BROADCAST MESSAGE SERVICE METHOD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL

• US 20080293442A1
• Filed: 05/30/2008
• Published: 11/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: KIM, Do Hoon
• Application Number:
  US12/130,188
• Publication Number:
  US 20080293442A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages

Abstract

A broadcast message service system and method comprises transmitting a broadcast message including information designating receivers'"'"' phone numbers and whether or not each receiver'"'"'s phone number is to be opened once received, content of the broadcast message is certified and so is the opened receivers'"'"' phone numbers. Other receivers'"'"' phone numbers to which the same broadcast message has been transmitted or their information can also be certified, and phone numbers can be stored or edited by a receiver'"'"'s arbitrary handling. Also, the receiver can transmit a reply short message, thereby increasing the user'"'"'s convenience.

Claims

1-17. -17. (canceled)

18. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a display; and

a processor which determines whether a received message is a broadcast message.

19. The terminal of claim 18, wherein the processor determines whether the received message includes an opened phone number of at least one party.

20. The terminal of claim 19, wherein the display outputs the opened phone number of said at least one party.

21. The terminal of claim 18, wherein the processor determines whether the received message is a broadcast message based on a number of frames in the received messages.

22. The terminal of claim 21, wherein the number of frames includes:

a first frame containing contents of the received message and a phone number of a transmitter; and

a second frame includes a list of opened phone numbers.

23. The terminal of claim 19, further comprising:

a transmitter which transmits a reply message to the received message,

wherein the processor generates a reply message which includes the opened phone number if selected.

24. The terminal of claim 19, wherein the processor stores the opened phone number in a phone book based on a user command.

25. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a detector which detects whether a received message includes one or more opened phone numbers; and

a display which displays the opened phone numbers.

26. The terminal of claim 25, wherein the display displays contents of the received message with the opened phone numbers.

27. The terminal of claim 26, wherein the display displays a phone number of a transmitting party.

28. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a processor which generates a broadcast message including a number of receiver opened phone numbers; and

a transmitter which transmits the broadcast message.

29. The terminal of claim 28, wherein the number of receiver opened phone numbers is more than one.

30. The terminal of claim 28, wherein the transmitter transmits a first frame containing contents of the message and a second frame containing the number of receiver opened phone numbers.

31. The terminal of claim 30, wherein the first frame also contains a phone number of the terminal.