Method for relay-transmitting messages among mobile communication terminals

• US 20040235505A1
• Filed: 05/20/2004
• Published: 11/25/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Ji-Eun
• Granted Patent: US 7,502,621 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A method is provided for relay-transmitting a message of a mobile communication terminal. A phone number of a destination terminal may be stored in a destination address field and phone numbers of other remaining destination terminals and a message content are stored in a user data field of a message format, thereby generating a relay transmission message. When a destination terminal receives the relay transmission message, the destination terminal may store a phone number of a first destination terminal stored in the user data field of the message, delete the phone number of the first destination terminal from the user data field, and relay-transmit the message. Accordingly, the message may be transmitted by relaying the message through multiple destination terminals.

Claims

1. A method for relay-transmitting a message of a mobile communication terminal comprising:

inputting a message content into the message;

inputting a plurality of destination phone numbers into the message; and

relay-transmitting the message to one of the phone numbers from the destination phone numbers.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting a relay transmission.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one phone number comprises a first inputted destination phone number.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the message comprises a user data field and a destination address field.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the user data field includes a start tag and an end tag and the destination address field includes the one phone number, the phone numbers other than the one phone number are provided between the start tag and the end tag, and the message content is provided after the end tag.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein if the destination phone numbers and the message content are not stored in one message format, the destination phone numbers and the message are divided and stored in a plurality of messages.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the message comprises a header, the header including the overall number of messages and the number of the current message.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the selection of relay transmission is made using a specific key provided in a key pad of the mobile communication terminal or a soft key on a menu.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the relay-transmitting comprises:

storing the one phone number in a destination address field;

storing destination phone numbers other than the arbitrary phone number between a start tag and an end tag of a user data field;

storing the inputted message content after the end tag; and

transmitting the message with the destination address field and the user data field.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the message comprises a voice message, a short message, a long message, an enhanced message, or a multimedia message.

11. A method for relay-transmitting a message of a mobile communication terminal, comprising:

receiving a first message;

determining whether the first message is a relay-transmitted message; and

transmitting a second message to one of a plurality of destination terminals if the first message is determined to be a relay-transmitted message.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the determining comprises:

determining whether there is a start tag in a user data field of the first message; and

determining the first message as a relay-transmitted message if the start tag is determined to be in the user data field.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the determining comprises:

determining whether there is a start tag in a user data field of the first message; and

determining the first message as a general message if there is no start tag in the user data field.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the first message and the second message each include a start tag and an end tag in the user data field as well as phone numbers of multiple destination terminals between the start tag and the end tag, and a message content is provided after the end tag.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein a separate discriminator exists between each of the phone numbers.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the transmitting comprises:

storing one of a plurality of phone numbers of the destination terminals included in the first message in a destination address field of the second message;

storing phone numbers other than one of the phone numbers between the start tag and the end tag of the user data field of the second message;

storing a message content of the first message after the end tag of the user data field of the second message; and

transmitting the second message to the one of the destination terminals corresponding to the destination address field.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the second message is transmitted when a command for a relay transmission is input from a user.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein if the first message is determined to be a relay-transmitted message, the second message is automatically generated and relay-transmitted without a user'"'"'s command for relay transmission.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

terminating relay transmission of the second message if a phone number of a destination terminal does not exist between the start tag and the end tag of the user data field of the first message.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein one of the phone numbers comprises a first phone number of phone numbers of the plurality of destination terminals.

21. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

displaying the message content stored after the end tag of the user data field of the first message if a command for checking the message content is inputted.

22. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

displaying phone numbers stored between the start tag and the end tag of the user data field of the first message when a command for a transmitter list checking is inputted.

23. The method of claim 11, wherein the first message comprises a voice message, a short message, a long message, an enhanced message or a multimedia message.

24. A message for a relay-transmission service of a mobile communication terminal, the message comprising:

a user data field having a start tag for indicating a start of destination phone numbers for relay transmission, the destination phone numbers, an end tag for indicating an end of the destination phone number, and a message content field provided after the end tag; and

a destination address field.

25. The message of claim 24, wherein the user data field further comprises an identifier positioned between the start tag and the end tag to identify the destination phone numbers.

26. The message of claim 24, wherein the destination phone numbers are deleted one by one whenever the message is relay-transmitted.

27. The message of claim 26, wherein one of the destination phone numbers is stored in the destination address field whenever the message is relay-transmitted.

28. A method comprising:

receiving a first message from a mobile communication network; and

determining whether the first message is a message to be relay-transmitted.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein determining whether the first message is a message to be relay-transmitted comprises determining whether the first message includes a start tag in a user data field.

30. The method of claim 28, further comprising transmitting a second message if the first message is determined to be a message to be relay-transmitted.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein transmitting the second message comprises:

storing a phone number in a destination address field of the second message; and

storing other phone numbers between a start tag and an end tag of the user data field of the second message.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein transmitting the second message further comprises transmitting the second message to a destination terminal corresponding to the phone numbers in the destination address field.