Source: http://www.google.com.tw/patents/US7975242?hl=zh-TW
Timestamp: 2013-06-19 19:21:09
Document Index: 497637289

Matched Legal Cases: ['Application No. 60', 'Application No. 60', 'Application No. 2008203349', 'Application No. 07', 'Application No. 2009100722', 'Application No. 2009100723', 'Application No. 11']

�M�Q US7975242 - Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for ... - Google �M�Q�j�M �Ϥ� �a�� Play YouTube �s�D Gmail ���ݵw�� ��h »�i���M�Q�j�M | �������� | �n�J�i���M�Q�j�M�M�QIn some embodiments, a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display performs a method that includes: displaying a phone call user interface on the touch screen display, wherein the phone call user interface includes: a first informational item associated with an active phone call between...http://www.google.com.tw/patents/US7975242?utm_source=gb-gplus-share�M�Q US7975242 - Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for conference calling���}��US7975242 B2�X���������v�ӽЮѽs��11/960,673�o�G���2011�~7��5���ӽФ��2007�~12��19�� �u���v���2007�~1��7����L���}�M�Q��US20080168361, US20110275418, WO2008085743A1���}��11960673, 960673, US 7975242 B2, US 7975242B2, US-B2-7975242, US7975242 B2, US7975242B2�o��HScott Forstall, Imran Chaudhri, Michael Matas, Marcel van Os, Stephen O. Lemay, Patrick Lee Coffman, Elizabeth Caroline Furches, Greg Christie��M�Q�v�HApple Inc.�M�Q�ޥ� (100), �D�M�Q�ޥ� (22), �Q�H�U�M�Q�ޥ� (4), ���� (27) �~���s��: ���M�Q�ӼЧ�, ���M�Q�ӼЧ��M�Q����T��, �ڬw�M�Q��Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for conference callingUS 7975242 B2�K�n In some embodiments, a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display performs a method that includes: displaying a phone call user interface on the touch screen display, wherein the phone call user interface includes: a first informational item associated with an active phone call between a user of the device and a first party, a second informational item associated with a suspended phone call between the user and a second party, and a merge call icon; upon detecting a user selection of the merge call icon, merging the active phone call and the suspended phone call into a conference call between the user, the first party, and the second party, and replacing the phone call user interface with a conference call user interface. The conference call user interface includes: a third informational item associated with the conference call, and a conference call management icon.
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RELATED APPLICATIONS This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application Nos. 60/937,993, ��Portable Multifunction Device,�� filed Jun. 29, 2007; 60/947,133, ��Portable Multifunction Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Conference Calling,�� filed Jun. 29, 2007; 60/879,469, ��Portable Multifunction Device,�� filed Jan. 8, 2007; 60/879,253, and ��Portable Multifunction Device,�� filed Jan. 7, 2007. All of these applications are incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.
This application is related to the following applications: (1) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/188,182, ��Touch Pad For Handheld Device,�� filed Jul. 1, 2002; (2) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/722,948, ��Touch Pad For Handheld Device,�� filed Nov. 25, 2003; (3) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/643,256, ��Movable Touch Pad With Added Functionality,�� filed Aug. 18, 2003; (4) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/654,108, ��Ambidextrous Mouse,�� filed Sep. 2, 2003; (5) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/840,862, ��Multipoint Touchscreen,�� filed May 6, 2004; (6) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/903,964, ��Gestures For Touch Sensitive Input Devices,�� filed Jul. 30, 2004; (7) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/038,590, ��Mode-Based Graphical User Interfaces For Touch Sensitive Input Devices�� filed Jan. 18, 2005; (8) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/057,050, ��Display Actuator,�� filed Feb. 11, 2005; (9) U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/658,777, ��Multi-Functional Hand-Held Device,�� filed Mar. 4, 2005; (10) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/367,749, ��Multi-Functional Hand-Held Device,�� filed Mar. 3, 2006; and (11) U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/824,769, ��Portable Multifunction Device,�� filed Sep. 6, 2006. All of these applications are incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.
Many cell phones support a ��conference call�� feature that allows three or more parties (corresponding to three or more phones) to participate in a single conversation simultaneously. At present, however, it is difficult for a cell phone user to manage a conference call, including such tasks as adding a new party to the conference call, removing an existing party from the conference call, temporarily converting the conference call into a private phone call with one of the existing parties, and returning to the conference call from the private phone call. With present devices, it is not readily apparent to a user how to perform these tasks.
