MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE CAPABLE OF PROVIDING CANDIDATE PHONE NUMBER LIST AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF THE MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE

• US 20090109189A1
• Filed: 12/02/2008
• Published: 04/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Park, Jin Sang, Kim, Tae Hun
• Granted Patent: US 8,159,456 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2746 Sorting, e.g. according to history or frequency of use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2748 by matching character strings
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

A mobile communication device capable of providing a candidate phone number list and a method of controlling an operation of the mobile communication device is provided. The method includes displaying a phone number input window and a display window on the touch screen, displaying a string of numbers input to the phone number input window in the display window and displaying a candidate phone number list on the touch screen if a touch input to the display window is detected when the input number string is displayed in the display window, the candidate phone number list including a plurality of phone numbers that contain the input number string.

Claims

1-40. -40. (canceled)

41. A method of controlling an operation of a mobile communication device equipped with a touch screen, the method comprising:

displaying a first area and a second area on the touch screen, the first area comprising an input window for entering information related to at least one phone number and the second area comprising a display window for displaying the entered information; and

displaying a list on the touch screen in response to a touch input applied to the second area, the list comprising candidate information stored in a memory,

wherein the entered information comprises at least one number or one character and the candidate information is related to the information entered on the input window.