Wireless communicating terminal for providing integrated messaging service and method thereof

• US 20050245281A1
• Filed: 04/13/2005
• Published: 11/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Curitel Communications Incorporated
• Inventors: You, Jin-Woo, Suk, SangWoo
• Granted Patent: US 7,283,839 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/550.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72439 for image or video messaging

Abstract

Provided is a wireless communication terminal having a function of providing an integrated messaging service. The wireless communication terminal includes: a wireless transceiver for transceiving a message to/from an outside device through a wireless network; a storage for storing an integrated messaging service program and messages; a keypad for receiving a message content and a menu selecting signal in the IUI; a displayer for displaying the message content and description data in the IUI; and a controller for providing the IUI to the keypad and the displayer, determining a message kind of the message to be transmitted, generating an outgoing message including identification data, transmitting the outgoing message, displaying the message content and the description data in the IUI, determining a message kind of a received message, dividing the received message into a message content and description data, and displaying the message content and the description data in the IUI.

Claims

1. A wireless communication terminal having a function of providing an integrated messaging service, the wireless communication terminal comprising:

a wireless transceiver for transceiving a message to/from an outside device through a wireless network;

a storage for storing an integrated messaging service program and messages in order to provide an integrated user interface (IUI);

a keypad for receiving a message content and a menu selecting signal in the IUI;

a displayer for displaying the message content and description data in the IUI; and

a controller for providing the IUI to the keypad and the displayer by operating the integrated messaging service program, determining a message kind of the message to be transmitted which is inputted in the IUI, generating an outgoing message including identification data corresponding to the message kind, transmitting the outgoing message, displaying the message content and the description data of the outgoing message in the IUI, determining a message kind of a received message, dividing the received message into a message content and description data, displaying the message content and the description data in the IUI, and controlling elements in the wireless communication terminal.

2. The wireless communication terminal as recited in claim 1, wherein the description data include incoming/outgoing description data in order to present whether the message is transmitted or received.

3. The wireless communication terminal as recited in claim 1, wherein the controller generates a multimedia message including a multimedia file and transmits the multimedia message to a multimedia contents server so that a wireless communication terminal of a receiving part accesses to the multimedia contents server and receives the multimedia message when the outgoing message is a multimedia message;

and

the controller accesses to the multimedia contents server based on a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) included in an informing message and receives the multimedia message including the multimedia file to thereby display the multimedia message in the IUI when an incoming message is an informing message of the multimedia message.

4. The wireless communication terminal as recited in claim 3, wherein the outgoing/incoming message is displayed with incoming/outgoing description data to indicate whether the message is transmitted or received and file description data to present a file kind included in the message content.

5. The wireless communication terminal as recited in claim 3, wherein when a display form transformation request is received, an IUI display form is transformed into a conventional display form or the conventional display form into the IUI display form, and the message content is displayed on the displayer.

6. A method for transmitting a message in a wireless communication terminal for providing an integrated messaging service, the method comprising the steps of:

a) inputting a message content in an integrated user interface (IUI);

b) determining a message kind of the message content;

c) generating an outgoing message including identification data;

d) transmitting the outgoing message to a receiving terminal; and

e) displaying the message content with description data in the IUI.

7. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein the description data include incoming/outgoing description data in order to inform whether the message is transmitted or received.

8. The method as recited in claim 6, further comprising a step of:

f) generating a multimedia message including a multimedia file and transmitting the multimedia message to a multimedia contents server so that, at a receiving terminal connects to the multimedia contents server and receives the multimedia message when an outgoing message is a multimedia message.

9. The method as recited in claim 8, wherein the description data include incoming/outgoing description data in order to inform whether the message is transmitted or received and file description data to inform a file kind of the message content.

10. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein the step d) includes a step of:

d1) when a display form transformation request is received, transforming an IUI display form into a conventional display form or the conventional display form into the IUI display form, and displaying the message content on the displayer.

11. A method for receiving a message in a wireless communication terminal for providing an integrated message service, the method comprising the steps of:

a) determining a message kind of an incoming message;

b) informing of the incoming message to a user;

c) when a display form transformation request is received, dividing the incoming message into a message content and identification data and transforming the message content into a display form of an integrated user interface (IUI); and

d) displaying the transformed message content and description data in the IUI.

12. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the description data include incoming/outgoing description data in order to present whether the message is transmitted or received.

13. The method as recited in claim 11, further comprising a step of:

e) in the receiving terminal, accessing to the multimedia contents server based on a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) included in an informing message and receiving the multimedia message including the multimedia file to thereby display the multimedia in the IUI when a receiving message is an informing message of the multimedia message.

14. The method as recited in claim 13, wherein the description data include incoming/outgoing description data in order to present whether the message is transmitted or received and file description data to present the file description data of the message content.

15. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the step d) includes a step of:

d1) when a display form transformation request is received, transforming an IUI display form into a conventional display form or the conventional display form into the IUI display form, and displaying the message content on the displayer.