SUMMARY The above deficiencies and other problems associated with user interfaces for portable devices are reduced or eliminated by the disclosed portable multifunction device. In some embodiments, the device has a touch-sensitive display (also known as a ��touch screen��) with a graphical user interface (GUI), one or more processors, memory and one or more modules, programs or sets of instructions stored in the memory for performing multiple functions. In some embodiments, the user interacts with the GUI primarily through finger contacts and gestures on the touch-sensitive display. In some embodiments, the functions may include telephoning, video conferencing, e-mailing, instant messaging, blogging, digital photographing, digital videoing, web browsing, digital music playing, and/or digital video playing. Instructions for performing these functions may be included in a computer program product configured for execution by one or more processors.
The terminology used in the description of the invention herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used in the description of the invention and the appended claims, the singular forms ��a��, ��an�� and ��the�� are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It will also be understood that the term ��and/or�� as used herein refers to and encompasses any and all possible combinations of one or more of the associated listed items. It will be further understood that the terms ��comprises�� and/or ��comprising,�� when used in this specification, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.
The user interfaces may include one or more soft keyboard embodiments. The soft keyboard embodiments may include standard (QWERTY) and/or non-standard configurations of symbols on the displayed icons of the keyboard, such as those described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/459,606, ��Keyboards For Portable Electronic Devices,�� filed Jul. 24, 2006, and Ser. No. 11/459,615, ��Touch Screen Keyboards For Portable Electronic Devices,�� filed Jul. 24, 2006, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference herein in their entirety. The keyboard embodiments may include a reduced number of icons (or soft keys) relative to the number of keys in existing physical keyboards, such as that for a typewriter. This may make it easier for users to select one or more icons in the keyboard, and thus, one or more corresponding symbols. The keyboard embodiments may be adaptive. For example, displayed icons may be modified in accordance with user actions, such as selecting one or more icons and/or one or more corresponding symbols. One or more applications on the portable device may utilize common and/or different keyboard embodiments. Thus, the keyboard embodiment used may be tailored to at least some of the applications. In some embodiments, one or more keyboard embodiments may be tailored to a respective user. For example, one or more keyboard embodiments may be tailored to a respective user based on a word usage history (lexicography, slang, individual usage) of the respective user. Some of the keyboard embodiments may be adjusted to reduce a probability of a user error when selecting one or more icons, and thus one or more symbols, when using the soft keyboard embodiments.
Attention is now directed towards embodiments of the device. FIGS. 1A and 1B are block diagrams illustrating portable multifunction devices 100 with touch-sensitive displays 112 in accordance with some embodiments. The touch-sensitive display 112 is sometimes called a ��touch screen�� for convenience, and may also be known as or called a touch-sensitive display system. The device 100 may include a memory 102 (which may include one or more computer readable storage mediums), a memory controller 122, one or more processing units (CPU's) 120, a peripherals interface 118, RF circuitry 108, audio circuitry 110, a speaker 111, a microphone 113, an input/output (I/O) subsystem 106, other input or control devices 116, and an external port 124. The device 100 may include one or more optical sensors 164. These components may communicate over one or more communication buses or signal lines 103.
The I/O subsystem 106 couples input/output peripherals on the device 100, such as the touch screen 112 and other input/control devices 116, to the peripherals interface 118. The I/O subsystem 106 may include a display controller 156 and one or more input controllers 160 for other input or control devices. The one or more input controllers 160 receive/send electrical signals from/to other input or control devices 116. The other input/control devices 116 may include physical buttons (e.g., push buttons, rocker buttons, etc.), dials, slider switches, joysticks, click wheels, and so forth. In some alternate embodiments, input controller(s) 160 may be coupled to any (or none) of the following: a keyboard, infrared port, USB port, and a pointer device such as a mouse. The one or more buttons (e.g., 208, FIG. 2) may include an up/down button for volume control of the speaker 111 and/or the microphone 113. The one or more buttons may include a push button (e.g., 206, FIG. 2). A quick press of the push button may disengage a lock of the touch screen 112 or begin a process that uses gestures on the touch screen to unlock the device, as described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/322,549, ��Unlocking a Device by Performing Gestures on an Unlock Image,�� filed Dec. 23, 2005, which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. A longer press of the push button (e.g., 206) may turn power to the device 100 on or off. The user may be able to customize a functionality of one or more of the buttons. The touch screen 112 is used to implement virtual or soft buttons and one or more soft keyboards.
