Implementing direct telephone access on a multi-purpose wireless mobile electronic device
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1. A method comprising:
- activating a dialing dialog from a home screen of a multi-purpose voice-enabled wireless mobile electronic device having a keyboard, the dialing dialog including an option to send contents of its field to a telephone application of the device to place a call to the telephone number defined by the contents.
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Abstract
Direct access to telephone dialing from a home screen of a multi-purpose voice-enabled wireless mobile electronic device is provided. Direct access to database entries from a main screen of a telephone application of the device is provided.
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29 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
activating a dialing dialog from a home screen of a multi-purpose voice-enabled wireless mobile electronic device having a keyboard, the dialing dialog including an option to send contents of its field to a telephone application of the device to place a call to the telephone number defined by the contents. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method comprising:
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providing a configuration option for a multi-purpose voice-enabled wireless mobile electronic device having a keyboard to enable and disable direct dialing from home screens of the device; and
when a letter key doubling as a number key of the keyboard has been pressed while the device is displaying a home screen, the letter key being a hotkey for an application of the device, activating a dialing dialog displaying in its field a digit corresponding to the number key if the configuration option currently enables direct dialing from home screens, and activating the application if the configuration option currently does not enable direct dialing from home screens.
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9. A method comprising:
displaying one or more database entries when one or more letter keys of a keyboard of a multi-purpose voice-enabled wireless mobile electronic device have been pressed while the device is displaying a main screen of a telephone application, the one or more displayed database entries having one or more words beginning with a sequence of letters corresponding to the one or more letter keys in the order in which the one or more letter keys were pressed. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11)
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12. An article having stored thereon software code, which when executed by a computing platform, results in:
activating a dialing dialog from a home screen of a multi-purpose voice-enabled wireless mobile electronic device having a keyboard, the dialing dialog including an option to send contents of its field to a telephone application of the device to place a call to the telephone number defined by the contents. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. An article having stored thereon software code, which when executed by a computing platform, results in:
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enabling and disabling direct dialing from home screens of a multi-purpose voice enabled wireless mobile electronic device via a configuration option; and
when a letter key doubling as a number key of a keyboard of the device has been pressed while the device is displaying a home screen, the letter key being a hotkey for an application of the device, activating a dialing dialog displaying in its field a digit corresponding to the number key if the configuration option enables direct dialing from home screens, and activating the application if the configuration option does not enable direct dialing from home screens.
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18. An article having stored thereon software code, which when executed by a computing platform, results in:
displaying one or more database entries when one or more letter keys of a keyboard of a multi-purpose voice-enabled wireless mobile electronic device have been pressed while the device is displaying a main screen of a telephone application, the one or more displayed database entries having one or more words beginning with a sequence of letters corresponding to the one or more letter keys in the order in which the one or more letter keys were pressed. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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21. A multi-purpose wireless mobile electronic device comprising:
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a keyboard having number keys; and
a system memory having installed thereon software applications including a telephone application and a home screen application, wherein the home screen application is to activate a dialing dialog upon notification that one of the number keys has been pressed, the dialing dialog including an option to send contents of its field to the telephone application to place a call to the telephone number defined by the contents. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A multi-purpose wireless mobile electronic device comprising:
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a keyboard having number keys and letter keys, where some of the letter keys double as number keys; and
a system memory having installed thereon software applications including a telephone application and a home screen application, the system memory to store a configuration option enabling and disabling direct dialing from home screens, wherein upon notification that a letter key that doubles as a number key has been pressed, the letter key being a hotkey for one of the software applications, the home screen application is to activate a dialing dialog displaying in its field a digit corresponding to the number key if the configuration option enables direct dialing from home screens and is to activate the software application for which the letter key is a hotkey if the configuration option does not enable direct dialing from home screens.
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27. A multi-purpose wireless mobile electronic device comprising:
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a keyboard having letter keys; and
a system memory having installed thereon software applications including a telephone application and a contacts application, the memory to store database entries of the contacts application, wherein when one or more of the letter keys have been pressed while the device is displaying a main screen of the telephone application, the device is to display one or more of the database entries having one or more words beginning with a sequence of letters corresponding to the one or more letter keys in the order in which the one or more letter keys were pressed. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29)
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