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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2001
Jonathan O. Nelson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Walter G. Bright, Kirkland, WA (US);
G. Eric Engstrom, Kirkland, WA (US);
Tyrol R. Graham, Seattle, WA (US);
Jonathan O. Nelson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Walter G. Bright, Kirkland, WA (US);
G. Eric Engstrom, Kirkland, WA (US);
Tyrol R. Graham, Seattle, WA (US);
Varia Holdings LLC, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Abstract
A wireless mobile phone is provided with one or more buttons and complementary logic to facilitate entry of encoded representations of a variable length encoding scheme of alphanumeric data. As a result, a user may use the provided facilities to engage in non-verbal communication for sensitive subject matters in the middle of a call. In one embodiment, the encoded representations are Morse codes. In another embodiment, the encoded representations are custom designed. In one embodiment, the complementary logic further facilitates echoing on a display, alphanumeric data corresponding to any entered encoded representations. Additionally, each of the code entry buttons includes one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs), and the LEDs are lit to visually echo the encoded representations of the variable length encoding scheme of letters, numbers or punctuations entered through a standard input keypad.