Method and apparatus for interfacing to communications messages

摘要

A user interface system is provided for managing communications messages of a communications device supporting voice and data services. The user interface system is operative to receive a data element wherein the data element identifies the type of communications message received and sender identification, display a menu upon receiving the data element, wherein the menu comprises a selectable object with the selectable object having a label identifying the message type, receive a data item indicating selection of the selectable object and generate a communications action in response to selection of the selectable object.

主权项

1. A method of operating a mobile communications device, the method comprising:
receiving a communications message, the message comprising information relating to message type and sender identification; directly responsive to receiving the communications message, displaying a selectable menu, the menu comprising at least a first object having a first label and a second object having a second label, the first label identifying a first communications message type and a first number of messages of the first communications message type and the second label identifying a second communications message type and a second number of messages of the second communications message type; receiving a data element indicating a user's selection of one of the first and second objects; and generating a communications action to display a scrollable and selectable list of sender identifications relating to a plurality of communications messages from a plurality of senders for the object selected by the user.