KR20020070761A - Message creating apparatus for mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a text message writing, sending, and receiving technology of a mobile phone terminal, and more particularly, to a technology for freely selecting a text color, a background color, and a text flicker when creating a message. The present invention includes a message generating means for generating a first message by receiving a character code output from the character input means and combining them; Text color selecting means for allowing a user to select one of a plurality of color values assigned to the text color and outputting the selected color value as a text color attribute value; Background color selecting means for causing a user to select one of a plurality of color values assigned to the background color and outputting the selected color value as a background color attribute value; Blink selecting means for causing a user to select one of the plurality of blink modes and outputting the selected blink mode as a blink attribute value; Message attribute generating means for receiving each attribute value outputted from the text color selecting means, the background color selecting means, and the blink selecting means, and combining them to generate a second message; Combination / compression means for combining the first message and the second message by bit operation, compressing them, and transmitting the same.

Description

Message creating apparatus for mobile phone

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a text message writing, sending, and receiving technology of a mobile phone terminal, and more particularly, to a technology for freely selecting a text color, a background color, and a flickering text when creating a message.

Short message service (SMS) is prevalent in mobile phone terminals. SMS refers to a service that provides a combination of letters and numbers written by individuals in a mobile phone terminal, the Internet, PC communication, or a variety of information provided by a mobile phone through a mobile phone. SMS includes financial activities such as balance change, deposit and withdrawal information, delinquent information, and introduction of new products, corporate business such as communication, order / delivery information, event notification, customer management, and employee call, information on payment of utility bills, training, and various events. It is usefully used for public office work, other e-commerce, auctions, and community activities. Recently, SMS service business through the Internet network or a private leased line has been made by an SMS gateway service or an ASP service provider.

In general, a mobile phone terminal transmits a message in the same manner as in FIG. When you enter the message management menu as in (A), the outgoing message menu appears, and if you select it, a menu such as letter writing, mobile phone call, and outbox management is displayed as shown in (B). C) Write new sentence, load sentence, and send menu. In writing a new sentence, the user sends and sends a message using the keypad, and the message is received at the recipient's mobile terminal through the SMS system.

The SMS of the current mobile phone terminal is not only monochromatic but also does not have a blink function and thus does not give much interest to the consumer. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a text message producing apparatus which adds a message attribute generating unit that can add text color, background color, and text flicker to a message generating unit of a conventional mobile phone.

1 is a UI of a conventional text message creation method.

2A to 2E illustrate a text message writing method of an embodiment according to the present invention;

3 is a block diagram of a text message generating apparatus according to the present invention.

4A is a block diagram of text message data used in the present invention.

4b is a specific configuration diagram of the text message data used in the present invention.

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Color message creation window (24), menu bar (25), color selection window (27), scroll buttons (31, 32), left and right navigation buttons (33, 34), up, down, left, right cursor keys (35), message generator ( 41, the character input unit 43, the memory 45, the message attribute generation unit 47, the text color selection unit 49, the background color selection unit 51, the blink selection unit 53, the transmission unit 55

Summary of the Invention

The present invention is a device for generating a text message by including attribute information (text color, background color, blink) in the text message of the mobile phone terminal. The configuration is as follows.

Message generating means for generating a first message by receiving a character code outputted from the character input means and combining the same; Text color selecting means for allowing a user to select one of a plurality of color values assigned to the text color and outputting the selected color value as a text color attribute value; Background color selecting means for causing a user to select one of a plurality of color values assigned to the background color and outputting the selected color value as a background color attribute value; Blink selecting means for causing a user to select one of the plurality of blink modes and outputting the selected blink mode as a blink attribute value; Message attribute generating means for receiving each attribute value outputted from the text color selecting means, the background color selecting means, and the blink selecting means, and combining them to generate a second message; Transmitting means for transmitting the first message and the second message.

