Method for generating a telephone number

• US 20050117736A1
• Filed: 10/28/2004
• Published: 06/02/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Vehkalahti, Jani
• Granted Patent: US 7,844,046 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/354
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2748 by matching character strings
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality

Abstract

Method for generating a telephone number in a device comprising at least a display for presenting a first character string. At least one second character string (1) containing a telephone number is selected from the first character string presented on the display, and a telephone number (2), which is signalled is searched for from said character string. The invention also relates to a device, a computer program and a software product implementing the method.

Claims

1. Method for generating a telephone number in a device comprising at least a display for presenting a first character string, comprising:

selecting at least one second character string containing a telephone number from the first character string presented on the display,

searching for a telephone number from the second character string, and

signalling the searched telephone number.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method is executed at least in a first application and in a second application and a second character string is selected in the first application and a telephone number is searched for in the second application.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein a character string is searched for from the second character string in the vicinity of the telephone number, said character string containing information on the type of the terminal connected to the telephone number to be searched for.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least two telephone numbers are searched for from the second character string and at least two telephone numbers are signalled, at least one of them being the one searched for.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the telephone number is signalled to use one of the following connection forms:

an audio call, a telecopy, a text message, a sound message, an image message, a multimedia message.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information containing the telephone number is stored in the device.

7. A device comprising at least means for generating a telephone number and a display for presenting at least a first character string, wherein the device comprises at least

means for selecting a second character string containing at least one telephone number from the first character string presented on the display,

means for searching for a telephone number from the second character string, and

means for signalling the searched telephone number.

8. The device according to claim 7, wherein the device also comprises

a first application for presenting the first character string and for determining the second character string, and

a second application for searching for a telephone number from the second character string.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the device also comprises means for searching for a character string from the second character string in the vicinity of the telephone number, said character string containing information on the type of the terminal of the searched telephone number.

10. The device according to claim 7, wherein the device also comprises

means for searching for at least two telephone numbers from the second character string, and

means for signalling at least two telephone numbers substantially simultaneously, of which telephone numbers at least one is the one searched for.

11. The device according to claim 7, wherein the device comprises means for signalling the telephone number to use one of the following connection forms:

an audio call, a telecopy, a text message, a sound message, an image message, a multimedia message.

12. The device according to claim 7, wherein the device comprises means for storing the information containing the telephone number in the device.

13. The device according to claim 7, wherein the device is one of the following:

a telecommunication device, a mobile station, a PDA, a computer.

14. A computer program for generating a telephone number from a character string presented on a display, wherein the program comprises at least commands

for selecting a second character string containing at least one phone number from a first character string presented on the display,

for searching for a phone number from the second character string, and

for signalling the searched telephone number.

15. The computer program according to claim 14, wherein the program also comprises commands for searching for a character string from the second character string in the vicinity of the telephone number, said character string containing information on the type of the terminal of the searched telephone number.

16. The computer program according to claim 14, wherein the program also comprises commands

for searching for at least two telephone numbers from the second character string, and

for signalling at least two telephone numbers substantially simultaneously, of which telephone numbers at least one is the one searched for.

17. The computer program according to claim 14, wherein the program also comprises commands for signalling the telephone number to use one of the following connection forms:

an audio call, a telecopy, a text message, a sound message, an image message, a multimedia message.

18. The computer program according to claim 14, wherein the program also comprises commands for storing the information containing the telephone number in the device.

19. A software product that comprises at least a computer program for generating a telephone number from a character string presented on a display, wherein the program comprises at least commands

for selecting a second character string containing at least one phone number from the first character string presented on the display,

for searching for a phone number from the second character string, and for signalling the searched telephone number.

20. The software product according to claim 19, wherein the program also comprises commands for searching for a character string from the second character string in the vicinity of the telephone number, said character string containing information on the type of the terminal of the searched telephone number.

21. The software product according to claim 19, wherein the program also comprises commands

for searching for at least two telephone numbers from the second character string, and

for signalling at least two telephone numbers substantially simultaneously, of which telephone numbers at least one is one searched for.

22. The software product according to claim 19, wherein the program also comprises commands for signalling the telephone number to use one of the following connection forms:

an audio call, a telecopy, a text message, a sound message, an image message, a multimedia message.

23. The software product according to claim 19, wherein the program also comprises commands for storing the information containing the telephone number in the device.

24. The software product according to claim 19, wherein the program is arranged in a device that is one of the following:

a telecommunication device, a mobile station, a PDA, a computer.