Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2001-01-02
2004-08-03
Rones, Charles (Department: 2175)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C707S793000, C706S045000, C706S047000, C709S206000, C709S207000, C709S234000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06772143
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to communications services and, more particularly, to a method and system for managing messages in a wireless subscriber station or other communications terminal.
2. Description of Related Art
The recent explosive growth of the telecommunications industry has ushered in a new era of convenience and interaction. Through the advent and acceptance of wireless communications (such as cellular telephony for instance) and Internet communications, it is now commonplace for a person to receive messages at virtually any location and any time of day. As a result, however, users may tend to be overwhelmed with incoming and outgoing messages of all sorts, such as short message service (SMS) messages, e-mail messages, voice mail messages, and the like. It would therefore be advantageous to provide a method and system for managing messages.
SUMMARY
The present invention provides a method and system for organizing messages that arrive at a communication terminal or other machine, such as wireless subscriber station for instance. According to one aspect, upon receipt of a message, the communication terminal may automatically determine the value of a parameter in the message, and then responsively create a new folder to store messages having that parameter value and store the message in the new folder. Thereafter, upon receipt of a new message that matches the parameter value, the terminal may store the new message in the new folder as well. Further, the terminal may label the new folder with a label that corresponds to the parameter value and may use the label to present the folder to a user.
According to another aspect, upon receipt of a message, the communication terminal may present a received-message to a user and may prompt the user to select an expression from the received-message, to be used to identify a new folder. For instance, the subscriber station may present the body (content) of a text message to the user and allow the user to select an expression from the body of the message. The subscriber station may then create a new folder to store messages that match the expression selected by the user and may store the message and other matching messages in the folder.
The foregoing and other advantages and features of an exemplary embodiment will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art by reading the following detailed description with reference where appropriate to the accompanying drawings.
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Rones Charles
Sprint Spectrum L.P.
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