Method for linking two information types

• US 20040180688A1
• Filed: 04/23/2004
• Published: 09/16/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Spectronic AB
• Original Assignee: Spectronic AB
• Inventors: Siversson, Per
• Granted Patent: US 7,555,704 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/550.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72433 for voice messaging, e.g. dictaphones for answering incoming calls H04M1/64
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for determining information in a handheld or pocket type electronic device, which method comprises the acts of recording a first determination of information which is made via a user interface, presenting selectable information types so that they are directly selectable, which presentation takes place as a result of the first determination of information being finished, recording a choice of an information type, presenting a user interface for determining information in response to the choice of information type, recording a second determination of information which is made via the user interface, and of automatically linking the second determination of information to the first determination of information as a direct result of the recording of the second determination of information.

Claims

1. A method for determining information in a handheld or pocket type electronic device, which method comprises:

recording a first determination of information which is made via a user interface,

presenting selectable information types so that they are directly selectable, which presentation takes place as a result of the first determination of information being finished,

recording a choice of an information type,

presenting a user interface for determining information in response to the choice of information type,

recording a second determination of information which is made via the user interface, and

automatically linking the second determination of information to the first determination of information as a direct result of the recording of the second determination of information.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein determinations of information that are linked together constitute a virtual object of information collecting, the properties and contents of which are determined by the determinations of information being linked together.

3. A method as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, further comprising the act of presenting, as a result of a finished determination of information, at least one indicator which identifies at least one recorded determination of information.

4. A method as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, further comprising the act of presenting, as a result of a finished determination of information, at least one selectable function which is associated with at least one of the linked determinations of information.

5. A method as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, wherein each information object comprises an indication of time.

6. A method as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, further comprising, in the cases when the determination of information regarding an object of information corresponds to inputting of new information, the acts of automatically generating an identity and saving the information object with said identity in response to the finished inputting of said new information.

7. A method as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, wherein the act of automatically linking a second determination of information comprises the act of saving a link to the second determination of information in an object of information collecting, in which object a link to the first determination of information is already stored.

8. A method as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, further comprising the act of presenting information regarding a specific information type, which act further comprises the acts of

presenting all the objects of the specific information type, also the objects of the specific information type that are linked to objects of another information type, and

sorting, during presentation, the objects by an information type which at least is found in a linked object of another information type.