Method for simlutaneous communications management

• US 8,219,073 B2
• Filed: 04/12/2005
• Issued: 07/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.), Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola Mobility, Inc. (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Hill, Thomas C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Batista, Marcos
• Application Number:
  US11/104,080
• Publication Number:
  US 20060140138A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,646 Days
• Field of Search: 348 1401- 1403, 348 1407- 141, 455/566
• US Class Current: 455/416
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/236 including keys on side or rear faces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/576 associated with a pictorial or graphical representation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• 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: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/62 user interface aspects of conference calls

Abstract

A method for presenting multiple communications in a wireless communication device (100) comprising presenting (308) a plurality of communications concurrently with at least one output device of a wireless communication device. The method further comprises formatting the plurality of communications on the at least one output device as a function of the number of communications of the plurality of communications and of at least one condition and a function of a communication characteristic.

Claims

1. A method for presenting multiple communications in a wireless communication device comprising:

receiving a plurality of communications in the wireless communication device;

presenting the plurality of communications concurrently with at least one output device of the wireless communication device, wherein each of the plurality of communications has a common communication type;

formatting said plurality of communications on said at least one output device as a function of the number of communications of said plurality of communications and a function of a communication characteristic;

wherein the step of formatting comprises formatting a first video communication of said plurality of communications such that said first video communication has a different format characteristic than a remainder of said plurality of communications based upon the communication characteristic, wherein said different format characteristic is a change in video resolution; and

reducing, in the wireless communication device receiving the plurality of communications, the video resolution of at least a second video communication of said plurality of communications based upon the communication characteristic.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising changing a format of presentation in response to a change in the communication characteristic.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising changing format when audio of a first communication stream is greater than a predetermined threshold.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising changing a format of a first communication stream based on a status criteria.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting at least one video communication on a display of said wireless communication device simultaneously with a remainder of said plurality of said communications.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

presenting at least one audio only communications with a speaker of said wireless communication device concurrently with said video communications, wherein said audio only communication is not associated with said video communication.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

formatting said plurality of communications depending on the type of communication.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

formatting said plurality of video communications such that all video communications of said plurality of video communications are displayed concurrently on said display.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

formatting said plurality of video communications such that said plurality of video communications are arranged in a tiled configuration.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the step of formatting occurs in response to the presence of audio associated with said first video communication.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said different format characteristic further comprises one of a larger display area or a different color border.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the common communication type comprises a conference call stream.

13. A method in a communication device comprising:

receiving a plurality of communications at the device, wherein each communication comprises a conference a video conference call;

configuring each communication of the plurality of communications to be presented by at least one user interface of the device; and

reconfiguring the presentation of at least one communication of the plurality of communications in response to a change in a characteristic of at least one communication of the plurality of communications, wherein the step of reconfiguring comprises reducing a video resolution of the at least one communication in the device receiving the plurality of communications.

14. A method of altering the presentation of a plurality of conference call communications in a portable communication device comprising:

presenting said plurality of conference call communications on at least one output device of said portable communication device, wherein said plurality of conference call communications comprises at least two video communications and at least one audio communication not associated with said at least one video communication;

formatting a first video communication of said at least two video communications such that said first video communication has a differentiating characteristic from a remainder of said plurality of communications when at least a first condition has been met, and reducing a video resolution of at least a second video communication in response to a communication characteristic in the portable communication device.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein said first condition is audio is received with the first video communication.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein said differentiating characteristic is a colored border presentation different than other video communications presented by a display of the device.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein said differentiating characteristic is removing said first video communication from the display.