KR101804164B1 - Mobile terminal with mobile message management - Google Patents

Abstract

In an embodiment of the present invention, an important message is set among a plurality of received mobile messages, and the important message is displayed at the top of the mobile message list. The mobile terminal includes: a terminal RF communication unit for communicating with a mobile communication network and receiving a mobile message; A display unit for displaying the received mobile message; An important message setting unit for setting an important message among the received mobile messages; An input unit receiving a display request of a mobile message list; And a controller for displaying the message at the top of the mobile message list when a request for displaying the mobile message list is received from the user.

Description

[0001] Mobile terminal with mobile message management [0002]

The present invention relates to a mobile terminal having a mobile message management function, and a mobile terminal capable of managing a text message and an SNS message in a mobile terminal such as a smart phone.

Due to popularization of mobile communication terminals such as smart phones, everyone can send and receive text messages through SMS (Short Message Service) and MMS (Multimedia Message Service).

Recently, there have been various wired and wireless social network services (SNS) that make friends or social relationships with other people on the Internet. This service is a wired / wireless interworking social network service developed for convenient use in mobile phones and wired internet. It provides mobility by mobile phone, so it can easily record your thoughts and feelings anywhere, anytime, or invite others . The social network service is the ultimate goal of forming an acquaintance through invitation or recommendation, and sharing information with each other through a network of acquaintances. In order to form a social community according to the conventional technology in the social network service environment, the community participates in the social network service using an invitation or an SNS message.

Due to the active use of text messages and SNS messages, most users live in floods of text messages and SNS messages.

Therefore, there is a problem that the user can not easily find a text message or an SNS message that he needs later. For example, there is an important text message that has been received in the past. When the text message is pushed backward from the list of text messages due to newly received text messages, the user can not easily find the important text message required.

Korean Patent No. 10-1155746

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a method for allowing a user to easily check an important message among a text message and an SNS message displayed on a mobile terminal. The technical problem of the present invention is to provide a means for setting important messages in an efficient manner.

In an embodiment of the present invention, an important message is set among a plurality of received mobile messages, and the important message is displayed at the top of the mobile message list.

The mobile terminal includes: a terminal RF communication unit for communicating with a mobile communication network and receiving a mobile message; A display unit for displaying the received mobile message; An important message setting unit for setting an important message among the received mobile messages; An input unit receiving a display request of a mobile message list; And a controller for displaying the message at the top of the mobile message list when a request for displaying the mobile message list is received from the user.

The important message setting unit may be configured to apply a user reference setting scheme to select an important message from a plurality of received mobile messages and to set an important message.

The important message setting unit may be configured to set a display number reference setting method in which a mobile message in which a number of times of displaying a content of a mobile message is greater than a predetermined threshold number is set as an important message.

An important message display field is provided in an upper area of the mobile message list and in a case where there are a plurality of important messages, .

The important message setting unit may be configured to apply an important destination reference setting scheme in which an important destination is set and stored by a user and a mobile message received from the important destination is set as an important message.

The important message setting unit sets important messages by assigning the user reference setting method, the display time reference setting method, and the important destination reference setting method differently for each day of the week.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, an important message among the text message and the SNS message displayed on the terminal is displayed at the top, thereby enabling the user to easily confirm the message. In addition, according to the embodiment of the present invention, important message setting criteria can be selected differently for each day of the week, so that it is possible to set important messages according to user characteristics.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an important text message displayed on a top in a text message list according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an important SNS message displayed on a top in an SNS message list according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.
3 is a configuration block diagram of a mobile terminal having a mobile message function according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 illustrates an example of a user criteria setting method according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG.
5 illustrates an example of a display frequency reference setting method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a diagram illustrating an example of an important destination reference setting method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 7 is an exemplary diagram showing a state in which the setting method for each day of the week is selected according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The advantages and features of the present invention, and how to achieve them, will be apparent from the following detailed description of embodiments thereof taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as being limited to the exemplary embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete and will fully convey the concept of the invention to those skilled in the art. And the present invention is only defined by the scope of the claims. In the following description, well-known functions or constructions are not described in detail since they would obscure the invention in unnecessary detail.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an important text message displayed in a text message list according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an important SNS message in an SNS message list according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a mobile terminal having a mobile message function according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG.

