Patent ID: 7246320
Filing Date: 2007-07-17
Classification: G06F,H04M

Abstract:
1. A process for optimized navigation in display menus of a mobile wireless communication terminal, in which the mobile terminal is endowed with a user interface that comprises a display means and at least one integrated control means called a navigational cross in order to move by physical actions on the cross a cursor over the display means, said navigational cross having two functionalities complementary to the functionalities of scrolling the cursor up and down, the process comprising: displaying with the display means a selection menu identifying a plurality of different items, manipulating the navigational cross to select, by at least one of the scrolling functionalities, one of the items displayed in the selection menu, then displaying in response to activation of one of the complementary functionalities called a first functionality of navigational cross, a first batch of possible actions on a data in relation to the item selected in selection menu, said process being characterized in that it also comprises an alternative step of displaying, in response to the activation of the other of said complementary functionalities called a second functionality of navigational cross, a second batch of possible actions on the data in relation to the selected item in said selection menu, said first and second functionalities each having a different specialization; in which the first batch of actions groups management functions, the first functionality being specialized for data management, while the second batch of actions groups command functions, the second functionality being specialized for possible commands on said data.