WO2008141479A1 - Procédés et appareils de distribution d'informations d'historiques d'appels hiérarchiques dans des dispositifs portatifs - Google Patents

Procédés et appareils de distribution d'informations d'historiques d'appels hiérarchiques dans des dispositifs portatifs Download PDF

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WO2008141479A1
WO2008141479A1 PCT/CN2007/001668 CN2007001668W WO2008141479A1 WO 2008141479 A1 WO2008141479 A1 WO 2008141479A1 CN 2007001668 W CN2007001668 W CN 2007001668W WO 2008141479 A1 WO2008141479 A1 WO 2008141479A1
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call history
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handheld device
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Wei-Qiu Li
Yin-Hu Chen
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Motorola, Inc.
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/57—Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set
    • H04M1/575—Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/72—Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
    • H04M1/724—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M2250/00—Details of telephonic subscriber devices
    • H04M2250/60—Details of telephonic subscriber devices logging of communication history, e.g. outgoing or incoming calls, missed calls, messages or URLs

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  • the invention relates to handheld communications devices, and more particularly, to handheld communications devices that display call history information to the user.
  • Many mobile handheld communications devices include display devices that display a variety of different types of information to the user.
  • the information is typically displayed in alphanumeric and/or iconic form.
  • One useful type of information displayed to the user in many mobile telephones and personal data assistants (PDAs) is recent call history.
  • Recent call history information is intended to allow the user to view calls that were made by the user, calls that were made by others to the user that were missed by the user, and calls that were made by others to the user that were received (i.e., taken) by the user.
  • recent call history is typically displayed in the form of a log that lists the caller's telephone number and/or name, as well as the date and/or time of the call. Because of limitations on the size of the display device, the call history log typically displays information associated with only the most recent calls (e.g., the last twenty calls). The calls are normally listed in the order in which they occurred in time, with the most recent call being at the top of the listing and the oldest call being at the bottom of the list. Because all of the recent calls listed may not be viewable simultaneously on the display device, a mechanism is often provided to allow the user to scroll down the list from top to bottom, and vice versa. [0004] FIG.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a front view of a known handheld device 2 having a display device 3 for displaying information to the user, and a plurality of keys 4 to allow the user to enter input to the device 2.
  • the display device 3 is shown as displaying a recent call history log that includes the ten most recent calls received by the handheld device 2.
  • the names that are displayed, "Mom”, “Dad” and “Sweetheart”, correspond to names that have been assigned to the user's mother, father and wife, respectively, and stored in non-volatile memory (not shown) in the handheld device 2. Therefore, when the handheld device 2 detects a call from one of these callers, the call log lists the name assigned by the user to this caller rather than the telephone number associated with the caller.
  • the times and dates of the calls are also listed next to the telephone numbers or caller names.
  • the calls are listed sequentially in time in the order received by the handheld device 2 with the oldest call at the bottom of the display device 3 and the most recent call at the top of the display device 3. Eight of the ten calls listed were only received by the handheld device 2 once during the time frame represented by the log. Two of the ten calls listed, namely a call from "843-555-1213" and a call from "Sweetheart", were received twice during the time frame represented by the log. Thus, there are two entries for each of these calls shown in the log. [0006] One disadvantage of listing the calls in the manner shown in FIG.
  • Some handheld devices allow the user to obtain more information about each caller by making a "view history" selection that selects a particular caller to view the history associated with that particular caller. For example, if the user were to select the most recent entry for "Mom", the display device 3 might display the call log associated with "Mom” that has the appearance shown in FIG. 2. The five most recent calls from "Mom” are shown, but the user can scroll through all 59 calls from "Mom” by using an appropriate scroll device, such as a scroll wheel or page down key. This function does not, however, provide a user with a single view of call histories associated with different callers to allow the user to make a relative comparison of recent calls from different callers.
  • the invention provides methods and apparatuses for generating a recent call history log in a handheld device.
  • the apparatus comprises processing circuitry, a memory device and a display device.
  • the processing circuitry is configured to generate a recent call history log.
  • the recent call history log includes at least a listing of one or more caller identifiers, each of which identifies a call that has been placed to the handheld device by a caller associated with the listed caller identifier. No caller identifier is listed more than once in the recent call history log.