Hereinafter, a mobile terminal will be described as an example of a smart phone. However, the mobile terminal is not limited to a smart phone but may be a tablet PC, a slate PC, a digital broadcasting terminal, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistants) A portable multimedia player (PMP), a navigation device, a digital camera, and the like. Of course, it is needless to say that the terminal to which the present invention is applicable is not limited to the above-described type, but may include both terminals capable of communicating with external devices. Of course, the present invention can also be applied to a case where an SNS such as a cellular phone is implemented in a terminal such as a desktop PC. For reference, a smart phone is an intelligent terminal that adds a computer support function such as internet communication and information search to a mobile phone, and can install an application desired by the user. Therefore, unlike existing mobile phones, hundreds of various applications (application programs) can be installed, added, or deleted as desired, so that users can create their own applications and implement appropriate interfaces through various applications. .

In the following description, a mobile message refers to a text message provided by a system of a mobile terminal such as an SMS (Short Message Service) or an MMS (Multimedia Message Service), an SNS message provided by a Social Network Service (SNS) . Accordingly, the mobile message list is a concept that includes both a text message list and an SNS message list.

The present invention is characterized in that an important message is set among a plurality of received mobile messages so that an important message is displayed at the top of the mobile message list.

For example, when a text message list is displayed as shown in FIG. 1, an important message set in advance among a plurality of text messages is displayed in an important message display field 11 at the top of the text message list. Similarly, when an SNS message list such as the SNS group chat room is displayed as shown in FIG. 2, an important message set in advance among a plurality of SNS messages is displayed in an important message display field 11 (SNS group chat room) ). Of course, the number of important messages displayed at the top may be a single number or a plurality of important messages. In the case of a plurality of messages, the maximum number of display of important messages can be set by the user.

Therefore, the user can easily check whether the character is received or not, since it is always displayed at the top of the mobile message list, if it is set as an important message.

The mobile terminal having the mobile message management function of the present invention includes a terminal RF communication unit 210, a display unit 230, an important message setting unit 220, an input unit 240, and a controller 250, . ≪ / RTI >

The terminal RF communication unit 210 communicates with a mobile communication network to receive a mobile message. In this case, when a mobile communication such as 3G or 4G is performed, an RF transmitter (not shown) for up-converting and amplifying the frequency of a wirelessly transmitted signal An RF receiver (not shown) for low-noise amplifying the received radio signal and down-converting the frequency, and the like. A data processor (not shown) having a modem and a codec is provided to demodulate and decode the received signal to extract a data packet or to modulate and encode a data packet to be transmitted and convert the data packet into a signal. Here, the codec may include a data codec for processing data and an audio codec for processing a voice packet to output an analog signal of a voice form.

The display unit 230 is a module for displaying the received mobile message.

The input unit 240 is a module for receiving a display request of a mobile message list. The display unit 230 and the input unit 240 may be implemented as a single type of touch screen panel. A touch screen panel is a display window provided on a front surface of a terminal to provide a touch screen screen capable of simultaneously performing input and display, and includes a graphical user interface (GUI) for communicating with a user Display.

The important message setting unit 220 performs a function of setting an important message among the received mobile messages. For example, when receiving the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth mobile messages, the fifth mobile message may be set as an important message.

If there is a display request of the mobile message list from the user, the control unit 250 displays the important message at the top in the mobile message list. For example, of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth mobile messages, if the fifth mobile message is set as an important message, And displays the remaining mobile messages in the order of reception time.

Meanwhile, the important message setting unit 220 sets an important message among the received mobile messages, and the setting can be performed in three ways. One is a user reference setting method which is set by a user directly, the other is a display number reference setting method in which a display number of a mobile message is set as a reference, and the other is an important destination reference setting method in which an important destination is set as a reference . This will be described in detail below with reference to Figs. 4 to 7. Fig.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a user reference setting method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a display number reference setting method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 7 is an exemplary diagram showing a state in which a setting method for each day of the week is selected according to an embodiment of the present invention.

A user-based setting method, a display-number-based setting method, and an important destination reference setting method for setting an important message among the new-mobile messages will be described first.

The important message setting unit 220 selects an important message from a plurality of received mobile messages and sets an important message. For example, as shown in FIG. 4, the user may select a mobile message that he or she thinks is important from the mobile message list, and the selected mobile message is selected as an important message. Of course, there may be one or more mobile messages selected as important messages.

