Method for displaying time on a mobile telephone

• US 8,108,006 B2
• Filed: 08/18/2005
• Issued: 01/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Jianhua, Lin, Guanggang, Hou, Fangxi
• Primary Examiner(s): Pan, Yuwen
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, HAI V
• Application Number:
  US11/720,194
• Publication Number:
  US 20080268909A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,357 Days
• Field of Search: 455/566
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/21 Combinations with auxiliary equipment, e.g. with clocks or memoranda pads
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0254 detecting a user operation or a tactile contact or a motion of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0274 by switching on or off the equipment or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for time display on a mobile phone. The method includes the following steps: step 1, in a standby state, set a pseudo power off identifier for the mobile phone; step 2, when the mobile phone identifies that the pseudo power off identifier is active, the mobile phone comes into a pseudo power off state; step 3, the mobile phone continually obtains a new time value through a physical layer clock, and displays the new time value on a LCD; and step 4, the mobile phone quits the pseudo power off state, and restarts. The present invention enables the mobile phone to display time without radio frequency signal by setting a third state, i.e., the pseudo power off state.

Claims

1. A method for time display on a mobile phone, comprising the following steps:

step 1, in a standby state, setting a pseudo power off identifier for the mobile phone;

step 2, the mobile phone being shut down by long pressing a function key when the mobile phone identifies that the pseudo power off identifier is active, the mobile phone coming into the pseudo power off state, in which the mobile phone does not generate radio frequency signals;

step 3, the mobile phone continually obtaining a new time value from a physical layer clock, and displaying the new time value on a LCD; and

step 4, the mobile phone quitting the pseudo power off state, and restarting.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the step 2 further comprises when identifying that the pseudo power off identifier is active, the mobile phone store current time to a storage system of the mobile phone;

the step 3 further comprises;

the mobile phone obtains the current time stored in the storage system as a fiducial value for time display, and obtains the new time through continuous calculation by bottom physical layer clock; and

the step 4 further comprises;

the mobile phone clears the current the stored in the storage system when quitting the pseudo power off state.

3. The method according to claims 2, wherein in the step 2, the mobile phone judges whether the pseudo power off identifier is active by long pressing the function key.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the step 2 further comprises a step of shutting down and restarting the mobile phone;

wherein the mobile phone shuts down when the function key is long pressed, and the mobile phone identifies that the pseudo power off identifier is active, then stores the current time into the storage system of the mobile phone;

after the current time is stored, the mobile phone restarts with tasks only relevant to the storage system, and the mobile phone comes into the pseudo power off state.

5. The method according to claims 4, wherein in the step 4, the mobile phone quits the pseudo power off state by responding to an advanced interruption, and clears the current time stored in the storage system by calling an interruption function, then calls an endless loop function and restarts.

6. The method according to claims 4, wherein the method further comprises a step of judging whether the fiducial value obtained from the storage system is zero, if it is zero, the mobile phone will directly come into a normal starting process instead of the pseudo power off state, and if it is not zero, the mobile phone will come into the pseudo power off state.

7. The method according to claim 2, wherein in the step 2, after identifying the pseudo power off identifier, the mobile phone shuts down tasks except tasks relevant to the physical layer clock of the mobile phone, then the mobile phone comes into the pseudo power off state, wherein the tasks which are shut down at least include a radio frequency task.

8. The method according to claims 7, wherein in the step 4, the mobile phone quits the pseudo power off state by responding to an advanced interruption, and clears the current time stored in the storage system by calling an interruption function, then calls an endless loop function and restarts.

9. The method according to claims 7, wherein the method further comprises a step of judging whether the fiducial value obtained from the storage system is zero, if it is zero, the mobile phone will directly come into a normal starting process instead of the pseudo power off state, and if it is not zero, the mobile phone will come into the pseudo power off state.

10. The method according to claim 2, wherein the storage system is an embedded file system (EFS) of a CDMA mobile phone.

11. The method according to claims 10, wherein the method further comprises a step of judging whether the fiducial value obtained from the storage system is zero, if it is zero, the mobile phone will directly come into a normal starting process instead of the pseudo power off state, and if it is not zero, the mobile phone will come into the pseudo power off state.

12. The method according to claim 2, characterized in that it further comprises a step of judging whether the time reference value obtained from the storage system is zero, if it is zero, the mobile phone will directly come into a normal starting process, but not into a pseudo power off state, and if it is not zero, the mobile phone will come into the pseudo power off state.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the method further comprises a step of compensating the current time stored in the storage system.

14. The method according to claim 2, wherein in the step 4, the mobile phone quits the pseudo power off state by responding to an advanced interruption, and clears the current time stored in the storage system by calling an interrupt function, then calls an endless loop function and restarts.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the advanced interruption is an event of long pressing the function key.

16. The method according to claims 15, wherein the method further comprises a step of judging whether the fiducial value obtained from the storage system is zero, if it is zero, the mobile phone will directly come into a normal starting process instead of the pseudo power off state, and if it is not zero, the mobile phone will come into the pseudo power off state.

17. The method according to claim 2, wherein the step 3 further comprises:

step 3.1, setting a physical layer timer, and the physical layer timer being able to generate interruption when the mobile phone is in a dormant state;

step 3.2, starting the physical layer timer;

step 3.3, turning off a fast clock temperature compensated crystal oscillator, switching to a slow clock and entering a chip into a dormant mode;

step 3.4, when the physical layer timer expires, an interruption function being generated, then calling the interruption function, and in the interruption function, switching the slow clock to the fast clock temperature compensated crystal oscillator, calculating the newest time data and refreshing the LCD to display the new time value; and

step 3.5, re-setting the physical layer timer, turning off the fast clock temperature compensated crystal oscillator and entering into the dormant mode.

18. The method according to claim 1, wherein in the step 2, the mobile phone judges whether the pseudo power off identifier is active by pressing the function key for the extended period of time.

19. The method according to claim 1, wherein in the step 4, the mobile phone quits the pseudo power off state by responding to an advanced interruption, and clears the current time stored in the storage system by calling an interruption function, then calls an endless loop function and restarts.

20. The method according to claim 1, wherein the

step 3.1, setting a physical layer timer, and the physical layer timer being able to generate interruption when the mobile phone is in a dormant state;

step 3.2, starting the physical layer timer;

step 3.3, turning off a fast clock temperature compensated crystal oscillator, switching to a slow clock and entering a chip into a dormant mode;

step 3.4, when the physical layer timer expires, an interruption function being generated, then calling the interruption function, and in the interruption function, switching the slow clock to the fast clock temperature compensated crystal oscillator, calculating the newest time data and refreshing the LCD to display the new time value; and

step 3.5, re-setting the physical layer timer, turning off the fast clock temperature compensated crystal oscillator and entering into the dormant mode.