USER INTERFACE AND METHOD OF VIEWING UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS EVENTS ON A MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20090011741A1
• Filed: 09/16/2008
• Published: 01/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Michael Maguire, Ronald Scotte Zinn
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Zinn, Ronald Scotte, Maguire, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 8,620,273 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/412.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2746 Sorting, e.g. according to history or frequency of use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• 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: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

A user interface and method for viewing communications events on a mobile device includes a user interface, a communications event handler, and a communications event database is disclosed herein. The communications event handler interfaces with the database and the user interface to the provide a user of the mobile device with a communications event history associated with the correspondent of an incoming communications event. Additionally the communications event handler interfaces with the database and the user interface to the provide a user of the mobile device with a communications event history for a specified correspondent.

Claims

1. A communications event handler for integration in a communication device having a user interface, the communications event handler comprising:

a database interface for communicating with a communications event database to retrieve a communications event history of at least one communication type associated with a correspondent in response to a communications event; and

a user interface controller for receiving the retrieved communications event history from the database interface, and for controlling the user interface to provide the retrieved communication event history to a user.

2. A wireless device, comprising:

a viewing screen;

a processor;

a memory device that stores communication events of at least one communication type that have been transmitted or received by the wireless device; and

a communication event software interface module executed by the processor that (a) filters each of the communication events stored in the memory device to identify one or more select communication events meeting a pre-set criteria, and (b) displays the one or more select communication events on the viewing screen.

3. The wireless device of claim 2, wherein the at least one communication type is from the group comprising:

e-mail, SMS, WAP, voice call, instant messaging session, SIP, calendar events, game turns, notes, tasks, and address cards.

4. The wireless device of claim 2, wherein the communication events include at least one communication event identifier selected from the group comprising:

e-mail address, MSISDN, URI, IP address, PIN, and name.

5. The wireless device of claim 2, wherein the pre-set criteria for the one or more select communication events is configurable by a user of the wireless device.

6. The wireless device of claim 2, wherein the pre-set criteria for the one or more select communication events comprises a condition that the user has not attended to the communication events.

7. The wireless device of claim 2, wherein the communication event software interface module executed by the processor represents and displays the pre-set criteria.

8. The wireless device of claim 7, wherein the pre-set criteria representation comprises the number of unattended messages.

9. The wireless device of claim 7, wherein the pre-set criteria representation comprises the type of unattended messages.

10. The wireless device of claim 2, wherein the pre-set criteria is a contact matching condition between a contact in an address book and one or more select communication events.

11. A wireless device, comprising:

a viewing screen;

a processor;

a memory device that stores communication events of at least one communication type that have been transmitted or received by the wireless device; and

a communication event software interface module executed by the processor that (a) locates one or more select communication events by filtering each communication event stored in the memory device to identify stored communication events matching a pre-set criteria, and (b) displays the one or more select communication events on the viewing screen.

12. The wireless device of claim 11, wherein the at least one communication type is from the group comprising:

e-mail, SMS, WAP, voice call, instant messaging session, SIP, calendar events, game turns, notes, tasks, and address cards.

13. The wireless device of claim 11, wherein the communication events include at least one communication event identifier selected from the group comprising:

e-mail address, MSISDN, URI, IP address, PIN, and name.

14. The wireless device of claim 11, wherein the pre-set criteria is configurable by a user of the wireless device.

15. The wireless device of claim 11, wherein each stored communication event comprises ordinal values indicating the sequence in which the stored communication events were transmitted or received by the wireless device.

16. The wireless device of claim 11, wherein each stored communication event comprises a time-stamp indicating the date the stored communication events were transmitted or received by the wireless device.

17. The wireless device of claim 16, wherein the time-stamp further indicates the time the stored communication events were transmitted or received by the wireless device.

18. The wireless device of claim 11, wherein the communication event software interface module represents and displays the pre-set criteria on the viewing screen.

19. A method for displaying communication events on a wireless device unifying one or more of a plurality of stored communication events of at least one communication type, comprising the steps of:

filtering each stored communication event to identify one or more select communication events meeting a pre-set criteria; and

displaying the one or more select communication events meeting the pre-set criteria.

20. The wireless device of claim 19, wherein the at least one communication type is from the group comprising:

e-mail, SMS, WAP, voice call, instant messaging session, SIP, calendar events, game turns, notes, tasks, and address cards.

21. The wireless device of claim 19, wherein the communication events include at least one communication event identifier selected from the group comprising:

e-mail address, MSISDN, URI, IP address, PIN, and name.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the pre-set criteria for the one or more select communication events is configurable by a user of the wireless device.

23. The method of claim 19, wherein the pre-set criteria requires the one or more select communication events to each have been transmitted or received by a contact selected by a user of the wireless device.

24. The method of claim 19, wherein the pre-set criteria requires the one or more select communication events to each have been unattended by the user.

25. A method for displaying one or more communication events of at least one communication type on a wireless device, comprising the steps of:

identifying indexing data for each stored communication event;

identifying current indexing data for the pre-set criteria;

comparing the current indexing data with the indexing data for each stored communication event to identify select communication events having indexing data that falls within a pre-set storage proximity range from the current indexing data; and

displaying the select communication events identified as having indexing data falling within the pre-set storage proximity range.

26. The wireless device of claim 25, wherein the at least one communication type is from the group comprising:

e-mail, SMS, WAP, voice call, instant messaging session, SIP, calendar events, game turns, notes, tasks, and address cards.

27. The wireless device of claim 25, wherein the communication events include at least one communication event identifier selected from the group comprising:

e-mail address, MSISDN, URI, IP address, PIN, and name.

28. The method of claim 25, wherein the pre-set storage proximity range is configurable by a user of the wireless device.

29. The method of claim 25, wherein the current indexing data and the indexing data for each stored communication event are ordinal values.

30. The method of claim 25, wherein the current indexing data and the indexing data for each stored communication event are time-stamps.

31. A method for displaying a current communication event on a wireless device unified with one or more of a plurality of stored communication events of at least one communication type, comprising the steps of:

providing pre-set criteria;

comparing the each stored communication event with the pre-set criteria; and

displaying the current communication event on a viewing screen along with each of the stored communication events which match the pre-set criteria.

32. The wireless device of claim 31, wherein the at least one communication type is from the group comprising:

e-mail, SMS, WAP, voice call, instant messaging session, SIP, calendar events, game turns, notes, tasks, and address cards.

33. The wireless device of claim 31, wherein the communication events include at least one communication event identifier selected from the group comprising:

e-mail address, MSISDN, URI, IP address, PIN, and name.

34. The method of claim 31, comprising the further step of:

displaying a representation of the pre-set criteria on the viewing screen.