Management of files in a personal communication device

• US 20070038941A1
• Filed: 12/05/2005
• Published: 02/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Computer Incorporated (Apple Inc.)
• Inventors: Chaudhri, Imran, Christie, Greg, Wasko, Timothy, Jobs, Steve, Robbin, Jeffrey, Wysocki, Christopher
• Granted Patent: US 7,956,272 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/748
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons

Abstract

Improved approaches for assisting a user interacting with a portable wireless communication device are disclosed. The improved approaches can provide a user interface for the portable wireless communication device that includes including a plurality of linked display screens and a plurality of physical keys.

Claims

1. A method of assisting user interaction with a personal portable wireless device by way of a hierarchically ordered user interface, comprising:

displaying a first order user interface having a first list of user selectable items each of which points to at least one of a second list of user selectable items displayed on a corresponding second order user interface;

receiving a user selection of one of the user selectable items from the first list; and

automatically transitioning to and displaying the second order user interface based upon the selected one of the user selectable items from the first list, wherein each of the user selectable items in the second list points back to the corresponding one of the user selectable items in the first list and points forward to at least one of a user selectable items in a third list displayed on a corresponding third order user interface, and wherein each of the user selectable items in the second list are different from the first list of user selectable items.

2. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the personal portable wireless device is a mobile phone.

3. A mobile phone having a display screen arranged to display a plurality of selectable items and a plurality of physical keys, a method of assisting a user in interacting with the selectable items, comprising:

displaying the selectable items on the display screen;

receiving a key press corresponding to a selected physical key;

determining a duration of time of the pressing of the selected physical key;

displaying a resulting action on the display screen based upon the received key press; and

, if the duration of time is greater than a predetermined amount of time, then

applying an acceleration adjustment to the resulting action based on the duration of time.