The touch-sensitive touch screen 112 provides an input interface and an output interface between the device and a user. The display controller 156 receives and/or sends electrical signals from/to the touch screen 112. The touch screen 112 displays visual output to the user. The visual output may include graphics, text, icons, video, and any combination thereof (collectively termed ��graphics��). In some embodiments, some or all of the visual output may correspond to user-interface objects, further details of which are described below.
A touch-sensitive display in some embodiments of the touch screen 112 may be as described in the following applications: (1) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/381,313, ��Multipoint Touch Surface Controller,�� filed May 2, 2006; (2) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/840,862, ��Multipoint Touchscreen,�� filed May 6, 2004; (3) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/903,964, ��Gestures For Touch Sensitive Input Devices,�� filed Jul. 30, 2004; (4) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/048,264, ��Gestures For Touch Sensitive Input Devices,�� filed Jan. 31, 2005; (5) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/038,590, ��Mode-Based Graphical User Interfaces For Touch Sensitive Input Devices,�� filed Jan. 18, 2005; (6) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/228,758, ��Virtual Input Device Placement On A Touch Screen User Interface,�� filed Sep. 16, 2005; (7) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/228,700, ��Operation Of A Computer With A Touch Screen Interface,�� filed Sep. 16, 2005; (8) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/228,737, ��Activating Virtual Keys Of A Touch-Screen Virtual Keyboard,�� filed Sep. 16, 2005; and (9) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/367,749, ��Multi-Functional Hand-Held Device,�� filed Mar. 3, 2006. All of these applications are incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.
The device 100 may also include one or more proximity sensors 166. FIGS. 1A and 1B show a proximity sensor 166 coupled to the peripherals interface 118. Alternately, the proximity sensor 166 may be coupled to an input controller 160 in the I/O subsystem 106. The proximity sensor 166 may perform as described in U.S. patent application Ser. Nos. 11/241,839, ��Proximity Detector In Handheld Device,�� filed Sep. 30, 2005; Ser. No. 11/240,788, ��Proximity Detector In Handheld Device,�� filed Sep. 30, 2005; Ser. No. to be determined, filed Jan. 7, 2007, ��Using Ambient Light Sensor To Augment Proximity Sensor Output,�� Ser. No. to be determined, filed Oct. 24, 2006, ��Automated Response To And Sensing Of User Activity In Portable Devices,�� and Ser. No. to be determined, filed Dec. 12, 2006, ��Methods And Systems For Automatic Configuration Of Peripherals,�� which are hereby incorporated by reference herein in their entirety. In some embodiments, the proximity sensor turns off and disables the touch screen 112 when the multifunction device is placed near the user's ear (e.g., when the user is making a phone call). In some embodiments, the proximity sensor keeps the screen off when the device is in the user's pocket, purse, or other dark area to prevent unnecessary battery drainage when the device is a locked state.
The device 100 may also include one or more accelerometers 168. FIGS. 1A and 1B show an accelerometer 168 coupled to the peripherals interface 118. Alternately, the accelerometer 168 may be coupled to an input controller 160 in the I/O subsystem 106. The accelerometer 168 may perform as described in U.S. Patent Publication No. 20050190059, ��Acceleration-based Theft Detection System for Portable Electronic Devices,�� and U.S. Patent Publication No. 20060017692, ��Methods And Apparatuses For Operating A Portable Device Based On An Accelerometer,�� both of which are which are incorporated herein by reference. In some embodiments, information is displayed on the touch screen display in a portrait view or a landscape view based on an analysis of data received from the one or more accelerometers.
The contact/motion module 130 may detect contact with the touch screen 112 (in conjunction with the display controller 156) and other touch sensitive devices (e.g., a touchpad or physical click wheel). The contact/motion module 130 includes various software components for performing various operations related to detection of contact, such as determining if contact has occurred, determining if there is movement of the contact and tracking the movement across the touch screen 112, and determining if the contact has been broken (i.e., if the contact has ceased). Determining movement of the point of contact may include determining speed (magnitude), velocity (magnitude and direction), and/or an acceleration (a change in magnitude and/or direction) of the point of contact. These operations may be applied to single contacts (e.g., one finger contacts) or to multiple simultaneous contacts (e.g., ��multitouch��/multiple finger contacts). In some embodiments, the contact/motion module 130 and the display controller 156 also detects contact on a touchpad. In some embodiments, the contact/motion module 130 and the controller 160 detects contact on a click wheel.
