User interface for configuring service account-specific user notifications for inbound electronic messages

• US 8,565,730 B2
• Filed: 06/19/2008
• Issued: 10/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Vanderveen, Raymond Paul, Klassen, Gerhard Dietrich
• Primary Examiner(s): PHUONG, DAI
• Application Number:
  US12/142,252
• Publication Number:
  US 20090318172A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,951 Days
• Field of Search: 4554121-415, 455/466, 455566-567, 340/384.1, 340/384.4
• US Class Current: 455/412.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions

Abstract

To facilitate configuration of a communication device capable of receiving electronic messages via a plurality of service accounts, a user interface element is displayed. The user interface element represents an electronic message received via a service account of the plurality of service accounts or a field of the electronic message, such as a field containing a service account identifier. Upon user selection of the user interface element and one of a plurality of user notifications, the electronic device is configured to provide the selected user notification upon receipt of an electronic message via that service account.

Claims

1. A method of configuring an electronic device capable of receiving electronic messages via a plurality of service accounts, comprising:

displaying a user interface element representing an electronic message received via a service account of said plurality of service accounts;

based at least in part upon user selection of the user interface element representing the received electronic message, displaying at least one user interface control for selecting from among a plurality of user notifications for the service account; and

upon user selection, via the at least one user interface control, of one of the plurality of user notifications, configuring said electronic device to provide the selected user notification as a service-account specific user notification upon receipt of any subsequent electronic message via said service account.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying, in addition to said at least one user interface control, at least one further user interface element indicative of a user notification to be provided upon receipt of a subsequent electronic message via another one of said plurality of service accounts.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein said at least one further user interface element comprises at least one further user interface control for facilitating user selection of the user notification to be provided upon receipt of said subsequent electronic message via said other one of said plurality of service accounts.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein said at least one user interface control and at least one further user interface control are simultaneously displayed and further comprising setting device focus upon or highlighting said user interface control but not said at least one said further user interface control based upon said user selection of the user interface element.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said plurality of service accounts is a plurality of electronic mail (email) message accounts, a plurality of instant message accounts, a plurality of telephony service accounts having Short Messaging Service (SMS) capability, or a plurality of telephony service accounts having Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) capability.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said user notification is one or more of a visual notification, an audible notification, and a vibration notification.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein said displaying of the user interface element comprises displaying a list containing said user interface element, the list also containing another displayed user interface element representing another electronic message received via a different service account of said plurality of service accounts, wherein the displayed list lacks any displayed indicators of the service accounts by which the electronic messages represented by the displayed user interface elements were received.

8. A machine-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processor of an electronic device capable of receiving electronic messages via a plurality of service accounts, cause said electronic device to:

display a user interface element representing an electronic message received via a service account of said plurality of service accounts; and

based at least in part upon user selection of the user interface element representing the received electronic message, displaying at least one user interface control for selecting from among a plurality of user notifications for the service account; and

upon user selection, via the at least one user interface control, of one of the plurality of user notifications, configure said electronic device to provide the selected user notification as a service-account specific user notification upon receipt of any subsequent electronic message via said service account.

9. The machine-readable medium of claim 8 wherein said instructions further cause said electronic device to display, in addition to said at least one user interface control, at least one further user interface element indicative of a user notification to be provided upon receipt of a subsequent electronic message via another one of said plurality of service accounts.

10. The machine-readable medium of claim 9 wherein said at least one further user interface element comprises at least one further user interface control for facilitating user selection of the user notification to be provided upon receipt of said subsequent electronic message via said other one of said plurality of service accounts.

11. The machine-readable medium of claim 10 wherein said at least one user interface control and at least one further user interface control are simultaneously displayed and wherein said instructions further cause a setting of device focus upon or highlighting of said user interface control but not said at least one said further user interface control based upon said user selection of the user interface element.

12. The machine-readable medium of claim 8 wherein said displaying of the user interface element comprises displaying a list containing said user interface element, the list also containing another displayed user interface element representing another electronic message received via a different service account of said plurality of service accounts, wherein the displayed list lacks any displayed indicators of the service accounts by which the electronic messages represented by the displayed user interface elements were received.

13. An electronic device capable of receiving electronic messages via a plurality of service accounts, said electronic device comprising a processor and memory in communication with said processor, said memory storing instructions which, when executed by said processor, cause said electronic device to:

display a user interface element representing an electronic message received via a service account of said plurality of service accounts; and

based at least in part upon user selection of the user interface element representing the received electronic message, displaying at least one user interface control for selecting from among a plurality of user notifications for the service account; and

upon user selection, via the at least one user interface control, of one of the plurality of user notifications, configure said electronic device to provide the selected user notification as a service-account specific user notification upon receipt of any subsequent electronic message via said service account.

14. The electronic device of claim 13 wherein said instructions further cause said electronic device to display, in addition to said at least one user interface control, at least one further user interface element indicative of a user notification to be provided upon receipt of a subsequent electronic message via another one of said plurality of service accounts.

15. The electronic device of claim 14 wherein said at least one further user interface element comprises at least one further user interface control for facilitating user selection of the user notification to be provided upon receipt of said subsequent electronic message via said other one of said plurality of service accounts.

16. The electronic device of claim 15 wherein said at least one user interface control and at least one further user interface control are simultaneously displayed and wherein said instructions further cause a setting of device focus upon or highlighting of said user interface control but not said at least one said further user interface control based upon said user selection of the user interface element.

17. The electronic device of claim 13 wherein said displaying of the user interface element comprises displaying a list containing said user interface element, the list also containing another displayed user interface element representing another electronic message received via a different service account of said plurality of service accounts, wherein the displayed list lacks any displayed indicators of the service accounts by which the electronic messages represented by the displayed user interface elements were received.