Method for controlling a system, especially an electrical and/or electronic system comprising at least one application device

• US 20010056307A1
• Filed: 05/02/2001
• Published: 12/27/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Theimer, Wolfgang
• Application Number:
  US09/847,145
• Publication Number:
  US 20010056307A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/90
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/56 including a user help function

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for controlling a system, especially an electrical and/or electronic system comprising at least one application device. To simplify and to facilitate the use of the system it is provided that control information input is interpreted in accordance with available application devices and an application device is controlled in accordance with the result of the interpretation.

Claims

1. Method for controlling a system, especially an electrical and/or electronic system comprising at least one application device, in which

control information input is interpreted in accordance with available application devices and

an application device is controlled in accordance with the result of the interpretation.

2. Method according to

claim 1

, characterized in that the control information specified by a user is signalled back to the user as announcement or indication for the purpose of acknowledgement.

3. Method according to

claim 2

, characterized in that control information input which allows a number of possibilities for its interpretation is signalled back as selection list.

4. Method according to

claim 2

or

3

, characterized in that control information input which cannot be reliably interpreted is correspondingly marked in the return signalling.

5. Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a check is made whether the control information is complete in order to be able to execute a requested action, and that the user is requested to complete the control information if this is not the case.

6. Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the control information input as keyword or keywords is compared with stored keywords for the purpose of interpretation.

7. Method according to

claim 6

, characterized in that the available application devices, control instructions and control parameters are stored as keywords as control information.

8. Method according to

claim 7

, characterized in that the control parameters are stored as lists.

9. Method according to

claim 7

or

8

, characterized in that control instructions are stored as data records together with dummy codes for the application devices affected and the control parameters needed in each case to execute the instructions.