Short message delivery system

• US 7,024,178 B2
• Filed: 08/20/2002
• Issued: 04/04/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Uchimura, Ayaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): BALAOING, ARIEL A
• Application Number:
  US10/223,243
• Publication Number:
  US 20030050080A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,323 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455/435, 455/412.1
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/184 Messaging devices, e.g. message centre

Abstract

A short message delivery system has: mobile terminal devices each having a function of generating and receiving a short message; ground facilities each including a radio station connected to a mobile terminal device by radio means; and a short message center for receiving the short message issued from a mobile terminal device via a ground facility and transmitting the received short message to a specified transmission destination. The short message center includes retry means responsive to a failure of the transmission of the short message for retrying the transmission according to a communication state of a mobile terminal device of reception side and a term of validity of preservation of the short message.

Claims

1. A message delivery system comprising:

mobile terminal devices, each configured to convey speech or communication from a place where the mobile terminal device is located by radio means, and to generate and receive a message;

ground facilities, each including a radio station connected to a mobile terminal device by radio means; and

a message center configured to receive the message issued from a mobile terminal device via a ground facility and transmit the received message to a specified transmission destination, the message center including retry means responsive to a failure of the transmission of the message configured to retry the transmission according to a communication state of a mobile terminal device of reception side and a term of validity of preservation of the message,

wherein the retry means comprises;

a transmission failure message preservation section configured to provide a message transmission which has failed with transmission information, set a priority, and store the message;

a retry control section configured to control retry transmission of the message transmission which has failed;

a timer configured to set an interval of the retry;

a retry counter configured to count the number of times of execution of the retry; and

a control section configured to control reception and transmission of the message and to manage the whole retry means, and

wherein

the retry means is configured to change the number of times of retry according to a communication state of a mobile terminal device of a transmission destination of the message and a term of validity of the message;

the retry means is configured to shorten the retry interval when a communication failure is judged to be an occurrence of temporary error due to the communication state;

the retry means is configured to execute the retry a preset number of times;

the retry means is configured to change the priority of the retry to a high value when the term of validity is near at hand; and

the retry a low value when the number of times of the retry has exceeded the preset number of times.

2. The message delivery system according to claim 1, wherein

the retry means is configured to execute the retry a preset number of times,

the retry means is configured to change the priority of the retry to a high value when the term of validity is near at hand;

and

the retry means clear a retry count value and changes the priority of the retry to a low value when the number of times of the retry has exceeded the preset number of times.

3. The message delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal device is a portable telephone.