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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 05, 1998
Gerald C. Davis, Hillsborough, NC (US);
Ericsson, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Abstract
A control apparatus for a hand-held wireless telephone having a housing and operating in a first operational state of a plurality of sequential operational states. The control apparatus changes the operational state of the wireless telephone from the first operational state to a second operational state. The control apparatus itself comprises a detector that produces a signal responsive to a user grasping the housing of the wireless telephone and a controller responsive to receiving the signal produced by the detector and configured to select another operational state following the first operational state in a predetermined sequence of operational states.