring when the first mobile phone is powered down, and a second SMS message to be sent to a personal chat group, and an SMS message to be sent to a personal chat group; and automatically sending, when the first mobile phone is powered up, the created SMS messages to at least one of further second mobile phones associated with the unanswered calls and further third mobile phones associated with the personal chat group. The system implements the method.

Claims

1. A method for providing notification that a mobile phone is ready to accept calls, said method comprising the steps of:

creating, for a first mobile phone, at least one SMS message to be sent to at least a second mobile phone;

determining at least one call time when the at least one SMS message is to be sent to the at least one second mobile phone; and

sending, when the at least one call time occurs, the created SMS message to the at least one second mobile phone.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises in the step of creating;

creating, for the first mobile phone, at least one of a first SMS message to be sent for unanswered calls, the unanswered calls occurring when the first mobile phone is powered down, and a second SMS message to be sent to a personal chat group.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the at least one call time is a time when the first mobile phone is powered up from a powered down condition;

and wherein the method further comprises in the step of sending;

automatically sending, when the first mobile phone is powered up, the created SMS messages to at least one of further second mobile phones associated with the unanswered calls and further third mobile phones associated with the personal chat group.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising the steps of:

storing the first SMS messages at a telecommunications network; and

automatically sending the first SMS message from the telecommunications network when the first mobile phone is powered up;

wherein the mobile phone is operatively connected to the telecommunications network.

5. The method of claim 3 further comprising the steps of:

storing the second SMS messages at a telecommunications network; and

automatically sending the second SMS messages from the telecommunications network when the first mobile phone is powered up.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises in the step of creating;

creating, from the first mobile phone, at least one future SMS message to be stored in the telecommunications network and sent at a future time to at least one second mobile phone.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the at least one call time is a predetermined future time, and wherein the at least one future SMS message is stored at the telecommunications network.

8. A method for automatically notifying at least one of unanswered callers and a personal chat group that a mobile phone is ready to accept calls, said method comprising the steps of:

creating, for a first mobile phone, at least one of a first SMS message to be sent for unanswered calls, the unanswered calls occurring when the first mobile phone is powered down, and a second SMS message to be sent to a personal chat group; and

automatically sending, when the first mobile phone is powered up, the created SMS messages to at least one of further second mobile phones associated with the unanswered calls and further third mobile phones associated with the personal chat group.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising the steps of:

storing the first SMS messages at a telecommunications network; and

automatically sending the first SMS messages from the telecommunications network when the first mobile phone is powered up;

wherein the mobile phone is operatively connected to the telecommunications network.

10. The method of claim 8 further comprising the steps of:

storing the second SMS messages at the telecommunications network; and

automatically sending the second SMS messages from the telecommunications network when the first mobile phone is powered up.

11. A method for notification, said method comprising the steps of:

creating, for a first mobile phone, at least one future SMS message to be stored at the telecommunications network and sent at a future time to at least one second mobile phone; and

sending, when the future time occurs, the stored at least one future SMS message to the at least one second mobile phone.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising the step of storing at the first mobile phone the at least one future SMS message and an identification of the at least one second mobile phone.

13. A system for automatically notifying at least one of unanswered callers and a personal chat group that a mobile phone is ready to accept calls, said system comprising:

a message creation module in a first mobile phone;

at least one of a first SMS message to be sent for unanswered calls, the unanswered calls occurring when the first mobile phone is powered down, and a second SMS message to be sent to a personal chat group, the first and second messages being created by the message creation module in the first mobile phone and stored in the telecommunications network; and

at least one transmission module for effecting automatic sending, when the first mobile phone is powered up, the stored SMS messages to at least one of further second mobile phones associated with the unanswered calls and further third mobile phones associated with the personal chat group.

14. The system of claim 13 further comprising:

a storage in a telecommunications network in which is stored the at least one first SMS message; and

wherein the mobile phone is operatively connected to the telecommunications network.

15. The system of claim 13 further comprising:

a storage in a telecommunications network in which is stored the at least one second SMS message.

16. A system for notification, said system comprising:

a message creation module in a first mobile phone;

at least one future SMS message to be sent at a future time to at least one second mobile phone, the at least one future SMS message being created in the message creation module in a first mobile phone and stored in the telecommunications network; and

a transmission module in the telecommunications network for effecting automatic sending, when the future time occurs, of the created at least one future SMS message to the at least one second mobile phone.

17. The system of claim 16 further comprising a storage in the telecommunications network in which is stored the at least one future SMS message and an identification of the at least one second mobile phone.