  • the recent call history log further includes an indicator in association with a caller identifier that provides an indication that multiple calls have been placed by a caller associated with a caller identifier.
  • the memory device is configured to store information associated with calls placed to the handheld device by callers.
  • the processing circuitry is configured to search the memory device and retrieve information needed to generate the recent call history log.
  • the display device is configured to display the recent call history log so that the recent call history log is viewable by a user.
  • the method in accordance with an embodiment comprises: storing information associated with calls placed to the handheld device by callers in the memory device; searching the memory device and retrieving information needed to generate a recent call history log; and displaying the recent call history log with at least one indicator of multiple calls from the same caller on a display device of the handheld device so that the recent call history log is viewable by a user.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a front view of a known handheld device having a display device for displaying information to the user, and a plurality of keys to allow the user to enter input to the device.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates an example of detailed call history displayed that might be displayed on the display device shown in FIG. 1 if the user were to select the most recent entry for "Mom" from the recent call history listing shown in FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates an example of a recent call history log in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention displayed on a display device of a handheld device.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates an example of an expanded listing displayed on the display device 20 shown in FIG. 3 when the user selects the "+" symbol next to the telephone number "843-555-1213" shown in the recent call history log shown in FIG. 3.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates a flowchart that represents a method in accordance with an exemplary embodiment performed by processing circuitry (not shown) of the handheld device shown in FIG. 3.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates a block diagram of the apparatus of the handheld device in accordance with an embodiment comprising components for performing the processes described above with reference to FIG. 5 to generate the logs described above with reference to FIGs. 3 and 4.
  • DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF AN ILLUSTRATIVE EMBODIMENT [0018]
  • the invention provides methods and apparatuses for providing a handheld device with functionality for implementing a hierarchical recent call history log that is displayed on the handheld device to provide the user with varying levels of information about recent calls.
  • the level of information provided for a given call listed in the log depends on one or more characteristics associated with the call. The characteristics include, but are not limited to, the number of calls from the same caller that have been detected by the handheld device.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates an example of a recent call history log in accordance with an exemplary embodiment displayed on a display device 20 of a handheld device 10.
  • a portion of the call history log shown in FIG. 1 is duplicated in FIG. 3 to demonstrate a fundamental difference between the configuration of the known recent call history log and the call history log of the invention.
  • the recent call history log of the invention lists only the ten most recent calls. The invention is not limited with respect to the number of calls that are listed in the recent call history log, or with respect to the types of information that are included in the log.
  • the recent call history log includes only one listing of each recent caller even if multiple calls were recently received from the same caller.
  • the call log includes an indicator 40 that is located next to the caller identifier (i.e., the phone number or name) associated with the callers who recently called multiple times to indicate to the user that multiples calls were detected from these callers.
  • the recent call history log provides this additional information without showing multiple listings for these calls. This feature allows the user to quickly determine, for example, from whom multiple calls were detected and missed by the user.
  • This feature also allows a greater number of calls to be shown in the recent call history log due to the fact that multiple calls from the same caller are shown only once in the call log.
  • two additional calls are included in the log shown in FIG. 3 that were not contained in the log shown in FIG. 1, namely, calls from the telephone numbers "843-555-5253" and "843-555-6263".
  • more calls are capable of being listed in the log without consuming more area on the display device 20.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates an example of an expanded listing displayed on the display device 20 when the user selects the "+” symbol next to the telephone number "843-555-1213" shown in the recent call history log shown in FIG. 3.
  • processing circuitry (not shown) of the handheld device 10 receives this input and causes calls from this caller to be listed in an expanded call log as shown in FIG. 4.
  • the expanded call log shows the three most recent calls from this caller that were missed by the user.
  • the expanded call log could show a different number of missed calls from this person (e.g., all missed calls from this person).
  • that information is also listed in the expanded call log shown in FIG. 4.
  • a "-" symbol 50 is displayed beside the caller identifier associated with the expanded listing as an indicator that the call log associated with this caller has been expanded. If the user selects the "-" symbol, processing circuitry (not shown) of the handheld device 10 receives this input and causes the call log shown in FIG. 3 to be displayed. In essence, selecting the "+" symbol indicator 40 beside a caller identifier listed in the call log shown in FIG. 3 causes the log to be expanded to show additional information associated with that caller in the log shown in FIG. 4. Selecting the "-" symbol 50 beside a caller identifier in the expanded call log shown in FIG. 4 causes the call log to be compressed into the original form shown in FIG. 3.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates a flowchart that represents a method in accordance with an exemplary embodiment performed by processing circuitry (not shown) of the handheld device 10 shown in FIG. 3.
