Wireless mobile phone having encoded data entry facilities
First Claim
1. A wireless mobile phone comprising:
- a body casing having a plurality of surfaces;
an input keypad disposed on said a first surface of said body casing to facilitate entry of alphanumeric data;
at least a first button disposed on a second surface of said body casing; and
complementary logic in support of the at least first button to facilitate entry of alphanumeric data in encoded representations of a variable length encoding scheme using said at least first button.
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Abstract
A wireless mobile phone is provided with one or more buttons and complementary logic to facilitate entry of encoded representations of a variable length encoding scheme of alphanumeric data. As a result, a user may use the provided facilities to engage in non-verbal communication for sensitive subject matters in the middle of a call. In one embodiment, the encoded representations are Morse codes. In another embodiment, the encoded representations are custom designed. In one embodiment, the complementary logic further facilitates echoing on a display, alphanumeric data corresponding to any entered encoded representations. Additionally, each of the code entry buttons includes one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs), and the LEDs are lit to visually echo the encoded representations of the variable length encoding scheme of letters, numbers or punctuations entered through a standard input keypad.
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55 Claims
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1. A wireless mobile phone comprising:
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a body casing having a plurality of surfaces;
an input keypad disposed on said a first surface of said body casing to facilitate entry of alphanumeric data;
at least a first button disposed on a second surface of said body casing; and
complementary logic in support of the at least first button to facilitate entry of alphanumeric data in encoded representations of a variable length encoding scheme using said at least first button. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A wireless mobile phone comprising:
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a transceiver to send and receive signals;
an adapter interface to removably attach a device capable of vibrating to said mobile phone; and
complementary logic in support of said transceiver and said adapter interface to vibrationally output alphanumeric data received via said transceiver through vibrational manifestation of encoded representations of a variable length encoding scheme of the received alphanumeric data using the removably attached capable of vibrating device. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A wireless mobile phone comprising:
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a body casing having a plurality of surfaces;
an input keypad disposed on said a first of said surfaces to facilitate entry of alphanumeric data;
at least a first button disposed on a second of said surfaces of said body casing, having first one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs); and
complementary logic in support of the input keypad and the at least first button to light said LEDs of said at least first button to visually echo encoded representations of a variable length encoding scheme of letters, numbers or punctuations entered through said input keypad. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A wireless mobile phone comprising:
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a body casing having a top surface and a side surface;
a first button disposed on either said top surface or said side surface of said body casing;
a second button disposed on the same top/side surface of said body casing adjacent to said first button; and
means coupled to the first and second buttons and to the transceiver to facilitate entry of alphanumeric data in encoded representations of a variable length encoding scheme using said first and second buttons. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43)
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44. A wireless mobile phone comprising:
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a body casing having a top surface and a side surface;
a first button disposed on either said top surface or said side surface of said body casing;
a second button disposed on the same top/side surface of said body casing adjacent to said first button; and
a micro-controller and associated memory, including programming instructions stored in said memory, coupled to the first and second buttons and to the transceiver to facilitate entry of alphanumeric data in encoded representations of a variable length encoding scheme using said first and second buttons. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 48, 49, 50)
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47. In a wireless mobile phone, a method comprising:
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receiving encoded representations of a variable length encoding scheme of alphanumeric data entered using at least a first button disposed on a top or side surface of the mobile phone, said mobile phone also having an input keypad disposed on a front surface to facilitate entry of alphanumeric data; and
in response, electrically generating signals corresponding to fixed length digital representations of said alphanumeric data entered through entry of their variable length encoded representations of said variable length encoding scheme using said at least a first button.
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51. A method of communication comprising:
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employing a wireless mobile phone to place a call to a callee and communicate verbally with the callee using the wireless mobile phone; and
at selected moments of desired increased privacy during the call, communicate non-verbally with the callee, entering text messages to be transmitted to the callee in an encoded representation form in accordance with a variable length encoding scheme, using at least a first button disposed on a top or side surface of the wireless mobile phone, and sending the entered text messages to the callee. - View Dependent Claims (52, 53, 54, 55)
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