Wireless communications device user interface

• US 20050188312A1
• Filed: 02/23/2004
• Published: 08/25/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Yang, Lianghua, Bocking, Andrew, Vander Veen, Raymond
• Application Number:
  US10/782,964
• Publication Number:
  US 20050188312A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/739
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations

Abstract

A user interface for wireless communications device includes a component to compose a destination for an outgoing communication generated by the device. The component provides alternative composition means comprising a prompt for receiving the destination from a user and a list of candidate destinations from which the user may select the destination. The component may be invoked directly from a home screen of the user interface by keying the destination. Entry from the main screen may populate the prompt with the keyed destination to speed calling operations.

Claims

1. A wireless communications device for use in a wireless network comprising:

a user interface for controlling the operations of the wireless communications device including a component to compose a destination for an outgoing communication generated by the device, said component providing together;

a prompt for receiving the destination from a user; and

a hot list of candidate destinations from which the user may select the destination.

2. The wireless communications device of claim 1 including:

a key-based input device to input the destination.

3. The wireless communications device of claim 2 wherein the user interface comprises a home screen component from which to invoke a feature from among a plurality of features provided by the device;

and wherein the component to compose a destination is invokable from the home screen component automatically in response to an input from the key-based input device of a portion of the destination.

4. The wireless communications device of claim 3 wherein the destination is a telephone number to be called and the input is a portion of a telephone number.

5. The wireless communications device of claim 3 wherein the portion of the destination populates the prompt when the component to compose a destination is invoked.

6. The wireless communications device of claim 1 wherein the component to compose a destination is invokable in response to at least one of:

an interaction with a home screen component of the user interface from which to invoke a feature from among a plurality of features provided by the wireless communications device; and

an auxiliary input device.

7. The wireless communications device of claim 3 wherein the component to compose a destination is further invokable in response to at least one of:

an interaction with the home screen component of the user interface; and

an auxiliary input device.

8. The wireless communications device of claim 1 wherein the component to compose a destination is navigable by a user to move between the prompt and hot list.

9. The wireless communications device of claim 1 wherein the component to compose a destination is adapted to provide a filtered list of destinations from a store of destinations on the device in response to a filter input by the user, said filtered list selectable by the user to choose a destination.

10. The wireless communications device of claim 1 wherein the prompt is adapted to permit a user to navigate and change the destination while composing.

11. The wireless communications device of claim 1 wherein the component to compose a destination is adapted to provide at least one action button for terminating composition of the destination.

12. In a wireless communications device for use in a wireless network, a method for composing a destination for an outgoing communication generated by the device comprising providing a composition screen including, together:

a prompt for receiving the destination from an input of a user; and

a hot list for selecting the destination by the user, the hot list comprising candidate destinations from which to select the destination.

13. The method of claim 12 including:

receiving the destination using the prompt in response to a key-based input from the user.

14. The method of claim 13 comprising:

providing a home screen from which to invoke a feature from among a plurality of features provided by the wireless communications device; and

invoking the providing of the composition screen from the home screen automatically in response to the input of a portion of the destination.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the destination is a telephone number to be called.

16. The method of claim 14 comprising populating the prompt with the portion of the destination.

17. The method of claim 12 comprising:

providing a home screen from which to invoke a feature from among a plurality of features provided by the device; and

invoking the providing of the composition screen from the home screen in response to one of;

an input of a portion of the destination;

an interaction with the home screen; and

an activation of an auxiliary input device dedicated to invoke the composition screen.

18. The method of claim 12 comprising moving between the prompt and hot list in response to navigation about the composition screen by the user.

19. The method of claim 18 comprising receiving the destination selected from the hotlist and generating the outgoing communication in response.

20. The method of claim 13 comprising providing a filtered list of destinations from a store of destinations on the wireless communications device in response to a filter input by the user, said filtered list selectable by the user to choose the destination.

21. The method of claim 12 comprising receiving the destination and generating the outgoing communication in response.

22. The method of claim 12 comprising providing a cursor adapted to permit a user to navigate and change the destination while composing.

23. The method of claim 12 comprising providing at least one action button for terminating composition of the destination.

24. A computer program product having a computer readable medium tangibly embodying computer executable code for composing a destination for an outgoing communication generated by a wireless communications device for use in a wireless network, said computer program product comprising:

code for a composition screen providing, together;

a prompt for receiving the destination from an input of a user; and

a hot list for selecting the destination by the user, the hot list comprising candidate destinations from which to select the destination.