Setting selected announcements concerning users of communication equipment into a messaging server of a network operator
AssigneeNXP B.V.
InventorMarc Bellanger
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Abstract
An announcement managing device for communication equipment includes a method recording means arranged for storing data within the communication equipment which is representative of successive actions carried out by a user for accessing the messaging server to record an announcement, and for storing timings between these successive actions, the data and the corresponding timings defining a method. The announcement managing device also includes a managing means which when triggered by a dedicated action, is operable for providing a list of titles respectively associated with recorded announcements on a display means of the communication equipment so that a user can select a title.
Claims15
1-14. (canceled)
An announcement managing device for use with communication equipment communicatively coupled to a messaging server of a network operator, the device comprising:
- a method recording means operable for storing data representative of successive actions carried out by said communication equipment for accessing said messaging server, recording an announcement and storing said announcement, and time intervals between said successive actions, said data and said time intervals defining a recorded method associated with said messaging server;
- and
- a managing means operable, when triggered by a dedicated action, for providing a list of titles, respectively associated with said stored announcements, on a display means of said communication equipment and for carrying out the recorded method associated with the messaging server so as to record at said messaging server an announcement associated with a selected title.
The announcement managing device according to claim 1 wherein said managing means is operable for being scheduled to automatically replace, at a chosen time, a first announcement recorded in said messaging server with a second selected announcement and for, upon expiration of a chosen time interval, replacing said second announcement recorded in said messaging server with said first announcement.
A communication apparatus comprising:
- a display screen;
- a user interface;
- and
- an announcement managing device, said announcement management device communicatively coupled to said display screen and said user interface and wherein said announcement management device includes
- a memory,
- a method recording module operable for storing on said memory data representative of successive actions for accessing a messaging server, recording an announcement and for storing said announcement, and for storing on said memory time intervals between said successive actions, said data and said time intervals defining a recorded method associated with said messaging server,
- a managing module operable for providing a list of titles, respectively associated with said stored announcements, on the display screen and for carrying out the recorded method associated with a selected title, and
- an announcement recording module operable for recording said announcement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.