Patent ID: 7406308

Claim:
A wireless communication terminal for indicating when dissimilar serviceable short messages have been received, utilizing an indicator icon that includes at least one or more types of the received short message, the wireless communication terminal comprising: a storage means for storing said indicator icon, said icon corresponding respectively to types of said serviceable short messages such that they are identifiable according to the types of said serviceable short messages; a communication means for communicating with an external communications device and receiving a short message transmitted from said external device; a determination means for determining a type of said short message received by said communication means on the basis of said indicator icon stored in said storage means; a control means for extracting one of said indicator icon corresponding to the determined short message type from said storage means and controlling said display means to display the extracted indicator icon on a screen; and a display means for displaying on said screen said indicator icon corresponding respectively to the types of said short messages wherein the indicator icon includes a character to identify the type of each received short message.