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Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003

Filed:

May. 04, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:

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);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 ;
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.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Chew, Chee. (2003). Smart column for contact information on palm-sized computing devices and method and apparatus for displaying the same (U.S. Patent No. 6593949). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6593949

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