Method and apparatus for managing message history data for a mobile communication device
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
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a controller configured to;
cause displaying on the display a party identifier for each of a plurality of parties having a message history;
cause displaying on the display a message history screen comprising a first portion and a second portion after user selection of the party identifier associated with a first party among the plurality of parties;
cause displaying on the display the party identifier associated with the first party in the first portion of the display;
cause displaying on the display in the second portion, for each of a plurality of messages received from the first party,message content of an associated received message, andtime data associated with a time at which the associated received message is received at the apparatus; and
cause displaying on the display in the second portion, for each of a plurality of messages transmitted to the first party,message content of an associated transmitted message, andtime data associated with a time at which the associated transmitted message is transmitted from the apparatus.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for managing history data of messages received from and transmitted to other users by a user of a mobile communication device is provided. Message history data is extracted from received and transmitted messages and stored such that a user of the mobile communication device may easily input a conditional request to the device and view message history data associated with a specific other user or message history data identified by conditional data input to the device.
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
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a display; and a controller configured to; cause displaying on the display a party identifier for each of a plurality of parties having a message history; cause displaying on the display a message history screen comprising a first portion and a second portion after user selection of the party identifier associated with a first party among the plurality of parties; cause displaying on the display the party identifier associated with the first party in the first portion of the display; cause displaying on the display in the second portion, for each of a plurality of messages received from the first party, message content of an associated received message, and time data associated with a time at which the associated received message is received at the apparatus; and cause displaying on the display in the second portion, for each of a plurality of messages transmitted to the first party, message content of an associated transmitted message, and time data associated with a time at which the associated transmitted message is transmitted from the apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An apparatus, comprising:
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a display; and a controller configured to; cause displaying on the display a party identifier for each of a plurality of parties having a message history; cause displaying on the display a message history screen comprising a first portion and a second portion after user selection of the party identifier associated with a first party among the plurality of parties; cause displaying on the display an identifier associated with the first party in the first portion of the display; cause displaying on the display in the second portion content of a plurality of received messages and content of a plurality of transmitted messages; cause displaying on the display in the second portion time data for each of the plurality of received messages and each of the plurality of transmitted messages, wherein the time data relates to a time at which an associated message is received at the apparatus or is transmitted from the apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (12)
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13. An apparatus, comprising:
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a display; and a controller configured to; cause displaying on the display a party identifier for each of a plurality of parties having a message history; cause displaying on the display a message history screen comprising a first portion and a second portion after user selection of the party identifier associated with a first party among the plurality of parties; cause displaying on the display an identifier associated with the first party in the first portion of the display; cause displaying on the display in the second portion content of a plurality of messages; and cause displaying on the display time data in association with the message content of each message of the plurality of messages, wherein the time data relates to a time at which an associated message is either received at the apparatus or is transmitted from the apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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