Multi-service mobile station

• US 6,611,693 B2
• Filed: 08/01/2002
• Issued: 08/26/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/1996
• Status: Expired

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones UK Limited (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Sormunen, Toni, Soini, Veli-Matti, Halminen, Harri, Mäkelä, Jarmo J, Rautiola, Markku, Toivanen, Jari
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Lee
• Application Number:
  US10/211,116
• Publication Number:
  US 20020193152A1
• Time in Patent Office: 390 Days
• Field of Search: 455/556, 455/557, 455/66, 455/74, 455/90, 455/418, 455/566, 455/567, 455/575
• US Class Current: 455/556.1
• 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 1/0245 using open/close detection
• 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 2250/16 including more than one display unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/18 including more than one keyboard 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: H04W 52/0251 using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0261 managing power supply demand, e.g. depending on battery level
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0277 according to available power supply, e.g. switching off when a low battery condition is detected
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A multi-service mobile station according to the invention comprises means (42) for connecting the device by radio to telecommunication network in order to utilize typical mobile station services, such as speech and data services. Additionally, the multi-service mobile station provides means (41, 40, 47) for using various information processing services (P1, P2), such as telefax service and electronic mail service. When using information processing services, the information processed by the user is automatically saved in the memory means (40, 47) of the multi-service mobile station when a certain criterium is met. The criteria are e.g. shifting from one service to another, going over to current saving mode, or, in a two-section multi-service terminal device, folding the device together. It is also characteristic of the multi-service mobile station according to the invention, that the automatic data storing and current saving methods operate in a close-knit cooperation with operating system, resulting in the longest possible battery operating time for the multi-service mobile station.

Claims

1. A multi-service mobile station comprising:

a housing having at least first and second sections, said sections being connected by means which allow said sections to be moved in relation to each other between a first position and a second position;

a processor for processing information in an information processing service;

a radio receiver for receiving information for use of the information processing service;

a volatile memory for receiving the information from the radio receiver;

a user interface for receiving user input;

wherein the processor is configured to process the information in the information processing service according to the user input; and

a non-volatile memory;

wherein the processor has been configured to automatically store the information processed by the processor from the volatile memory into the non-volatile memory, in response to movement of said sections to and from said first and second positions.

2. A multi-service mobile station, according to claim 1, wherein in said first position said first section is moved over said second section, and wherein in said second position said sections extend away from each other and, said mobile station further comprises:

a user interface for a mobile telephone mounted in said first section, said mobile telephone user interface being accessible to the user when said sections are in said first position;

a multi-service user interface mounted in said second section, said multi-service interface being covered by said first section in said first position and being accessible to said user when said sections are in the second position.

3. A multi-service mobile station, according to claim 2, wherein said mobile phone user interface is activated and said multi-user interface is turned off in said first position and wherein said mobile phone user interface is turned off and said multi-user interface is activated in said second position.

4. A multi-service mobile station, according to claim 2, wherein said multi-service user interface provides means to select a service from at least a first service and a second service and said processor is programmed to start the last active service and to restore status information related to said last active and the latest information from said non-volatile memory to a display of said multi-service user interface, when said first section and said second section are in said second position.

5. A multi-service mobile station according to claim 2, wherein said mobile phone interface comprises a microphone and a loudspeaker for using the multi-service mobile station like a mobile station, and said multi-service user interface comprises a microphone and a loudspeaker for using the multi-service mobile station like a hands-free telephone.

6. A multi-service mobile station, according to claim 2, wherein said processor is programmed to start the last active service and to restore status information related to said last active service and the latest information from said non-volatile memory to a display of said second user interface, when said first section and said second section are in said second position.

7. A multi-service mobile station, according to claim 1, wherein said first section has a first user interface and second section has a second user interface, and said mobile station is constructed to turn off one user interface and activate the other user interface and visa-versa, when said sections are moved to and from said first and second positions.

8. A multi-service mobile communication station comprising:

a housing having at least first and second sections, said sections being connected by means which allow said sections to be moved in relation to each other between a first position and a second position;

means for connecting said mobile station by radio to a telecommunication network for using information processing services, which include at least a first information processing service and a second information processing service; and

a volatile memory for holding information;

a first user interface contained in said first section for allowing a user to operate said mobile communication station as a mobile telephone wherein said first user interface is accessible to the user in said first position;

a second user interface for selecting an information processing service from at least said first service and said second service, for generating at least one command, and for allowing the user to edit information held in the volatile memory in the information processing service selected, said second user interface being accessible to the user in the second position;

processing means for processing information related to the service selected, in accordance with the information processing service selected, and for processing information according to said at least one command and the user'"'"'s editing,

automatic storing means comprising a non-volatile memory for automatically storing in the non-volatile memory both information related to the service selected and the information edited by the user in response to meeting a predetermined criterion.

9. A multi-service mobile communication station, according to claim 8, wherein said predetermined criterion comprises changing between said first and second services.

10. A multi-service mobile communication station, according to claim 8, wherein said predetermined criterion comprises moving said sections from said first position to said second position.