APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING MESSAGE

• US 20160165600A1
• Filed: 12/03/2015
• Published: 06/09/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Choi, Woo-young, SHIVANANDA, Mahesh
• Granted Patent: US 10,044,483 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1671 the supervisory signal being transmitted together with control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0055 Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/234 for tracking messages

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a method and an electronic device. The electronic device may include a display and a transmission/reception module, and at least one processor. The processor may implemented the method, including receiving a first message and a second message to be transmitted to an external electronic device, generating, by at least one processor, a combined message including both the first message and the second message, and transmitting, by a transmission/reception module, the combined message to the external electronic device.

Claims

1. A method in an electronic device, comprising:

receiving a first message and a second message to be transmitted to an external electronic device;

generating, by at least one processor, a combined message including both the first message and the second message; and

transmitting, by a transmission/reception module, the combined message to the external electronic device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first message comprises a reception acknowledge message corresponding to a chatting message received from the external electronic device, and the second message corresponds to a display acknowledge message indicating that the received chatting message is displayed to a display of the first electronic device.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

generating the reception acknowledge message; and

holding transmission of the generated reception acknowledge message until confirming that the received chatting message is displayed to the display.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising transmitting the combined message when confirming, via the display acknowledge message, that the received chatting message is displayed to the display of the first electronic device.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the generating of the combined message comprises

confirming that the first message is delivered and displayed to the display via a single message format, generated based on respective formats of the first message and the second message.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first message comprises a first display acknowledge message indicating that a first chatting message is received from the external electronic device and displayed, and the second message corresponds to a second display acknowledge message indicating that a second chatting message is received from the external electronic device and displayed.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the transmitting of the combined message comprises transmitting the combined message in response to detecting that the first chatting message and the second chatting message are displayed to the display.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the generating of the combined message comprises

confirming that the first message is delivered and the second message is delivered via a single message format based on a format of the first message.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the generating of the combined message comprises describing an identifier of each of the first message and the second message in a single message format.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

when the first message is generated, determining whether a preset message combination event is detected, and

when the preset message combination event is detected, holding transmission of the first message, generating the second message for generation of the combined message, and transmitting the combined message.

11. An electronic device, comprising:

a display;

a transmission/reception module configured to communicate with an external electronic device; and

at least one processor, configured to;

receive a first message and a second message to be transmitted to the external electronic device;

generate a combined message including both the first message and the second message; and

control the transmission/reception module to transmit the combined message to the external electronic device.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the first message comprises a reception acknowledge message corresponding to a chatting message received from the external electronic device, and the second message comprises a display acknowledge message indicating that the received chatting message is displayed on the display.

13. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

generate the reception acknowledge message, and

hold transmission of the generated reception acknowledge message until confirming that the received chatting message is displayed to the display.

14. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

control the transmission/reception module to transmit the combined message when confirming, via the display acknowledge message, that the received chatting message is displayed on the display.

15. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein generating the combined message further comprises:

confirming that the first message is delivered and displayed to the display via a single message format, generated based on respective formats of the first message and the second message.

16. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the first message comprises a first display acknowledge message indicating that a first chatting message is received from the external electronic device and displayed, and the second message comprises a second display acknowledge message indicating that a second chatting message is received from the external electronic device and displayed.

17. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to controls the transmission/reception module to transmit the combined message when the first chatting message and the second chatting message are displayed on the display.

18. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to confirm the first message is delivered and the second message is delivered via a single message format based on a format of the first message.

19. The electronic device of claim 18, wherein the generating of the combined message further comprises describing an identifier of each of the first message and the second message in a single message format.

20. A method in an electronic device, comprising:

receiving a first message and a second message to be transmitted to a first external electronic device from a second electronic device;

when a message combination event for combining the first message and the second message is acquired, generating a combined message including both the first message and the second message; and

transmitting the combined message to the first external electronic device.