Meanwhile, in the case of setting the display frequency reference setting method, the important message setting unit 220 sets a mobile message in which the number of times of display of the contents of the mobile message is larger than a predetermined threshold number as an important message. Since mobile messages that are repeatedly read by the user repeatedly are likely to be important messages to the user, they are set as important messages even if there is no separate user setting.

Furthermore, when a plurality of important messages are set, the order of arrangement of the important messages may be determined according to the frequency of the displayed times. To this end, an important message display field 11 is provided in an upper area of the mobile message list. When there are a plurality of important messages, they are sequentially arranged in the important message display field 11 Can be displayed.

For example, the content of the first mobile message may be displayed twice, the content of the second mobile message may be displayed once, the content of the third mobile message may be displayed 16 times, The content of the fifth mobile message is displayed 30 times, the content of the sixth mobile message is displayed twice, the content of the seventh mobile message is displayed ten times, the content of the eighth mobile message is displayed ten times, When the main content is displayed once and the main content of the ninth mobile message is displayed twice, if the user sets three important messages to be displayed, the fifth mobile message 30 times , The 16th displayed third mobile message, and the 10th displayed seventh mobile message in this order.

The important message setting unit 220 sets and stores an important destination from the user and sets the mobile message received from the important destination as an important message. In order to set an important destination from the user, it is possible to select an important destination that the user thinks important as shown in FIG. 6, and the important destination thus selected is stored in the memory.

Such a memory may be a hard disk drive, an SSD drive (Solid State Drive), a flash memory, a CF card (Compact Flash Card), an SD card (Secure Digital Card), a SM card ), An MMC card (Multi-Media Card), a memory stick, and the like, or may be provided in a separate device.

For example, if a person in charge of a higher level organization is set as an important destination, the text message from the person in charge of the higher level organization can be displayed at the top of the text message list. Also, the SNS message of the person in charge of the senior organization in the SNS group chat room can always be displayed at the top.

On the other hand, the important message setting unit 220 can set an important message with a setting method selected from the user among the user reference setting method, the display count reference setting method, and the important destination reference setting method.

For example, when the user selects the user-based setting method, an important message is displayed at the top of the mobile message list according to the user setting method. Similarly, when the user selects the display count reference setting method, an important message is displayed at the top of the mobile message list according to the display count reference setting method. Likewise, when the user selects the important destination reference setting method, an important message is displayed at the top of the mobile message list according to the important destination reference setting method.

In addition, an important message can be set by assigning the user basis setting method, the display frequency reference setting method, and the important destination reference setting method differently for each day of the week.

In the weekday, a company representative is designated as an important destination by the company work, so that the mobile message of the person in charge of the company is displayed at the top of the mobile message list, and on the saturday, the mobile message, And the important message set by the user on Sunday may be displayed at the top of the mobile message list.

In addition, various day of the week can be allocated according to need.

7 shows an example in which an important message reference setting method is assigned for each day of the week. A menu selection window is provided for each day of the week, and any one of an important message among a user reference setting method, a display count reference setting method, It is possible to implement the reference setting method.

The embodiments of the present invention described above are selected and presented in order to facilitate the understanding of those skilled in the art from a variety of possible examples. The technical idea of the present invention is not necessarily limited to or limited to these embodiments Various changes, modifications, and other equivalent embodiments are possible without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

210: terminal RF communication unit
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Claims (7)

An important message is set among a plurality of received mobile messages, and the important message is displayed at the top of the mobile message list,
A terminal RF communication unit for communicating with a mobile communication network and receiving a mobile message; A display unit for displaying the received mobile message; An important message setting unit for setting an important message among the received mobile messages; An input unit receiving a display request of a mobile message list; And a controller for displaying the message at a top level in a mobile message list when there is a display request of the mobile message list from the user,
The important message setting unit may be configured to apply a user-based setting method for selecting an important message from a user among a plurality of received mobile messages and setting an important message. When the number of times of displaying the content of the mobile message is larger than a predetermined threshold number An important destination reference setting method is configured to apply a display count reference setting method for setting a mobile message as an important message, and to set and store an important destination from a user, and to set a mobile message received from the important destination as an important message A mobile terminal having a mobile message management function,
The important message setting unit,
Wherein the mobile terminal is configured to assign an important message by assigning the user reference setting method, the display time reference setting method, and the important destination reference setting method differently for each day of the week.
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