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US 9,288,297 B2Granted
Method and apparatus to display signal strength
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorBassam Masri
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Abstract
Various embodiments are directed to a status indicator module to display a first signal strength and a second signal strength for different radio transmission signals using a single status indicator. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims24
A mobile computing device comprising:
- a display;
- and
- a status indicator logic device coupled to the display, wherein the status indicator logic device executes status indicator control instructions stored on a computer-readable storage media coupled to the status indicator logic device, to display a first signal strength for a first radio transmission signal and a second signal strength for a second radio transmission signal using a single status indicator on the display, the status indicator comprises multiple display segments, each display segment of the multiple display segments occupies a continuous area, and has a first segment portion directly visually connected to a second segment portion, the first segment portion of each display segment of the multiple display segments together are configured to display the first signal strength, the second segment portion of each display segment of the multiple display segments together are configured to display the second signal strength, the first segment portion of each display segment of the multiple display segments together are configured to visually change responsive to changes in the first signal strength, and the second segment portion of each display segment of the multiple display segments together are configured to visually change responsive to changes in the second signal strength.
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- executing by a processor, one or more executable programs of instructions stored in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium communicatively coupled to the processor, to generate a single status indicator to display a first signal strength for a first radio transmission signal and a second signal strength for a second radio transmission signal, wherein the status indicator comprises multiple display segments, each display segment of the multiple display segments occupies a continuous area, and has a first segment portion directly visually connected to a second segment portion, the first segment portion of each display segment of the multiple display segments together are configured to display the first signal strength, the second segment portion of each display segment of the multiple display segments together are configured to display the second signal strength, the first segment portion of each display segment of the multiple display segments together are configured to visually change responsive to changes in the first signal strength, and the second segment portion of each display segment of the multiple display segments together are configured to visually change responsive to changes in the second signal strength;
- and
- displaying the status indicator on a display coupled to the processor.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, enable a system to:
- generate a single status indicator to display a first signal strength for a first radio transmission signal and a second signal strength for a second radio transmission signal, wherein the status indicator comprises multiple display segments, each display segment of the multiple display segments occupies a continuous area, and has a first segment portion directly visually connected to a second segment portion, the first segment portion of each display segment of the multiple display segments together are configured to display the first signal strength, the second segment portion of each display segment of the multiple display segments together are configured to display the second signal strength, the first segment portion of each display segment of the multiple display segments together are configured to visually change responsive to changes in the first signal strength, and the second segment portion of each display segment of the multiple display segments together are configured to visually change responsive to changes in the second signal strength;
- and
- display the status indicator on a display of the system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.