Keyboard arrangement
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1. A physical keyboard comprising:
- a plurality of keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A–
Z and an overlaid numeric phone key arrangement, said plurality of keys associated with alphabetic characters numbering fewer than 26, wherein the plurality of keys comprise four rows and five columns of keys, with the four rows comprising in order a first, second, third and fourth row, and the five columns comprising in order a first, second, third, fourth, and fifth column, wherein the numeric phone key arrangement is associated with the second, third and fourth columns.
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Abstract
A physical keyboard includes a plurality of multi-functional keys with a reduced column QWERTY key arrangement overlaid with a numeric phone key arrangement for use in both text entry and telephony. Another physical keyboard includes a plurality of multi-functional keys having an array of alphabetic characters and an overlaid numeric array of numbers. A handheld mobile station has a first user interface having a standard alphabetic key arrangement and a second user interface having a numeric phone key arrangement.
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106 Claims
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1. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A–
Z and an overlaid numeric phone key arrangement, said plurality of keys associated with alphabetic characters numbering fewer than 26, wherein the plurality of keys comprise four rows and five columns of keys, with the four rows comprising in order a first, second, third and fourth row, and the five columns comprising in order a first, second, third, fourth, and fifth column, wherein the numeric phone key arrangement is associated with the second, third and fourth columns.- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A handheld mobile station comprising a housing, a display, and a physical keyboard comprising a first user interface having a set of keys associated therewith, and a second user interface having a set of keys associated therewith, wherein a subset of the set of keys for the second user interface is a subset of the set of keys for the first user interface, the handheld mobile station is characterized by:
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the first user interface being selected from a key arrangement group consisting of;
QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY, or DVORAK;the second user interface being a numeric phone key arrangement; and the set of keys for the first user interface comprising less than 26 keys, wherein the set of keys associated with the first user interface comprises four rows and five columns of keys, with the four rows comprising in order a first, second, third and fourth row, and the five columns comprising in order a first, second, third, fourth, and fifth column, further characterized by a “
0”
indicia for the second user interface presented on a key representing a space bar associated with the first user interface. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59)
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60. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A–
Z and an overlaid numeric phone key arrangement, said plurality of keys associated with alphabetic characters numbering fewer than 26, wherein the plurality of keys comprise four rows and five columns of keys, with the four rows comprising in order a first, second, third and fourth row, and the five columns comprising in order a first, second, third, fourth, and fifth column, wherein the QWERTY array of letters is associated with three of the four rows and the numeric phone key arrangement is associated with each of the four rows.- View Dependent Claims (61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67)
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68. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A–
Z and an overlaid numeric phone key arrangement, said plurality of keys associated with alphabetic characters numbering fewer than 26, wherein the plurality of keys comprise four rows and five columns of keys, with the four rows comprising in order a first, second, third and fourth row, and the five columns comprising in order a first, second, third, fourth, and fifth column, wherein the first row of keys includes a first number of keys, the second row of keys includes the first number minus one number of keys, the third row of keys includes the first number minus two number of keys, and the fourth row of keys includes the first number minus three number of keys.
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69. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A–
Z and an overlaid numeric phone key arrangement, said plurality of keys associated with alphabetic characters numbering fewer than 26, wherein the plurality of keys comprise four rows and five columns of keys, with the four rows comprising in order a first, second, third and fourth row, and the five columns comprising in order a first, second, third, fourth, and fifth column, wherein the first row of keys includes a first number of keys, the second row of keys includes fewer keys than the first row, the third row of keys includes fewer keys than the second row, and the fourth row of keys includes fewer keys than the third row.- View Dependent Claims (70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76)
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77. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of multi-functional keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A–
Z, said plurality of keys overlaid with a numeric phone key arrangement, with the numeric phone key arrangement being associated with a subset of the plurality of keys, and the subset of keys is arranged symmetrically about a center line, wherein the plurality of multi-functional keys comprise four rows and five columns of keys, with the four rows comprising in order a first, second, third and fourth row, and the five columns comprising in order a first, second, third, fourth, and fifth column, wherein the “
1”
, “
2”
, and “
3”
of the numeric phone key arrangement are associated with keys in the first row, the “
4”
, “
5”
, and “
6”
of the numeric phone key arrangement are associated with keys in the second row, the “
7”
, “
8”
, and “
9”
of the numeric phone key arrangement are associated with keys in the third row, and the “
0”
of the numeric phone key arrangement is associated with a key in the fourth row, said “
0”
key being centered beneath the remainder of the numeric phone key arrangement.
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78. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of multi-functional keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A–
Z, an overlaid numeric key array of numbers 0–
9, and a “
space”
function, with the number “
0” and
the “
space”
function being associated with the same key, wherein the plurality of multi-functional keys comprise four rows and five columns of keys, with the four rows comprising in order a first, second, third and fourth row, and the five columns comprising in order a first, second, third, fourth, and fifth column.- View Dependent Claims (79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85)
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86. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of multi-functional keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A–
Z and a subset of the plurality of multi-functional keys corresponding to a numeric array of numbers 0–
9, “
*”
, and “
#”
, with a key associated with “
0”
being positioned between a key associated with “
*” and
a key associated with “
#”
, wherein the plurality of multi-functional keys comprise four rows and five columns of keys, with the four rows comprising in order a first, second, third and fourth row, and the five columns comprising in order a first, second, third, fourth, and fifth column, wherein the keys associated with “
*”
, “
0”
, and “
#”
are all positioned in the same row and a space key is centered at a bottom of the plurality of keys.- View Dependent Claims (87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105)
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106. A physical keyboard comprising:
a plurality of multi-functional keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a reduced QWERTY array of letters A–
Z and a subset of the plurality of keys corresponding to a numeric phone key arrangement, the plurality of multi-functional keys comprising four rows and five columns of keys, with the four rows comprising in order a first, second, third and fourth row, wherein the subset of keys comprises a “
1”
, “
2”
, “
3”
associated with keys in the first row, a “
4”
, “
5”
, and “
6”
associated with keys in the second row, a “
7”
, “
8”
, and “
9”
associated with keys in the third row, and a “
0”
associated with a key in the fourth row, wherein the “
1”
, “
4”
, and “
7”
are aligned in a first column, the “
2”
, “
5”
, “
8”
, and “
0”
are aligned in a second column, and the “
3”
, “
6”
, and “
9”
are aligned in a third column, and the key associated with “
0”
is centered beneath the 1–
9 keys of the numeric phone key arrangement.
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Current AssigneeMalikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
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Original AssigneeBlackberry Limited
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InventorsGriffin, Jason T.
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Primary Examiner(s)Hirshfeld, Andrew H.
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Assistant Examiner(s)Ghatt, Dave A.
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Application NumberUS10/785,790Publication NumberTime in Patent Office889 DaysField of Search400/486, 400/489, 400/472, 400/485, 341/22US Class Current400/485CPC Class CodesG06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosur...G06F 1/1664 Arrangements for ergonomica...G06F 3/0213 Arrangements providing an i...G06F 3/0219 Special purpose keyboardsG06F 3/0237 using prediction or retriev...H04M 1/23 Construction or mounting of...H04M 1/27463 Predictive input, predictiv...H04M 2250/70 methods for entering alphab...
