Phone number database for a phone
AssigneeNokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
InventorsSteen Lillethorup Frederiksen, Peter Ib, Erik Paul Anderson
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Abstract
A phone number database has a first group of memory locations with associated speed dialing facility and a second group of memory locations without speed dialing facility. A phone number may be provided with speed dialing facility when this phone number is already stored without speed dialing facility in the second group by indicating the phone number whose speed dialing status is to be changed, indicating a memory location with a phone number with the desired speed dialing status, and interchanging the speed dialing status of the two phone numbers.
Claims12
A method of handling speed dialing status of phone numbers stored in a phone number database, having a first group of memory locations being associated with speed dialing facilities and a second group of memory locations without speed dialing facilities, the method comprising the steps of:
- selecting a first phone number whose speed dialing status is to be changed wherein the first number is stored in a first memory location in one of the first and second groups of memory locations;
- designating a second phone number, wherein the second phone number is stored in a second memory location having the desired speed dialing status in another one of the first and second groups of memory locations;
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- swapping a content of the first memory location with a content of the second memory location in order to interchange the speed dialing status of the two phone numbers, the swapping of the content of the two memory locations comprising the steps of:
- temporarily storing the contents of one of the two selected memory locations in an intermediate memory;
- transferring the contents of the other of the two memory locations to the memory location whose contents are temporarily stored in the intermediate memory;
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- transferring the contents of the intermediate memory to the memory location whose contents have been transferred to the other memory location.
A phone with a phone number database having a first group of memory locations being associated with speed dialing facilities and a second group of memory locations without speed dialing facilities, and moreover comprising;
- an input means for inputting instructions into the phone;
- a display for displaying information;
- a controller connected to the input means and controlling the display of information;
- wherein the input means comprises:
- means for presenting the content of a first memory location in the display, wherein the phone number stored in the first memory location is desired to become associated with the speed dialing facility;
- means for designating a memory location having the desired speed dialing facility;
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- means for swapping the content of the two memory locations in order to interchange the speed dialing status of the two phone numbers;
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- wherein the phone further includes:
- an intermediate memory for storing the contents of the first memory location whose content is presenting in the display;
- means for transferring the contents of the other of the two indicated memory locations to the memory location whose contents are temporarily stored in the intermediate memory;
- and
- means for transferring the contents of the intermediate memory to the memory location whose contents have been transferred to the other memory location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.