Patent ID: 6721574
Filing Date: 2004-04-13
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
A multi-destination transmission method for transmitting a short message from an originating mobile terminal to a plurality of terminating mobile terminals, comprising the steps of:(a) pre-registering a plurality of telephone numbers of the terminating mobile terminals in different groups in a memory means of an originating mobile terminal; (b) inputting and editing at least one short message in the originating mobile terminal; (c) detecting a request for the multi-transmission of the inputted short message from the user of the originating mobile terminal; (d) upon receiving the request for the multi-transmission, selecting whether to multi-transmit the short message to one of the pre-registered groups with the pre-registered telephone numbers; (e) if one of the pre-registered groups is selected, retrieving the telephone numbers of the terminating mobile terminals registered in the selected group; (f) multi-transmitting the short message to the retrieved telephone numbers; (g) inputting a plurality of new telephone numbers in the originating mobile terminal if the multi-transmission to one of the pre-registered groups is not selected in step (d); and (h) upon the completion of inputting the new telephone numbers, transmitting the short message to the new telephone numbers in sequence.