Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving message in mobile communication terminal with touch screen
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYun-Ri CHO, Pil-Sik CHOI
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving a message in a mobile communication terminal with a touch screen are provided. The method includes generating a Simple Contact Object (SCO) mapped to at least one contact and a Simple Inputbox Object (SIO) for message composition, displaying the generated SCO and SIO on an idle screen in a widget format, composing a message using the displayed SIO, and storing the composed message in the SIO, and, when a contact between the SIO storing the message therein and the SCO is detected, transmitting the stored message to the contact mapped to the SCO.
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A method for transmitting a message in a mobile communication terminal with a touch screen, the method comprising:
- generating a Simple Contact Object (SCO) mapped to at least one phone number and a Simple Inputbox Object (SIO) for message composition;
- displaying the generated SCO and SIO on an idle screen in a widget format;
- composing a message using the displayed SIO, and storing the composed message in the SIO;
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- when a contact between the SIO storing the message therein and the SCO is detected, transmitting the stored message to the phone number mapped to the SCO.
An apparatus for transmitting a message in a mobile communication terminal with a touch screen, the apparatus comprising:
- a controller for generating a Simple Contact Object (SCO) mapped to at least one phone number and a Simple Inputbox Object (SIO) for message composition, for displaying the generated SCO and SIO on an idle screen in a widget format through the touch screen, for composing a message using the displayed SIO, and for storing the composed message in the SIO, and, when a contact between the SIO storing the message therein and the SCO is detected, for transmitting the stored message to the phone number mapped to the SCO;
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- the touch screen, for displaying the generated SCO and SIO on the idle screen in the widget format, for detecting a touch on the displayed SCO and SIO, and for providing the detecting result to the controller.
A method for receiving a message in a mobile communication terminal with a touch screen, the method comprising:
- generating a Simple Contact Object (SCO) mapped to at least one phone number;
- displaying the generated SCO on an idle screen in a widget format;
- when a message is received, extracting sender information from a header of the received message;
- searching an SCO mapped to a same phone number as the extracted sender information;
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- informing the message reception through the searched SCO.
An apparatus for receiving a message in a mobile communication terminal with a touch screen, the apparatus comprising:
- a controller for generating a Simple Contact Object (SCO) mapped to at least one phone number, for displaying the generated SCO on an idle screen in a widget format through the touch screen, for, when a message is received, extracting sender information from a header of the received message, for searching an SCO mapped to the same phone number as the extracted sender information, and for informing the message reception through the searched SCO;
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- the touch screen, for displaying the generated SCO on the idle screen in the widget format.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.