Urgent Message Transmission System and Method

• US 20090295565A1
• Filed: 10/19/2005
• Published: 12/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Dong-Hoon, Jang, Ki-Tae, Kwon, Hyuk-Min, Oh, Sang-Kyung
• Granted Patent: US 8,242,902 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/539.11
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1845 broadcast or multicast in a specific location, e.g. geocast protocols for adapting network applications to user terminal location H04L67/52; services specially adapted for wireless communication networks making use of the location of users or terminals H04W4/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/189 in combination with wireless systems selective distribution or broadcast in wireless communication networks H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1895 for short real-time information, e.g. alarms, notifications, alerts, updates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/226 Delivery according to priorities
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• 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 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

Disclosed is an urgent message transmission system. In the system, when a disaster warning message is received from a network provider, an originating terminal transmits the received disaster warning message to a preset urgent message recipient according to a user'"'"'s request. Further, a terminating terminal having received an urgent message from the originating terminal transmits the received urgent message to a preset urgent message recipient according to a user'"'"'s request. Accordingly, when an urgent message is received from a provider or a specific user, it is possible to quickly transfer the contents of the received urgent message to other users without recreating a separate urgent message.

Claims

1. An urgent message transmission system comprising:

a network provider for receiving disaster information and broadcasting a disaster warning message to corresponding area; and

a terminal for receiving the disaster warning message from the network provider and transmitting the received disaster warning message to a preset-urgent message recipient.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the terminal transmits the received disaster warning message to the urgent message recipient according to predetermined urgent message transmission key input.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein, when predetermined urgent message transmission key input is received, the terminal transmits the received disaster warning message to the urgent message recipient if a predetermined time period has passed after reception of the disaster warning message, and the terminal transmits an already stored urgent message to the urgent message recipient if the predetermined time period has not passed.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a disaster prevention center for receiving a disaster report and providing the network provider with the disaster information.

5. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the network provider comprises:

a Short Message Service (SMS) center for generating the disaster warning message including a disaster information dedicated identification (ID) and disaster information contents; and

a base station for broadcasting the disaster warning message generated by the SMS center to a corresponding area.

6. The system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the disaster information dedicated ID includes one of a protocol ID and a MSG class ID when the network provider is a Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) mobile communication provider.

7. The system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the disaster information dedicated ID includes a teleservice ID when the network provider is a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) mobile communication provider.

8. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the network provider generates and broadcasts the disaster warning message in a form of an SMS message.

9. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the network provider generates and broadcasts the disaster warning message in a form of a Multimedia Message Service (MMS) message.

10. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein, when predetermined urgent message transmission key input is received, the terminal transmits an urgent message to the preset urgent message recipient, the urgent message including contents of the received disaster warning message and a super password.

11. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein, when the disaster warning message is received, the terminal outputs an alarm for reporting reception of the disaster warning message and the disaster warning message.

12. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein, when the disaster warning message is received, the terminal outputs the disaster warning message and simultaneously triggers a vibration, and turns on a lamp and a backlight of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and a keypad.

13. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein, when an urgent message is received from a specific user, the terminal transmits the received urgent message to the urgent message recipient.

14. An urgent message transmission system comprising:

an originating terminal for transmitting an urgent message to a preset urgent message recipient according to a user'"'"'s urgent message transmission request; and

a terminating terminal for receiving the urgent message from the originating terminal and transmitting the received urgent message to a preset urgent message recipient

15. The system as claimed in claim 14, wherein, when predetermined urgent message transmission key input is received after the urgent message is received from the originating terminal, the terminating terminal transmits an urgent message to the urgent message recipient, the urgent message including contents of the received urgent message and a super password.

16. The system as claimed in claim 14, wherein, when the urgent message is received, the terminating terminal alarms for reporting reception of the urgent message and outputs the urgent message.

17. The system as claimed in claim 14, wherein, when the urgent message is received, the terminating terminal outputs the urgent message and simultaneously triggers a vibration, and turns on a lamp and a backlight of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and a keypad.

18. A mobile communication terminal for transmitting an urgent message, the terminal comprising:

a radio unit for transmitting/receiving a predetermined message;

a memory for storing contents of an already registered urgent message and an urgent message recipient;

a key input unit having an urgent message transmission key; and

a controller for transmitting a disaster warning message to the urgent message recipient when urgent message transmission key input is received after the disaster warning message is received from a network provider.

19. The terminal as claimed in claim 18, wherein, when the urgent message transmission key input is received, the controller transmits the received disaster warning message to the urgent message recipient if a predetermined time period has passed after reception of the disaster warning message, and the controller transmits an already stored urgent message to the urgent message recipient if the predetermined time period has not passed.

