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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
David W Peyer, South Elgin, IL (US);
Pamela A Dillard, Lake Zurich, IL (US);
Carolyn S Schmitz, Mt. Prospect, IL (US);
Thomas Puchala, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379433 ; 379434 ;
Abstract
A closeable communication device (102) has a housing (105) movable between a closed position (200) and an opened position (114) and a controller (304) disposed in the housing (105). The controller (304) detects an incoming call to the device (102) and selectively disables (522, 524) answering of the incoming call when the housing (105) is moved from the closed position (200) to the opened position (114). This allows a user to view, without answering the call, caller identification information only viewable in the opened position (114).