Method for storing short data

• US 7,299,061 B2
• Filed: 09/23/2002
• Issued: 11/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Kramarz-Von Kohout, Gerhard
• Primary Examiner(s): Mehrpour; Naghmeh
• Application Number:
  US10/490,472
• Publication Number:
  US 20050064881A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,884 Days
• Field of Search: 455/412.2, 455/412.1, 455/458, 455/558, 455/435.3, 455/432.3, 455/560, 455/567, 455/466, 455/404.1, 455/414.1, 455/456.1, 455/566
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

The invention concerns a method for storing short alphanumerical data determined for a subscriber mobile terminal of mobile radiotelephony, characterized in that said short alphanumerical data are simultaneously and automatically duplicated, independently of their reception, via the air interface, converted into an electronic mail, and stored as such in an electronic mailbox of the mobile radiotelephone subscriber.

Claims

1. A process for storing short messages, such as SMS messages, EMS messages, or MMS messages that are intended for a mobile communications terminal of a mobile communications subscriber'"'"'s, characterized in that the short messages sent to a mobile communications terminal are concurrently and automatically duplicated independently from their receipt at the mobile communications terminal via the air interface, and converted into an e-mail and stored as such in a predetermined email box of the mobile communications subscriber'"'"'s within any random message system.

2. A process according to claim 1, characterized in that the sent short messages are stored in the e-mail box that is assigned to the mobile communications subscriber sending these short messages.

3. A process according to claim 1, characterized in that the received short messages are stored in the email box that is assigned to the mobile communications subscriber for whom the short messages are intended.

4. A process according to claim 2, characterized in that those short messages that signal the arrival of any email in the e-mail box are excepted from duplication.

5. A process according to claim 2, characterized in that the sending of a short message to the mobile communications terminal to signal the arrival of an e-mail does not occur if this e-mail is a duplicated and converted short message.

6. A process according to claim 1, characterized in that the assignment of the email box to the respective mobile communications subscribers takes place by these subscribers themselves.

7. A process according to claim 3, characterized in that those short messages that signal the arrival of any e-mail in the e-mail box are excepted from duplication.

8. A process according to claim 3, characterized in that the sending of a short message to the mobile communications terminal to signal the arrival of an e-mail does not occur if this e-mail is a duplicated and converted short message.

9. A process for storing short messages that are intended for a mobile communications terminal of a mobile communications subscriber in a mobile network having a central facility, said process comprising:

sending a short message to the mobile communications terminal;

at the central facility, concurrently and automatically duplicating the short message independently of its receipt at the mobile communications terminal and converting the short message into an e-mail; and

storing the e-mail as such in a predetermined e-mail box of the mobile communications subscriber.