Method and apparatus for line selection in a communication device
AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited
InventorsRaymond Vander Veen, Neil Adams, Larry Kuhl
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Abstract
The present invention includes embodiments of an apparatus and method for selecting a line from two or more lines on a communication device. 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. The method comprises the steps of storing line selection information; monitoring the input module for initiation of a call to the target recipient; upon detecting the initiation of the call, selecting a line from the at least two lines in the line selection module, the selected line is dependent on said line selection information; and making the call to the target recipient on the selected line.
Claims20
A method for selecting a line, from at least two lines available to a device, for making a call over a network, the method comprising:
- storing line selection information, wherein the line selection information provides an association between a time period and one of the at least two lines;
- monitoring for initiation of a call;
- responsive to detecting initiation of a call during a particular time period, selecting a particular line from the at least two lines, the particular line being associated with the particular time period in the line selection information;
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- operating the device to make the call on the particular line.
A device for communicating over a network, the device comprising:
- an input module, the input module being responsive to initiation of a call during a particular time period;
- a communication module for communicating with a target recipient over the network on one of at least two lines;
- a storage module for storing line selection information, wherein the line selection information provides an association between a time period and one of the at least two lines;
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- a line selection module for selecting the one of the at least two lines for communicating with the target recipient, the selecting based on the association, in the line selection information, between the particular time period and the one of the at least two lines.
A device for communicating over a network, the device comprising:
- a communication module for communicating over the network on a particular line;
- an input module, the input module being responsive to initiation of a call during a particular time period;
- a storage module for storing line selection information, wherein the line selection information provides an association between a time period and one of at least two lines;
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- an event scheduler for selecting the particular line from the at least two lines, the selecting based on the particular line being associated with the particular time period in the line selection information.
A computer program product having a computer-readable medium tangibly embodying computer executable code for selecting a line on a device having at least two lines, the executable code comprising:
- instructions for storing line selection information, wherein the line selection information provides an association between a time period and one of the at least two lines;
- instructions for monitoring for initiation of a call;
- instructions for, responsive to detecting initiation of a call during a particular time period, selecting a particular line from the at least two lines, the particular line being associated with the particular time period in the line selection information;
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- instructions for making the call on the particular line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.