Transmission of short message with a master unit

• US 7,373,158 B2
• Filed: 09/04/2003
• Issued: 05/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ishii, Yasunori, Kobayashi, Fumiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Duc M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lai; Daniel
• Application Number:
  US10/654,484
• Publication Number:
  US 20040049551A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,713 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455/557, 455/412.1, 709/206, 709/243, 379/93.24
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/183 Processing at user equipment or user record carrier

Abstract

An SMS related table memory portion of a memory device has a storing region for each SMSC apparatus, and the telephone number of the SMSC apparatus, the program of the communication protocol, the parameter and the like are stored in each storing region. When sending a short message, a controlling device selects an SMSC apparatus based on whether a short message is inputted from an input device or sent from a slave unit, refers to the storing region for the selected SMSC apparatus of the SMS related table memory portion, and performs dial calling from a network control device based on the telephone number and the communication protocol of the SMSC apparatus that are stored. After a line is established, short message data that has been prepared in advance are sent to the SMSC apparatus.

Claims

1. A communication terminal that is connected to a public line network, to communicate with a center apparatus connected to the public line network to send and receive short message data to/from another connnunieation terminal via the center apparatus,

the communication terminal conmrising:

a master unit; and

a slave unit operatively connected to said master unit performing mutual wireless communications with the master unit,

the slave unit including;

a slave input device inputting short message data, wherein

the slave unit sending the short message data inputted with the slave input device and receiving short message data from the master unit over wireless communications,

the master unit including;

a master input device inputting short message data, and

a master communicating device that is connected to a public line network, sending and receiving short message data to/from the center apparatus, wherein

the master communicating device unit sending short message data received by the master communicating device to the slave unit and receiving short message data from the slave unit,

a storing device storing a plurality types of communication protocol information, each of which corresponds to a center apparatus, to be used to communicate with the master communication device,

a selecting device selecting a center apparatus to be communicated with among the center apparatuses whose communication protocol information is stored, based on a predetermined condition, and

a controlling device controlling the master communicating device so as to send short message data inputted with the master unit input device or short message data received by the master communicating device to the center apparatus when sending the short message data, and to receive short message data from the center apparatus when receiving the short message data, based on the communication protocol information of the center apparatus selected by the selecting device, and determining whether or not the short message data received from the center apparatus is addressed to the slave unit, and when the short message data is determined as being addressed to the slave unit, controlling the master communicating device so as to send the received short message data to the slave unit.

2. The communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the storing device stores association between each center apparatus whose communication protocol information is stored and the master unit or the slave unit, and

when the master communicating device has received short message data inputted with the slave input device, the selecting device selects a center apparatus associated with the slave unit from which the short message data is sent;

and when the short message data is inputted with the master input device, the selecting device selects a center apparatus associated with the master unit.

3. The communication terminal of claim 2, wherein, when the master communicating device receives short message data from a center apparatus, the controlling device refers to the storing device and determines whether or not the center apparatus that sent the short message data is a center apparatus associated with the slave unit, so as to determine whether or not the received short message data is addressed to the slave unit.

4. The communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the master unit includes counting device counting the degree of communications indicating the communication amount with a center apparatus for each center apparatus whose communication protocol information is stored, and storing the counted communication amount in the storing device for each center apparattus.

5. The communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the master unit includes printing device printing short message data, and

at least one of the master unit and the slave unit includes designating device designating short message data to be printed by the printing device from among received short message data addressed to the slave unit.

6. The communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the master unit includes master unit side displaying device displaying short message data,

the slave unit includes slave unit side displaying device displaying short message data, and

the slave unit side displaying device has higher resolution than that of the master unit side displaying device.

7. The communication terminal of claim 6, wherein the master unit includes converting device converting a character code into a character font,

the master commnnicating device sends a character font converted from a character code contained in received short message data to the slave unit as image data;

the slave unit receives the image data sent from the master unit; and

the slave unit side displaying device displays the image data received by the slave unit in place of the short message data.

8. A communication terminal that is connected to a public line network, to send and receive short message data to/from a center apparatus connected to the public line network to send and receive the short message data to/from another communication terminal via the center apparatus,

the communication terminal comprising:

a master unit; and

a slave unit operatively connected to said master unit performing mutual wireless communications with the master unit,

the slave unit including;

an input device inputting short message data to be sent to the center apparatus, and

an output device outputting short message data received from the center apparatus,

a slave communicating device sending the short message data inputted with the input device and rceiving short message data from the master unit, and

a selecting device selecting a center apparatus to be communicated with,

the master unit including;

a master communicating device that is connected to a public line network, sending and receiving short message data to/from the center apparatus, wherein

the master communicating device sending short message data received to the slave unit and receiving short message data front the slave unit,

a storing device storing a plurality types of communication protocol information, each of which corresponds to a center apparatus, and

a controlling device controlling the master communicating device so as to send short message data received by the master communicating device to the center apparatus when sending the short message data, and to receive short message data from the center apparatus when receiving the short message data, based on the communication protocol information of the center apparatus selected by the selecting device, and

determining whether or not the short message data received from the center apparatus is addressed to the slave unit, and when the short message data is determined as being addressed to the slave unit, controlling the master communicating device so as to send the received short message data to the slave unit.