Method and apparatus for managing message history data for a mobile communication device

摘要

A method and apparatus for managing history data of messages received from and transmitted to other users by a user of a mobile communication device is provided. Message history data is extracted from received and transmitted messages and stored such that a user of the mobile communication device may easily input a conditional request to the device and view message history data associated with a specific other user or message history data identified by conditional data input to the device.

主权项

1. An apparatus for displaying information related to messages, the apparatus comprising:
a display configured to display a list of identifiers, each identifier associated with a corresponding message history; and a controller configured to cause the display to display a message history associated with an identifier selected from the list in response to an input for selecting the identifier from the list, wherein the message history associated with the selected identifier is displayed in a first portion of a display screen of the display, and the selected identifier is displayed in a second portion of the display screen, wherein the displayed message history associated with the selected identifier comprises:
at least one message that was received;time information associated with the received at least one message;at least one message that was transmitted;time information associated with the transmitted at least one message; andstatus information indicating whether each of the received at least one message and the transmitted at least one message is a received message or a transmitted message, and wherein the received and transmitted at least one messages comprise a short message service (SMS) message and a multimedia message service (MMS) message.