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Patent No.:

US 8583193 B1

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Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2013

Filed:

Jan. 06, 2012
Applicants:

William H. Meitzler, Elk Grove Village, IL (US);

Adrian Napoles, Lake Villa, IL (US);

Inventors:

William H. Meitzler, Elk Grove Village, IL (US);

Adrian Napoles, Lake Villa, IL (US);

Assignee:

Motorola Mobility LLC, Libertyville, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A hand-held communication device, such as a cellular telephone or a personal digital assistant (PDA), comprises a sensor assembly and an auxiliary input interface. The auxiliary input interface is situated along one or more exterior surfaces of the device and is electrically coupled to processing circuitry within the device. The sensor assembly is removably attached to the one or more exterior surfaces of device and provides signals at the multiple outputs in response to tactile inputs from the user. In one embodiment, an assignment procedure assigns tactile inputs from the user to predefined functions of the device and/or one or more software applications installed in the device. During subsequent operation of the device, each of the specific tactile input executes one or more predefined functions.


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