MOBILE PHONE AND METHOD FOR SENDING MESSAGES USING THE MOBILE PHONE

• US 20100273513A1
• Filed: 10/21/2009
• Published: 10/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Foxconn Communication Technology Corp. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Foxconn Communication Technology Corp. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: HSU, SHIH-WEI
• Application Number:
  US12/582,821
• Publication Number:
  US 20100273513A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

A mobile phone includes a subscriber identity module (SIM) card, a SIM application toolkit (STK) driver, a STK interface and a user interface. The STK interface sends a selection command to the SIM card via the STK driver. The SIM card generates an input command according to the selection command, and sends the input command to the user interface via the STK driver. The user interface displays an input box on a display screen for receiving a user-inputted recipient phone number of a recipient mobile device according to the input command. The STK driver sends the multimedia messaging service (MMS) message to the recipient mobile device according to the recipient phone number if the message is an SMS message, and sends the short messaging service (SMS) message to the recipient mobile device according to the recipient phone number if the message is an MMS message.

Claims

1. A mobile phone, comprising:

a subscriber identity module (SIM) application toolkit (STK) operable to send a selection command to a SIM card of the mobile phone via a STK driver in response to receiving a message inputted from a user interface of the mobile phone, wherein the selection command is used to check if a message to be sent is a multimedia messaging service (MMS) message or a short messaging service (SMS) message;

the SIM card being operable to generate an input command according to the selection command, and send the input command to the user interface via the STK driver;

the user interface being operable to display an input box on a display screen of the mobile phone for receiving a user-inputted recipient phone number of a recipient mobile device according to the input command; and

the STK driver being operable to determine whether the message is an MMS message or an SMS message according to the selection command, and send the SMS message to the recipient mobile device according to the recipient phone number if the message is an SMS message, or send the MMS message to the recipient mobile device according to the recipient phone number if the message is an MMS message.

2. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the STK driver is further operable to determine whether the recipient phone number is received from the user interface, and send the SMS message to the recipient mobile device according to a preset number stored in the SIM card when the recipient phone number is not receive from the user interface.

3. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the SIM card stores an instruction set predefined by a global telecommunication operator.

4. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the STK driver controls the SIM card to communicate with the user interface via the STK interface.

5. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the SMS message comprises text data.

6. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the MMS message comprises a combination of text data and multimedia data.

7. A method for sending messages using a mobile phone in a global system for mobile communications (GSM) network, the mobile phone comprising a subscriber identity module (SIM) card, a SIM application toolkit (STK) driver, an STK interface and a display screen, the method comprising:

(a) receiving a selection command for sending a message from a user interface of the display screen;

(b) generating an input command when the SIM card receives a selection command from the STK driver;

(c) sending the input command to a user interface of the mobile phone via the STK interface when the STK driver receives the input command from the SIM card;

(d) displaying an input box on the display screen for receiving a user-inputted recipient phone number of a recipient mobile device according to the input command;

(e) determining whether the message to be sent is a multimedia messaging service (MMS) message or a short messaging service (SMS) message when the recipient phone number is received from the user interface;

(f) sending the SMS message to the recipient mobile device according to the recipient phone number if the message is an SMS message; and

(g) sending the MMS message to the recipient mobile device according to the recipient phone number if the message is an MMS message.

8. The method according to claim 7, after block (g) further comprising:

generating a response information when the message is sent to the recipient mobile device, and sending the response information to the SIM card; and

generating a session ending command to terminate the message sending process when the SIM card receives the response information from the STK driver.

9. The method according to claim 7, before block (e) further comprising:

recording the recipient phone number into a telephone list of the STK driver;

sending the recipient phone number to the SIM card via the STK driver;

generating an SMS sending command according to a predefined instruction set stored in the SIM card when the recipient phone number is received from the STK interface;

packing the recipient phone number into the SMS sending command to generate a first data packet;

decomposing the first data packet to obtain a decomposed telephone number when the first data packet is received from the SIM card;

determining whether the decomposed telephone number matches the recipient phone number recorded in the telephone list; and

informing that the recipient phone number is error and returning to block (d) if the decomposed telephone number does not match the recipient phone number recorded in the telephone list, or executing block (e) if the decomposed telephone number matches the recipient phone number recorded in the telephone list.

10. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

generating an SMS sending command according to a predefined instruction set stored in the SIM card when the recipient phone number is not received from the user interface;

obtaining a preset telephone number of the recipient mobile device from the SIM card;

packing the preset telephone number into the SMS sending command to generate a second data packet;

decomposing the second data packet to obtain the preset telephone number when the second data packet is received; and

sending an SMS message to the recipient mobile device according to the preset telephone number.

11. The method according to claim 7, wherein the SMS message comprises text data.

12. The method according to claim 7, wherein the MMS message comprises a combination of text data and multimedia data.

13. A computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a mobile phone, cause the mobile phone to perform a method for sending messages in a GSM network, the method comprising:

(a) receiving a selection command for sending a message from a user interface of the mobile phone;

(b) generating an input command when a SIM card of the mobile phone receives the selection command from a STK driver of the mobile phone;

(c) sending the input command to the user interface via a STK interface of the mobile phone when the STK driver receives the input command from the SIM card;

(d) displaying an input box on a display screen of the mobile phone for receiving a user-inputted recipient phone number of a recipient mobile device according to the input command;

(e) determining whether the message to be sent is a multimedia messaging service (MMS) message or a short messaging service (SMS) message when the recipient phone number is received from the user interface;

(f) sending the SMS message to the recipient mobile device according to the recipient phone number if the message is an SMS message; and

(g) sending the MMS message to the recipient mobile device according to the recipient phone number if the message is an MMS message.

14. The medium according to claim 13, wherein after block (g) the method further comprises:

generating a response information when the message is sent to the recipient mobile device, and sending the response information to the SIM card; and

generating a session ending command to terminate the message sending process when the SIM card receives the response information from the STK driver.

15. The medium according to claim 13, wherein before block (e) the method further comprises:

recording the recipient phone number into a telephone list of the STK driver;

sending the recipient phone number to the SIM card via the STK driver;

generating an SMS sending command according to a predefined instruction set stored in the SIM card when the recipient phone number is received from the STK interface;

packing the recipient phone number into the SMS sending command to generate a first data packet;

decomposing the first data packet to obtain a decomposed telephone number when the first data packet is received from the SIM card;

determining whether the decomposed telephone number matches the recipient phone number recorded in the telephone list; and

informing that the recipient phone number is error and returning to block (d) if the decomposed telephone number does not match the recipient phone number recorded in the telephone list, or executing block (e) if the decomposed telephone number matches the recipient phone number recorded in the telephone list.

16. The medium according to claim 13, wherein the method further comprises:

generating an SMS sending command according to a predefined instruction set stored in the SIM card when the recipient phone number is not received from the user interface;

obtaining a preset telephone number of the recipient mobile device from the SIM card;

packing the preset telephone number into the SMS sending command to generate a second data packet;

decomposing the second data packet to obtain the preset telephone number when the second data packet is received; and

sending an SMS message to the recipient mobile device according to the preset telephone number.

17. The medium according to claim 13, wherein the SMS message comprises text data.

18. The medium according to claim 13, wherein the MMS message comprises a combination of text data and multimedia data.