Mobile telephone

• US 5,875,403 A
• Filed: 03/05/1996
• Issued: 02/23/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Christal, Philip
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LEGREE, TRACY MICHELLE
• Application Number:
  US08/610,896
• Time in Patent Office: 1,085 Days
• Field of Search: 455/550, 455/566, 455/567, 455/413, 455/414, 455/415, 455/564, 455/558, 455/426, 455/31.3, 455/556, 455/460, 379/354, 379/355, 340/825.44
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2749 Automatic dialling or redialling systems, e.g. on off-hook or redial on busy
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/642 storing speech in digital form
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72433 for voice messaging, e.g. dictaphones for answering incoming calls H04M1/64
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails

Abstract

A mobile telephone according to the invention receives and stores short messages. Those short messages are displayed on a display of the mobile telephone. The operator can confirm a received message with a "yes" response or can send a return short message with an edit function.

Claims

1. A mobile telephone, comprising:

a transmission/reception unit having a send key connected thereto;

a message processor having connected to it a message storage, a display, said transmission/reception unit, dialing keys, an options key, a yes key, and an edit key; and

said message processor, after storing a received message in said message storage, when the options key is pressed and thereafter if the operator presses the yes key, then a "yes" is appended to the message and the message with the appended "yes" is then sent when the send key is pressed, or if after pressing the option key the edit key is then pressed, then the operator may alter or confirm a target call number for the message, the message may then be edited by visualizing the message on the display and using dialing keys to alter the message, and then the message is sent by pressing the send key.

2. The mobile telephone according to claim 1 wherein a group key is also connected to the message processor, and the message processor, when the group key is pressed, sends the message either with the appended yes or in altered form to a plurality of target call numbers.

3. The mobile telephone according to claim 1 wherein a group key is connected to the message processor, and the message processor, upon pressing the group key, causes transmission of a group message destined for several receivers in succession in accordance with receivers marked in a phone book of the mobile telephone.

4. The mobile telephone according to claim 1 wherein the message storage stores models for generation and processing of messages.