20. The terminal as claimed in claim 18, wherein the urgent message transmission key input is performed by continuously inputting a specific key included in the key input unit several times.

21. The terminal as claimed in claim 19, wherein the specific key includes one of a volume key and a cancel key.

22. The terminal as claimed in claim 18, wherein, when the urgent message transmission key input is received after an urgent message is received a specific user, the controller controls the received urgent message to be transmitted to the urgent message recipient.

23. The terminal as claimed in claim 22, wherein, when the urgent message transmission key input is received, the controller transmits the received urgent message to the urgent message recipient if a predetermined time period has passed after reception of the urgent message, and the controller transmits an already stored urgent message to the urgent message recipient if the predetermined time period has not passed.

24. An urgent message transmission method comprising the steps of:

receiving disaster information and broadcasting a disaster warning message by a network provider; and

receiving by a terminal the disaster warning message and transmitting the received disaster warning message to a preset urgent message recipient.

25. The method as claimed in claim 24, wherein the step of broadcasting the disaster warning message comprises the steps of:

receiving disaster information by a network provider from a disaster prevention center;

generating the disaster warning message including contents of the disaster information and a disaster information dedicated ID; and

broadcasting the disaster warning message through a base station in a corresponding area.

26. The method as claimed in claim 25, wherein the disaster information dedicated ID includes one of a protocol ID and a MSG class ID when the network provider is a Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) mobile communication provider.

27. The method as claimed in claim 25, wherein the disaster information dedicated ID includes a teleservice ID when the network provider is a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) mobile communication provider.

28. The method as claimed in claim 24, wherein the network provider generates and broadcasts the disaster warning message in a form of an SMS message.

29. The method as claimed in claim 24, wherein the network provider generates and broadcasts the disaster warning message in a form of a Multimedia Message Service (MMS) message.

30. The method as claimed in claim 24, wherein the step of transmitting the received disaster warning message to the urgent message recipient comprises the steps of:

determining if a predetermined time period has passed when urgent message transmission key input is received after reception of the disaster warning message; and

transmitting the received disaster warning message to the urgent message recipient if the predetermined time period has passed, and transmitting an already stored urgent message to the urgent message recipient if the predetermined time period has not passed.

31. The method as claimed in claim 24, wherein the terminal transmits an urgent message to the urgent message recipient, the urgent message including contents of the received disaster warning message and a super password.

32. The method as claimed in claim 24, further comprising a step of outputting by the terminal an alarm for reporting reception of the disaster warning message and the disaster warning message.

33. The method as claimed in claim 24, wherein the terminal outputs the disaster warning message and simultaneously triggers a vibration, and turns on a lamp and a backlight of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and a keypad when the disaster warning message is received.

34. The method as claimed in claim 24, further comprising a step of receiving by the terminal an urgent message from a specific user and transmitting the received urgent message to the urgent message recipient.

35. The method as claimed in claim 34, wherein the step of transmitting the received urgent message to the urgent message recipient comprises the steps of:

determining if a predetermined time period has passed when urgent message transmission key input is received after reception of the urgent message; and

transmitting the received urgent message to the urgent message recipient if the predetermined time period has passed, and transmitting an already stored urgent message to the urgent message recipient if the predetermined time period has not passed.

36. The method as claimed in claim 34, wherein the terminal transmits an urgent message to the urgent message recipient, the urgent message including contents of the received urgent message and a super password.

37. The method as claimed in claim 34, further comprising a step of, when the urgent message is received, outputting by the terminal an alarm and voice for reporting reception of the urgent message and the disaster warning message every predetermined time intervals and by a predetermined number of times.

38. The method as claimed in claim 34, wherein the terminal outputs the disaster warning message and simultaneously triggers a vibration, and turns on a lamp and a backlight of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and a keypad when the urgent message is received.

39. An urgent message transmission method comprising the steps of:

transmitting by an originating terminal an urgent message to an urgent message recipient stored in the originating terminal in advance; and

receiving by a terminating terminal the urgent message from the originating terminal and transmitting the received urgent message to an urgent message recipient stored in the terminating terminal in advance.

40. The method as claimed in claim 39, wherein the step of transmitting by the terminating terminal the received urgent message to the urgent message recipient stored in the terminating terminal in advance comprises the steps of:

determining by the terminating terminal if a predetermined time period has passed when urgent message transmission key input is received after reception of the urgent message; and

transmitting the received urgent message to the urgent message recipient if the predetermined time period has passed, and transmitting an urgent message stored in the terminating terminal in advance to the urgent message recipient if the predetermined time period has not passed.

41. The method as claimed in claim 39, wherein the terminating terminal and the originating terminal transmit urgent messages to the preset urgent message recipient, each of the urgent messages including contents of the urgent message and a super password representing an urgent message.