Patent ID: 7684824

Claim:
A method for controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising: entering an event disregard mode and displaying an event disregard menu option on a display of the mobile terminal for selecting a plurality of specific events that are to be disregarded whenever a message is transmitted on the mobile terminal to at least one other mobile terminal, said plurality of specific events causing transmission of the message to fail, and said disregard menu option including an ON and an OFF selectable item for each of the plurality of specific events to indicate whether or not the plurality of specific events are to be disregarded, respectively, whenever the message is transmitted on the mobile terminal; receiving a selection signal indicating whether or not at least one of the plurality of specific events are to be disregarded whenever the message is transmitted on the mobile terminal; entering a message creating mode and creating the message to be transmitted; receiving a transmission selection signal indicating a request to transmit the created message to said at least one other terminal; determining, by the mobile terminal, if one of the plurality of specific events occurs during the transmission of the created message; determining if the ON selectable item has been selected for said one of the plurality of specific events when it is determined that said one of the specific events occurred during the transmission of the message; and selectively continuing the transmission of the message when it is determined that the ON selectable item in the event disregard mode for said one of the plurality of specific events has been set and terminating the transmission of the message when it is determined that the OFF selectable item in the event disregard mode for said one of the plurality of specific events has been set, wherein the event disregard mode is entered before and is independent of the message creation mode such that the plurality of specific events can be set to be disregarded or not disregarded without having to set the disregard mode for the plurality of specific events each time a message is created and transmitted.