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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2006
Applicants:
Rich Karstens, Lake Forest Park, WA (US);
Ryan Robertson, Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Rich Karstens, Lake Forest Park, WA (US);
Ryan Robertson, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
PalmSource, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for automatic delivery of a phone call on an electronic device regardless of whether other tasks are running on the operating system. A separate background task ('thread'), independent of the operating system, enables telephony functionality without regard to the mode of a graphical user interface. The background task is always active and functions to respond to an incoming call even if the user is in a graphical user interface window that requires some input from the user (e.g. the graphical user interface is blocked).