Telecommunication equipment with at least one storage location reserved for operator-managed data and corresponding method
AssigneeSociete Francaise du Radiotelephone
InventorM. Alain De Kermadec
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Abstract
A telecommunication method and system has a storage means for storing short messages received and/or to be transmitted. The storage means has N short message storage locations. Each of the short messages has a header field and a data field. At least one of the storage locations is reserved for storing short messages having a predetermined address, which is set by the operator implementing the telecommunication equipment.
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A telecommunication equipment in a telecommunication network, the equipment comprising a means for storing short messages received and/or to be transmitted, each of said short messages comprising a header field and a data field, said storage means comprising N short message storage locations, characterized in that at least one of said storage locations is reserved for storing short messages having a predetermined address, set by an operator implementing said telecommunication network, said predetermined address being stored permanently in the memory area corresponding to the header field of the short message of said reserved storage location, such that if a user deletes the contents of said reserved storage location, immediately thereafter said predetermined address is reloaded into said memory area corresponding to the header field.
A method for managing means for storing short messages received and/or to be transmitted by a telecommunication equipment, each of said short messages comprising a header field and a data field, said storage means comprising N short message storage locations, characterized in that it comprises a step of reserving at least one of said storage locations for storing short messages having a predetermined address, set by the operator implementing said telecommunication equipment, said predetermined address being stored permanently in the memory area corresponding to the header field of the short message of said reserved storage location, such that if a user deletes the contents of said reserved storage location, immediately thereafter said predetermined address is reloaded into said memory area corresponding to the header field.
A telecommunication system comprising:
- a telephone handset;
- a message storage means disposed within the telephone handset, the message storage means having N short message storage locations for storing short messages, wherein one or more of the N short message storage locations is a reserved storage location for permanently storing one or more short messages each having a predetermined address set by an operator implementing the telecommunication system, such that if a user deletes a stored message from the reserved storage location, immediately thereafter the stored message is reloaded into the reserved storage location corresponding to the predetermined address.
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