Mobile radio terminal with SMS function for transmitting short message and method for controlling the same

• US 6,161,020 A
• Filed: 10/19/1998
• Issued: 12/12/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Jong-Joo
• Primary Examiner(s): Urban, Edward F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TIBBITS, PIA FLORENCE
• Application Number:
  US09/174,949
• Time in Patent Office: 785 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455/412, 455/566, 455/575, 455/550, 455/414
• 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: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5322 for recording text messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/533 Voice mail systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53375 Message broadcasting
• 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 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A mobile radio terminal with an SMS (short message service) function transmits a short message to different destination addresses by using a short message which was previouslytransmitted to a specified destination address. The mobile radio terminal includes a memory for storing a short message transmitted to a destination address, a user interface with which a user inputs menu display request and chooses a menu, a display and a controller for controlling the mobile radio terminal. The controller reads in sequence short messages from the memory in response to the menu display request, displays the read short messages on the display, reads a user selected short message from the memory when the user selects one of the short messages by using the user interface, and temporarily stores the selected short message in a buffer. Thereafter, the controller changes the destination address of the short message stored in the buffer to another destination address, transmits the short message to the another destination address, accesses the memory to read the short message, and updates transmission time data of the short message.

Claims

1. A mobile radio terminal with a short message service function for editing and transmitting a short message, comprising:

a memory for storing a short message transmitted to a destination address;

a user interface with which a user inputs a menu display request and chooses a menu;

a display; and

a controller for reading in sequence short messages from said memory in response to said menu display request, displaying said read short messages on the display, reading a user selected short message from the memory when the user selects one of the short messages by using the user interface, temporarily storing said selected short message in a buffer, changing said destination address of the short message stored in the buffer to another destination address, transmitting said short message to said another destination address, accessing said memory to read said short message, updating transmission time data of said short message, and requesting a user selected response to transmit said short message to a further destination address.

2. A mobile radio terminal with a short message service function for editing and transmitting a short message, comprising:

means for storing a plurality of short messages;

means for determining whether a message function is selected;

means for displaying a message menu including an outgoing message box;

means for determining whether said outgoing message box is selected from the message menu displayed;

means for reading the short message from the storage means;

means for displaying the read short message;

control means for checking whether a user selects one of the short messages, prompting the user to input another destination address, reading said selected short message from the storage means upon receipt of the another destination address, changing the destination address of the said short message to said another destination address, and transmitting said short message to said another destination address;

means for updating transmission time data of said short message, after transmitting said short message to said another destination address; and

means for requesting a user selected response to transmit said short message to a further destination address.

3. A method for transmitting a short message in a mobile radio terminal including a memory for storing short messages, comprising the steps of:

checking whether a message function is selected;

displaying a message menu including an outgoing message box, when the message function is selected;

checking whether said outgoing message box is selected from the message menu displayed;

if said outgoing message box is selected, reading the short messages from memory, displaying the read short messages and checking whether a user selects one of the short messages;

prompting the user to input another destination address, reading said selected short message from the memory upon receipt of the another destination address, changing the destination address of the said short message to said another destination address, and transmitting said short message to said another destination address;

accessing the memory to read said short message and updating transmission time data of said short message, after transmitting said short message to said another destination address; and

requesting a user selected response to transmit said short message to a further destination address.