Message creating apparatus and method for mobile phone

• US 7,130,649 B2
• Filed: 10/07/2002
• Issued: 10/31/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mbridge Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Mbridge Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Kwon, Hyuk, Lee, Jae-Yeong
• Primary Examiner(s): Feild, Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, DAVID Q
• Application Number:
  US10/472,294
• Publication Number:
  US 20040171392A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,485 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455/412.2, 455/413, 455/407, 455/456.6, 455/458, 455/556.2, 345/169, 701/207, 715/517, 715/526, 715/531, 379/142.17, 379/201.4, 379/220.01, 709/204, 709/236
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

This invention is a message crating apparatus and message writing method for mobile phone. The above message (SMS or LMS) of mobile phone is including an attribute information(letter color, background color, background scene, letter blink, etc.). Therefore, message creating apparatus and message writing method of the present invention add an attribute information that can select freely that letter color, background color, background scene, letter blink, etc., and use non-print code of ASCII code to keep compatibility with a short message service (SMS) function of existing mobile phone.

Claims

1. A system for creating text message on mobile phone display wherein attribute information (character colors, background colors and blink) is added to the message, comprising:

a means for creating a first message signal by combining character codes which are outputted from a character input means by a user and then inputted thereinto;

a means for selecting a character color to output the corresponding character color attribute value selected among a plurality of color values by the user;

a means for selecting a background color to output the corresponding background attribute value selected among a plurality of color values by the user;

a means for storing a plurality of blink modes and selecting a blink mode to output the corresponding blink attribute value selected among the plurality of blink modes by the user;

a means for creating a second message signal by combining each of the attribute values outputted from the selecting means for character color, background color and blink function; and

a means for transmitting the first and the second message signals.

2. The system for creating text message on mobile phone display according to claim 1, wherein the first message signal comprises a header part including ID or specific number and a message data part comprising ASCII values, and the second message signal comprises a header part including ID or specific number and an attribute information part of character color, background color and blink.

3. The system for creating text message on mobile phone display according to claim 1, characterized in that the means for selecting character colors and background colors include scroll buttons on a side of the phone.

4. The system for creating text message on mobile phone display according to claim 1, characterized in that the means for selecting blink mode includes left-right shifting button on the keypad of the phone.

5. The system for creating text message on mobile phone display according to claim 1, wherein the first and second messages are included in one message signal.

6. The system for creating text message on mobile phone display according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting means transmit the second message signal to be followed by the first message signal.

7. The system for creating text message on mobile phone display according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting means transmit the first and second message signals at the same time.

8. The system for creating text message on mobile phone display according to claim 1, wherein the background color selecting means includes a background scene selecting means which allows a user to select one among a plurality of background scene indexes stored in a memory thereby outputting a background scene attribute value for the selected background scene.

9. A system for creating text message on mobile phone display, wherein

attribute information (character colors, background colors and blink) is added to the message, comprising:

a means for creating a first message signal by combining character codes which are outputted from a character input means by a user and then inputted thereinto;

a means for selecting a character color to output the corresponding character color attribute value selected among a plurality of color values by the user;

a means for selecting a blink mode to output the corresponding blink attribute value selected among a plurality of blink modes by the user;

a means for creating a second message signal by combining each of the attribute values outputted from the selecting means for character color, background color and blink function;

a means for transmitting the first and the second message signals; and

the blink modes comprise a non-blink mode, a mode for blinking in an odd number of the characters and a mode for blinking in an even number of the letters characters.