Following the trend being set with the special blacklist system, that prevented you to dial numbers at certain times of the day ’so that you could make sure there were certain “special someones” who you would be unable to call during a time when you were most likely to be a bit more sloshed than, say, rational, concerning what you would say to those people’ there is now a way to retrieve text messages that have mistakenly been sent. Good news for regretful souls among us.
“A mobile phone capable of deleting a sent short message stored in a receiver’s mobile phone and a method of transmitting and deleting a short message using the same are provided. In a method of transmitting and deleting a short message, a sender’s mobile phone generates a short message, transmits it, and stores its transmission-related information. A receiver’s mobile phone stores the short message. The sender’s mobile phone transmits a delete request message to the receiver’s mobile phone, requesting deletion of the short message. The receiver’s mobile phone searches for the short message in response to the delete request message and deletes the short message from a storage area”
Samsung lets us know the corporate tune playing on the factory grounds nowadays is ‘In the Money’ from a band of local performers.
Article on [Cellular News] about the patent.
The patent text [here] of Choi Jong-Ho’s invention.
TechDirt about this matter. [here]
TechDirt about the special blacklist system. [here]
via [Engadget]