Patent ID: 7773978

Claim:
A method for processing message-related events in a portable terminal, the method comprising the steps of: confirming that specialists of a plurality of specialists have been set in advance so that message-related events can be processed by the confirmed specialists, respectively; calling the confirmed specialists to process the message-related events and generate processing results; and displaying the processing results with at least a text/avatar according to the processing results; wherein, of first, second, and third specialists which process the message reception event, the first specialist confirms unread messages in the message in-box and sets a timer if the number of the unread messages is more than a threshold value, the second specialist confirms whether messages of the corresponding sender have been ignored continuously at more than a threshold frequency, and the third specialist confirms whether the number of the corresponding sent messages has performed contact for a threshold period of time and at more than a threshold frequency and then confirms whether the number of the corresponding sent messages exists in a directory.