System and protocol for providing pictures in wireless communication messages
First Claim
1. A wireless terminal for communicating pictures via a wireless communication system, the wireless terminal comprising:
- A) a clip-art picture manager, for managing clip-art pictures including maintaining the clip-art pictures in galleries, each gallery including a plurality of clip-art pictures and each gallery of a size suitable for communication as a single wireless message, and for providing at least one clip-art picture from at least one of the galleries;
B) a gallery folder, for storing the galleries of clip-art pictures in a memory device of the wireless terminal;
C) a transceiver, for receiving and sending a message including at least one clip-art picture;
D) a display screen for displaying clip-art pictures; and
E) keys including keys of a numeric keypad as well as soft keys.
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Abstract
A wireless terminal (and associated method) for communicating pictures via a wireless communication system. The pictures can be either maintained in the wireless terminal in galleries, each gallery including typically up to eight pictures, or the pictures can be stand-alone pictures. When maintained in galleries and stored in non-volatile memory of the wireless terminal, in an electronic folder, the pictures are termed clip-art pictures. The invention allows sending an entire gallery at a time as, among other formats, a single so-called Graphical Messaging System (GMS) picture (18×72 pixels). The invention also allows sending individual clip-art pictures in a message including text, actually in-line with the text of the message or indicating where in the text the clip-art pictures would appear in a wireless terminal adapted to the invention. In addition, the invention provides a picture editor allowing a user to create or edit either a clip-art or a standalone picture.
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24 Claims
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1. A wireless terminal for communicating pictures via a wireless communication system, the wireless terminal comprising:
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A) a clip-art picture manager, for managing clip-art pictures including maintaining the clip-art pictures in galleries, each gallery including a plurality of clip-art pictures and each gallery of a size suitable for communication as a single wireless message, and for providing at least one clip-art picture from at least one of the galleries;
B) a gallery folder, for storing the galleries of clip-art pictures in a memory device of the wireless terminal;
C) a transceiver, for receiving and sending a message including at least one clip-art picture;
D) a display screen for displaying clip-art pictures; and
E) keys including keys of a numeric keypad as well as soft keys. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A wireless terminal for communicating pictures via a wireless communication system, the wireless terminal comprising:
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a) a picture manager, for managing pictures including maintaining the pictures in a memory device of the wireless terminal, the picture manager in turn including a picture editor, for enabling a user to edit an existing picture or create a new picture;
b) a transceiver, for receiving and sending a message including at least one picture;
c) a display screen for displaying pictures; and
d) keys including keys of a numeric keypad as well as soft keys. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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13. A method for use by a wireless terminal in communicating pictures via a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of:
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a) providing for storing galleries of clip-art pictures in a memory device of the wireless terminal, each gallery including at least two clip-art pictures, each gallery of a size suitable for communication as a single wireless message;
b) managing clip-art pictures including maintaining clip-art pictures in galleries, and providing an interface using a numeric keypad and soft keys and a display screen by which a user is able to view and edit an existing clip-art picture in a gallery or create a new clip-art picture; and
c) receiving and sending a message including at least one clip-art picture. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method for communicating pictures using a wireless terminal via a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of:
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a) providing a picture manager, for managing pictures including maintaining the pictures in a memory device of the wireless terminal, the picture manager in turn including a picture editor, for enabling a user to edit an existing picture or create a new picture;
b) providing a transceiver, for receiving and sending a message including at least one picture;
c) providing a display screen for displaying pictures; and
d) providing keys including keys of a numeric keypad as well as soft keys. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24)
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