Electronic device, incoming call answering and rejection method and digital data storage media

• US 8,964,959 B2
• Filed: 01/10/2013
• Issued: 02/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Original Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Inventors: Tsui, Yuan-Mao
• Primary Examiner(s): Gauthier, Gerald
• Application Number:
  US13/737,988
• Publication Number:
  US 20130122965A1
• Time in Patent Office: 775 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173, 370/352, 379/242, 455/73, 455/566, 701/533, 701/3, 713/324, 715/765, 715/863, 715/772, 353/122
• US Class Current: 379/242
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0202 Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. of speakers or microphones H04M1/03
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

An incoming call answering and rejecting method, an electronic device, and a digital data storage media are provided. The method is applied to an electronic device having a touch screen and has the following steps. A request of an incoming call is received. A dragging signal is generated on the touch screen. When the dragging signal is an answering signal, the incoming call is answered. When the dragging signal is a rejecting signal, the incoming call is rejected.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a call module for receiving an incoming call; and

a touch screen for detecting a movement of an object on the touch screen,

wherein the incoming call is answered in response to the electronic device receives a first signal indicative of the movement of the object from a first initial area to or towards a first area of the touch screen, and the incoming call is rejected in response to the device receives a second signal indicative of the movement of the object from a second initial area to or towards a second area of the touch screen.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first initial area at least partially overlaps the second initial area.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first initial area and the second initial area are the same.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first area at least partially overlaps the second area.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first area and the second area are the same.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the object is a pointing device.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the object is a finger or stylus.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the touch screen shows a first indicator indicating the incoming call can be answered by movement of the object from the first initial area to or towards the first area;

and a second indicator indicating the incoming call can be rejected by movement of the object from the second initial area to or towards the second area.

9. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the first indicator comprises call answer message, and the second indicator comprises a call reject message.

10. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first initial area and the second initial area comprises a button movable to the first area or the second area.

11. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first area and the second area are located opposite each other.

12. An incoming call answering and rejecting method for an electronic device, comprising:

receiving an incoming call; and

detecting a movement of an object on a touch screen;

wherein the incoming call is answered in response to the movement of the object from a first initial area to or towards a first area of the touch screen is detected; and

wherein the incoming call is rejected in response to the movement of the object from a second initial area to a second area of the touch screen is detected.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

displaying a first indicator in the first area indicating the incoming call can be answered by movement of the object from the first initial area to or towards the first area of the touch screen; and

displaying a second indicator in the second area indicating the incoming call can be rejected by movement of the object from the second initial area to or towards the second area of the touch screen.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein at least one of the first initial area and the second initial area comprises a button movable to the first area or the second area.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the first initial area at least partially overlaps the second initial area.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the first initial area and the second initial area are the same.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein the first area at least partially overlaps the second area.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein the first area and the second area are the same.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the object is a finger or stylus.

20. A digital data storage media having a plurality of commands executable on an electronic device to execute an incoming call answering and rejecting method, the method comprising:

receiving an incoming call; and

detecting a movement of an object on a touch screen,

wherein the incoming call is answered in response to the movement of the object from the first initial area to or towards the first area of the touch screen is detected; and

wherein the incoming call is rejected in response to the movement of the object from the second initial area to or towards the second area of the touch screen is detected.