System for saving and reading text messages
AssigneeNokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
InventorReijo Pyörälä
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Abstract
A start-up operation of devices using smart cards, and more precisely to the initialization procedure of smart cards is used in mobile stations during the start-up of the mobile station. The invention is based on the realization that information of the REPLACE-type of messages can be dealt with more quickly if the information of the type of the message already occurring once in the TP-PID byte of the record is added to the first byte of the record, the STATUS byte, whereby messages of the REPLACE type can be sought by the SEEK command of the SIM card. When this procedure is used in the start-up, there is no need to read all the records of the file containing the SMS messages on the SIM card in order to find the REPLACE-type of messages.
Claims9
A system for saving text messages of a certain type and reading them from a smart card in a mobile communication means in a situation when, during the saving procedure of the text messages of a certain type, information is needed about text messages of the same type possibly saved earlier, comprising
- means for adding information indicating that the message is of the certain type to a status byte of the saving record of each text message of the certain type to be saved on the smart card,
- means for seeking with a seek command of the smart card the messages of said certain type from the smart card on basis of record status bytes during the start-up procedure of the mobile communication means.
A method for reading text messages of a certain type from the smart card of the mobile station at the start-up stage of the mobile station, comprising steps in which
- using a seek command of the smart card to seek records which have a marking in the status byte indicating that the text message of said record is of said certain type;
- reading the record found by the seek command;
- checking the type of the record read, and if the type of the text message of the record is not said certain type, seeking records is stopped, and if the type of the text message of the record is said certain type, seeking records is continued.
A mobile communication means which is arranged to receive text messages and save the text messages on a smart card used in the mobile station, and which is arranged to save messages of a certain type in a different manner than other text messages, comprising means for adding information indicating that the message is of the certain type to a status byte of the saving record of each text message of the certain type to be saved on the smart card.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.