Method for editing a received phone number prior to placing a call to the received phone number

• US 5,963,876 A
• Filed: 11/22/1996
• Issued: 10/05/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Manssen, Keith Ronald, Kaschke, Kevin D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dolinar, Andrew M.
• Application Number:
  US08/753,231
• Time in Patent Office: 1,047 Days
• Field of Search: 455/460, 455/564, 455/566, 379/354, 379/355
• US Class Current: 455/564
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27485 Appending a prefix to or inserting a pause into a dialling sequence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones

Abstract

Prior to placing a call, a receiver (24) in a radio (10) receives a phone number transmitted by a calling party to produce a received phone number (38). The received phone number (38) is stored in a memory unit (16) of the radio (10). Numeric digits forming a prefix number (40) are inserted before the received phone number (38) in the memory unit (16) responsive to a number of digits in the received phone number (38) to produce an edited phone number (39). A transmitter (20) in the radio (10) transmits the edited phone number (39) to place the call to the received phone number (38). This method for editing a received phone number (38) prior to placing a call to the received phone number (38) advantageously simplifies the dialing process when placing the call to the received phone number (38).

Claims

1. A method for editing a received phone number within a communication device prior to placing a call to the received phone number, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a phone number transmitted to the communication device to produce the received phone number having a plurality of numeric digits;

storing the received phone number in a memory unit;

recalling from the memory unit a predetermined number of numeric digits to be inserted at the position preceding the plurality of numeric digits in the received phone number stored in the memory unit to produce an edited phone number;

determining that at least one of the predetermined number of numeric digits recalled from the memory unit has the same value and has the same position in the edited phone number as at least one of the plurality of numeric digits in the received phone number resulting in an overlap of numeric digits; and

deleting the overlap of numeric digits in one of the at least one of the predetermined number of numeric digits and the at least one of the plurality of numeric digits in the received phone number to produce the edited phone number having a desirable number of numeric digits to place the call in the communication system to the received phone number.

2. A method according to claim 1 further comprising the step of:

placing the communication device in an edit mode to permit the at least one numeric digit to be inserted at the position preceding the plurality of numeric digits in the received phone number stored in the memory unit to produce the edited phone number.

3. A method according to claim 1 further comprising the step of:

transmitting the edited phone number to place the call to the received phone number.

4. A method according to claim 1 further comprising the step of:

displaying the received phone number.

5. A method according to claim 1 further comprising the step of:

displaying the edited phone number.

6. A method for editing a received phone number within a communication device prior to placing a call to the received phone number, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a phone number transmitted to the communication device to produce the received phone number having a plurality of numeric digits;

storing the received phone number in a memory unit;

displaying the received phone number;

placing the communication device in an edit mode to permit at least one numeric digit to be inserted at a position preceding the plurality of numeric digits in the received phone number stored in the memory unit to produce an edited phone number;

recalling from the memory unit a predetermined number of numeric digits to be inserted at the position preceding the plurality of numeric digits in the received phone number stored in the memory unit to produce the edited phone number;

determining that at least one of the predetermined number of numeric digits recalled from the memory unit has the same value and has the same position in the edited phone number as at least one of the plurality of numeric digits in the received phone number resulting in an overlap of numeric digits;

deleting the overlap of numeric digits in one of the at least one of the predetermined number of numeric digits and the at least one of the plurality of numeric digits in the received phone number to produce the edited phone number having a desirable number of numeric digits to place the call in the communication system to the received phone number;

displaying the edited phone number; and

transmitting the edited phone number to place the call to the received phone number.

7. A method for editing a received phone number within a communication device prior to placing a call to the received phone number, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a phone number transmitted to the communication device to produce the received phone number having a plurality of numeric digits;

storing the received phone number in a memory unit;

recalling from the memory unit a predetermined number of numeric digits;

inserting the predetermined number of numeric digits at a position preceding the plurality of numeric digits in the received phone number stored in the memory unit to produce an edited phone number;

determining that at least one of the predetermined number of numeric digits recalled from the memory unit has the same value and has the same position in the edited phone number as at least one of the plurality of numeric digits in the received phone number resulting in an overlap of numeric digits; and

deleting the overlap of numeric digits in one of the at least one of the predetermined number of numeric digits and the at least one of the plurality of numeric digits in the received phone number to produce the edited phone number having a desirable number of numeric digits to place the call in the communication system to the received phone number.

8. A method according to claim 7 further comprising the step of:

placing the communication device in an edit mode to permit at least one numeric digit to be inserted at the position preceding the plurality of numeric digits in the received phone number stored in the memory unit to produce the edited phone number.

9. A method according to claim 7 further comprising the step of:

transmitting the edited phone number to place the call to the received phone number.

10. A method according to claim 7 further comprising the step of:

displaying the received phone number.

11. A method according to claim 7 further comprising the step of:

displaying the edited phone number.