PORTABLE TELEPHONE

• US 20110312302A1
• Filed: 08/25/2011
• Published: 12/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DRNC Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: DRNC Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Inventors: TAKEUCHI, Ryosuke
• Granted Patent: US 9,075,504 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/233 including a pointing device, e.g. roller key, track ball, rocker switch or joystick constructional details of pointing devices per se G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6041 Portable telephones adapted for handsfree use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6058 involving the use of a headset accessory device connected to the portable telephone
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72418 for supporting emergency services
• 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 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/14 including a card reading device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit

Abstract

In a portable telephone according to the present invention, a display displays a block indicative of an operator, predetermined information and a pointer; the operator can be operated in directions opposite to each other; and the controller controls the display so as to shift the pointer to a desirable position within a predetermined information on a screen of the display in accordance with an operation of the operator and also display a mark indicative of a direction to which the pointer can be shifted and in which the predetermined information exists, adjacently to the block along a shift direction through the operator.

Claims

1-6. -6. (canceled)

7. A communication apparatus comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate data with at least another device;

a storage unit configured to store audio data or picture data or email data, or a combination thereof;

an output unit configured to output the audio data or the picture data or the email data or a combination thereof;

a controller unit configured to modify the operational status of the communication apparatus, such that the communication apparatus suspends wireless communication with another device and permits said output unit to output said stored audio data or said stored picture data, or said stored email data when said communication apparatus is in the modified state.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7 wherein the modified state permits stored audio data output and suspends wireless communication.

9. The apparatus according to claim 7 wherein the modified state permits displaying e-mail and suspends wireless communication.

10. The apparatus according to claim 7 wherein the modified state permits stored picture data output and suspends wireless communication.

11. The apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising an input unit for receiving a user command to activate the controller to modify the operational status of the communication apparatus.

12. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said wireless communication is wireless telephone communication.