US 7,321,779 B2
Method for enhanced short message service
Bum-Chul Kang, Gyeongsangbuk-Do (Korea, Republic of)
Assigned to LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
Filed on Dec. 29, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/745,676.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2002-0088347 (KR), filed on Dec. 31, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2004/0137922 A1, Jul. 15, 2004
Int. Cl. H04Q 7/20 (2006.01); H04M 1/02 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 455—466  [341/22] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for an enhanced SMS, comprising:
receiving a short message;
checking whether the received message is user data;
processing the user data using corresponding control data when the received message is user data, the processing comprising applying attributes of characters determined by each command set of the control data to each character of the user data, the command sets setting at least two attributes of each said character; and
outputting the processed user data,
wherein each command set comprises:
location information of a character;
command item information; and
attribution information of the command item information, the command item information including font control, color control, size control and text effect control, and wherein the attribution information includes a plurality of font types for the font control, a plurality of colors for the color control, a plurality of sizes for the size control and a plurality of text effects for the text effect control.