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Communication terminal

A communication terminal and terminal technology, which is applied in the direction of telephone communication, wireless communication, telephone structure, etc., can solve the problems of insufficient control of the device, the failure of the key to become an effective key, and the failure of the scroll button to display the user, so as to improve the user experience. Effect of controlling and expanding degrees of freedom

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-01-13
NOKIA TECH OY
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[0003] In eg Nokia 6210 TM The dual-softkey user interface style used in , suffers from similar disadvantages created by the limitations of the key set and display when navigating effectively
On the Nokia 7110 for example TM In the usability testing of the dual softkeys used in , with a combined scroll and select key UI style, a key finding was that there was no clear functional division between the scroll button and the left softkey
Also, the scroll button functionality is not presented to the user at all, which makes the key not a valid key
As a result, users feel that they do not have sufficient control over the device

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[0028] figure 1 A preferred embodiment of a terminal according to the invention is shown, such as a cellular phone 1 comprising a keypad 2, a display 3, an on / off button 4, a speaker 5 (only the small hole is shown), and a microphone 6 (only the small hole is shown). shows the user interface of the small hole), the microphone 6 is mounted on the slide 15 which partially covers the keypad 2 when closed.

[0029] According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the keypad 2 has a first key group 7 comprising alphanumeric and symbol keys, two soft keys 8, and a five-way navigation scroll key 10 (up / down, Left / Right and Select). Furthermore, the keypad includes two call handling keys 9 for starting and ending a call. At the bottom of the display 3 , in a separate area just above the softkey 8 , the current function of the softkey 8 and the selected function of the five-way navigation scroll key 10 are displayed.

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A communication terminal having a user interface, and comprising a controller unit controlling said user interface, a first and a second operation key whose operation is controlled by the controller unit, and a display. The communication terminal being capable of assuming a plurality of states in which the groups of predetermined operations that may be performed by pressing said operation key are defined by the controller unit in said plurality of states. The first operation key is dedicated by the controller unit to perform one operation from said group of operations as a default function in dependence of the state assumed by the communication terminal, and the display has a first area solely dedicated for displaying the present operation performed when pressing said first operation key. The second operation key being dedicated by the controller unit to give access to said group of operations being available in the state assumed by the communication terminal. A scroll key allowing the user to scroll between operations included in said group of operations available for said second operation key. The user selects a highlighted operation by pressing a selection key.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a communication terminal having a user interface, a user interface for such a terminal and a method of operating the user interface. Communication terminals such as mobile phones are becoming more and more advanced and thus include more and more applications, features and operations that can be performed under different conditions. Background technique [0002] For example Nokia 3310 TM An oft-mentioned problem with the single-softkey user interface style used in EP844.777 and EP844.778 is the fact that, for example, allowing inappropriate implementation of Keysets are not always optimal for conference calling and call waiting. Furthermore, the inventors have realized that a single softkey should ideally always display the most frequently used operations for phone-related states. As the functionality of the phone has increased, this has proven difficult to achieve, and the tendency is for individual softkeys to function as "...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): H04M1/247H04M1/725H04M1/72469G06F3/048G06F3/0482G06F3/0484G06F3/0485H04M1/02H04M1/72466H04W88/02
CPCH04M1/7258H04M1/72583H04M1/233H04M1/72466H04M1/72469H04B1/40H04M1/23H04M1/247
Inventor 克利斯丁·克拉夫特伊瓦·傅斯哥约罕纳·詹斯汤姆哈利·奇兰达哈利·维克巴M·P·汤纳
Owner NOKIA TECH OY