METHOD FOR DIRECTLY ACCESSING MENU ITEM OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL

• US 20120094724A1
• Filed: 11/11/2010
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huizhou TCL Mobile Communication Company Limited (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Huizhou TCL Mobile Communication Company Limited (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Wu, Qing-guo
• Application Number:
  US13/379,659
• Publication Number:
  US 20120094724A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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

The present invention is applicable for a mobile communication terminal and provides a method for directly accessing a menu item of the mobile communication terminal. The method comprises: a. the mobile communication terminal receiving a menu command inputted by a user via an IDLE interface, and seeking a menu item corresponding to the menu command; and b. the mobile communication terminal activating the menu item. The present invention provides a technical scheme which can make the user directly accessing the menu item at any position of the mobile communication terminal. There is no need to access menu items level by level; thereby simplifying an operation by the user, as well as increasing the humanizing degree of the mobile communication terminal.

Claims

1. A method for directly accessing a menu item of a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising:

a. the mobile communication terminal receiving a menu command inputted by a user via an IDLE interface, and seeking a menu item corresponding to the menu command;

b. the mobile communication terminal activating the menu item.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises following steps before the step a:

a01. the mobile communication terminal receiving a user command and launching a customizable menu command interface to be displayed;

a02. the mobile communication terminal storing the menu command defined by the user via the customizable menu command interface and a correspondence between the menu command and the menu item.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the menu command is a character string which comprises start character(s), middle character(s), and end character(s).

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the start characters are **#, and the end character is #.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the middle characters are set by the user.

6. The method according to claim 3, wherein the step a comprises:

a1. the mobile communication terminal receiving the character string inputted by the user via the IDLE interface, and seeking the menu item corresponding to the character string.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step b comprises:

b1. the mobile communication terminal directly launching an operation interface corresponding to the menu item or directly performs a function corresponding to the menu item.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the mobile communication terminal is a cell phone.

9. A method for directly accessing a menu item of a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising:

the mobile communication terminal receiving a user command and launching a customizable menu command interface to be displayed;

the mobile communication terminal storing a menu command defined by a user via the customizable menu command interface and a correspondence between the menu command and the menu item;

the mobile communication terminal receiving the menu command inputted by the user via an IDLE interface, and seeking the menu item corresponding to the menu command; and

the mobile communication terminal directly launching an operation interface corresponding to the menu item or directly performs a function corresponding to the menu item.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the menu command is a character string which comprises start character(s), middle character(s), and end character(s).

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the start characters are **#, and the end character is #.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the middle characters are set by the user.

13. The method according to claim 10, wherein the mobile communication terminal receives the character string inputted by the user via the IDLE interface, and seeks the menu item corresponding to the character string.

14. The method according to claim 9, wherein the mobile communication terminal is a cell phone.