Patent ID: 6366302
Filing Date: 2002-04-02
Classification: H04M,Y10S

Abstract:
A radiotelephone comprising:a radiotelephone housing; a display mounted on the radiotelephone housing; a controller positioned in the radiotelephone housing and coupled to the display; a memory coupled to the controller; and a plurality of input keys mounted on the radiotelephone housing and electrically coupled to the controller; the controller causing the display to present various lists, wherein, a title message is presented at a top portion of the display when a top portion of any of the various lists is presented on the display; an end-of-list indicator is presented at a bottom portion of the display when a bottom portion of any of the various lists is presented on the display; a highlighter is presented on the display to highlight a currently displayed item of any of the various lists; a dynamic scroll indicator is presented on the display to indicate possible scrolling directions, the dynamic scroll indicator having multiple appearances for different display conditions, wherein the multiple appearances of the dynamic scroll indicator comprises: a downward pointing arrow when the title message is displayed and a first item of any of the various lists is highlighted to indicate that a possible scrolling direction is down; an arrow that points both up towards the top portion of the display and downward towards the bottom portion of the display to indicate that the possible scrolling direction is up and down when neither the title message nor the end-of-list indicator are displayed; and an upward pointing arrow when the end-of-list indicator is displayed to indicate that the possible scrolling direction is up; a smooth scroll feature, wherein, when the title message is displayed and a last currently displayed item is not highlighted, a user can hold depressed a down input key to sequentially highlight a next currently displayed item and the user can hold depressed an up input key to sequentially highlight a previous currently displayed item, when the title message is displayed and the last currently displayed item is highlighted, the user can hold depressed the down input key to cause currently displayed items to scroll vertically upward across the display with top-most displayed items scrolling off of the top portion of the display and new items scrolling onto the display from the bottom portion of the display, the currently displayed items scrolling at a smooth scroll rate, when the dynamic scroll indicator indicates that the possible scrolling directions are up and down and the title message is not displayed, the user can hold depressed the down input key to cause the currently displayed items to scroll upward across the display at the smooth scroll rate, and the user can hold depressed the up input key to cause the currently displayed items to scroll downward across the display at the smooth scroll rate, and when the end-of-list indicator appears on the display, the user can hold depressed the up input key to cause displayed lines to scroll downward across the display at the smooth scroll rate; a search function that allows a user to press an input key corresponding to a desired letter to cause a currently displayed list to automatically jump to a first item of the currently displayed list that begins with the desired letter and then display and highlight the first item of the currently displayed list that begins with the desired letter; and a fast scroll rate for the search function, wherein, when the user presses the input key corresponding to the desired letter and the desired letter is alphabetically subsequent to the first letter of a currently highlighted item, a page down occurs until the first item that begins with the desired letter is displayed and highlighted, the page down occurring at the fast scroll rate so that the currently displayed items scroll off of the top portion of the display and the new items scroll onto the display from the bottom portion of the display, and when the user presses the input key corresponding to the desired letter and the desired letter alphabetically precedes the first letter of the currently highlighted item, a page up occurs until the first item that begins with the desired letter is displayed and highlighted, the page up occurring at the fast scroll rate so that the currently displayed items scroll off of the bottom portion of the display and the new items scroll onto the display from the top portion of the display.