Telecommunications – Transmitter and receiver at same station – Radiotelephone equipment detail
Reexamination Certificate
1999-03-31
2001-03-20
Nguyen, Lee (Department: 2683)
Telecommunications
Transmitter and receiver at same station
Radiotelephone equipment detail
C455S412100, C455S414200, C455S575100, C707S793000, C707S793000, C704S001000, C704S010000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06205342
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to generating and sending text messages via a cellular telephone, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for conveniently generating and accessing a user generated list of words for composing text messages.
2. Related Art
In recent years, wireless electronic devices, such as cellular telephones, have been becoming more and more popular as communication instruments due to their decreasing sizes and increasing mobility. However, because of their size limitations, cellular telephones do not have a keyboard having separate keys for different alpha and numerical characters.
FIG. 1A
shows a front view of an exemplary cellular telephone
100
including a display screen
102
, an antenna
104
, and a control panel
106
. The control panel
106
includes a jog dial wheel
108
and a key panel
110
. The jog dial wheel
108
can be moved in three directions (turn-up, turn-down, and press-in) as indicated by the three arrows.
FIG. 1B
shows a side view of the cellular telephone
100
to illustrate the side view of the jog dial wheel
108
. A user can compose text messages by selectively pressing the alpha
umeric keys. The text messages composed are displayed on the display scree
102
. To send the composed messages, the user then presses the “SEND” key on the key panel
110
.
Typically, cellular telephones have a small keypad having only a few keys for entering alpha
umeric characters. As shown in
FIG. 1A
for example, the key panel
110
has only twelve alpha
umeric keys, and as many as nine different characters can be assigned to one key. Hence, it is time consuming and error prone to compose text messages by using the keys on a cellular telephone.
Therefore, there is a need for an improved method and apparatus for composing text messages in electronic devices, such as cellular telephones.
The present invention provides a method and apparatus to meet this need.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
To address the shortcomings of the available art, the present invention provides novel and improved methods for composing text messages using electronic devices, such as cellular telephones.
In one aspect, the present provides a method of using an electronic device for composing a text message. The method comprises the steps of: (a) storing a word list containing a plurality of pre-selected words in the electronic device; (b) displaying the word list; (c) selecting one or more words from the word list to add to the text message; and (d) displaying the text message as it is composed.
In another aspect, the present invention provides a method of using an electronic device for composing a text message. The method comprises the steps of: (a) storing a word list containing a plurality of words in the electronic device; (b) displaying the word list; (c) selecting one or more words from the word list to add to the text message; (d) displaying the text message as it is composed; and (e) updating the word list based on words composed in the text message.
In still another aspect, the present invention provides a method of using an electronic device for composing a text message. The method comprises the steps of: (a) storing a word list containing a first set of pre-selected words and a second set of words in the electronic device; (b) displaying the word list; (c) selecting one or more words from the word list to add to the text message; (d) displaying the text message as it is composed; and (e) updating the second set of words based on words composed in the text message.
The present invention also provides a corresponding apparatuses for performing the methods discussed above.
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