Divided call history user interface

• US 9,031,209 B2
• Filed: 07/08/2013
• Issued: 05/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Lerda, Flavio, Hudson, Hugo, Chatterjee, Debashish, Tickner, Simon, Foster, Marcus Alexander
• Primary Examiner(s): Gauthier, Gerald
• Application Number:
  US13/937,123
• Publication Number:
  US 20130295887A1
• Time in Patent Office: 673 Days
• Field of Search: 370/232, 370/352, 379/88.11, 379/93.01, 379/207.15, 379/142.11, 455/412.2, 455/414.1, 455/418, 455/411, 455/412.1, 455/415, 455/569.2, 703/22, 717/140, 717/158
• US Class Current: 379/88.11
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/56 Arrangements for indicating or recording the called number at the calling subscriber's set
• 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 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/551 Call history recording a computer conference H04L12/1831
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/60 logging of communication history, e.g. outgoing or incoming calls, missed calls, messages or URLs logging of telephone numbers H04M1/56, H04M1/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/533 Voice mail systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

A computing device displays a call history graphical user interface (GUI). The call history GUI includes a new list and an old list. The new list may include new missed call elements and missed call elements associated with new unopened voicemails. The old list may include other call history GUI elements, such as old missed call elements and missed call elements associated with opened voicemails.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining, by a computing device, that a plurality of missed calls have been received by the computing device, each missed call from the plurality of missed calls being an incoming call for which user input to accept the incoming call was not received;

determining, by the computing device, that a first subset of the plurality of missed calls is more likely to be of interest to a user of the computing device than a second subset of the plurality of missed calls, wherein a criterion other than a chronological order of the plurality of missed calls is used for determining that the first subset of the plurality of missed calls is more likely to be of interest to the user of the computing device than the second subset of the plurality of missed calls; and

outputting, by the computing device, a user interface for display at a display device, wherein the user interface concurrently includes a first region and a second region, the first region being separate and visually distinct from the second region, the first region comprising a first list of graphical user interface (GUI) elements, the second region comprising a second list of GUI elements, wherein the GUI elements of the first list correspond to missed calls in the first subset and the GUI elements of the second list correspond to missed calls in the second subset.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the first subset includes missed calls that occurred after a most recent previous time that the first and second lists were displayed, and

the second subset includes missed calls that occurred before the most recent previous time that the first and second lists were displayed.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein:

if a particular missed call occurred after the most recent previous time that the first and second lists were displayed and if the computing device has not been used in any call with an initiator of the particular missed call after the particular missed call occurred, the first subset includes the particular missed call, and

if the particular missed call occurred before the most recent previous time that the first and second lists were displayed or if the computing device has been used in any call with the initiator of the particular missed call after the particular missed call occurred, the second subset includes the particular missed call.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising determining, by the computing device, that the computing device has been used in any call with the initiator of the particular missed call if the computing device was used to initiate the call to the initiator of the particular missed call after the particular missed call occurred.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising determining, by the computing device, that the computing device has been used in any call with the initiator of the particular missed call if the computing device has received user input to accept the call from the initiator of the particular missed call after the particular missed call occurred.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein if a particular missed call occurred before the most recent previous time that the first and second lists were displayed and the particular missed call corresponds to an unopened voicemail, the first subset includes the particular missed call.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein if a particular missed call occurred after the most recent previous time that the first and second lists were displayed and the particular missed call corresponds to an unopened voicemail, the first subset includes the particular missed call.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein if a particular missed call occurred before the most recent previous time that the first and second lists were displayed, the particular missed call corresponds to an unopened voicemail, and a difference between a current time and a time at which the unopened voicemail was sent is less than a given duration, the first subset includes the particular missed call.

9. The method of claim 2, wherein GUI elements in the first list that correspond to the missed calls that occurred after the most recent previous time that the first and second lists were displayed and that correspond to unopened voicemails have a different appearance than GUI elements in the first list that correspond to the missed calls that occurred before the most recent previous time that the first and second lists were displayed and that correspond to unopened voicemails.

10. The method of claim 2, wherein if a particular missed call occurred before the most recent previous time that the first and second lists were displayed, the particular missed call corresponds to an unopened voicemail, and a difference between a current time and a time at which the unopened voicemail was sent is greater than a given duration, the second subset includes the particular missed call.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the computing device, user input to open a voicemail that corresponds to a particular missed call from the plurality of missed calls;

opening, by the computing device, the voicemail responsive to receiving the user input; and

moving, by the computing device, a GUI element that corresponds to the particular missed call from the first list to a chronologically-appropriate place in the second list responsive to receiving the user input.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein outputting the user interface for display comprises:

outputting, by the computing device for display at the display device, the user interface such that the second list includes incoming call elements and outgoing call elements, each of the incoming call elements corresponding to a call for which user input to accept the call was received, each of the outgoing call elements corresponding to a call for which user input to initiate the call was received.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising, responsive to receiving user input, updating the user interface such that the first list and the second list only include GUI elements that have corresponding voicemails.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the first list or the second list includes a GUI element that corresponds to more than one missed call.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the GUI elements in the first list are chronologically ordered and the GUI elements in the second list are chronologically ordered.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the first list and the second list are independently collapsible within the user interface.

17. A computing device comprising one or more processors configured to:

determine that a plurality of missed calls have been received by the computing device, each missed call from the plurality of missed calls being an incoming call for which user input to accept the incoming call was not received;

determine that a first subset of the plurality of missed calls is more likely to be of interest to a user of the computing device than a second subset of the plurality of missed calls, wherein a criterion other than a chronological order of the plurality of missed calls is used for determining that the first subset of the plurality of missed calls is more likely to be of interest to the user of the computing device than the second subset of the plurality of missed calls; and

output a user interface for display at a display device, wherein the user interface concurrently includes a first region and a second region, the first region being separate and visually-distinct from the second region, the first region comprising a first list of graphical user interface (GUI) elements, the second region comprising a second list of GUI elements, wherein the GUI elements of the first list correspond to missed calls in the first subset and the GUI elements of the second list correspond to missed calls in the second subset.

18. The computing device of claim 17, wherein:

the first subset includes missed calls that occurred after a most recent previous time that the first and second lists were displayed, and

the second subset includes missed calls that occurred before the most recent previous time that the first and second lists were displayed.

19. The computing device of claim 18, wherein if a particular missed call occurred after the most recent previous time that the first and second lists were displayed and the particular missed call corresponds to an unopened voicemail, the first subset includes the particular missed call.

20. A computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing device, cause the computing device to:

determine that a plurality of missed calls have been received by the computing device, each missed call from the plurality of missed calls being an incoming call for which user input to accept the incoming call was not received;

determine that a first subset of the plurality of missed calls is more likely to be of interest to a user of the computing device than a second subset of the plurality of missed calls, wherein a criterion other than a chronological order of the plurality of missed calls is used for determining that the first subset of the plurality of missed calls is more likely to be of interest to the user of the computing device than the second subset of the plurality of missed calls; and

output a user interface for display at a display device, wherein the user interface concurrently includes a first region and a second region, the first region being separate and visually-distinct from the second region, the first region comprising a first list of graphical user interface (GUI) elements, the second region comprising a second list of GUI elements, wherein the GUI elements of the first list correspond to missed calls in the first subset and the GUI elements of the second list correspond to missed calls in the second subset.