Phoneword dialing in a mobile communication device having a full keyboard
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsMichael John Bender, Donald Somerset McCulloch McKenzie
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Abstract
A method of dialing a phoneword using a mobile communication device that has full keyboard, which maps numbers to letters differently than on standard telephone keypads. The method detects the prefix of the phoneword and proceeds to display a message on the mobile communication device to indicate that a pre-determined key needs to be pressed before entering letters of the phoneword. The method can also display for selection, candidate phonewords that correspond to a partial entry of the phoneword.
Claims14
A method of dialing a phoneword using a mobile communication device, the mobile communication device having a keyboard comprising a plurality of keys, the phoneword having a numerical beginning sequence and a remainder sequence, the remainder sequence having associated numbers thereto, at least one of the numbers having an associated letter, the method comprising:
- detecting input by the keyboard of a phoneword, the input comprising receiving a number at the keyboard;
- and
- in response to the detection of the input by the keyboard of the phoneword, displaying a prompt in a display of the mobile communication device to complete input of the phoneword by performing an operation on the keyboard comprising identifying a letter associated with the number to enable entry of one or more letters of the phoneword in lieu of corresponding numbers;
- constructing partial candidate phonewords in accordance with:
- the numerical beginning sequence;
- the number;
- and
- the letter associated to the number;
- and
- comparing the partial candidate phonewords with known phonewords to obtain candidate phonewords;
- and
- displaying for selection, on the mobile communication device, the candidate phonewords, the displaying for selection preceded by ranking the candidate phonewords to obtain ranked candidate phonewords and the displaying for selection including displaying, as a function of rank, the ranked candidate phonewords.
A method of dialing a phoneword using a mobile communication device, the mobile communication device having a keyboard comprising a plurality of keys, the phoneword having a numerical beginning sequence and a remainder sequence, the remainder sequence having associated numbers thereto, at least one of the numbers having an associated letter, the method comprising:
- detecting input by the keyboard of a phoneword;
- and
- in response to the detection of the input by the keyboard of the phoneword, displaying a prompt in a display of the mobile communication device to complete input of the phoneword by performing an operation on the keyboard to enable entry of one or more letters of the phoneword in lieu of corresponding numbers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.