In the above, the first message is composed of a header part including an ID or a unique number, a message data part consisting of ASCII values, the second message is a header part including an ID or a unique number, and a text color, a background color, and a link attribute information part. It is preferable that it consists of.

In addition, the blink mode selected by the blink selecting means is preferably made of a non-blinking mode, a mode of blinking at an odd number of text messages, and a mode of blinking at an even number of text messages.

Preferred Embodiment

A preferred embodiment for realizing the technical idea of the present invention configured as described above will be described with reference to the drawings.

Figure 2a illustrates this embodiment in detail through a user interface (UI), (A) When the outgoing message 21 is selected in the main menu window as in the prior art, (B) Write a letter separately from the write menu (22) A menu appears. (C) When the color letter write (22) menu and the new sentence write menu (23) are selected, the color message composition window 24 appears.

Fig. 2B is an exemplary diagram of the color message creation window 24, which shows the creation of the message 'MBBRIDGE CORPORATION'. The menu bar 25 is set at the bottom of the color message creation window 24. In the present invention, the menu bar includes a "color" menu 26 in addition to general menus such as Korean-English conversion, capitalization, and special characters. do. When the color menu 26 is selected on the menu bar 25, a color selection window 27 as shown in FIG. 2C is displayed.

In the color selection window 27, one of the colors 1 to N may be selected as the font color 28 and the background color 29, respectively, and the text flickering (hereinafter, “blink”) 30 is one of the modes 1 to mode K. You can choose one. The blink mode may be determined by the designer. For example, the designer may determine a mode not to blink, a mode to link in the odd number, a mode to link in the even number, and a change in the blink rate.

Selection of the font color 28, the background color 29, and the blink 30 may be implemented using any key included in the terminal. For example, the text color 28 and the background color 29 are selected by using the scroll buttons (31 and 32 of FIG. 2D) on the side of the terminal to select the text color using the upper button 31 and the lower button ( 32) can be designed to scroll from color 1 to color N to select a background color. The blink mode 30 can be selected by using the left and right navigation buttons 33 and 34 on the terminal keypad. However, the selection means is not limited to the scroll button and the left and right moving buttons. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that any key other than the scroll buttons 31 and 32 may be used for this purpose. On the other hand, in the case of the terminal having the cursor keys 35 up, down, left and right as shown in Figure 2e it will be able to operate the color selection window 27 using this.

Fig. 3 shows the construction of an embodiment of a text message generating apparatus, and Figs. 4A and 4B show the data format of a text message according to the present invention.

In Fig. 3, the message generating section 41, the text input section 43, and the memory 45 are also components of the conventional text message apparatus. In the present invention, the message attribute generating unit 47, the text color selecting unit 49, the background color selecting unit 51, the blink selecting unit 53 and the transmitting unit 55 are included.

The memory 45 stores basic data for generating text messages and generating message attributes (text color, background color, and blink).

The message generator 41 generates a first message by combining the character codes input from the character input unit 43 with reference to the memory 45. Here, the first message is generated by the same operation as a general SMS device, and is composed of ASCII values. 4A shows the data format of the first message. It can be seen that the field consists of a header part including an ID and a unique number (Num), and a message data part consisting of ASCII values.

The message attribute generator 47 receives each attribute value selected from the text color selector 49, the background color selector 51, and the blink selector 53, and combines each attribute data with reference to the memory 45. Create a second message. Attribute data can be generated by assigning unique codes for each attribute (text color, background color, blink) and assigning IDs for various colors. The blink mode is designed in various modes in advance and stored in the memory 45. The data format of the second message is shown in Fig. 4A (b). It can be seen that the header section is composed of a text color, a background color, and a blink attribute information section. The ID or unique number Num of the second message header part must match that of the first message header part.

