Patent ID: 6889039

Claim:
A method for handling recorded acoustic samples in a mobile phone represented in categories in a hierarchical memory structure comprising: recording an acoustic sample and generating an electronic representation of said acoustic sample in said memory structure, said electronic representation of said acoustic sample being retrievable from said memory structure and played back, assigning a label of each electronic representation of said acoustic sample, said label includes a category in said memory structure and a name for said electronic representation of said acoustic sample, said assigning including: assigning each electronic representation of said acoustic sample a default or user-defined category in said memory structure, assigning a name for said electronic representation of said acoustic sample, assigning a sorting criteria, and assigning date, time and duration of record to the electronic representation of said acoustic sample, displaying the name of said electronic representation of said acoustic sample under the assigned category in said memory structure, the displaying including an indication whether said acoustic sample has been played back or not, and playing back said electronic representation of said acoustic sample from a selected category in said memory structure wherein the mobile phone is compatible for use in a GSM network.