Method and apparatus for accessing a contacts database and telephone services
First Claim
1. A method for selecting a desired subset from a list of names in a computer system, each of said names comprising a first name and a last name, said method comprising:
- accepting a first desired letter input;
selecting a first subset from said list of names comprising names having a first name beginning with said first desired letter;
accepting a second desired letter input; and
selecting a second subset from said first subset that have a first name beginning with said first desired letter and a last name beginning with said second desired letter.
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Abstract
Sophisticated computer-enhanced mobile telephones require intuitive user interfaces in order to allow a user to take advantage of all the available features. The present invention discloses an intuitive telephone system user interface that provides both simple familiar and new powerful user interfaces to the user. In one embodiment, the user is presented with four permanently available user interface views and a fifth user interface view that is available when there is an active telephone call. The first permanently available view is a dial pad view that is similar to a common touch tone dial pad. A second permanently available view is a speed dial view that allows users to easily create their own customized speed dial buttons that are easy to navigate between and can be edited at any time. The third view is the call history view that displays a list of previous incoming, outgoing, or missed calls and may be filtered as desired by the user. The final permanently available view is a contacts view that provides a filtering mechanism that allows the user to quickly search through a large personal contacts database. The fifth user interface view is the active call view that displays a set of command buttons for accessing advanced telephone features during a telephone call such as hold, three way calling, DTMF touch tones, hang-up, speakerphone, etc.
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37 Claims
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1. A method for selecting a desired subset from a list of names in a computer system, each of said names comprising a first name and a last name, said method comprising:
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accepting a first desired letter input;
selecting a first subset from said list of names comprising names having a first name beginning with said first desired letter;
accepting a second desired letter input; and
selecting a second subset from said first subset that have a first name beginning with said first desired letter and a last name beginning with said second desired letter. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for providing an intuitive interface to a wireless telecommunication system, said method comprising:
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displaying a first button for selecting a telephone dial pad interface for dialing a telephone number;
displaying a second button for selecting a speed dial interface for dialing a telephone number from a list of speed dial numbers;
displaying a third button for selecting call history interface for dialing a telephone number from a call history list;
displaying a fourth button for selecting a contact list interface for dialing a telephone number from a contact list;
receiving a first input selection of a first particular button from a user;
displaying a first particular interface corresponding to said first particular button; and
continuing to display said first, second, third, and fourth buttons while said first particular interface is displayed. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A computer system comprising:
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one or more memory devices that store a set of instructions and a collection of records, wherein each record has associated with it at least one of a first name and a last name; and
one or more processors that are configured to retrieve instructions in the set of instructions from the one or more memory devices in order to;
accept a first desired letter as a first input;
select a first subset of records from the collection of records, each record in the first subset having at least one of the first name or the last name beginning with said first desired letter;
accept a second desired letter as a second input; and
select a second subset of records from either the collection of records or from the first subset of records;
wherein the instructions stored in the one or more memory devices enable the one or more processors to select each record in the second subset based on any one or more of (i) the first name beginning with said first desired letter and the last name beginning with said second desired letter;
(ii) the first name beginning with said first desired letter followed by the second desired letter; and
(iii) the last name beginning with said first desired letter followed by the second desired letter. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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