Patent ID: 7680504

Claim:
A method for transmitting a message, the method comprising: inputting, at a transmitting terminal, a message body of a Short Message Service (SMS) message or a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) message and an activation condition indicating when the message body is to be activated on a receiving terminal; transmitting message data to the receiving terminal, said message data including the message body and the activation condition; and selecting a dormant message type among a plurality of message types, said dormant message type indicating the message body is to be activated on the receiving terminal according to the activation condition, wherein the message data further includes the selected dormant message type, wherein the activation condition is compared to a current status of the receiving terminal to determine when the message body is to be activated, and wherein the activation condition corresponds to at least one of a physical location of the receiving terminal and an activation time set by a user of the transmitting terminal.