Patent ID: 7917125
Filing Date: 2011-03-29
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of managing history data of messages communicated by a mobile communication device, the method comprising: storing message history data associated with transmitted and received messages in a storage unit of the mobile communication device in response to the mobile communication device communicating over a mobile communication network, wherein each of the transmitted and received messages is one of a short message service (SMS) type, multimedia service (MMS) type, or an unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) type, and wherein the message history data includes, for each message of the transmitted and received messages, at least some content associated with the message; receiving a request from the user for retrieving message history data stored in the storage unit, wherein the request is based upon a particular user that either transmitted the received message or received the transmitted message; processing the request, such that the retrieved message history data is associated with the particular user; simultaneously displaying, on a first portion of a single screen of a display, the retrieved message history data of only the particular user after the processing of the request, the retrieved message history data comprising, for each transmitted message and each received message of the retrieved message history data, at least some of the content associated with the received or transmitted message; displaying a separate identifier on the first portion of the single screen of the display for each transmitted message and each received message of the retrieved message history data, wherein each of the separate identifiers distinguish an associated message as being either a received message or a transmitted message; displaying, on a second portion of the single screen of the display, user identification information identifying the particular user, wherein the displaying of the user identification occurs simultaneously with the displaying of the retrieved message history data and the displaying of each of the separate identifiers; displaying data of a file added to a MMS message on the first portion of the single screen, the MMS message being one of the transmitted or received messages, and wherein the displayed data of the file occurs simultaneously with the displaying of the retrieved message history data.