The graphics module 132 includes various known software components for rendering and displaying graphics on the touch screen 112, including components for changing the intensity of graphics that are displayed. As used herein, the term ��graphics�� includes any object that can be displayed to a user, including without limitation text, web pages, icons (such as user-interface objects including soft keys), digital images, videos, animations and the like.
The predefined set of functions that may be performed exclusively through a touch screen and/or a touchpad include navigation between user interfaces. In some embodiments, the touchpad, when touched by the user, navigates the device 100 to a main, home, or root menu from any user interface that may be displayed on the device 100. In such embodiments, the touchpad may be referred to as a ��menu button.�� In some other embodiments, the menu button may be a physical push button or other physical input/control device instead of a touchpad.
The device 100 may also include one or more physical buttons, such as ��home�� or menu button 204. As described previously, the menu button 204 may be used to navigate to any application 136 in a set of applications that may be executed on the device 100. Alternatively, in some embodiments, the menu button is implemented as a soft key in a GUI in touch screen 112.
Attention is now directed towards embodiments of user interfaces (��UI��) and associated processes that may be implemented on a portable multifunction device 100.
Unlock image 302 that is moved with a finger gesture to unlock the device; Arrow 304 that provides a visual cue to the unlock gesture; Channel 306 that provides additional cues to the unlock gesture; Time 308; Day 310; Date 312; and Wallpaper image 314. In some embodiments, the device detects contact with the touch-sensitive display (e.g., a user's finger making contact on or near the unlock image 302) while the device is in a user-interface lock state. The device moves the unlock image 302 in accordance with the contact. The device transitions to a user-interface unlock state if the detected contact corresponds to a predefined gesture, such as moving the unlock image across channel 306. Conversely, the device maintains the user-interface lock state if the detected contact does not correspond to the predefined gesture. As noted above, processes that use gestures on the touch screen to unlock the device are described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/322,549, ��Unlocking A Device By Performing Gestures On An Unlock Image,�� filed Dec. 23, 2005, and 11/322,550, ��Indication Of Progress Towards Satisfaction Of A User Input Condition,�� filed Dec. 23, 2005, which are hereby incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.
In some embodiments, a user may rearrange the icons in UI 400A or 400B, e.g., using processes described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/459,602, ��Portable Electronic Device With Interface Reconfiguration Mode,�� filed Jul. 24, 2006, which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. For example, a user may move application icons in and out of tray 408 using finger gestures.
In some embodiments, UI 400A or 400B includes a gauge (not shown) that displays an updated account usage metric for an account associated with usage of the device (e.g., a cellular phone account), as described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/322,552, ��Account Information Display For Portable Communication Device,�� filed Dec. 23, 2005, which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
In the discussion of FIGS. 5-13 below and in the claims, several user interfaces on the touch screen display are referred to, including a ��phone call�� user interface; a ��conference call�� user interface; a ��conference call management�� user interface; and an ��incoming phone call�� user interface. These user interfaces could equivalently be referred to as a first user interface, a second user interface, a third user interface, and a fourth user interface, respectively. The first user interface (i.e., the phone call user interface) includes a merge call icon and informational items associated with separate calls. The second user interface (i.e., the conference call user interface) includes an informational item associated with the conference call and a conference call management icon (i.e., an icon that when activated by a finger tap or other gesture brings up the display of the third user interface, the conference call management interface). The third user interface (i.e., the conference call management user interface) includes management entries corresponding to the other parties in the conference call, one or more end call icons and one or more private call icons. The fourth user interface (i.e., the incoming call user interface) includes an ignore incoming phone call icon, a suspend current phone call and answer incoming phone call icon, and an end current phone call and answer incoming phone call icon. For clarity and ease of discussion, these interfaces will be referred to in the specification and claims by the labels ��phone call,�� ��conference call,�� ��conference call management,�� and ��incoming call,�� rather than by the labels first, second, third, and fourth.
In some embodiments, a respective information item associated with a telephone call or conference call includes both a call descriptor (e.g., a name of the other party to the call, a telephone number, or a label such as ��conference��) and a call status indicator, such as a call duration value (e.g., ��00:05��) or call status (e.g., ��Hold�� or ��On Hold��). However, in some embodiments or some interfaces, a respective information item may include the descriptor, or the status indicator, but not both.
