Patent ID: 7502621
Filing Date: 2009-03-10
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for relay-transmitting a message of a mobile communication terminal comprising: inputting a message content into a first message; inputting a plurality of destination phone numbers into the first message, wherein inputting the message content and inputting the plurality of destination phone numbers are performed at the mobile communication terminal by a user, wherein the first message includes a user data field and a destination address field, the user data field including a start tag, an end tag and a plurality of destination phone numbers between the start tag and the end tag, and the destination address field includes at least one of the plurality of destination phone numbers; providing the first message from the mobile communication terminal to a first terminal corresponding to a first one of the plurality of destination phone numbers; transmitting the first message from the first terminal corresponding to the first one of the destination phone numbers to a second terminal corresponding to a second one of the plurality of destination phone numbers; receiving the first message at the second terminal; determining that the first message received at the second terminal is a relay-transmitted message by determining that there is a start tag in a user data field of the first message received at the second terminal; in response to the determination that the first message received at the second terminal is to be relay-transmitted, automatically generating and relay-transmitting a second message without a user's command for relay transmission by transmitting the second message from the second terminal to a third terminal corresponding to a third one of the plurality of destination phone numbers provided within the user data field of the first message; receiving the second message at the third terminal; determining that the second message received at the third terminal is a relay-transmitted message by determining that there is a start tag in a user data field of the second message received at the third terminal; and in response to the determination that the second message received at the third terminal is to be relay-transmitted, transmitting a third message from the third terminal to a fourth terminal corresponding to a fourth one of the plurality of destination phone numbers provided within the user data field of the first message.