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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160649 | Initiating a call from a mobile device to a number that is not hyperlinked A method and mobile device for initiating telephone calls through a wireless communication network are provided. Number strings are identified in text displayed on a visual display of the mobile device. Number strings may be hyperlinked when the strings meet predete... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8140123 | Method for displaying speed dial settings and mobile communication device using the method A method for displaying speed dial settings is disclosed. The method is used for a mobile communication device, comprising the steps: detecting whether a speed dial setting operation is implemented to a button of a keypad of a mobile communication device, and displa... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8112120 | Contact details retrieval using a printed medium A system for retrieving contact details using a print medium is disclosed. A sensor module senses data encoded on a surface of the print medium is sensed using. The sensed data encodes a print media identifier which uniquely identifies the print medium, and a two-di... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8095186 | Integrated dialing Call initiation on a device with potential for a large number of stored telephone numbers is simplified through the use of an integrated field for entry of an ambiguous filter string. As it is not clear, a priori, whether the user is manually specifying, in the inte... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8064961 | Communication system and method therefor To effectively prevent information leakage from a communication node, such as a cellular phone. Not an actual communication-destination telephone number, but a telephone number code which is arbitrarily assigned corresponding to the actual communication-destination ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8050720 | Speed dialing method for displaying contact information and mobile communication device using the same A speed dialing method for displaying contact information for use in a mobile communication device is disclosed. Plural time threshold values and information display transparencies corresponding to the time threshold values, respectively, are defined. When the mobil... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041396 | Method and system for emergency dialing of a wireless communication device A wireless communication device may have several contact buttons, including, for example, a Mom button, a Dad button and a Home button. The device may also have a Send button and an End button. A child may press one of the contact buttons, then dial Send, and a call... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7974659 | Repeat dialing in wireless networks to called parties that are powered off A wireless network is disclosed that provides repeat dialing to called parties that are powered off. The wireless network includes an originating MSC system, a Home Location Register (HLR) system for a called party, and a serving MSC system that serves the called pa... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7953449 | Portable radiotelephone for automatically dialing a central voice-activated dialing system A portable radiotelephone can be shifted between a first condition wherein the radiotelephone does not receive or transmit voice communications by radiotelephone transmissions over radiotelephone channels and a second condition wherein the radiotelephone receives an... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953448 | Keyboard for mobile device A keyboard for a mobile device 400 having a processor 618 for interpreting signals comprises a plurality of keys 410-424 and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to an array of letters A... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7899498 | Method and system for recognition of incoming calls to a voicemail system A system and method for recognition of incoming call to a voicemail system is disclosed. A radio frequency identification (RFID) authenticates a user of a mobile communication device. The mobile communication device enables a one-button dialing of a voicemail system... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894859 | Privacy protection in network-based phonebooks Phonebook systems and associated methods are disclosed that provide a mechanism for protecting private information of a contact from being published in a network-based phonebook. A typical network-based phonebook service allows subscribers to set up network-based ph... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7873391 | Call queue in a wireless device A wireless phone includes a memory, a processor, and a call queue function, the call queue function to enable the configuration and storage in the memory of a call queue, the call queue comprising an ordered list of entries to dial, wherein the processor and the mem... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869831 | Communication terminal, and dial registration method and dial registration program therefor A communication terminal having one or more one-touch-dial buttons simplifies operations needed for registration of destination data such as phone numbers or mail addresses. A communication terminal (e.g., a cellular phone) having one or more one-touch-dial buttons ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7840236 | Call routing Apparatus and method for routing calls made to a service centre to a call destination able to meet criteria preselected by the caller for the interaction with the service centre. ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7792549 | Repeat dialing in wireless networks to called parties that are powered off A wireless network is disclosed that provides repeat dialing to called parties that are powered off. The wireless network includes an originating MSC system, a Home Location Register (HLR) system for a called party, and a serving MSC system that serves the called pa... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7764979 | Mobile terminal for performing call to callee by sequential calling of prioritized callee numbers and multimedia addresses A method for performing a call is disclosed. When a user attempts a call at a certain phone number of another party but ends in a call unavailable state, the user can automatically make a call at another contact of the another party's contacts stored in the phone bo... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7725133 | Mobile wireless communication devices with quick-send features and methods therefor A mobile wireless communication device like a cellular handset includes multiple communication addresses stored in its memory. Each address is associated with one or more inputs of an input key. For example a first telephone number is associated with a single input ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7715881 | Automatically initiating and answering communications Automatically initiating and answering communications are described herein. A communications device may be configured to automatically initiate outgoing communications to a default destination or to perform some action automatically upon receiving an incoming commun... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7613483 | Portable radiotelephone for automatically dialing a central voice-activated dialing system A portable radiotelephone can be shifted between a first condition wherein the radiotelephone does not receive or transmit voice communications by radiotelephone transmissions over radiotelephone channels and a second condition wherein the radiotelephone receives an... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7606598 | Initiating a call from a mobile device to a number that is not hyperlinked A method for initiating telephone calls from a mobile device which operates in a wireless communication network, including: displaying text on a visual display of the mobile device; moving a position marker on the visual display throughout the displayed text in resp... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7574237 | Method and apparatus for changing at least one communication parameter for a communication device A system and method to obtain a nickname for records, particularly records having number fields. A set of triplets is identified in a record 401. Criteria, at least at a strict level, is set to establish that used triplets are many, and hard to avoid 403 | 08/11/2009 |