Additional description of location-based dialing can be found in U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 60/883,800, ��Method, Device, And Graphical User Interface For Location-Based Dialing,�� filed Jan. 7, 2007, the content of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
While the phone call between the user and the second party is active, the device 100 receives a new incoming call from a first party (502). To alert the user of the incoming call, the device 100 replaces the phone call user interface with an incoming phone call user interface (503). Note that the user interface change does not suspend or terminate the ongoing phone call between the user and the second party. An exemplary incoming phone call user interface 3000C is shown in FIG. 13C, which is described in more detail below. In some embodiments, the UI 3000C includes an ��ignore�� icon 3026, a ��hold call+answer�� icon 3028, and an ��end call+answer�� icon 3030, each icon corresponding to a predefined set of operations. Other labels that indicate the ignore, hold call+answer, and end call+answer functions may also be used on icons 3026, 3028, and 3030, respectively.
To determine which, if any, icon is selected by the user and therefore what operations to perform, the device 100 monitors the next user contact with the touch screen display (504). For example, a finger tap or other predefined gesture on the ��ignore�� icon (506) indicates that the user chooses to continue the phone call with the second party and not to answer the incoming call.
In some embodiments, the device 100 detects the user's finger tap or other predefined gesture on the ��end call+answer�� icon (514), suggesting that the user chooses to terminate the phone call with the second party and answer the incoming call from the first party.
FIG. 7 is a flow diagram illustrating a process for answering an incoming call after user selection of the ��end call+answer�� icon in accordance with some embodiments. Typically, the user selection of the ��end call+answer�� icon happens after the user notifies the second party of its intention to answer the incoming call. The device 100 first ends the phone call with the second party (702) and then starts the phone call with the first party (704). The incoming phone call user interface 3000C is replaced with a new phone call user interface with the first party (706). An exemplary phone call user interface 3000D is similar to the UI 3000B except that the second party's phone number is replaced by the first party's name ��Arlene Bascom.�� A more detailed description of the UI 3000D is provided below in connection with FIG. 13D. The user starts the conversation with the first user and the device 100 continues monitoring the next user contact with the touch screen display (708). In some embodiments, substantially the same process described above applies when the user is having a conference call with multiple parties, an incoming call arrives, and the user ends the conference call and answers the incoming call.
In some embodiments, the user may choose to answer the incoming call after temporarily suspending (but not completely terminating) the phone call with the second party by selecting the ��hold call+answer�� icon (510). After conversing with the first party, the user may merge the two separate phone calls�Xthe active call with the first party and the suspended call with the second party�Xinto a conference call so that the three parties can talk with each other simultaneously.
FIG. 8 is a flow diagram illustrating a process for merging two phone calls into a conference call in accordance with some embodiments. In response to a user selection of the ��hold call+answer�� icon, the device 100 first suspends the phone call with the second party (802) and then activates the phone call with the first party (804). The incoming phone call user interface is replaced with a new phone call interface (806). In some embodiments, the new phone call user interface includes a first informational item corresponding to the active phone call with the first party, a second informational item corresponding to the suspended phone call with the second party, and a merge call icon. An exemplary phone call user interface 3000E is shown in FIG. 13E. The position previously occupied by the add caller icon 3018 may now be occupied by the merge call icon 3038.
In some embodiments, upon detecting a user selection of the private call icon of the management entry associated with the second party, the device 100 suspends the conference call and replaces it with a private call between the user and the second party (908). The conference call management user interface is replaced with a phone call user interface that has a merge call icon (910). In some embodiments, the phone call user interface includes a fourth informational item associated with the suspended phone call between the user and the first party, a fifth informational item associated with the active phone call between the user and the second party, and a merge call icon. An exemplary user interface 3000J is shown in FIG. 13J. The UI 3000J is the same as the UI 3000E icon except that the informational item associated with the first party ��Arlene Bascom�� is now grayed out (indicating that Arlen Bascom is on hold) and the informational item associated with the second party ��(650) 132-2234�� is highlighted (indicating that the user is having a separate call with (650) 132-2234).
In some embodiments, in response to activation of the private call icon 3056 (e.g., by a finger tap 3058 on the icon), the conference call is suspended and a phone call UI is displayed (e.g., UI 3000J, FIG. 13J), which includes information 3033 about the private call and information 3035 about the suspended conference call. In this example, because only one other party in the conference call is on hold (Arlene Bascom in this example), the information 3035 about the suspended conference call is just information about the one party on hold. In some embodiments, if more than one party in the conference call is put on hold, then the information 3035 about the suspended conference call may be less specific, such as ��conference on hold�� or the like (e.g., information 3068 in UI 3000M, FIG. 13M).
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