METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MESSAGE HISTORY DATA FOR A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE

• US 20170099379A1
• Filed: 12/19/2016
• Published: 04/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kang, Ji Eun
• Granted Patent: US 9,924,022 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

A method and apparatus for managing history data of messages received from and transmitted to other users by a user of a mobile communication device is provided. Message history data is extracted from received and transmitted messages and stored such that a user of the mobile communication device may easily input a conditional request to the device and view message history data associated with a specific other user or message history data identified by conditional data input to the device.

Claims

1. A method of managing history data of messages received from and transmitted to other users by the user of a mobile communication device, the method comprising the steps of:

storing message history data of the received messages and the transmitted messages in a storage unit;

receiving a conditional request for message history data;

processing the conditional request to read message history data corresponding to the conditional request from the storage unit; and

outputting the read message history data.