公开(公告)号：US5796394A

公开(公告)日：1998-08-18

申请号：US935925

申请日：1997-09-23

申请人： James E. Wicks ,  Kazuto Mugura ,  Toshiya Fujii

发明人： James E. Wicks ,  Kazuto Mugura ,  Toshiya Fujii

IPC分类号： G06F3/14 ,  G06F3/048 ,  G06F13/00 ,  H04L12/58 ,  H04M1/247 ,  H04M1/65 ,  H04M1/663 ,  H04M1/725 ,  H04M3/53 ,  H04M3/537 ,  H04M11/00 ,  H04N1/00 ,  H04N3/00

CPC分类号： H04M1/725 ,  H04L12/58 ,  H04M1/6505 ,  H04M1/663 ,  H04M1/72502 ,  H04M1/72552 ,  H04M3/5307 ,  H04M3/537 ,  H04L12/5895 ,  H04M2201/38

摘要： A user interface provides a uniform control scheme among different devices in a personal communications routing system. The system allows devices such as a personal computer, personal information communicator, pager, fax machine and base station to be operated with a standard twelve key telephone keypad controller for the purpose of accessing electronic messages such as e-mail, voice-mail, fax transmissions, etc. Handheld communicators are docked with the devices to provide wireless transmission between a base station and numerous devices in a multi-user environment. The base station receives electronic messages for the users in, e.g., an office and routes the messages to a device as the user instructs. The user is able to perform operations on the messages such as reading, responding, deleting, etc., by using the keypad. A visual indication of user designated message bins, along with icons to represent messages received, is used to special advantage by coordinating the bin layout with the arrangement of keys on the keypad. Another feature of the system is that rules can be predefined to route, screen or otherwise manipulate the messages. The rules are applied by the base station to each incoming message. Different users can have different rules such as automatic forwarding of messages, automatic paging upon receipt of a message and sorting of messages by sender's name or time of day.

摘要翻译： 用户接口在个人通信路由系统中的不同设备之间提供统一的控制方案。 该系统允许诸如个人计算机，个人信息通信器，寻呼机，传真机和基站的设备与标准的十二键电话键盘控制器一起操作，以便访问诸如电子邮件，语音邮件，传真 传输等。手持通信器与设备对接，以在多用户环境中的基站和多个设备之间提供无线传输。 基站接收例如办公室中的用户的电子消息，并且按照用户指示将消息路由到设备。 用户可以通过使用键盘对诸如阅读，响应，删除等消息进行操作。 用户指定的消息箱的可视指示以及表示所接收的消息的图标被特别地用于通过协调箱布局与小键盘上的键的布置来实现。 系统的另一个特点是可以预定义规则来路由，屏幕或以其他方式操纵消息。 这些规则由基站应用于每个传入消息。 不同的用户可以有不同的规则，例如消息的自动转发，收到消息后的自动寻呼以及按照发件人的姓名或时间排序消息。