Keypad Patents (Class D14/247)
  • Compound portable computing device with dual portion keyboard coupled over a wireless link
    Patent number: 6867965
    Abstract: A compound portable computing device comprising two or more separate portable devices coupled over a wireless link is described. A first portable computing device contains a first portion of a full-size conventional QWERTY keyboard. A second portable computing device contains a second portion of the full-size keyboard, and the first portion and the second portion together comprise the keys of the full-size keyboard. A network link is established that couples the first portable computing device to the second portable computing device. A partial keyboard map is loaded into memory of the first and second devices. The partial keyboard map loaded into the memory of the first device corresponds to the portion of the keyboard contained in the first device, and the partial keyboard map loaded into the memory of the second device corresponds to the portion of the keyboard contained in the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Inventor: Soon Huat Khoo
  • Keypad and electronic device
    Patent number: 6809660
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a keypad (25) for an electronic device including a plurality of fingers (26,27,28) having a splayed open configuration and a plurality of keys (31) on each finger (26,27,28). The fingers (26,27,28) are moved into a closed configuration when the keypad 25 is installed in said electronic device such that a key (31) on at least one finger (26,27,28) is positioned in close proximity or is contiguous to a key (31) on an adjacent finger (26,27,28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Limited
    Inventor: Nikolaj Bestle
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D500757
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Dimitre D. Mehandjiysky
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D500758
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Rudy Widiaman, Duncan Burns
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D501001
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Iain Pottie, Anthony Dalby
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D501469
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: John-Rhys Newman, Kenneth Bower
  • Portion of a handset
    Patent number: D502174
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Dimitre Mehandjiysky
  • Portion of a handset
    Patent number: D504127
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Tej Chauhan
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D504422
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Kelley Ann Lee, Andrew Gartrell
  • Keypad for a communication device
    Patent number: D504680
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Franco Lodato, Julio C. Castaneda, Hartmut H. Esslinger, Howard Nuk
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D488465
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Gartrell, Alastair Curtis, Andrea Finke-Anlauf
  • Key button area for a handset
    Patent number: D488804
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Pitt, Tej Chauhan, Aaron Moss
  • Keypad for a handset
    Patent number: D489060
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun Hsian Lia Liao, Hsueh Lung Liang
  • Keypad for a portable wireless telephone
    Patent number: D489362
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Shimamura, Yoshiki Miyazawa, Hiromu Kitamura, Masakatsu Takizawa
  • Function keys for a portable wireless telephone
    Patent number: D489363
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Shimamura, Yoshiki Miyazawa, Hiromu Kitamura, Masakatsu Takizawa
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D490073
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Jamie Langford
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D490074
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Pekka Majanen
  • Keymat for a handset
    Patent number: D490405
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Frank Nuovo, Todd Wood, Seiji Morioka, Eduardo Salazar
  • Keypad for a handset
    Patent number: D490406
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiang Yuan He, Xiaozhou Wang, Chia-Hua Chen
  • Key button for a handset
    Patent number: D490407
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Arbisi
  • Portion of a handset
    Patent number: D490414
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew Sinclair
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D491172
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Wei-Jong William Sheu
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D491929
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Frank Nuovo, Justin Lyles
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D491930
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Rudy Widiaman
  • Keyboard for mobile telephone
    Patent number: D492293
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Inventor: Young S. Kim
  • Game controller for mobile telephone
    Patent number: D492294
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Inventor: Young S. Kim
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D492296
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Arbisi
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D492297
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Petteri Kolinen
  • Portions of a handset
    Patent number: D492298
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Kelley Ann Lee, Anthony Cruz
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D492674
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Rudy Widiaman, Duncan Burns
  • Interface for communication devices or similar articles
    Patent number: D492675
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Tsung Sean Wei, Bao-Nan Du
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D493166
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Shunjiro Eguchi, Ilkka Husgafvel
  • Two-way radio
    Patent number: D493435
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Hartmut Heinrich Esslinger, Howard Geoffrey Nuk, Kevin Christian Coullahan, Lucas Graeme Williams, Peter Kossev, Jon Christopher Lake, William H. Robertson, Jr.
  • Keypad
    Patent number: D493449
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Quanta Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Feng-Chun Wang, Gwo-Chyuan Chen
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D493450
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Dimitre D. Mehandjiysky
  • Mobile phone
    Patent number: D493451
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Joe Wada
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D493781
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Wei-Jong William Sheu
  • Set of buttons for operating an electric device
    Patent number: D494961
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Orrin Shively, Andy M. Ogden
  • Portion of a handset
    Patent number: D495323
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Ilkka Husgafvel
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D495687
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Arbisi
  • Wireless communication device
    Patent number: D496654
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Kyocera Wireless Corporation
    Inventor: Brandon Stuart Burroughs
  • Keyboard of an electronic communication device
    Patent number: D496655
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Sierra Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Harries, Jon Theron Winebrenner, Jamian Russell Cobbett, Mark H. Hoeveler, Stephen Matthew McCallion, Norman Roy Eldridge
  • Key button area for a handset
    Patent number: D496926
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Dalby, Joonsuh Kim, Robert Pitt, Tej Chauhan, Aaron Moss
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D497361
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Gartrell, Alastair Curtis, Andrea Finke-Anlauff
  • Function key region of a handset
    Patent number: D497614
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Gartrell, Alastair Curtis, Andrea Finke-Anlauf
  • Key button arrangement
    Patent number: D498473
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Wei-Jong William Sheu
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D499088
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Wei-Jong William Sheu
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D499720
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Pekka Majanen
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D499721
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Daren Leith, Iain Pottie, Anthony Dalby
  • Key button arrangement for a handset
    Patent number: D500310
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Panu Johansson