Hand-Held Device

• US 20080117174A1
• Filed: 01/30/2008
• Published: 05/22/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Palm, Inc. (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yurochko, Michael, Rees, William, Colligan, Edward, Skillman, Peter, Hawkins, Jeffrey, Haitani, Robert
• Granted Patent: US 8,254,565 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/169
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1656 Details related to functional adaptations of the enclosure, e.g. to provide protection against EMI, shock, water, or to host detachable peripherals like a mouse or removable expansions units like PCMCIA cards, or to provide access to internal components for maintenance or to removable storage supports like CDs or DVDs, or to mechanically mount accessories mounting of accessories to a computer display G06F1/1607; display hoods G06F1/1603; cooling arrangements for portable computers G06F1/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1662 Details related to the integrated keyboard
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1671 Special purpose buttons or auxiliary keyboards, e.g. retractable mini keypads, keypads or buttons that remain accessible at closed laptop G06F1/1666 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1677 for detecting open or closed state or particular intermediate positions assumed by movable parts of the enclosure, e.g. detection of display lid position with respect to main body in a laptop, detection of opening of the cover of battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/32 Means for saving power
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1632 Pen holder integrated in the computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1634 Integrated protective display lid, e.g. for touch-sensitive display in handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0241 using relative motion of the body parts to change the operational status of the telephone set, e.g. switching on/off, answering incoming call
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/233 including a pointing device, e.g. roller key, track ball, rocker switch or joystick constructional details of pointing devices per se G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/236 including keys on side or rear faces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6058 involving the use of a headset accessory device connected to the portable telephone
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72466 with selection means, e.g. keys, having functions defined by the mode or the status of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/14 including a card reading device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 : including more than one display unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 : including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/70 : methods for entering alphabetical characters, e.g. multi-tap or dictionary disambiguation methods for entering alphabetical characters per se G06F3/0237

Abstract

A hand-held device that provides communication services and symbol processing is described. The device includes a case having a front side comprising a display and a lid having a transparent portion through which the display can be seen in a lid-closed state. In one version, the hand-held device comprises a QWERTY keyboard including an arrangement of digits as in a touch-tone area telephone keypad arrangement. In another version, the display includes a handwriting area for data entry using a stylus or other screen data entry device. In a closed position, the lid extends over the display and the keyboard, leaving another user input device physically accessible to touch for receiving input wherein the device performs processing responsive to receiving input from the physically accessible user input device in the lid closed state.

Claims

1. A hand-held computing device structured to include a telephone component, comprising:

a display screen;

a speaker located above the display screen;

a microphone below the display screen; and

a keyboard below the display screen, the keyboard comprising three rows of keys,

a subset of the keys comprising a primary symbol and a secondary symbol, the first of the three rows of keys comprising successive primary symbols “

Q”

, “

W”

, “

E”

, “

R”

, “

T”

, and “

Y”

, the subset of the keys comprising secondary symbols “

1”

through “

9”

, the subset of keys comprising a touch-tone telephone keypad arrangement, the keys in the telephone keypad arrangement having a common visual characteristic distinct from the keys not in the telephone keypad arrangement, the secondary symbols “

1”

, “

2”

, and “

3”

in the first of the three rows of keys, the secondary symbols “

4”

, “

5”

, and “

6”

in a second of the three rows of keys, and the secondary symbols “

7”

, “

8”

, and “

9”

in a third of the three rows of keys, each secondary symbol associated with a key including a primary symbol, and

an option key configured to set the keyboard in one of a plurality of states, a first state corresponding to a single use of a secondary symbol in the touch-tone telephone keypad arrangement, a second state corresponding to consecutive use of any secondary symbols in the touch-tone telephone keypad arrangement, and a third state corresponding to use of only primary symbols in the touch-tone telephone keypad arrangement, in response to execution of the telephone component the keyboard being set to the second state for use of the secondary symbols of the keys in the telephone keypad arrangement.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein a key having a secondary symbol of “

0”

is in a fourth row of keys.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein a row of the keyboard includes a key representing at least one of the “

*”

symbol and the “

#”

next to a key of the telephone keypad arrangement.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the option key is in one of the three rows of keys.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein each primary symbol is a separate key.