Device-directed default list naming for mobile electronic device

• US 7,735,014 B2
• Filed: 01/05/2007
• Issued: 06/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Park, Kenneth J., Bergstrom, Dean W.
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, CAO H
• Application Number:
  US11/650,208
• Publication Number:
  US 20080168348A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,250 Days
• Field of Search: 715763-765, 715853-855, 715758-780, 455/410, 455/418
• US Class Current: 715/758
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/58 including a multilanguage function

Abstract

Methods and systems for ensuring that a default contact list display name presented on a mobile electronic device is meaningful to a user of the mobile electronic device. Such a mobile electronic device in some embodiments comprises a user interface, a wireless interface and a processor wherein in response to a login to a server having a contact list a device-selected default contact list display name is presented on the user interface and wherein prior to presenting the device-selected default contact list display name the device causes a previous default contact list display name associated with the contact list to be replaced with the device-selected default contact list display name.

Claims

1. A mobile electronic device, comprising:

a user interface;

a wireless interface; and

a processor communicatively coupled with the user interface and the wireless interface, wherein in response to a login to a server having a contact list conducted via the user interface and the wireless interface and under control of the processor a default contact list display name identifying the contact list and selected by the device is presented on the user interface, wherein prior to presenting on the user interface the default contact list display name selected by the device and under control of the processor the device causes a previous default contact list display name identifying the contact list to be replaced with the default contact list display name selected by the device, wherein the device determines whether to replace the previous default contact list display name with the default contact list display name selected by the device based on a comparison of the previous default contact list display name with one or more default contact list display names previously selected by one or more users, and wherein the default contact list display name selected by the device is a language translated version of the previous default contact list display name.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein under control of the processor the device causes the default contact list display name selected by the device to be stored on the server in place of the previous default contact list display name.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein in response to a name change request received via the user interface and under control of the processor the device causes a default contact list name identifying the contact list and selected by a user to be stored on the server in place of the default contact list display name selected by the device.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the device determines whether to replace the previous default contact list display name with the default contact list display name selected by the device based on whether the login is a first successful login.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the device determines whether to replace the previous default contact list display name with the default contact list display name selected by the device based on one or more patterns in the previous default contact list display name.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the default contact list display name selected by the device is non-derivative of the previous default contact list display name.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the default contact list display name selected by the device is selected based on a language preference.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor runs instant messaging client software and the server is an instant messaging server.

9. A default contact list naming method for a mobile electronic device, comprising the steps of:

logging-in by the device to a server having a contact list;

determining by the device whether to replace a first default contact list display name identifying the contact list with a second default contact list display name identifying the contact list and selected by the device based on a comparison of the first default contact list display name with one or more default contact list display names previously selected by one or more users, wherein the second default contact list display name is a language translated version of the first default contact list display name; and

presenting on a user interface of the device one of the first or second default contact list display names.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising the step of storing on the server the second default contact list display name in place of the first default contact list display name.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising the step of, in response to a name change request received on the user interface, storing on the server a third default contact list display name identifying the contact list and selected by the user in place of the second default contact list display name.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the device determines whether to replace the first default contact list display name with the second default contact list display name based on whether the login is a first successful login.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the device determines whether to replace the first default contact list display name with the second default contact list display name based on one or more patterns in the first default contact list display name.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the second default contact list display name is non-derivative of the first default contact list display name.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the second default contact list display name is selected based on a language preference.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the device runs instant messaging client software and the server is an instant messaging server.