Telecommunication equipment with at least one storage location reserved for operator-managed data and corresponding method

• US 6,807,411 B1
• Filed: 03/16/2000
• Issued: 10/19/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Societe Francaise De Radiotelephone SA (Altice Europe NV)
• Original Assignee: Societe Francaise De Radiotelephone SA (Altice Europe NV)
• Inventors: De Kermadec, M. Alain
• Primary Examiner(s): Urban, Edward F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHOW, CHARLES CHIANG
• Application Number:
  US09/526,774
• Time in Patent Office: 1,678 Days
• Field of Search: 455/550, 455/412.1, 455/413, 455/412.2, 455/466, 455/186.1, 455/556-558, 455/575, 455/414.1, 455/550.1, 455/575.1, 455/556.1, 455/556.2, 340/825.21, 340/825.25, 340/7.46, 340/7.45, 340/7.48, 379/67.1, 379/41, 379/88.16, 379/88.18, 379/88.22, 379/88.23, 379/88.24, 379/88.25, 379/88.26, 379/88.08, 379/88.17, 379/142.01, 379/201.1, 379/173, 379/185, 370/466
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/041 Encoding the ringing signal, i.e. providing distinctive or selective ringing capability
• 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 telecommunication method and system has a storage means for storing short messages received and/or to be transmitted. The storage means has N short message storage locations. Each of the short messages has a header field and a data field. At least one of the storage locations is reserved for storing short messages having a predetermined address, which is set by the operator implementing the telecommunication equipment.

Claims

1. A telecommunication equipment in a telecommunication network, the equipment comprising a means for storing short messages received and/or to be transmitted, each of said short messages comprising a header field and a data field, said storage means comprising N short message storage locations, characterized in that at least one of said storage locations is reserved for storing short messages having a predetermined address, set by an operator implementing said telecommunication network, said predetermined address being stored permanently in the memory area corresponding to the header field of the short message of said reserved storage location, such that if a user deletes the contents of said reserved storage location, immediately thereafter said predetermined address is reloaded into said memory area corresponding to the header field.

2. The telecommunication equipment according to the claim 1, characterized in that reloading of said address is performed from a buffer memory, whereto said address has been transferred before said deletion.

3. The telecommunication equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that said storage means comprises at least three storage locations reserved for storing short messages corresponding to at least three predetermined addresses.

4. The telecommunication equipment according to claim 3, characterized in that said predetermined addresses respectively correspond to:

information regarding an answering machine management service;

information corresponding to a download message;

information regarding the user'"'"'s telephone consumption.

5. The telecommunication equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one of said predetermined addresses is downloadable.

6. The telecommunication equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that a radiotelephone of a radiocommunication system is involved.

7. The telecommunication equipment according to claim 6, characterized in that said radiocommunication system belongs to the group of:

GSM-type radiocommunication systems;

DCS 1800-type radiocommunication systems;

PCS 1900-type radiocommunication systems;

UMTS-type radiocommunication systems;

DECT-type radiocommunication systems.

8. The telecommunication equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that said storage means and/or said buffer memory is at least partially present on a removable data medium to be inserted into a corresponding drive of said telecommunication equipment, and in that said removable data medium is integrated at least partially into a subscriber identity module.

9. A method for managing means for storing short messages received and/or to be transmitted by a telecommunication equipment, each of said short messages comprising a header field and a data field, said storage means comprising N short message storage locations, characterized in that it comprises a step of reserving at least one of said storage locations for storing short messages having a predetermined address, set by the operator implementing said telecommunication equipment, said predetermined address being stored permanently in the memory area corresponding to the header field of the short message of said reserved storage location, such that if a user deletes the contents of said reserved storage location, immediately thereafter said predetermined address is reloaded into said memory area corresponding to the header field.

10. A telecommunication system comprising:

a telephone handset;

a message storage means disposed within the telephone handset, the message storage means having N short message storage locations for storing short messages, wherein one or more of the N short message storage locations is a reserved storage location for permanently storing one or more short messages each having a predetermined address set by an operator implementing the telecommunication system, such that if a user deletes a stored message from the reserved storage location, immediately thereafter the stored message is reloaded into the reserved storage location corresponding to the predetermined address.

11. The telecommunication system of claim 10, wherein each short message comprises:

a data field for holding message data; and

a header field containing a memory address.

12. The telecommunication system of claim 11 wherein each permanently stored short message has a header containing a memory address corresponding to the reserved storage location.

13. The telecommunication system of claim 10, wherein at least one of the predetermined addresses is downloadable.