Nokia Mobile Phones Limited

Peter Ib

Christian Lindholm

Flemming Klovborg Larsen

Steen Lillethorup Frederiksen

Erik Paul Anderson

A phone number database has a first group of memory locations with associated speed dialing facility and a second group of memory locations without speed dialing facility. A phone number may be provided with speed dialing facility when this phone number is already stored without speed dialing facility in the second group by indicating the phone number whose speed dialing status is to be changed, indicating a memory location with a phone number with the desired speed dialing status, and interchanging the speed dialing status of the two phone numbers.

Phone number database for a phone

When it is attempted to enter a phone number and a corresponding ID name into an already full phone book database for a phone, the phone temporarily stores the phone number and ID name in an intermediate memory. Then the phone asks the user whether he wants to overwrite an existing phone number and ID name in a memory location of the phone book. The user is allowed to point out a memory location to overwrite, and then the contents of the intermediate memory are transferred to the memory location pointed out for storage.

Handling of a local phone number database

A phone is provided with a set of keys and a controller which monitors the status of the phone. The set of keys comprises a call handling key for establishing and terminating a call. The functionality of the call handling key is controlled by the controller in dependence on the status of the phone, and said set of keys comprises a key for rejecting an incoming call.

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