Method and apparatus to enter text in a phone dialer entry field
First Claim
1. A user interface, comprising a touch sensitive display screen coupled to a controller operable to display on the touch sensitive display screen a first key entry virtual device comprised of numeric symbol keys and a second key entry virtual device comprised of non-numeric symbol keys for a user to enter information, said controller being further operable to receive a non-numeric symbol entered by the user on said second key entry virtual device and to convert said non-numeric symbol to a numeric symbol in accordance with a first key entry device non-numeric symbol to numeric symbol mapping function.
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus to dial a telephone number that includes at least one numeric symbol and at least one non-numeric symbol. The method includes, in response to a user entering a numeric symbol, entering the numeric symbol into a telephone number buffer; in response to the user entering a non-numeric symbol, converting the non-numeric symbol into a corresponding numeric symbol in accordance with a telephone keypad numeric symbol to non-numeric symbol mapping function and entering the corresponding numeric symbol into a telephone number buffer.
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52 Claims
- 1. A user interface, comprising a touch sensitive display screen coupled to a controller operable to display on the touch sensitive display screen a first key entry virtual device comprised of numeric symbol keys and a second key entry virtual device comprised of non-numeric symbol keys for a user to enter information, said controller being further operable to receive a non-numeric symbol entered by the user on said second key entry virtual device and to convert said non-numeric symbol to a numeric symbol in accordance with a first key entry device non-numeric symbol to numeric symbol mapping function.
- 8. A mobile station, comprising a radio frequency transceiver coupled to a controller, and a user interface coupled to said controller, said user interface comprising a touch sensitive display screen operable to display a virtual telephone keypad comprised of numeric symbol keys and a virtual keyboard comprised of non-numeric symbol keys, said controller being operable to receive a non-numeric symbol as part of a telephone number and to convert said non-numeric symbol to a numeric symbol in accordance with a virtual telephone keypad non-numeric symbol to numeric symbol mapping function.
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12. A method to dial a telephone number comprised of at least one numeric symbol and at least one non-numeric symbol, comprising:
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in response to a user entering a numeric symbol, entering the numeric symbol into a telephone number buffer;
in response to the user entering a non-numeric symbol, converting the non-numeric symbol into a corresponding numeric symbol in accordance with a telephone keypad numeric symbol to non-numeric symbol mapping function; and
entering the corresponding numeric symbol into a telephone number buffer. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A storage medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform operations to dial a telephone number, the operations comprising:
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in response to a user entering a numeric symbol, entering the numeric symbol into a telephone number buffer;
in response to the user entering a non-numeric symbol, converting the non-numeric symbol into a corresponding numeric symbol in accordance with a telephone keypad numeric symbol to non-numeric symbol mapping function; and
entering the corresponding numeric symbol into a telephone number buffer. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A telephone device, comprising a controller that is responsive to a user entering a numeric symbol via a virtual telephone keypad to store the numeric symbol;
- and means for entering a non-numeric symbol;
said controller being further responsive to the user entering a non-numeric symbol via said non-numeric symbol entry means to convert the non-numeric symbol into a corresponding numeric symbol in accordance with a virtual telephone keypad numeric symbol to non-numeric symbol mapping function and to store the corresponding numeric symbol. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32)
- and means for entering a non-numeric symbol;
- 33. A dialer user interface, comprising a first input device coupled to a controller and operable to enter numeric symbols and a second input device coupled to the controller and operable to enter at least non-numeric symbols, said controller operable to convert an entered non-numeric symbol to a numeric symbol in accordance with a non-numeric symbol to numeric symbol mapping function to provide a telephone number to be dialed.
- 38. A user interface, comprising numeric symbol entry means and non-numeric symbol entry means coupled to a controller, said controller operating under control of a program to receive an entered non-numeric symbol and to convert the entered non-numeric symbol to a corresponding numeric symbol in accordance with a non-numeric symbol to numeric symbol mapping function, said controller having an output coupled to a telephone number dialer function for outputting the corresponding numeric symbol to the telephone number dialer function.
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48. A dialer user interface, comprising an input device coupled to a controller and operable to enter at least non-numeric symbols, said controller operable to convert an entered non-numeric symbol to a numeric symbol in accordance with a non-numeric symbol to numeric symbol mapping function to provide a telephone number to be dialed.
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49. A dialer user interface, comprising an input device coupled to a controller and operable to enter at least non-numeric symbols, said controller operable to convert an entered non-numeric symbol to a numeric symbol in accordance with a non-numeric symbol to numeric symbol mapping function to provide at least a part of a telephone number.
- 50. A software product, comprising program instructions readable by a data processor and causing the data processor to implement a dialer user interface operable to receive at least non-numeric symbols and to convert a received non-numeric symbol to a numeric symbol in accordance with a non-numeric symbol to numeric symbol mapping function to provide at least a part of a telephone number.
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