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US 9,002,338 B2Granted
Communication device that permits a user to select any of multiple user-selectable communication types for a reply
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorParamsothy Parthipan
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Abstract
A communication device comprises logic and an input device coupled to the logic. The input device is adapted to permit a user to select a communication type. The logic receives a communication in a first communication type and permits a user to reply to the communication using any of a plurality of user-selectable communication types.
Claims12
A communication device, comprising:
- logic;
- an input device coupled to said logic and adapted to permit a user to select a communication type;
- wherein said logic receives a communication in a first communication type and then permits a user to select for a reply to said communication any of a plurality of user-selectable communication types including at least one of electronic mail, text message, voice message, phone call, and voice note;
- and
- wherein, upon the user selecting phone call as the communication type, said logic initiates a phone call to a sender of the communication and wherein the logic initiates the phone call to a phone number the logic finds in the communication and, if no phone number is found in the communication, to a phone number otherwise associated with the sender.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- means for receiving a message from a source;
- means for detecting an input from a user after said means for receiving receives the message, said input being indicative of a type of response communication selected from a plurality of response communication types provided to the user for said received message, said response communication types including at least one of electronic mail, text message, voice message, phone call, and voice note;
- and
- means for responding to the message via a communication type in accordance with the user-detected input;
- wherein, upon the user selecting phone call as the communication type, said means for responding initiates a phone call to a sender of the communication by initiating the phone call to a phone number the means for responding finds in the communication and, if no phone number is found in the communication, to a phone number otherwise associated with the sender.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.