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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003
Filed:
May. 04, 2000
Chee H. Chew, Redmond, WA (US);
Elizabeth A. Bastiaanse, Cambridge, MA (US);
Ido Ben-Shachar, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jeffrey R. Blum, Seattle, WA (US);
Mark H. Enomoto, Seattle, WA (US);
Greg A. Keyser, Sammamish, WA (US);
Kathryn L. Parker, Fall City, WA (US);
Kevin T. Shields, Redmond, WA (US);
Sarah E. Zuberec, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The UI of the present invention increases the number of contacts initially shown to the user of a hand-held device to aid the user in finding information in a Contacts database. While displaying a list of Contacts database entries, the UI displays a column which contains single letters indicating the type of information displayed for the names represented in the list of entries. A tap on a letter in that column causes a sub-list of other most commonly needed information to be deployed for the corresponding entry, potentially eliminating the need for the user to open the entire record for that entry.