Method and device for managing mobile telephone messages

• US 7,050,791 B2
• Filed: 01/11/2001
• Issued: 05/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: IPCom GmbH & Co KG
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Kynast, Andreas, Plumeier, Joerg
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ewart, James D
• Application Number:
  US10/181,588
• Publication Number:
  US 20030100292A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,958 Days
• Field of Search: 455/412.1, 455/412.2, 455/423, 455/466, 455/558, 709/206, 709/207
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails

Abstract

Mobile radio communication messages transmitted by a message service to a terminal are linked to reference information items and tested in the terminal according to validity criteria. The messages are only stored in a non-volatile memory when they are valid; and they are not stored when they are invalid, and/or they are erased from the nonvolatile memory after having been previously stored when they are later determined to be invalid.

Claims

1. A method for managing at least one mobile radio communication message transmitted to a terminal and linked to at least one reference information item, the method comprising:

testing the at least one mobile radio communication message in the terminal according to a validity criteria;

storing the at least one mobile radio communication message in a non-volatile memory if the at least one mobile radio communication is valid, but not if it is invalid;

erasing a previously stored mobile radio communication message from the nonvolatile memory when it is later determined to be invalid; and

according to sorting criteria, performing at least one of;

assigning the at least one mobile radio communication message to a memory location in the nonvolatile memory;

deleting the at least one mobile radio communication message from the memory location in the nonvolatile memory;

assigning the at least one mobile radio communication message to a position in a display field of the terminal; and

deleting the at least one mobile radio communication message from the position in the display field of the terminal;

wherein;

the at least one reference information item includes at least one of temporal information, spatial information, content information about the at least one mobile radio communication message, and information about a degree of importance;

at least one of the validity criteria and the sorting criteria includes at least one of a temporal criterion, a spatial criterion, a source criterion, a content criterion and an importance criterion;

the temporal information includes one of a generation time, a sending time, a receiving time, an independently specifiable time, and an independently specifiable time frame;

the spatial information includes one of state information, region information, location information, origin information of the at least one mobile radio communication message, and source information of the at least one mobile radio communication message;

the temporal criterion includes one of a time frame and a time limit;

the spatial criterion includes one of state information, region information, location information, and in a form of uncoded text, a contraction, an area code, or an identifier of a cell;

the source criterion includes one of a name, an address and a telephone number; and

the content criterion includes one of a presence and an absence of one of at least one specifiable character, at least one numerical sequence, and at least one word.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one mobile radio communication message includes a short message.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the testing according to the validity criteria is at least one of triggered as a function of time, by at least one event, and by remote-control via a mobile radio network.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the terminal and a smart card module performs the testing according to the validity criteria.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing is done in at least one of a nonvolatile memory arranged in the terminal and a nonvolatile memory arranged in a smart card module.