Patent ID: 7606598
Filing Date: 2009-10-20
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for initiating telephone calls from a mobile device which operates in a wireless communication network, comprising: displaying text on a visual display of the mobile device; moving a position marker on the visual display throughout the displayed text in response to a navigational input by a user to the mobile device; monitoring for a predetermined user input to the mobile device and upon detecting the predetermined user input causing a list of user selectable functions to be displayed on the visual display, wherein the displayed list of user selectable functions does not include a telephone call function for a non-hyperlinked number string if the non-hyperlinked number string does not meet predetermined criteria; determining if the position marker is located within a non-hyperlinked number string in the displayed text when the predetermined user input is detected and causing the displayed list of user selectable functions to include a telephone call function for initiating a telephone call to the non-hyperlinked number string; causing, if a user selects from the list of functions the initiate a telephone call function, a telephone call to the non-hyperlinked number string to be initiated through the wireless communications network, wherein displaying the text on the visual display includes: causing the hyperlink for a telephone number string to be highlighted when selected by a user during the displaying of the text; determining if the hyperlink of a telephone number string is selected by a user when the predetermined user input is detected and if so, causing the displayed list of user selectable functions to include a telephone call function for initiating a telephone call to the selected hyperlinked telephone number string; and causing, if a user selects from the list of functions the initiate a telephone call function, a telephone call to the selected hyperlinked telephone number string to be initiated through the wireless communications network.