Methods and apparatus for line selection in a communication device
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorDavid Paul YACH
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Abstract
Embodiments of an apparatus and methods for selecting a communication line from two or more lines on a communication device are described herein. The communication device comprises a display module, an input module, a line selection module, and a communication module for making a call over a network to a target recipient. In one broad aspect, a determination of which of the communication lines is a communication line associated with the one of two or more message addresses at which a message is received is made in the selection of a communication line accessible at the communication device on which an outgoing call may be placed.
Claims20
A the method comprising:
- detecting initiation of a voice communication from a mobile device to a target recipient;
- determining an outgoing line from a plurality of available communication lines, the determining based on an association of at least one of the plurality of available communication lines having received a text message from the target recipient;
- and,
- initiating the voice communication to the target recipient using the outgoing line.
A mobile device comprising:
- a communication subsystem configured for voice and data communication on a plurality of available communication lines;
- a processor operably coupled to the communication subsystem, the processor configured to:
- detect initiation of a voice communication to a target recipient;
- determine an outgoing line from the plurality of available communication lines, the determining based on an association of at least one of the plurality of available communication lines having received a text message from the target recipient;
- and,
- initiate, using the communication subsystem, the voice communication to the target recipient using the outgoing line.
The method mobile device 1, wherein the message received from the target recipient includes an identification of the target recipient.
A non-transitory, tangible machine readable storage medium encoded with machine executable instructions, wherein execution of the machine executable instructions is for a mobile device to:
- detect initiation of a voice communication to a target recipient;
- determine an outgoing line from a plurality of available communication lines, the determining based on an association of at least one of the plurality of available communication lines having received a text message from the target recipient;
- and,
- initiate the voice communication to the target recipient using the outgoing line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.