Apparatus and method for canceling SMS message transmission and retaining received SMS message

• US 20060063541A1
• Filed: 09/15/2005
• Published: 03/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Ryu, Hye-Hun
• Application Number:
  US11/227,627
• Publication Number:
  US 20060063541A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/301 Management of recordings
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/4554 Sender-side editing
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42382 Text-based messaging services in telephone networks such as PSTN/ISDN, e.g. User-to-User Signalling or Short Message Service for fixed networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53366 Message disposing or creating aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

Provided is an apparatus and method for cancellation of an SMS message transmission and for retainment of a received SMS message, which can prevent an undesired transmission of an SMS message and an undesired deletion of a received SMS message. A method for cancellation of a message transmission in a mobile communication terminal includes the steps of transmitting a message at a transmitting terminal, and transmitting a transmitted message-cancellation command at the transmitting terminal. An undesired transmission of a message can be prevented, and a received message can also be prevented from being deleted irrespective of a user'"'"'s intention.

Claims

1. A method for cancellation of a message transmission in a mobile terminal, comprising the steps of:

transmitting an outgoing message by the mobile terminal; and

transmitting an outgoing message-cancellation command by the mobile terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of transmitting the outgoing message by the mobile terminal further comprises receiving a message reception completion-indicating response from a message center (MC) having received the outgoing message.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of the transmitting the outgoing message-cancellation command further comprises

deleting the outgoing message stored in a message center (MC) when the outgoing message has not yet been transmitted from the MC to a receiving terminal.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the step of deleting the outgoing message further comprises transmitting a message cancel completion-indicating response by the MC to the mobile terminal when the stored outgoing message is successfully deleted.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the step of transmitting the outgoing message-cancellation command further comprises transmitting an outgoing message-cancellation command by the MC to a receiving terminal if the outgoing message has been already transmitted to the receiving terminal.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the outgoing message is an SMS (short message service) message.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the outgoing message is a voice message.

8. A mobile communication terminal capable of canceling an outgoing message transmission, the mobile communication terminal comprising:

a display unit for displaying status information generated during the operation of the mobile communication terminal and a message transmit menu;

a controller for executing an outgoing message-transmitting command and an outgoing message-cancellation command according to a selection of the message transmit menu; and

a keypad for selecting the message transmit menu displayed on the display unit and transmitting selected key input data to the controller.

9. The mobile communication terminal of claim 8, wherein the controller receives an outgoing message reception success-indicating response from an MC (message center) having received an outgoing message.

10. The mobile communication terminal of claim 9, wherein the MC deletes a stored outgoing message according to the outgoing message-cancellation command from the mobile communication terminal if the outgoing message has not yet been transmitted to a receiving terminal.

11. A method for retaining a received outgoing message in a mobile terminal, comprising the steps of:

receiving an outgoing message from a transmitting terminal by the mobile terminal; and

receiving a received outgoing message-cancellation command by the mobile terminal.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the step of receiving an outgoing message further comprises transmitting a message reception success-indicating response by the mobile terminal to a message center (MC) upon receiving the outgoing message.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the step of receiving an outgoing message further comprises transmitting a received outgoing message cancellation failure-indicating response to the MC upon receiving the received outgoing message-cancellation command if a received message cancellation-preventing function menu is selected by the mobile terminal.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the step of receiving an outgoing message further comprises deleting the received outgoing message according to the received outgoing message-cancellation command if a received message cancellation-preventing function menu is not selected by the mobile terminal.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the step of receiving an outgoing message further comprises transmitting a received outgoing message cancellation failure-indicating response to the MC upon receiving the received outgoing message-cancellation command if the received outgoing message has already been opened.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the outgoing message is one of an short message service (SMS) message and a voice message.

17. A mobile communication terminal capable of preventing a unwanted deletion of a received message, the mobile communication terminal comprising:

a display unit for displaying status information generated during the operation of the mobile communication terminal and a message transmit menu;

a controller for receiving an outgoing message according to a selection of the message transmit menu and executing a received message cancellation-preventing command according to a user'"'"'s selection; and

a keypad for selecting the message transmit menu displayed on the display unit and transmitting selected key input data to the controller.

18. The mobile communication terminal of claim 17, wherein the controller transmits a message reception success-indicating response to an MC (message center) upon reception of a message.

19. The mobile communication terminal of claim 17, wherein the controller transmits an outgoing message cancellation failure-indicating response to the MC if a terminal'"'"'s user beforehand sets a received message deletion-preventing function at the terminal.

20. The mobile communication terminal of claim 17, wherein the controller deletes a received message following receipt of an outgoing message cancellation command, if the terminal'"'"'s user does not set a received message deletion-preventing function at the terminal.