Nokia Mobile Phones Limited

Nokia Corporation

Maini Williams

Neil Briffett

George Bernhart

Yannick Pellet

Dominik Jaworek

Esa Etel&auml;per&auml;

Tommi Salomaa

Juha Saarela

An improved user interface for use with a mobile telecommunication device such as a mobile phone to make its featured more accessible to a sight-impaired user. The user interface employs a collection of distinguishable non-visual (NV) cues that are selectively generated as the user chooses a feature for activation by navigating through a menu system. The NV cues may take any of several forms, but are most usually vibration pulses or audible sounds, or a combination of these two forms. As the user navigates through the menu system by sequentially selecting from available options, the NV cues are generated so that the user can sense a location within the menu system. The different NV cues may be associated with the availability of certain selected options, the selection of them, or organized in a manner analogous to the manner in which the options themselves are organized.

Mobile telephone user interface

A method of recording and delivering a voice message from a calling telephone ( ) to a called telephone ( ) in the event that the called telephone ( ) cannot be reached. A voice message ( ) is recorded at the calling telephone ( ) and is stored there until the calling telephone ( ) receives a message ( ) from the telephone network ( ) that the called telephone ( ) can now be reached. Upon receipt of this message ( ), the calling telephone ( ) initiates a call to the called telephone ( ) and replays the recorded message ( ) over the open voice channel.

Telephone services

A radiotelephone proximity detector, comprising a first proximity unit associated with a radiotelephone and a second proximity unit associated with a user wherein the second proximity unit includes a transmitter for transmitting a proximity signal, and the first proximity unit includes a receiver for receiving the proximity signal and an analysis unit for estimating the proximity of the first and second proximity units on the basis of the received proximity signal, the first proximity unit being operable when the estimated proximity of the first and second proximity units exceeds a threshold to cause the radiotelephone to change into an operating mode in which its normal use is prevented.

Radio telephone proximity detector

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Tampere, Finland

Maini Williams