| 7536206 | Expedited communication key system and method A method of performing expedited communication functions on a mobile device includes monitoring the duration-of key press on a keyboard of the mobile device and determining if the monitored duration of the key press is greater than a threshold duration. If the monit... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7515942 | Method and device for telephone number search in a mobile terminal Disclosed is a method and device for searching for a telephone number in a mobile terminal having a direction key that consists of a left arrow, a right arrow, an up arrow and a down arrow. The method includes displaying one or more consecutive digits input by a use... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7515941 | Method for performing functions using telephone number searched for in mobile terminal Disclosed is method for searching for a telephone number and performing a function using the detected telephone number on a mobile terminal, which includes checking whether an input by a user in a standby mode is a number of consecutive digits, searching a telephone... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7489950 | Phone number replace code system and method A processor-implemented method of placing telephone calls includes determining if a phone call initiated to a phone number has connected. If the phone call did not connect, then the processor determines if the phone number has an associated replace code for any subs... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7463909 | Method, device, and database for providing communication addresses for communication devices The present invention includes a method, device, and database for providing communication addresses for communication devices. In one form, a method for providing a communication address for establishing communication with a communication device is disclosed. The me... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7444171 | Method and system for sharing speed dial lists amongst multiple telecommunications services A master database stores a speed dial list associated with a user of multiple telecommunications services. The database shares the speed dial list with the telecommunication services such that a single speed dial list serves all of the user's telecommunications serv... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444173 | Mobile telephone A hand held mobile telephone is disclosed comprising a front face having a longitudinal extension greater than a lateral extension and having a plurality of openings therein, and a multiplicity of keys each having an upper surface bounded by side walls. Each key pro... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7424306 | Apparatus for temporarily storing phone numbers and short messages An apparatus for temporarily storing phone numbers and short messages is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing including electronics operable to receive an input and display a sequence of no more than seventeen characters in response to the input. The electron... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418262 | Mobile terminal for automatically managing country code and method for storing/finding phone number using the same A mobile terminal for providing a mobile service and a method for storing and finding a phone number using the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal stores and manages country code information, a mobile service subscriber's registration information, and mobile servic... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7400880 | Method of notifying an apparatus in a system A method of announcing an apparatus to a system containing a central apparatus and at least one individual apparatus is distinguished in that the announcement is effected by optical communication, preferably in the infrared range. In that respective information abou... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7392064 | Portable terminal equipment and communication method therefor This invention provides a folding type or flip type portable terminal equipment including a storage unit for storing one or a plurality of telephone numbers, a telephone number selection section for selecting a predetermined telephone number from the telephone numbe... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7383068 | Collapsible mobile communication terminal device A hinge mechanism which coupled an upper side housing and a lower side housing in such a manner that they can be opened and closed, a push button which opens the hinge mechanism when it was depressed, light emission section which has the push button lighted up at th... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7373179 | Call queue in a wireless device A wireless phone includes a memory, a processor, and a call queue function, the call queue function to enable the configuration and storage in the memory of a call queue, the call queue comprising an ordered list of entries to dial, wherein the processor and the mem... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373142 | Mobile device communication profile system and method A processor-implemented method of managing communications to contacts from a mobile device includes storing a list of contacts, associating with each contact one or more communication modes, and associating with each contact a communication profile defining one or m... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373137 | Method to challenge cell phone user for fraudulent use A method and system for monitoring calls being made from a cellular phone and preventing calls being made to unauthorized numbers, as defined by the owner of the cellular phone. A security challenge is issued to a cell phone user when a suspicious, previously unknow... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369872 | Mobile communication device for searching data based on rotation degree and a method thereof Disclosed is a mobile communication device for searching data based on a rotation angle. The mobile communication device includes a body; a geomagnetic sensor for detecting a rotation angle of the body based on an axis perpendicular to the earth surface; a main memo... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366529 | Communication network terminal supporting a plurality of applications The present invention relates to a terminal (1) for a communication network, the terminal being capable of supporting a plurality of applications (17, 18) and having means of communicating user messages. The terminal comprises means for receiving user ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366527 | Communication device for transmitting/acquiring a phone number via a link network and method thereof A communication device for transmitting/acquiring a phone number via a link network and method thereof are provided. In an embodiment, two communication devices are linked together via a link network to directly transfer a phone number stored in a communication devi... | 04/29/2008 |
