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Context sensitive pop-up window for portable phone

A portable, window technology, used in electrical switches, telephone communications, cordless telephones, etc., to achieve the effect of increasing the effective effect

Inactive Publication Date: 2004-04-21
NOKIA TECHNOLOGLES OY
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Another advantage is that several keys can be easily omitted

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[0026] FIG. 1 shows a preferred embodiment of a telephone according to the invention, and it can be seen that the telephone generally designated by 1 comprises a user interface with a keypad 2 , a display 3 , an on / off button 4 , a headset 5 and a microphone 6 . The telephone 1 according to the preferred embodiment is adapted to communicate through a cellular network, but can be designed to be used for example for a cordless network, the keypad 2 has a first set of keys 7 as alphanumeric keys with which the user can enter a telephone number, Write text messages (SMS), write names (associated with phone numbers), etc. Each of the 12 alphanumeric keys 7 is provided with numbers "0-9" or symbols "#" and "*". In alphabetic mode each key is associated with several letters and special symbols used in text editing.

[0027] The keyboard 2 additionally includes a navigation and selection key 10 and a clear key 12 . The clear key 12 can be pressed shortly to erase the last input numb...

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A portable phone has a display, input means for inputting information and instructions, and a control unit controlling the display in dependence on the operation of the input means. The input means includes navigation means for moving a marker in an active part of the display. The navigation means is provided with a roller body and includes means for detecting the rolling and depression of the roller body and for providing control signals in response thereto. In an information input mode, the control unit moves the marker in the display in dependence on the rolling control signal and generates a pop-up window upon reception of the depression control signal, said pop-up window covering a part of the active display and containing operations which are allowed in a position defined by said marker.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a new and improved user interface (UI) for telephone handsets. The UI of a cellular or cordless system handset does not only support call processing. In the new generation of mobile phones, more and more new applications have been integrated into the phone. Background technique [0002] Navigating through menu items, working with individual applications, and editing text as input to applications is very difficult to perform because the most common type of navigation is done with the up / down scroll keys. The number of operations that a hand-held phone can perform continues to grow. However, it is desirable to simplify the keypad in order to make the phone more user-friendly, since many non-technical users are intimidated by the keys if they do not know how to operate them. Often, customers are intimidated when they see a keyboard flooded with dedicated keys. [0003] In order to reduce the number of keys on a mobile ...

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IPC IPC(8): H04W88/02G06F3/0362H01H25/00H04M1/724H04M1/72469
CPCH01H25/008Y10S715/975H04M1/72519H04M1/72583H04M1/233G06F3/0362H01H2019/146H04M1/724H04M1/72469
Inventor S·L·弗雷德里克森
Owner NOKIA TECHNOLOGLES OY