Mobile telecommunications device

• US 20020077158A1
• Filed: 12/20/2001
• Published: 06/20/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Scott, Suzanne
• Granted Patent: US 7,245,941 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/567
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/663 Preventing unauthorised calls to a telephone set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72513 On hold, intercom or transfer communication modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/83 Notification aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/0168 On line or real-time flexible customization or negotiation according to wishes of subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/018 On-line real-time billing, able to see billing information while in communication, e.g. via the internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/32 Involving wireless systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/82 Advice-of-Charge [AOC], i.e. notify subscriber of charges/cumulative charge; meter at the substation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/62 user interface aspects of conference calls

Abstract

The present invention relates to a mobile telecommunications device such as a mobile telephone 1. The device includes a display (5) and a control unit (4, 10, 11, 12) configured to display a menu of pending calls, one call being selectable from the menu by a user to display a sub-menu listing call handling options associated with the selected call.

Claims

1. A mobile telecommunications device including a display and a control unit configured to display a menu of pending calls, one call being selectable from the menu by a user to display a sub-menu listing call handling options associated with the selected call.

2. A mobile telecommunications device according to claim 1, wherein the list of options in a sub menu changes depending on the status of the selected call.

3. A mobile telecommunications device according to claim 1 wherein the list of options in a sub-menu changes depending on the status of the unselected pending calls.

4. A mobile telecommunications device according to claim 1, wherein the call selected from the menu is identified on the sub-menu adjacent the list of options associated with the selected call.

5. A mobile telecommunications device according to claim 4, wherein the control unit is configured to display the status of the selected call in the sub-menu.

6. A mobile telecommunications device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to display the status of each pending call in the menu.

7. A mobile telecommunications device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit includes a scroll key and an option key configured such that the user can highlight a pending call in the menu using the scroll key and select said highlighted call by pressing the option key.

8. A mobile telecommunications device according to claim 7, wherein the control unit includes a selection key having a function dependent on the status of the highlighted call when the menu of pending calls is displayed.

9. A mobile telecommunications device according to claim 7, wherein the control unit includes a selection key having a function dependent on the status of other pending calls when the menu of pending calls is displayed.

10. A mobile telecommunications device according to claim 8, wherein the function associated with the selection key may be performed by actuating the selection key after highlighting a call in the menu and before selecting that call to display a sub-menu listing call handling options associated with the selected call.

11. A mobile telecommunications device according to claim 1, comprising a mobile telephone.

13. A method according to claim 12, wherein the control unit includes a scroll key and the step of selecting a pending call from the menu includes operating the scroll key to highlight a call in the menu.

14. A method according to claim 13, wherein the control unit includes an option key and the step of selecting a call from the menu includes operating the option key to display the sub-menu listing call handling options associated with the highlighted call.

15. A method according to claim 14, wherein the control unit includes a selection key having a function dependent on the status of the highlighted call when the menu of pending calls is displayed, the method including the step of actuating the selection key after highlighting a call in the menu to perform said function and before selecting that call to display a sub-menu listing call handling options associated with the selected call.

12. A method of handling multiple calls in a mobile telecommunications device including a display and a control unit configured to display a menu of pending calls, the method including the step of selecting a pending call from the menu to display a sub-menu listing call handling options associated with the selected call.

16. A computer including a memory and a microcontroller, the memory storing a program executable by the microcontroller to carry out the method of call handling according to claim 12.