Communication device, storage medium and method for processing instant information using the communication device

• US 8,805,343 B2
• Filed: 04/04/2012
• Issued: 08/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yang, Cheng-Kuo
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, MAHENDRA R
• Application Number:
  US13/439,836
• Publication Number:
  US 20120289261A1
• Time in Patent Office: 860 Days
• Field of Search: 370/259, 370/462, 370/338, 379/201.01, 379/201.02, 379/201.03, 379/88.23, 455/404.1, 455/414.1, 455/414.2, 455/414.3, 455/414.4, 455/230, 710/107, 382/240, 725/153
• US Class Current: 455/414.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

In a method for processing information using a communication device, a plurality of specific events of the communication device sets a receiver number of a receiver device. A specific message comprising predetermined characters and state information of the communication device is compiled, upon the condition that one of the specific events is triggered. The specific message is sent to the receiver device according to the receiver number.

Claims

1. A method for processing information in a communication device, the method comprising:

setting a plurality of specific events of the communication device and setting a receiver one or more numbers of receiver devices in the communication device;

compiling a specific message comprising predetermined characters and state information of the communication device, upon the condition that one of the specific events is triggered;

sending the specific message to the receiver devices according to the receiver numbers;

identifying a received message and determining whether the received message is the specific message, upon the condition that the communication device receives the received message from a sender device;

obtaining the state information of the sender device from the specific message and obtaining a sender number of the sender device, upon the condition that the received message is the specific message;

searching for the sender number from a contact list in the communication device, and marking the state information of the sender device into a memo of the sender number in the contact list;

wherein the predetermined characters are uneditable characters.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the specific events comprise a first event type representing that the communication device is in a busy state and a second event type representing that the communication device is in an available state.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the state information comprises the available state and the busy state.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the predetermined characters are codes that cannot be displayed and edited by the communication device.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the received message is determined to be the specific message, upon the condition that the predetermined characters are found in the received message.

6. A communication device, comprising:

a storage system and at least one processor; and

one or more programs that are stored in the storage system and executed by the at least one processor, the one or more programs comprising;

a setting module that sets a plurality of specific events of the communication device and sets receiver one or more numbers of receiver devices in the communication device;

a compilation module that compiles a specific message comprising predetermined characters and state information of the communication device, upon the condition that one of the specific events is triggered;

a sending module that sends the specific message to the receiver devices according to the receiver numbers;

an identification module that identifies a received message and determines whether the received message is the specific message, upon the condition that the communication device receives the received message from a sender device;

a process module that obtains the state information from the specific message and obtains a sender number of the sender device, upon the condition that the received message is the specific message;

the process module further searches for the sender number from a contact list in the communication device, and remarks the state information of the sender device into a memo of the sender number in the contact list;

wherein the predetermined characters are uneditable characters.

7. The communication device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the identification module determines that the received message is the specific message, upon the condition that the predetermined characters are found in the received message.

8. The communication device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the specific events comprise a first event type representing that the communication device is in a busy state and a second event type representing that the communication device is in an available state.

9. The communication device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the state information comprises the available state and the busy state.

10. The communication device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the predetermined characters are codes that cannot be displayed and edited by the communication device.