Virtual slide-to-lock feature for push-to-talk communication applications
AssigneeVoxer IP LLC
InventorsJustin V. Lee, Thomas E. Katis
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Abstract
A virtual Slide-to-Lock feature for communication devices running a PTT application. When the Slide-to-Lock feature is activated, a PTT locking function on the communication device is activated. As a result, messages on the communication device may be created, without the need of the user to continuously hold or select a Hold-to-Talk or similar PTT feature. In one non-exclusive embodiment, the virtual Slide-to-Lock feature is activated when a finger is moved from a first region to a second region on a touch-sensitive display screen and de-activated with the opposite motion.
Claims20
Computer code embedded in a non-transitory computer readable medium and intended to run on a communication device configured to communicate over a network, the computer code configured to:
- provide on a display screen associated with the communication device a virtual Slide-to-Lock feature for selectively activating a PTT locking function on the communication device;
- progressively store on the communication device media created using the communication device when the PTT locking function is activated;
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- displaying a conversation history, including the media created using the communication device when the PTT locking function is activated, on a display screen of the communication device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.