  • the processing circuitry determines whether an incoming or outgoing call has been detected, as indicated by block 61. If not, the process ends. If so, the process proceeds to block 63 at which a temporary recent call entry is created and stored in a memory device (not shown) inside of the handheld device. The process then enters a loop during which a determination is made one or more times as to whether the call has ended, as indicated by block 65.
  • the temporary recent call entry created at block 63 is updated (e.g., with call duration time and end time of call) and the updated entry is re-saved in the memory device, as indicated by block 67.
  • a temporary recent call entry is created, updated and stored in memory.
  • the processing circuitry performs a search to locate and retrieve a target recent call history log associated with the temporary recent call entry from memory, as indicated by block 69. For example, if the call was an incoming call that was missed, the processing circuitry will search for the recent call history log associated with incoming missed calls, which will have an appearance similar to that shown in FIG. 3.
  • the processing circuitry will analyze the log to determine whether the temporary recent call entry matches an entry already contained in the log, as indicated by block 71. If a match exists, the information associated with the temporary recent call entry is added to the log in association with the matching entry that is already in the log, as indicated by block 73. If a match does not exist, a new recent call entry is added to the log, as indicated by block 75. As an optional feature, the recent call entries may be re-sorted in the target list based on one or more user preferences, as indicated by block 77. For example, the user may want to see the largest number of missed calls from the same caller displayed at the top of the list, or vice versa.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates a block diagram of the apparatus 100 of the handheld device in accordance with an embodiment comprising components for performing the processes described above with reference to FIG. 5 to generate the logs described above with reference to FIGs. 3 and 4.
  • Processing circuitry 80 is configured with hardware and/or software or firmware to perform these tasks. Computer instructions and/or other various types of data (e.g., recent call history logs, temporary recent call entries, new recent call entries, user settings, etc.) needed for performing these tasks are stored in memory device 90.
  • the processing circuitry 80 receives input (e.g., user selections of the "+" and "-" symbols, key strokes, stylus entries, etc.) from one or more user input devices 110.
  • the processing circuitry 80 is configured to perform the tasks described above when certain user selections are made.
  • the processing circuitry 80 causes the recent call history logs and expanded recent call history logs to be displayed on the display device 120 based on the received user input.
  • the corresponding computer instructions will be stored in memory device 90 or in some other computer-readable medium.
  • the computer-readable medium used for this purpose may be any type of memory devices such as, for example, random access memory (RAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), flash memory, read only memory (ROM) compact disk ROM (CD-ROM), digital video disks (DVDs), magnetic disks, magnetic tapes, etc.
  • the invention also encompasses electrical signals modulated on wired and wireless carriers (e.g., electrical conductors, wireless carrier waves, etc.) in packets and in non-packet formats.
  • the processing circuitry 90 may be any type of computational device, including, for example, a microprocessor, a microcontroller, a programmable gate array, a programmable logic array, one or more state machines, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a system on a chip (SOC), etc.
  • ASIC application specific integrated circuit
  • SOC system on a chip
  • the absence, as opposed to the presence, of a symbol or icon beside a caller identifier may also function as an indicator for conveying this type of information. For example, calls from multiple callers might have nothing beside them in the log, whereas calls from callers who have only called once might have a "1" beside them in the log. Thus, in this case, the absence of a symbol or icon beside a caller identifier functions as an indicator that informs the user that multiple calls from that caller have been detected by the handheld device.

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La présente invention concerne des procédés et des appareils qui assurent à un dispositif portatif une fonctionnalité pour mettre en oeuvre un journal d'historique des appels récents hiérarchique qui est affiché sur le dispositif portatif pour donner à l'utilisateur des niveaux variables d'information concernant les appels récents. Le niveau d'information fourni pour un appel donné inscrit dans la liste du journal dépend d'au moins une caractéristique associée à l'appel, y compris mais sans limitation, le nombre d'appels émanant du même appelant qui a été détecté par le dispositif portatif.
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