Method for enhanced short message service

• US 7,321,779 B2
• Filed: 12/29/2003
• Issued: 01/22/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kang, Bum-Chul
• Primary Examiner(s): Feild; Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): DOAN, KIET M
• Application Number:
  US10/745,676
• Publication Number:
  US 20040137922A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,485 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455/456.3, 455/566, 370/335, 370/229, 434/113, 715/518, 341/22, 703/21, 705/14, 345/168
• US Class Current: 455/466
• 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 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

A method and apparatus for an enhanced SMS can include receiving a short message, checking whether the received message is user data, processing the user data by referring to previously received control data if the received message is user data, and outputting the processed user data to a screen. The short message and SMS can be used in all mobile telecommunication devices. Further, such a short message and SMS can be encapsulated to the conventional short message service (SMS) protocol, and thereby used in a system or a protocol without change.

Claims

1. A method for an enhanced SMS, comprising:

receiving a short message;

checking whether the received message is user data;

processing the user data using corresponding control data when the received message is user data, the processing comprising applying attributes of characters determined by each command set of the control data to each character of the user data, the command sets setting at least two attributes of each said character; and

outputting the processed user data,

wherein each command set comprises;

location information of a character;

command item information; and

attribution information of the command item information, the command item information including font control, color control, size control and text effect control, and wherein the attribution information includes a plurality of font types for the font control, a plurality of colors for the color control, a plurality of sizes for the size control and a plurality of text effects for the text effect control.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the corresponding control data in a memory when the received message is control data, and outputting the processed user data to a screen.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein when control data from a same sender already exists in the memory, the control data from the same sender is updated using the corresponding control data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the characters of the user data have an array structure of a character unit.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the short message includes one of user data and control data.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein a message of the corresponding control data is received before the user data.

7. A method for a short message service (SMS), comprising:

transmitting a short message including control data;

transmitting a short message including user data; and

processing the user data by referring to received control data in a receiving terminal, the processing comprising applying attributes of characters, determined by command set of the control data to each character of the user data, the command sets setting at least two attributes of each said character,

wherein said command set comprises;

location information of a character;

command item information; and

attribution information of the command information, the command item information including font control, color control, size control and text effect control, and wherein the attribution information includes a plurality of font types for the font control, a plurality of colors for the color control, a plurality of sizes for the size control and a plurality of text effects for the text control.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising outputting the processed user data to a screen.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein a command set comprises:

location information of a character;

command item information; and

attribution information of the command item information.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the control data and the user data are sent by the same sender.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the short message of the corresponding control data is received before the short message of the user data by the receiving terminal, wherein when the corresponding control data from the same sender already exists, the corresponding control data from the same sender is updated.

12. An apparatus, comprising:

a terminal configured to determine whether SMS data is first type data or second type data, the first type data being composed of a plurality of command sets that determine at least two attributes of a character in the corresponding second type data, the terminal processing the second type data by referring to the first type data, the processing comprising applying attributes of characters determined by command set of the first type data to each character of the second type data, wherein said command set comprises;

location information of a character;

command item information; and

attribution information of the command item information, the command item information including at least one of font control, color control, size control and text effect control, and wherein the attribution information includes a plurality of font types for the font control, a plurality of colors for the color control, a plurality of sizes for the size control and a plurality of text effects for the text effect control.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein a command set comprises:

location information of a character;

command item information; and

attribution information of the command item information.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the terminal is at least one of a transmitting terminal and a receiving terminal.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the apparatus is a mobile terminal.

16. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the apparatus comprises at least one mobile terminal and a base station.

17. A method for a message service in a mobile terminal comprising:

receiving a message;

checking whether the received message is user data;

processing the user data using corresponding control data when the received message is user data, the processing step comprising applying attributes of characters determined by command set of the control data to characters of the user data; and

outputting the processed user data,

wherein the command set comprises;

location information of a character;

command item information; and

attribution information of the command item information, and

wherein the command item information includes;

font control;

color control;

size control; and

text effect control, and

wherein the attribution information includes;

a plurality of font types for the font control;

a plurality of colors for the color control;

a plurality of sizes for the size control; and

a plurality of text effects for the text effect control.

18. An apparatus, comprising:

a terminal configured to receive a message, check whether the received message is user data, process the user data using corresponding control data when the received message is user data, the processing step comprising applying attributes of characters determined by command set of the control data to characters of the user data, and output the processed user data,

wherein the command set comprises;

location information of a character;

command item information; and

attribution information of the command item information, and

wherein the command item information includes;

font control;

color control;

size control; and

text effect control, and

wherein the attribution information includes;

a plurality of font types for the font control;

a plurality of colors for the color control;

a plurality of sizes for the size control; and

a plurality of text effects for the text effect control.