Divided call history user interface

• US 8,300,777 B1
• Filed: 01/17/2012
• Issued: 10/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Tickner, Simon, Foster, Marcus Alexander, Lerda, Flavio, Hudson, Hugo, Chatterjee, Debashish
• Primary Examiner(s): Gauthier, Gerald
• Application Number:
  US13/352,128
• Time in Patent Office: 287 Days
• Field of Search: 345/1.2, 345/173, 348/563, 379/88.11, 379/88.13, 379/93.23, 379/126, 379/201.04, 379/207.15, 455/405, 455/408, 455/414.1, 455/416, 455/418, 455/557, 455/563, 455/566, 715/229, 715/753, 715/765, 715/780, 715/838, 715/841
• US Class Current: 379/88.11
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/56 Arrangements for indicating or recording the called number at the calling subscriber's set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/551 Call history recording a computer conference H04L12/1831
• 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: H04M 3/533 Voice mail systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

A computing device displays a call history graphical user interface (GUI). The call history GUI includes a new list and an old list. The new list may include new missed call elements and missed call elements associated with new unopened voicemails. The old list may include other call history GUI elements, such as old missed call elements and missed call elements associated with opened voicemails.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining, by a computing device, that a voicemail account has received a voicemail, the voicemail account being associated with a user;

determining, by the computing device, whether the voicemail corresponds to a given missed call in a plurality of missed calls to the user; and

displaying a user interface on a display device,

the user interface comprising a plurality of GUI elements, the GUI elements including a plurality of missed call elements that correspond to the missed calls, the missed call elements including a given missed call element that corresponds to the given missed call,

the GUI elements divided among a new list and an old list, the new list including ones of the GUI elements that correspond to new missed calls and missed calls associated with unopened voicemails, the new missed calls being ones of the missed calls occurring after a most recent previous time that the computing device displayed the user interface, the old list including ones of the GUI elements that correspond to old missed calls, the old missed calls being ones of the missed calls occurring before the most recent previous time that the computing device displayed the user interface on the display device,

wherein after determining that the voicemail corresponds to the given missed call, the given missed call element indicates existence of the voicemail.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the user interface comprises:

after determining that the voicemail does not correspond to any of the missed calls, displaying the user interface such that the plurality of GUI elements include the missed call elements and a voicemail element that corresponds to the voicemail, the voicemail element being in addition to and separate from the missed call elements.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the GUI elements in the new list are chronologically ordered and the GUI elements in the old list are chronologically ordered.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving input data, the input data indicating an input on the GUI to open the voicemail;

opening the voicemail in response to receiving the input data; and

moving the given missed call element from the new list to the old list after receiving the input data.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein opening the voicemail comprises:

playing back the voicemail in response to receiving the input data.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein opening the voicemail comprises:

displaying summary information in response to receiving the input data, the summary information describing the voicemail.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

after displaying the user interface for a first time, displaying the user interface for a second time,

wherein when the computing device displays the user interface for the second time, the old list includes ones of the missed call elements that were in the new list when the display device displayed the user interface the first time.

8. The method of claim 1,

wherein the method further comprises determining whether the user has spoken with an initiator of the given missed call after the given missed call occurred;

and

wherein displaying the user interface comprises;

displaying the given missed call element in the old list after determining that the user has spoken with the initiator of the given missed call after receiving the given missed call, regardless of whether the user has opened the voicemail.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein determining whether the user has spoken with the initiator of the given missed call comprises:

determining whether the user has initiated a call to the initiator of the given missed call after the given missed call occurred.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein determining whether the user has spoken with the initiator of the given missed call comprises:

determining whether the user has accepted a call from the initiator of the missed call after the given missed call occurred.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving input data, the input data indicating an input on the user interface; and

in response to receiving the input data, moving all of the GUI elements in the new list to the old list.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the user interface comprises:

determining whether the difference between a current time and a time of the voicemail is greater than a given threshold; and

after determining that the voicemail corresponds to the given missed call element and that the difference between the current time and the time of the voicemail is greater than the given threshold, displaying the given missed call element in the old list.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the voicemail corresponds to the given missed call comprises:

determining whether a difference between a time at which the voicemail was sent and a time of the given missed call is less than a given duration.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the user interface comprises:

displaying the user interface such that the GUI elements include incoming call elements and outgoing call elements, each of the incoming call elements corresponding to a call accepted by the user, each of the outgoing call elements corresponding to a call initiated by the user.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

receiving input data, the input data indicating a filter input on the user interface; and

in response to receiving the input data, updating the user input such that the user interface only displays ones of the GUI elements that correspond to voicemails.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the user interface comprises:

displaying a status indicator in the user interface, the status indicator indicating whether the computing device is able to access the voicemail account.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the voicemail account has received the voicemail comprises:

sending radio or electronic signals to a voicemail system via a network, the voicemail system hosting the voicemail account.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the display device is physically coupled to the computing device.

19. A computing device comprising:

a storage system that stores instructions; and

a processing system coupled to the storage system, the processing system configured to read the instructions from the storage system and execute the instructions, execution of the instructions causing the computing device to;

determine that a voicemail account has received a voicemail, the voicemail account being associated with a user;

determine whether the voicemail corresponds to a given missed call in a plurality of missed calls to the user; and

display a user interface on a display device,

the user interface comprising a plurality of GUI elements, the GUI elements including a plurality of missed call elements that correspond to the missed calls, the missed call elements including a given missed call element that corresponds to the given missed call,

the GUI elements divided among a new list and an old list, the new list including ones of the GUI elements that correspond to new missed calls and missed calls associated with unopened voicemails, the new missed calls being ones of the missed calls occurring after a most recent previous time that the computing device displayed the user interface, the old list including ones of the GUI elements that correspond to old missed calls, the old missed calls being ones of the missed calls occurring before the most recent previous time that the computing device displayed the user interface on the display device,

wherein after determining that the voicemail corresponds to the given missed call, the given missed call element indicates existence of the voicemail.

20. A computer storage medium that stores instructions for causing a processing system of a computing device to perform operations comprising:

determining that a voicemail account has received a voicemail, the voicemail account being associated with a user;

determining whether the voicemail corresponds to a given missed call in a plurality of missed calls to the user; and

displaying a user interface on a display device,

the user interface comprising a plurality of GUI elements, the GUI elements including a plurality of missed call elements that correspond to the missed calls, the missed call elements including a given missed call element that corresponds to the given missed call,

the GUI elements divided among a new list and an old list, the new list including ones of the GUI elements that correspond to new missed calls and missed calls associated with unopened voicemails, the new missed calls being ones of the missed calls occurring after a most recent previous time that the computing device displayed the user interface, the old list including ones of the GUI elements that correspond to old missed calls, the old missed calls being ones of the missed calls occurring before the most recent previous time that the computing device displayed the user interface on the display device,

wherein after determining that the voicemail corresponds to the given missed call, the given missed call element indicates existence of the voicemail.