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US 7,680,504 B2Granted
Message transmission and received message activation methods and mobile communication terminal having message transmission and received message activation functions
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorMin Young Lee
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Abstract
A method for transmitting a message including inputting, at a transmitting terminal, a message body and an activation condition indicating when the message body is to be activated on a receiving terminal, and transmitting message data to the receiving terminal. The message data includes the message body and the activation condition. Further, the activation condition is compared to a current status of the receiving terminal to determine when the message body is to be activated.
Claims7
A method for transmitting a message, the method comprising:
- inputting, at a transmitting terminal, a message body of a Short Message Service (SMS) message or a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) message and an activation condition indicating when the message body is to be activated on a receiving terminal;
- transmitting message data to the receiving terminal, said message data including the message body and the activation condition;
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- selecting a dormant message type among a plurality of message types, said dormant message type indicating the message body is to be activated on the receiving terminal according to the activation condition,
- wherein the message data further includes the selected dormant message type,
- wherein the activation condition is compared to a current status of the receiving terminal to determine when the message body is to be activated, and
- wherein the activation condition corresponds to at least one of a physical location of the receiving terminal and an activation time set by a user of the transmitting terminal.
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A transmitting terminal, comprising:
- an inputting unit configured to input a message body of a Short Message Service (SMS) message or a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) message and an activation condition indicating when the message body is to be activated on a receiving terminal, and to receive a selecting selection signal indicating a selection of a dormant message type among a plurality of message types, said dormant message type indicating the message body is to be activated on the receiving terminal according to the activation condition, wherein the message data further includes the selected dormant message type;
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- a transmitting unit configured to transmit message data to the receiving terminal, said message data including the message body and the activation condition,
- wherein the activation condition is compared to a current status of the receiving terminal to determine when the message body is to be activated, and
- wherein the activation condition corresponds to at least one of a physical location of the receiving terminal and an activation time set by a user of the transmitting terminal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.