Communication terminal

• US 7,439,992 B2
• Filed: 10/06/2006
• Issued: 10/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hera Wireless S.A. (Fineur International S.A.)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation), Tottori Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Okagaki, Mitsunori
• Primary Examiner(s): Yang, Ryan R
• Application Number:
  US11/539,348
• Publication Number:
  US 20070082709A1
• Time in Patent Office: 746 Days
• Field of Search: 715/831, 715/518, 715/244, 345/685
• US Class Current: 345/685
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/145 related to small screens
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/04 Supports for telephone transmitters or receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6041 Portable telephones adapted for handsfree use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6505 storing speech in digital form
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72433 for voice messaging, e.g. dictaphones for answering incoming calls H04M1/64
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• 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 control circuit 11 causes display of messages received through the communication unit 1 in the display unit 14 in list form. A cursor for making selections from the messages displayed in list form has different patterns. The control circuit 11 associates the cursor patterns with message types. In another embodiment, the control circuit 11 groups received messages into new messages not yet reproduced by a user and old messages already reproduced, causes display of the number of the new messages in a predetermined area of the display unit when the new messages are stored in RAM 13, and display of the number of the old messages in said predetermined area when the new messages are not stored in RAM 13.

Claims

1. A communication terminal comprising:

a reception circuit for receiving text information, including line feeds;

a display unit;

a memory unit; and

a control means which stores received text information in the memory unit and causes the stored text information to be displayed in the display unit,

wherein when the received text information has successive line feeds, the control means is configured to combine the successive line feeds into one line feed, the one line feed causing the display unit to display the received text information on a next line.

2. A communication terminal comprising:

a reception circuit for receiving text information, including spaces and line feeds;

a display unit;

a memory unit; and

a control means which stores received text information in the memory unit and causes the stored text information to be displayed in the display unit,

wherein when the received text information has a series of a space and a line feed, the control means is configured to combine the series into a single line feed, the single line feed causing the display unit to display the received text information on a next line.