"I am Driving/busy" automatic response system for mobile phones
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Abstract
A cell phone which has been modified by the addition of software which responds to the press of one or more Busy keys by automatically sending a pre-typed text message to the sender of the latest text message just received or automatically answering an incoming call immediately upon pressing the Busy key and playing a pre-recorded audio message. The outgoing text or audio message can inform the sender of the incoming text or the caller that the user is driving or otherwise engaged and cannot respond immediately. In some embodiments, one or more Busy keys can be added keys or one or more existing keys on the cell phone or on the keypad of the cell phone or on a touchscreen or a visual depiction of a keypad on a touchscreen of the cell phone.
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24 Claims
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1-21. -21. (canceled)
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22. A process carried out on a cell phone comprising the steps:
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A) receiving a text message on said cell phone or receiving an incoming cellular phone call on said cell phone; B) receiving a command the user of said cell phone makes by making one or more pushes of a Busy key somewhere on said phone, said one or more pushes of said Busy key causing a function call to be made to an application programmatic interface of an operating system requesting that a Busy application program be launched and that the Busy application be informed whether an incoming text message was just received or an incoming cell call is occurring; C) making a function call to an application programmatic interface of said Busy application requesting that said Busy application launch and passing context information to said Busy application regarding whether a text message has just been received or whether a cell phone call is currently occurring; D) if a text message has just been received, doing whatever steps are necessary on the host cell phone upon which said Busy application program is running to automatically select the latest text message received and automatically send a pre-typed text message to the sender of said latest text message without any further interaction with said user of said cell phone; and E) if a cell phone call is being received, doing whatever steps are necessary on the host cell phone upon which said automated response application program is running to automatically answer an incoming cell phone call and play a pre-recorded audio message to said caller. - View Dependent Claims (23)
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24-26. -26. (canceled)
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