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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:
Feb. 15, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 22, 1997
Billy G Moon, Apex, NC (US);
Manon Baratt, Cary, NC (US);
Ericsson Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for visually monitoring the status of a phone call initiated by a portable intelligent communications device including the steps of displaying a graphical image on a display screen of the portable intelligent communications device and depicting on the graphical image a current status of the phone call. The graphical image is a geographical map and the method further includes the steps of depicting a current location of the portable intelligent communications device on the graphical image, depicting the destination location of the phone call on the graphical image, and depicting progressive connection of the phone call to a destination location on the graphical image. Additionally, the method may also include the steps of depicting one of the portable intelligent communications device location and the destination location as a disconnecting location for the phone call on the graphical image, depicting progressive disconnection of the phone call from the disconnecting location to the other location, and depicting the other location as being disconnected from the phone call. Color coding may be utilized to distinguish between when the phone call is either connected or disconnected at the portable intelligent communications device location and the destination location.