Method for compressing a message in a mobile communication terminal and mobile communication terminal using the same

• US 20060270425A1
• Filed: 05/22/2006
• Published: 11/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Hong-Seok
• Application Number:
  US11/439,408
• Publication Number:
  US 20060270425A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 7/30 Compression speech analysis-synthesis for redundancy reduction G10L19/00; for image communication H04N; Expansion; Suppression of unnecessary data, e.g. redundancy reduction

Abstract

A method and mobile terminal for compressing message content includes receiving an original message comprising user-supplied content, the original message having a message size which varies based upon the user-supplied content. A compressed message may be generated by modifying the user-supplied content according to at least one automatic compression process, such that the compressed message has a message size which is less than the message size of the original message.

Claims

1. A method for compressing message content, said method comprising:

receiving an original message comprising user-supplied content, said original message having a message size which varies based upon said user-supplied content; and

generating a compressed message by modifying said user-supplied content according to at least one automatic compression process, wherein said compressed message has a message size which is less than said message size of said original message.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said compression process comprises:

removing any spaces individually located between separate characters contained within said user-supplied content.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said removing is performed until said message size of said compressed message meets a predetermined size threshold.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said compression process comprises:

changing predetermined common words contained within said user-supplied content into a relatively smaller assigned word.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said compression process comprises:

removing any special characters contained within said user-supplied content.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said compression process comprises:

changing any words contained within said user-supplied content that have assigned abbreviations into said abbreviations.

7. The method according to claim 1, said method further comprising:

removing any characters contained within said user-supplied content which exceed a maximum message size limit.

8. The method according to claim 1, said method further comprising:

setting priority which determines relative order for each operation of said compression process.

9. The method according to claim 1, said method further comprising:

detecting that said message size of said original message exceeds a predetermined size threshold.

10. The method according to claim 1, said method further comprising:

highlighting portions of said compressed message which correspond to said user-supplied content modified according to said compression process.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein said highlighting comprises:

displaying said highlighted portions of said compressed message in at least one of a different color, font, and size than that used to display non-highlighted portions of said compressed message.

12. The method according to claim 1, said method further comprising:

registering common words with assigned words suitable for said compression process.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein said generating said compressed message is performed responsive to user input.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein said generating said compressed message is performed automatically whenever said original message exceeds a predetermined size threshold.

15. The method according to claim 1, said method further comprising:

displaying a message size indicator which represents said message size of said original message.

16. The method according to claim 1, said method further comprising:

restoring said compressed message to said original message responsive to user input.

17. The method according to claim 1, wherein said compressed message is a message selected from the group consisting of a short message service (SMS) message, an enhanced message service (EMS) message, and a multimedia message service (MMS) message.

18. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a key input unit for receiving an original message comprising user-supplied content, said original message having a message size which varies based upon said user-supplied content; and

a control unit for generating a compressed message by modifying said user-supplied content according to at least one automatic compression process, wherein said compressed message has a message size which is less than said message size of said original message.

19. The mobile terminal according to claim 18, wherein said control unit is further configured to:

remove any spaces individually located between separate characters contained within said user-supplied content.

20. The mobile terminal according to claim 18, wherein said control unit is further configured to:

change predetermined common words contained within said user-supplied content into a relatively smaller assigned word.

21. The mobile terminal according to claim 18, wherein said control unit is further configured to:

remove any special characters contained within said user-supplied content.

22. The mobile terminal according to claim 18, wherein said control unit is further configured to:

change any words contained within said user-supplied content that have assigned abbreviations into said abbreviations.

23. The mobile terminal according to claim 18, wherein said control unit is further configured to:

highlight portions of said compressed message which correspond to said user-supplied content modified according to said compression process.

24. The mobile terminal according to claim 18, wherein said control unit is further configured to:

remove any characters contained within said user-supplied content which exceed a maximum message size limit.

25. The mobile terminal according to claim 18, wherein said control unit is further configured to:

set priority which determines relative order of performance that individual compression processes of said at least one automatic compression process is performed.

26. The mobile terminal according to claim 18, further comprising:

registration unit for registering common words with assigned words suitable for said compression process.

27. The mobile terminal according to claim 18, further comprising:

a message size indicator which represents said message size of said original message.

28. The mobile terminal according to claim 18, further comprising:

a restoring unit for restoring said compressed message to said original message responsive to user input.

29. The mobile terminal according to claim 18, wherein said compressed message is a message selected from the group consisting of a short message service (SMS) message, an enhanced message service (EMS) message, and a multimedia message service (MMS) message.

30. A control unit for a mobile terminal, said control unit configured to:

receive an original message comprising user-supplied content, said original message having a message size which varies based upon said user-supplied content; and

generate a compressed message by modifying said user-supplied content according to at least one automatic compression process, wherein said compressed message has a message size which is less than said message size of said original message.

31. The control unit according to claim 30, wherein said control unit is further configured to:

remove any spaces individually located between separate characters contained within said user-supplied content;

change predetermined common words contained within said user-supplied content into a relatively smaller assigned word;

remove any special characters contained within said user-supplied content; and

change any words contained within said user-supplied content that have assigned abbreviations into said abbreviations.

32. The control unit according to claim 30, wherein said control unit is further configured to:

display a message size indicator which represents said message size of said original message.