Computing device with improved user interface for menus

• US 20040053605A1
• Filed: 10/17/2003
• Published: 03/18/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Martyn, Mathieu Kennedy, Jenson, Scott
• Application Number:
  US10/343,332
• Publication Number:
  US 20040053605A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72472 wherein the items are sorted according to specific criteria, e.g. frequency of use

Abstract

A computing device such as a mobile telephone in which the most common menu item is placed, not at the top of the list, but instead in the middle. This makes it faster to reach with many conventional navigation tools.

Claims

1. A computing device comprising a display screen, the computing device being able to display on the screen several names or icons, each corresponding to a selectable item, in which the names or icons are arranged relative to one another in an arrangement so that the most commonly selected name or icon is positioned at least one position from the name or icon in the arrangement closest to one end in the arrangement and at least one position away from the name or icon closest to another end in the arrangement.

2. The computing device of claim 1 in which the most commonly selected name or icon is positioned in the middle of the arrangement when the user first opens the arrangement to view it.

3. The computing device of claim 2 in which the second most commonly selected name or icon is positioned at one end of the arrangement.

4. The computing device of claim 3 in which the third most commonly selected name or icon is positioned at the one end of the arrangement.

5. The computing device of claim 1 in which commonly selected names or icons are arranged immediately adjacent and on either side of the most commonly selected name or icon.

6. The computing device of claim 1 in which the arrangement is a menu in which the names/icons are arranged in a column format.

7. The computing device of claim 6 in which the column is in either a portrait or a landscape orientation.

8. The computing device of claim 1 in which the identity of the most commonly selected items for a given user are learned by the mobile telephone and/or defined by the user.

9. The computing device of claim 1 in which the arrangement has hard boundaries.

10. The computing device of claim 1 in which a highlight appears over the most commonly selected name or icon as a default.

11. A computer program which, when running on a computing device, causes the computing device to operate as a computing device as claimed in claim 1-10.

12. The computer program of claim 11, being an operating system program.