Patent ID: 7386303
Filing Date: 2008-06-10
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A portable wireless subscriber unit operable in a communications system including a server for providing a plurality of predetermined services to the wireless subscriber unit, the wireless subscriber unit comprising: a display for displaying a menu listing the predetermined services; a first user input interface for selecting from the menu one of the predetermined services; means, responsive to the first user input interface, for transmitting a first message to the server by way of a radio link to cause a server application program to begin providing the selected one of the predetermined services to the wireless subscriber unit; a second user input interface comprising a single input device for generating an electrically detectable input signal from user actuation of the single input device; means, coupled to the second user input interface, for detecting predetermined types of user actuations of the single input device based on the electrically detectable input signal, the predetermined types of user actuations comprising a single click, a double click and a push-and-hold; means for generating a second message identifying one of the predetermined types of user actuations corresponding to the user actuation of the single input device; means, coupled and responsive to the generating means, for transmitting the second message to the server by way of the radio link, the second message for causing the server application program to execute one or more state changes during provisioning of the selected one of the predetermined services to the wireless subscriber unit.