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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1999
Steven John Cosgrove, Singapore, SG;
Kim Hock Lim, Singapore, SG;
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A foldable communication device (,) with a housing having two portions (,) pivotably mounted to each other to allow relative movement therebetween. This relative movement is about an axis (,) and enabled by mounting portion (,) to two mounts (,) of portion (,). Device (,) has a transceiver (,) housed in the housing, an alert transducer (,) associated with transceiver (,) to provide an audible alert at a predetermined volume when a communication call for device (,) is received by transceiver (,) and a controller (,) coupled to transducer (,). In response to the relative movement of portions (,), controller (,) reduces the volume of the audible alert without the communication call being answered.