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Portable communication apparatus having a hierarchical menu system and a dynamic menu
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Inventors: Aberg, Kristoffer;
Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm, SE)
Primary Examiner: Feild; Joseph
Assistant Examiner: Nguyen; Huy D.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
A portable communication apparatus, such as a mobile telephone, has a display, a user-controlled input device, a memory, a controller, and a hierarchical menu system stored in the memory. The menu system has a plurality of menus, including top-level menus, sub-level menus, and a plurality of menu items under respective menus. The controller is arranged to present individual menus/menu items on the display, receive selection commands from a user through the user-controlled input device and in response perform functions related to the presented menus/menu items. The memory of the apparatus has a dynamic menu, the contents of which may be modified by the user. The dynamic menu is either a top-level menu or a sub-level menu in the hierarchical menu system. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved menu system for a portable communication apparatus, such as a mobile telephone.
More particularly, the present invention aims at providing a dynamic menu, which may be customized by the user, which is easily accessible from the normal menu system ("extended menu system") and which also allows the user to add and delete menu items in an easy way.
The objects of the present invention have been obtained by providing the dynamic menu as either a toplevel menu or a sub-level menu within the normal menu system, meaning that the user will not have to learn the structure of two different menu systems (a short and an extended menu system) and that all previously added menu items are always accessible through the dynamic menu within the normal menu system.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the dynamic menu comprises a specific menu item, which provides a function for modifying the contents of the dynamic menu, e.
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by presenting a list of available menu items, from which the user may select certain items to be added to the dynamic menu.
Also, the preferred embodiment comprises a similar function for removing menu items from the dynamic menu.
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