Visual voice mail application variations
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsMichelle Felt, Henry H. Li, Jonghoon Kim, Neil T. Razzano
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Abstract
A voicemail application includes a first stage having a first voicemail and at a first position, a second stage having a second voicemail and at a second position adjacent to the first position, and a third stage having a third voicemail and at a third position adjacent to the second position. The voicemail application also includes a playback control configured to cause playback of any voicemail associated with any stage at the first position. The voicemail application increases the surface area of a stage as that stage is brought to the first position while the surface area of the stage previously at the first position decreases.
Claims20
A computing device including a processor and a memory, and comprising:
- a display and an input mechanism;
- a voicemail application presented on the display and controllable by a user, the voicemail application comprising:
- a first stage at a first position along an axis, wherein a stage at the first position has a first position surface area;
- a playback control configured to cause playback of a voicemail associated with the stage at the first position;
- a second stage at a second position along the axis, wherein a stage at the second position has a second position surface area less than the first position surface area;
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- a third stage at a third position along the axis, wherein a stage at the third position has a third position surface area less than the second position surface area;
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- wherein the voicemail application is configured to:
- increase surface area of each of the second and third stages as the second stage is brought to the first position by the user while the third stage is brought to the second position, the first stage leaves the first position as the second stage is brought to the first position.
A system comprising:
- a mobile device having a touchscreen controllable by a user and a quantity of memory;
- a voicemail application stored on the quantity of memory and controllable via at least the touchscreen, the voicemail application configured to present:
- a first stage at a first position on the touchscreen, the first stage associated with a first voicemail, wherein a stage at the first position has a first height orthogonal to a first width;
- a second stage at a second position adjacent to the first position, the second stage associated with a second voicemail, wherein a stage at the second position has a second width orthogonal to a second height, the second width less than the first width and the second height less than the first height;
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- a third stage at a third position adjacent to the second position, the third stage associated with a third voicemail, wherein a stage at the third position has a third width less than the second width;
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- wherein the voicemail application is configured to:
- expand a second stage width and height as the second stage is brought to the first position;
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- decrease a first stage width and height as the second stage is brought to the first position.
A method comprising:
- providing, via a graphical user interface (GUI) of a touchscreen of a computing device, a first stage, a second stage, and a third stage along a bisecting axis to a user such that the first stage, the second stage, and the third stage are substantially bisected by the bisecting axis, the first stage, the second stage, and the third stage respectively having a first surface area, a second surface area, and a third surface area, wherein the first stage, the second stage, and the third stage are positioned respectively at a first position, a second position, and a third position on the touchscreen;
- increasing, via the GUI, the second surface area of the second stage to the first surface area as the second stage is brought to the first position;
- increasing, via the GUI, the third surface area of the third stage to the second surface area as the third stage is brought to the second position;
- decreasing, via the GUI, the first surface area of the first stage while increasing surface area of the second and third stages;
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- providing a voicemail interface to the user, via the GUI, such that the user can play a voicemail associated with a stage at the first position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.