Telecommunications – Transmitter and receiver at same station – Radiotelephone equipment detail
Reexamination Certificate
1999-08-04
2003-02-11
Urban, Edward F. (Department: 2685)
Telecommunications
Transmitter and receiver at same station
Radiotelephone equipment detail
C455S090300, C455S575100, C379S093170
Reexamination Certificate
active
06519481
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a radio communication device, more particularly to a radio communication device which reads out information stored therein to display it.
2. Description of the Related Art
Recently, radio communication devices, for example, portable telephones, have been manufactured to be smaller in size and lighter in weight. With miniaturization of the portable telephone unit, a size of a display portion reduces, so that a quantity of information that can be displayed on the display portion at a time becomes small.
For this reason, a message containing a large quantity of information cannot be displayed on the display portion at a time. Under such situation, when a user presses down the scroll button, the message is read out sequentially from its leading content and displayed on the display portion.
At this time, the message displayed on the display portion is displayed, for example, in the order where it is received. Accordingly, when it is intended to display the message that was received first, all of the messages that have been received until now must be displayed in the receiving order. This takes a very long time. Furthermore, when the message is read out, a specified button for reading out the message must be pressed down, so that the operability of the portable telephone is degraded.
Accordingly, technologies that can enhance the operability of the portable telephone and read out desired message in a short time have been proposed.
In the individual selection calling receiver disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Heisei 8-186852, when the scroll button is pressed down under the situation where PAGE
1
-
1
is displayed, PAGE
1
-
2
and PAGE
1
-
3
that are the messages following the PAGE-
1
are sequentially displayed every time the scroll button is pressed down as shown in FIG.
1
. Subsequently, the messages after the message PAGE
2
-
1
are displayed sequentially. Specifically, all of the messages are displayed sequentially to the end. On the other hand, when another button other than the scroll button is pressed down under a situation where the PAGE
1
-
1
is displayed, a leading page PAGE
2
-
1
that is for the next message is displayed, and a leading page PAGE
3
-
1
that is for the further next message is displayed subsequently. Specifically, only the leading page of each message is sequentially displayed. Accordingly, when it is intended to display a message PAGE
4
-
1
, only leading page of each message is sequentially displayed by pressing down a button different from the scroll button, whereby a desired message can be retrieved in a shorter time than that required for sequentially displaying all of the messages.
In a communication terminal apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Hei 8-79361, when an operation to allow a cursor to move upward is performed on a transfer function setting screen “Forward” under a situation where the cursor is in a high order item “Intro” as shown in
FIG. 2
, the cursor moves to the highest order item “Control” of a personal ID number function setting screen “PIN
1
” of the previous page. Similarly, when an operation to move the cursor upward is performed under a situation where the cursor is in the high order item “Control” in the personal ID number setting screen “PIN
1
”, the cursor moves to the highest order item “Sel Mode” of a public landit mobile network function setting screen “PLMNselect” of the previous page. Accordingly, since the screen can be scrolled at a high speed, a desired item can be retrieved in a short time.
In a communication terminal apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Hei 9-261758, as shown in
FIG. 3
, when the message is received from other person while a telephone call is in progress and information about the party on the other end is displayed on the display portion, information about the other call is displayed on the display portion. Specifically, processing items, “Activate” “Disconnect” and “Multi Party” which are performed for the message receipt are displayed together with the information about the other call. At this time, the processing item “Activate” is displayed in its reversed form, and when the user presses down the scroll button, the processing items “Disconnect” and “Multi Party” are sequentially displayed in its reversed form. The user presses down the scroll button to select a desired item and presses down a click button to execute the selected processing. Accordingly, it is not necessary for the user to remember all of operation methods concerning the received message processing, so that the user can perform the received message processing easily and reliably.
In a communication terminal apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Hei 10-93678, as shown in
FIG. 4
, when a jog dial is clicked in a screen for waiting the message to be received, a list of other persons for conversation is displayed. At this time, the other person “Robert” in the uppermost line is displayed in its reversed form. When the user rotates the jog dial downward, the subsequent other persons “George” and “Sally” are sequentially displayed in its reversed form. When the user clicks the jog dial under a situation where a desired other person “Jack” for conversation is displayed in its reversed form, information about the other person “Jack” is displayed. Thereafter, by pressing down the jog dial for a predetermined time, a call for the other person “Jack” for conversation is performed. Thus, since a selection of the other person for conversation, a display of information about the other person for conversation and a call for the other person for conversation can be performed only by manipulating the jog dial, an operability in calling the other person for conversation can be enhanced.
In a communication terminal apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Heisei 10-155020, as shown in
FIG. 5
, when the user clicks the jog dial to select the desired other person “Ellis” for conversation under a situation where a telephone directory screen is displayed, information concerning the other person “Ellis” is displayed. Under such situation, when the jog dial is rotated upward, the displaying returns to the telephone directory screen automatically, and the cursor moves to “John” located immediately above “Ellis”. Accordingly, under a situation where the information concerning “Ellis” is being displayed, it is unnecessary to again display the telephone directory screen by pressing down predetermined another button, and to move the cursor to the next other person “John” by rotating the jog dial. Thus, the display screen can be switched with less manipulations and a desired other person for conversation can be retrieved in a short time.
However, in the above described individual selection calling receiver disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Heisei 8-186852, when the message composed of PAGE
1
-
1
,
1
-
2
and
1
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3
is displayed on the display portion, PAGE
1
-
2
and PAGE
1
-
3
are sequentially displayed by pressing down the scroll button under a situation where PAGE
1
-
1
is being displayed. Specifically, by pressing down the scroll button, the displaying of the message is switched for each page. Accordingly, it is, difficult for the user to know a correlation between the message obtained by scrolling and the message before scrolling. For example, it is difficult for the user to judge whether the message displayed after scrolling shows a continuation of the message displayed in the last time or a message prior to the message displayed in the last time.
Furthermore, other prior arts described above do not clearly show a relation of the message that is being displayed with the message displayed in the last time, when a message which is longer than one that can be displayed on the display portion at a time is displayed, and do not have such technical concept.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the present invention is to provide a radio communication apparatus which is obtained by furt
Gesesse Tilahun
NEC Corporation
Urban Edward F.
Young & Thompson
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