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US 7,610,041 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for managing messages of a wireless communications terminal
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorJu-Hee Lim
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Abstract
A wireless communications terminal and a method for managing messages of a wireless communication terminal includes: generating as a single file comprising a portion of messages stored in a message storage box of the wireless communication terminal; and transmitting the single file to a pre-determined e-mail address.
Claims19
A method for managing messages of a mobile communications terminal, the method comprising:
- receiving a message via one of a Short Messaging Service (SMS) or Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS);
- and
- determining whether a message storage box having SMS or MMS messages has remaining capacity to store the received message, wherein if the message storage box has remaining capacity, then storing the received message, else generating a single file comprising at least one of the SMS or MMS messages already stored in the message storage box, attaching the single file to an e-mail message, transmitting the e-mail message including the attached single file to a pre-set e-mail address, deleting the at least one of the SMS or MMS messages from the message storage box, and storing the received message in the message storage box.
A mobile communications terminal apparatus comprising:
- a transceiver to send and receive Short Messaging Service (SMS) or Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) messages;
- a memory to store the SMS or MMS messages;
- and
- a controller cooperating with the transceiver and the memory such that at least one of the stored SMS or MMS messages is selected and transferred to and stored by an electronic mail server in order to prevent a capacity of the memory from being exceeded,
- wherein the controller transfers the selected at least one SMS or MMS message by attaching the selected at least one SMS or MMS message to an electronic mail message sent to the electronic mail server.
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