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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2007
Sandra Irene Vargas, Sammamish, WA (US);
Keith Rowe, Seattle, WA (US);
Peter Chin, Seattle, WA (US);
Anton Andrews, Seattle, WA (US);
Sandra Irene Vargas, Sammamish, WA (US);
Keith Rowe, Seattle, WA (US);
Peter Chin, Seattle, WA (US);
Anton Andrews, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for operating a mobile communication device in a sleep mode. The mobile communication device displays a time in an easily readable format at a low-light intensity, provides an alert to a user at an alarm time in a particular manner specified by the user, changes the buttons on the mobile communication device to operate as snooze buttons, and suppresses a portion of call and message notifications received by the mobile communication device when the mobile communication device is in the sleep mode. The sleep mode operation is performed, at least in part, according to sleep-mode user settings chosen by the user.