System and method for background sound as an element of a user interface

A sound and application technology, applied in the direction of telephone communication, electrical components, radio/inductive link selection arrangement, etc., can solve the problems of not being able to customize the sound, not being able to help users, etc.

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-04-16
NOKIA CORP
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However, none of these systems provide a thorough and complete system for adequately mapping UI sounds and sound files, especially on computers and mobile electronic devices such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants.
Also, these early systems did not assist users with "busy eyes" and did not provide users with the ability to effectively customize sounds across devices

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[0016] Figure 1 shows a system 10 in which the present invention can be utilized, comprising a plurality of communication devices that can communicate over a network. System 10 may include any combination of wired or wireless networks including, but not limited to, cellular telephone networks, wireless local area networks (LANs), Bluetooth personal area networks, Ethernet LANs, token ring LANs, wide area networks, the Internet, and the like. System 10 may include both wired and wireless communication devices.

[0017] For example, the system 10 shown in FIG. 1 includes a mobile telephone network 11 and the Internet 28 . Connections to the Internet 28 may include, but are not limited to, long-range wireless connections, short-range wireless connections, and various wired connections including, but not limited to, telephone lines, cables, power lines, and the like.

[0018] Exemplary communication devices of system 10 may include, but are not limited to: mobile phone 12 , combi...

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A method and system for playing a sound on an electronic device. An audio user interface control unit is used to manage various sounds that a user desires to be played upon the occurrence of a user interface-related action, as well as the rules regarding when and how such sounds are to be played. Virtually any sound can be played by the electronic device, and the sounds can be preinstalled on the device or downloaded from a remote location. Upon an occurrence of a designated user interface-related activity, the respective sounds are played according to the user-defined rules.

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technical field [0001] The present invention generally relates to the field of electronic devices, such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants and computers. More specifically, the present invention relates to personalization of user interfaces on electronic devices using various sounds. Background technique [0002] In recent years, electronic devices such as computers, cellular telephones, personal digital assistants, handheld computers, pointing devices, and other devices have become more common. As the capacity and performance of these devices increase, users are becoming increasingly able to customize settings on their own devices in various ways. For example, mobile phone users have been able to select their own ringtones for many years by selecting them from a list stored in the device's memory or by downloading them from the network. [0003] Traditionally, users download ringtones from the network by sending a Short Message Service (SMS) message to a server...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): H04Q7/32
CPCH04M19/04H04M1/72558H04M1/72563H04M1/72442H04M1/72448
Inventor K·阿维凯南
Owner NOKIA CORP
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