Mobile communication terminal to identify and report undesirable content

• US 8,190,138 B2
• Filed: 01/14/2005
• Issued: 05/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Urakawa, Yasutaka, Fujita, Masanori
• Primary Examiner(s): Lim, Steven
• Assistant Examiner(s): HERRERA, DIEGO D
• Application Number:
  US11/036,677
• Publication Number:
  US 20050159145A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,692 Days
• Field of Search: 455/418, 455/412.1, 455/466, 709/224, 709/207, 709/237, 707/1, 726/4
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails

Abstract

Mobile phone 300 is registered with various types of specific keywords. When receiving an e-mail from an external terminal, mobile phone 300 determines whether the e-mail contains a specific keyword. When it is determined that the e-mail contains the specific keyword, mobile phone 300 generates log data containing the specific keyword. Mobile phone 300 then transmits the generated log data to a predetermined transmission destination (such as communication management server 700).

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal, comprising;

a memory configured to include a condition memory and a log data memory;

the condition memory configured to store a keyword to trigger generation of a log data record;

the log data memory configured to store the log data record;

a controller operably coupled with the memory, the controller configured to detect the keyword in a body of a message, wherein the message includes a header and the body, and in response to detection of the keyword in the body of the message, the controller further configured to generate and store the log data record in the log data memory, wherein the log data record is configured to include the at least a part of each message that contains the keyword in the body of the message, wherein the message is from the mobile communication terminal to a destination network address or the message is to the mobile communication terminal from a transmission network address;

the controller further configured to generate an identifier indicative of detection of the keyword in the message, and further indicative that a fee for a transmission including the identifier is not chargeable to an account associated with the mobile communication terminal; and

a communication device operably coupled with the controller, the controller further operable, in response to satisfaction of a predetermined condition, to direct the communication device to transmit at least a portion of the log data record and the identifier over a communication network for receipt by a predetermined node designated by a communication network management system related to the communication network.

2. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein:

the log data record includes the keyword.

3. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to track a volume of log data stored in the log data memory, and the predetermined condition is a determined threshold level of the stored volume of log data.

4. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

a user interface operably coupled to the controller, and

the controller is further configured to generate an indication on the user interface that the message includes the keyword stored in the condition memory.

5. The mobile communication terminal of claim 4, wherein the user interface is configured to display a prompt that is selectable by a user of the mobile communication terminal to trigger transmittal over the communication network of the at least a portion of the log data record for receipt by the predetermined node.

6. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the keyword is selected from a keyword group consisting of, a phrase, a clause, a symbolic phrase, and an address.

7. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the communication network includes a mobile communication network;

wherein the mobile communication terminal connects to the communication network through the mobile communication network; and

wherein the predetermined device is a communication management server within the mobile communication network.

8. A method for screening messages sent through a mobile communication system, the method comprising:

a mobile terminal determining whether data communicated in a communication with the mobile terminal over a communication network satisfies a condition to trigger generation of a log data record, the data communicated in the communication including a message having a header and a body, and the condition being detection of a keyword in the body of the message;

in response to determination that the data satisfies the condition to trigger generation of the log data record, the mobile terminal generating the log data record and an identifier indicative of detection of the keyword in the message and that a communication fee is not chargeable to an account associated with the mobile terminal for a transmission over the communication network that includes the identifier;

in response to generation of the log data record, the mobile terminal storing the log data record in a memory of the mobile terminal, wherein the stored log data record includes at least a portion of the data that satisfied the condition to trigger generation of the log data record; and

in response to satisfaction of a predetermined condition, the mobile terminal transmitting at least a portion of the log data record and the identifier over the communication network for receipt by a predetermined node.

9. A method for screening a message including a header and a body, the method comprising:

a mobile terminal determining whether the body of the message contains a keyword stored in a condition memory of a memory of the mobile terminal;

in response to determination that the body of the message contains the keyword, the mobile terminal generating a log data record and an identifier indicative of detection of the keyword in the message;

in response to generation of the log data record, the mobile terminal storing the log data record in a log data record memory of the memory of the mobile terminal, wherein the stored log data record includes at least a portion of the message that contains the keyword;

in response to satisfaction of a predetermined condition, the mobile terminal transmitting at least a portion of the log data record and the identifier over the communication network for receipt by a predetermined node designated by a communication network management system related to the communication network, the identifier further indicative that transmission over the communication network of the portion of the log data is without charge of a communication fee to an account associated with the mobile terminal.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the message is received by the mobile terminal, and wherein the mobile terminal determining whether the body of the message contains the keyword further comprises:

the mobile terminal determining whether the body of the message sent to the mobile terminal over the communication network contains the keyword.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the mobile terminal determining whether the body of the message contains the keyword further comprises:

the mobile terminal determining whether the body of the message to be sent from the mobile station over the communication network contains the keyword.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the log data record memory of the memory of the mobile terminal contains a plurality of log data records, the plurality of log data records including the log data record;

and

wherein transmitting at least the portion of the log data record over the communication network for receipt by the predetermined node designated by the communication network management system further comprises;

in response to satisfaction of the predetermined condition, transmitting to the predetermined node designated by the communication network management system related to the communication network at least a portion of the plurality of log data records stored in the log data record memory.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein satisfaction of the predetermined condition further comprises:

determining that the log data record memory contains a predetermined capacity threshold.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the log data record memory contains a plurality of log data records, the plurality of log data records including the log data record;

and

wherein satisfaction of the predetermined condition includes;

determining that the plurality of log data records at least equals a predetermined threshold; and

based upon determination that the plurality of log data records at least equals the predetermined threshold, transmitting to the predetermined node designated by the communication network management system at least a portion of the plurality of log data records stored in the log data record.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the log data record memory of the mobile terminal contains a plurality of log data records, the plurality of log data records including the log data record;

and

wherein satisfaction of the predetermined condition includes;

the mobile terminal detecting receipt of a request to transmit the plurality of log data records to the predetermined node designated by the communication network management system.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the request to transmit the plurality of log data records is received through the communication network.