Scrolling display for mobile telephone text messaging

• US 6,799,033 B2
• Filed: 04/10/2002
• Issued: 09/28/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Wireless Services Incorporated (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kanefsky, Steve
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Lee
• Application Number:
  US10/120,475
• Publication Number:
  US 20030036393A1
• Time in Patent Office: 902 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455/566, 455/412.1, 455/412.2, 455/550, 340/7.5, 340/7.51, 340/7.55, 709/204, 709/206, 709/210
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/234 for tracking messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications

Abstract

A mobile telephone text messaging device has an integrated display rendered on a display screen. The integrated display includes a past message display segment of static text and a message composition segment that functions as an input field. The past message display segment and the message composition segment are rendered together simultaneously.

Claims

1. A mobile telephone text messaging method that includes transmitting a text message between a first and second mobile telephone text messaging devices via a short text messaging application operating at a network portal that is separate from the first and second mobile telephone text messaging devices, comprising:

composing on the first mobile telephone text messaging device a new text message to be directed to the second mobile telephone text messaging device, the new text message being composed while a past text message is simultaneously displayed on the first mobile telephone text messaging device and not included in the new text message;

transmitting the new text message to the short text messaging application and appending the new message to the past text message at the network portal; and

transmitting the new text message and the past text message from the short text messaging application to the second mobile telephone text messaging device.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising appending the new text message to the past text message to form an appended message and transmitting the appended message to the second mobile telephone text messaging device.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising transmitting the new text message and the past text message to the second mobile telephone text messaging device via a text message display application.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising appending the new text message to the past text message to form an appended message and delivering the appended message to the second mobile telephone text messaging device.

5. The method of claim 4 in which the appended text message is formed by the text message display application.

6. The method of claim 3 further comprising transmitting the new text message and the past text message to the first mobile telephone text messaging device via a messaging service center.

7. The method of claim 1 in which transmitting the new text message and the past text message from the short text messaging application to the second mobile telephone text messaging device includes transmitting a network address for the new text message and the past text message to the second mobile telephone text messaging device.

8. The method of claim 7 in which the new text message and the past text message are part of a text message communication thread and in which transmitting a network address for the new text message and the past text message includes transmitting the same network address for each new text message and the past text message in the text message communication thread.

9. The method of claim 7 in which the new text message and the past text message are part of a text message communication thread and in which transmitting a network address for the new text message and the past text message includes transmitting the same network address as part of a HTTP redirect for each new text message and the past text message in the text message communication thread.

10. In computer readable media, mobile telephone text messaging software for a mobile telephone text messaging system that transmits a text message between a first and second mobile telephone text messaging devices via a short text messaging application operating at a network portal that is separate from the first and second mobile telephone text messaging devices, the software comprising:

software for composing on the first mobile telephone text messaging device a new text message to be directed to the second mobile telephone text messaging device, the new text message being composed while a past text message is simultaneously displayed on the first mobile telephone text messaging device and not included in the new text message;

software for transmitting the new text message to the short text messaging application and appending the new message to the past text message at the network portal; and

software for transmitting the new text message and the past text message from the short text messaging application to the second mobile telephone text messaging device.

11. The media of claim 10, further comprising software for appending the new text message to the past text message to form an appended message and transmitting the appended message to the second mobile telephone text messaging device.

12. The media of claim 10 further comprising software for transmitting the new text message and the past text message to the second mobile telephone text messaging device via a text message display application.

13. The media of claim 12 further comprising software for appending the new text message to the past text message to form an appended message and software for delivering the appended message to the second mobile telephone text messaging device.

14. The method of claim 13 in which the appended text message is formed by the text message display application.

15. The media of claim 12 further comprising software for transmitting the new text message and the past text message to the first mobile telephone text messaging device via a messaging service center.

16. In a mobile telephone text messaging system that transmits a text message between a first and second mobile telephone text messaging devices via a short text messaging application operating at a network portal that is separate from the first and second mobile telephone text messaging devices, the system comprising:

means for composing on the first mobile telephone text messaging device a new text message to be directed to a second mobile telephone text messaging device, the new text message being composed while a past text message is available on the first mobile telephone text messaging device and not included in the new text message;

means for transmitting the new text message to the short text messaging application and appending the new message to the past text message at the network portal; and

means for transmitting the new text message and the past text message from the short text messaging application for delivery to the second mobile telephone text messaging device.

17. The system of claim 16 further comprising means for appending the new text message to the past text message to form an appended message and transmitting the appended message to the second mobile telephone text messaging device.

18. The system of claim 16 further comprising means for transmitting the new text message and the past text message to the second mobile telephone text messaging device via a text message display application.

19. The system of claim 18 further comprising means for appending the new text message to the past text message to form an appended message and delivering the appended message to the second mobile telephone text messaging device.

20. The system of claim 18 further comprising means for transmitting the new text message and the past text message to the first mobile telephone text messaging device via a messaging service center.

21. The system of claim 16 in which the means for transmitting the new text message and the past text message from the short text messaging application to the second mobile telephone text messaging device transmits a network address for the new text message and the past text message to the second mobile telephone text messaging device.

22. The system of claim 21 in which the new text message and the past text message are part of a text message communication thread and in which transmitting a network address for the new text message and the past text message includes transmitting the same network address for each new text message and the past text message in the text message communication thread.