Advanced voice and data operations in a mobile data communication device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8971504-B2
Application number	US-201313772159-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 20, 2013
Priority date	Mar 9, 2001
Publication date	Mar 3, 2015
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015

Abstract

A system and method for integrating voice and data operations into a single mobile device capable of simultaneously performing data and voice actions. The mobile device working in a network capable of exchanging both cell phone calls and data items to the mobile device. By wearing an earphone or an ear-bud device the user is capable of dealing with voice conversations while working with data centric information related to the current caller. By providing a data-centric device with voice capabilities there is a new range of features that allow incoming data events to trigger outgoing voice events.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for facilitating dialing of a phone number subsequent to receipt of a data item at a mobile communication device, said method comprising:
displaying the data item on a viewing screen;
detecting selection to respond to receipt of the data item, displayed on the viewing screen, with a phone call;
determining whether a phone number has been selected in the data item;
if the phone number has been selected, dialing the selected phone number to init…

Assignees

• Blackberry Ltd

Inventors

• Mousseau Gary Phillip
• Lazaridis Mihal
• Yach David Paul
• Vander Veen Raymond
• Major Harry Richmond
• Asthana Atul

Classifications

• H04M3/56

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W88/06 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M3/436

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M2201/38

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M2207/18

  Electricity · mapped topic