Patent ID: 8154551
Filing Date: 2012-04-10
Classification: G06F,H04M

Abstract:
1. In a cellular phone comprising an antenna and two separate programmed processors further including a host processor running an operating system program and an engine processor running an application program: wherein the host processor runs communications functions of the cellular phone via the antenna and runs input/output of the cellular phone, the input/output further including character input; and wherein the engine processor comprises a dedicated programmed processing section running applications; the improvement wherein the engine and the operating system are constructed such that when character input is required by an application running on the engine processor, the character input is processed by the host processor and then passed to the engine processor for display according to the application being executed by the engine processor, and font display data originates in the application and does not originate in the host processor; whereby the application and the engine processor require no built-in character input.