Methods and apparatus for line selection in a communication device
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorDavid Paul Yach
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Abstract
Embodiments of an apparatus and methods for selecting a communication line from two or more lines on a communication device are described herein. 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. In one broad aspect, a determination of which of the communication lines is a communication line associated with the one of two or more message addresses at which a message is received is made in the selection of a communication line accessible at the communication device on which an outgoing call may be placed.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- detecting initiation of a voice communication from a mobile device to a target recipient;
- determining an outgoing line from a plurality of available communication lines, the determining based on an association of at least one of the plurality of available communication lines having received a message at a message address that includes an identification of the target recipient, wherein the message is an email message, an instant message, or a SMS message;
- and,
- initiating the voice communication to the target recipient using the outgoing line.
A mobile device comprising:
- a communication subsystem configured for voice and data communication on a plurality of available communication lines;
- a processor operably coupled to the communication subsystem, the processor configured to:
- detect initiation of a voice communication to a target recipient;
- determine an outgoing line from the plurality of available communication lines, the determining based on an association of at least one of the plurality of available communication lines having received a message at a message address that includes an identification of the target recipient, wherein the message is an email message, an instant message, or a SMS message;
- and,
- initiate, using the communication subsystem, the voice communication to the target recipient using the outgoing line.
A non-transitory, tangible machine readable storage medium encoded with machine executable instructions, wherein execution of the machine executable instructions is for a mobile device to:
- detect initiation of a voice communication to a target recipient;
- determine an outgoing line from a plurality of available communication lines, the determining based on an association of at least one of the plurality of available communication lines having received a message at a message address that includes an identification of the target recipient, wherein the message is email message, an instant message, or a SMS message;
- and,
- initiate the voice communication to the target recipient using the outgoing line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.