An example of a specific information generation method of the first message and the second message will be described with reference to FIG. 4B. In FIG. 4B, "I love you" is used as the message example, 8 colors can be selected as the background color, and 8 colors can be selected as the text color.Blink can be selected from three modes (no blink, odd-numbered, even-numbered). Assume that there is. In the existing SMS, since only one text color exists in one background color, no additional information is required (hence, the first message of FIG. 4B is the same as the existing SMS message), but in the present invention, each text color, background color, Information about the blink is additionally required. That is, if two bytes of Korean, one English, and one ASCII are the data sizes required by the existing text message, the text message of the present invention requires an information data size corresponding to each. It can be seen that 3 bits of background color, 3 bits of text color, and 2 bits of blink (one byte in total) are additionally allocated to one "4" character in (b) the second message of FIG. 4B. English and ASCII codes require 1 byte, so they correspond to 1 byte. However, Korean and other special characters require 2 bytes. Therefore, 1 byte of the same content can be duplicated to 2 bytes. As a result, each character corresponds to information of the same size. In addition, since the background color and the text color can each be up to eight colors, each takes 3 bits. However, since the background color does not need to be applied to the data after the second time, only the upper 3 bits of the first 1 byte need be included. Blink is 3 modes, so it takes 2 bits.

3, the transmission unit 55 transmits the first message and the second message. In the present invention, when the first and second two messages stored in the memory 45 are broadcasted, Transmit twice using the method used in. That is, the first message is transmitted first as pure text data, and the second message is later transmitted as information data corresponding to text. In this case, if you use the existing method, you have to send 2 times, so you have to specify the address to go to the same destination address.

The operation of the receiving side will be described. The first message transmitted by the transmitting unit 55 is first received by the receiving unit of the counterpart terminal and stored like the existing SMS, and displays the stored data (in this case, since there is no information data of the second message, it is displayed like the existing SMS). do). Next, in the second message received later, it has the address of the end of the data area of the first message, and when the second message is received, all the header information of the second message is truncated, and only the pure message attribute information is stored previously. Store it continuously after the address you were doing. When the second message is stored in this way, when the message attribute information is stored by checking the back of the first message, when the message attribute information is stored, the message according to the present invention is applied with text color, background color, and blink through the terminal display unit by combining text and attribute data. Will be shown.

Although one preferred embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the technical idea of the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, but should be determined within the scope interpreted by the claims.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a more interesting SMS to the user by escaping the non-dry SMS to the existing monochromatic monochromatic color, and double the delivery effect of advertisements, notices, etc. by effectively using the text color, the background color and the blink function. have.

Claims (5)

An apparatus for generating a text message by including attribute information (text color, background color, blink) in the text message of the mobile phone terminal, A message generating means for generating a first message by receiving a character code outputted from the character input means and combining the same; Character color selection means for allowing a user to select one of a plurality of color values assigned to the character color and outputting the selected color value as the character color attribute value, A background color selection means for allowing a user to select one of a plurality of color values assigned to the background color and outputting the selected color value as a background color attribute value; Blink selecting means for allowing a user to select one of a plurality of blink modes and outputting the selected blink mode as a blink attribute value, Message attribute generation means for receiving each attribute value output from the text color selection means, background color selection means, blink selection means and combine them to generate a second message; And transmitting means for transmitting the first message and the second message, and transmitting the first message first and transmitting the second message to the same receiver. In claim 1, The first message is composed of a header portion including an ID or a unique number, and a message data portion composed of ASCII values. And a second message comprises a header section including an ID or a unique number, and a text color, a background color, and a blink attribute information section. The method of claim 1, wherein the blink mode An apparatus for creating a text message of a mobile telephone terminal, characterized in that it is composed of a non-blinking mode, a mode of blinking at an odd number of text messages, and a mode of blinking at an even number of text messages. The text message writing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the text color selecting means and the background color selecting means include a scroll button on a side of the mobile telephone terminal to select one of a plurality of color values. . The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the blink selecting means comprises a left and right moving button of the mobile telephone terminal for selecting one of the plurality of blink modes.