Electronic device having capability for providing reminder alerts and method therefor

• US 20070001820A1
• Filed: 06/30/2005
• Published: 01/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Luo, Guo
• Application Number:
  US11/171,606
• Publication Number:
  US 20070001820A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/309.700
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/24 Reminder alarms, e.g. anti-loss alarms
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72451 according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations

Abstract

An electronic device (100) including a method to provide a reminder alert is disclosed herein. The method includes the steps of storing one or more MPEG Audio Layer 3 (MP3) or MP4 files in a memory (105) of the electronic device(100), setting a MP3/MP4 file as the reminder alert; and activating the reminder alert in response to a missed event.

Claims

1. A method to provide a reminder alert in an electronic device, the method comprising the steps of:

storing one or more MPEG Audio Layer 3 (MP3) or MP4 files in a memory of the electronic device;

setting a MP3/MP4 file as the reminder alert; and

activating the reminder alert in response to a missed event.

2. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

selecting one of the one or more MP3/MP4 files for each of a plurality of event sources; and

associating an event source with the missed event,

wherein the reminder alert is set to the MP3/MP4 file associated with the event source.

3. A method as recited in claim 2, wherein the missed event is selected from the group comprising a missed call and a missed calendar event.

4. A method as recited in claim 2, wherein the missed event is a missed call and further wherein the event source is selected from a group comprising a caller of the missed call, a source identification of the missed call, a telephone number of the missed call, a category of the missed call, and a category of a call source.

5. A method as recited in claim 2, wherein the missed event is a missed calendar event, and further wherein the event source is selected from a group comprising a calendar event organizer, a calendar event name, a calendar event category, and a calendar event attendee.

6. A method as recited in claim 2, wherein the missed event is a missed call, the method further comprising the steps of:

storing a caller MP3/MP4 reminder alert with a caller identification in memory;

associating the missed call with the caller identification; and

setting the reminder alert to the caller MP3/MP4 reminder alert.

7. A method as recited in claim 2, wherein the missed event is a missed calendar event, the method further comprising the steps of:

storing an event MP3/MP4 reminder alert with the calendar event; and

setting the reminder alert to the event MP3/MP4 reminder alert.

8. A method as recited in claim 1 further comprising providing the reminder for a predetermined period of time.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising continually providing the reminder at a predetermined time interval.

10. The method of claim 8 further comprising continually providing the reminder for a predetermined quantity of repetitions.

11. An electronic device comprising:

a memory for storing one or more MP3/MP4 files associated with one or more events;

a reminder module; and

a processing unit coupled with the memory and the reminder module, the processing unit adapted to;

identify a missed event;

retrieve a MP3/MP4 file associated with the missed event from the memory; and

activate a reminder alert comprising the retrieved MP3/MP4 file.

12. An electronic device as recited in claim 11, wherein the electronic device is selected from a group comprising a communication device, a mobile phone, a laptop computer, a personal computer and a personal digital assistant.

13. The device of claim 11, wherein the reminder module comprises a speaker interface, and a visual interface.