Keyboard arrangement
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1. A physical keyboard comprising:
- a plurality of keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A-Z and an overlaid numeric phone key arrangement, said plurality of keys associated with alphabetic characters numbering fewer than 26.
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Abstract
A physical keyboard includes a plurality of multi-functional keys with a reduced column QWERTY key arrangement overlaid with a numeric phone key arrangement for use in both text entry and telephony. Another physical keyboard includes a plurality of multi-functional keys having an array of alphabetic characters and an overlaid numeric array of numbers. A handheld mobile station has a first user interface having a standard alphabetic key arrangement and a second user interface having a numeric phone key arrangement.
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100 Claims
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1. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A-Z and an overlaid numeric phone key arrangement, said plurality of keys associated with alphabetic characters numbering fewer than 26. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 84, 93, 95, 97, 98, 99, 100)
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43. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of multi-functional keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A-Z, said plurality of keys overlaid with a numeric phone key arrangement, wherein the numeric phone key arrangement is associated with a subset of the plurality of keys, and the subset of keys is arranged symmetrically about a center line. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45)
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46. A physical keyboard arrangement comprising:
a reduced column QWERTY array of letters A-Z overlaid with a numeric phone key array, said numeric phone key array including at least numbers. - View Dependent Claims (47, 94, 96)
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48. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of multi-functional keys and corresponding indicia including a reduced column QWERTY alphabetic key arrangement, said plurality of keys being overlaid with a numeric phone key arrangement. - View Dependent Claims (49, 50)
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51. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of multi-functional keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A-Z, said plurality of keys being positioned in seven columns including a first, a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, and a seventh column and at least three rows including a first, a second, and a third row. - View Dependent Claims (52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58)
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59. A handheld mobile station comprising a housing, a display, and a physical keyboard comprising a first user interface having a set of keys associated therewith, and a second user interface having a set of keys associated therewith, wherein a subset of the set of keys for the second user interface is a subset of the set of keys for the first user interface, the handheld mobile station is characterized by:
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the first user interface being selected from a key arrangement group consisting of;
QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY, or DVORAK;
the second user interface being a numeric phone key arrangement; and
the set of keys for the first user interface comprising less than 26 keys. - View Dependent Claims (60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67)
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68. A physical keyboard comprising:
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a plurality of keys having one or more indicia associated with each key, the plurality of keys forming at least a first user interface on said physical keyboard, the keys and indicia of the first user interface arranged so as to form a QWERTY alphabetic configuration, with a majority of the keys of the first user interface representing more than one alphabetic letter per key; and
a subset of the plurality of keys, each key of the subset having indicia representing a number 0-9, the subset forming a second user interface positioned in a numeric phone keypad arrangement on said physical keyboard, wherein the indicia representing numbers is larger in size than any alphabetic indicia associated with the subset of keys. - View Dependent Claims (69)
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70. A physical keyboard comprising:
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a plurality of keys having one or more indicia associated with each key, the plurality of keys forming at least a first user interface on said physical keyboard, the keys and indicia of the first user interface arranged so as to form a QWERTY alphabetic configuration, with a majority of the keys of the first user interface representing more than one alphabetic letter per key, wherein the plurality of keys on said physical keyboard is less than 26 keys;
a subset of the plurality of keys, each key of the subset having indicia representing a character from a numeric phone keypad arrangement, the subset forming a second user interface arranged as a numeric phone keypad on said physical keyboard. - View Dependent Claims (71)
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72. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of multi-functional keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A-Z, an overlaid numeric key array of numbers 0-9, and a “
space”
function, wherein the number “
0”
and the “
space”
function are associated with the same key.- View Dependent Claims (73, 74, 75)
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76. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of multi-functional keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A-Z and an overlaid numeric array of numbers 0-9, wherein the overlaid numeric array of numbers comprises greater than 10 keys, such that at least one of the numbers is associated with two or more keys. - View Dependent Claims (77, 78, 79, 80)
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81. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of multi-functional keys comprising an alphabetic array of keys comprising the alphabetic characters A-Z and a numeric array of keys comprising the numeric characters 0-9 overlaid on the alphabetic array of keys so that alphabetic and numeric characters share at least some of the plurality of keys, said plurality of keys being arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, each of which has a column width, wherein the numeric keys are spaced at least one column width from one another.
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82. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of multi-functional keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A-Z and an overlaid numeric phone key arrangement, wherein the numeric phone key arrangement is centered on the keys associated with alphabetic characters. - View Dependent Claims (83)
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85. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of multi-functional keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a reduced QWERTY array of letters A-Z and a subset of the plurality of keys corresponding to a numeric phone key arrangement, wherein the numeric phone key arrangement is oriented such that the subset of keys is symmetrical about a common center line.
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86. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of multi-functional keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic Characters corresponding to a reduced QWERTY array of letters A-Z and a subset of the plurality of keys corresponding to a numeric phone key arrangement, the plurality of keys being arranged in a first row, a second row, a third row, and a fourth row, and a plurality of columns, wherein the subset of keys comprises a “
1”
, “
2”
, “
3”
associated with keys in the first row, a “
4”
, “
5”
, and “
6”
associated with keys in the second row, a “
7”
, “
8”
, and “
9”
associated with keys in the third row, and a “
0”
associated with a key in the fourth row, wherein the “
1”
, “
4”
, and “
7”
are aligned in a first column, the “
2”
, “
5”
, “
8”
, and “
0”
are aligned in a second column, and the “
3”
, “
6”
, and “
9”
are aligned in a third column, and the key associated with “
0”
is centered beneath the 1-9 keys of the numeric phone key arrangement.- View Dependent Claims (87, 88)
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89. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of multi-functional keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A-Z and a subset of the plurality of keys corresponding to a numeric array of numbers 0-9, “
*”
, and “
#”
, wherein the key associated with “
0”
is positioned between a key associated with “
*” and
a key associated with “
#”
.- View Dependent Claims (90, 91)
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92. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of multi-functional keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A-Z, a first subset of the plurality of keys corresponding to a numeric array of numbers 0-9, and a second subset of the plurality of keys corresponding to the symbols “
*” and
“
#”
, wherein the first subset of keys and the second subset of keys do not overlap.
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