Patent ID: 7747278

Claim:
A method for transmitting a message from a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system, said 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 the 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, in response to a user input and prior to the transmission of the message, 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; transmitting, via a transmitter, the message to said at least one other terminal; receiving, via a receiver, a signal indicating the transmission of the message has failed because the at least one of the specific events has occurred during the transmission of the message; displaying, via a display, a list of messages attempted to be transmitted including at least the transmitted message that has failed; receiving a selection signal indicating a selection of the transmitted message that has failed from the list of messages; and displaying information about the selected transmitted message that has failed, wherein the displayed list of messages attempted to be transmitted includes at least a portion of message contents contained within a listed message, and wherein the event disregard mode is entered before and is independent of creating and transmitting the message 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.