A Keyboard for Quickly Activating Instant Messaging on the Internet

• US 20070112917A1
• Filed: 11/11/2005
• Published: 05/17/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: H.L.L. Investment, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: H.L.L. Investment, Ltd.
• Inventors: Tang, Harrison
• Application Number:
  US11/164,157
• Publication Number:
  US 20070112917A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0219 Special purpose keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]

Abstract

A keyboard for quickly activating instant messaging (IM) on the Internet, the keyboard having a hot key installed thereon or any one of existing keys on said keyboard acting as a preset key, said hot key or said preset key working with an instant messenger executed on a computer and coupling with a speech I/O device to quickly activate transmission or reception of instant messages on the Internet with one single key, thereby implementing IM capabilities of the present invention.

Claims

1. A keyboard for quickly activating instant messaging on the Internet, comprises a keyboard having a hot key or a preset key installed thereon to quickly activate transmission or reception of an instant message on the Internet with one single key.

2. The keyboard of claim 1, wherein said hot key or preset key works with an instant messaging software.

3. The keyboard of claim 2, wherein said instant messaging software is selected from the group consisting of Skype, MSN, ICQ, QQ, Yahoo, and Net2phone.

4. The keyboard of claim 1, wherein said hot key or preset key couples with a speech I/O device.

5. The keyboard of claim 4, wherein said speech I/O device is a speaker, a microphone, or a telephone handset.

6. The keyboard of claim 1, wherein said hot key or preset key is configurable by software at any time.

7. The keyboard of claim 1, wherein said keyboard comprises one or more hot keys or preset keys for configuring different control functions.