Sticky messages
View Patent ↗Described herein are techniques related to sticky messaging, which enable the use of the content of text and/or multimedia messages outside the context of the messaging inbox of a telecommunications device, such as a mobile phone. An implementation described herein includes posting of the content (e.g., text, image, audio, and video) of a message onto a home screen of the telecommunications device. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
1. A telecommunications device comprising:
a messaging system configured to receive mobile-communications infrastructure messages via a mobile-communications infrastructure and to maintain an inbox of messages received by the telecommunications device;
a display configured to show a home-screen user interface (UI) to facilitate interaction with a user of the telecommunications device:
a user-interaction system configured to interact with the user, wherein one or more systems of the device are configured to:
present one or more of the messages of the inbox to a user on the display;
detect a touch and hold event on one or more of the presented one or more messages of the inbox;
in response to the detected touch and hold event and determining that the detected touch and hold event has occurred for at least a predetermined period, stick content of the one or more messages outside the context of the inbox; and
in response to the sticking the content of the one or more messages outside the context of the inbox,
wallpaper the home-screen UI with the content of the one or more messages, wherein the content includes text obtained from the one or more messages.
2. The telecommunications device as recited in claim 1 , further comprising:
parsing the message for a predetermined keyword that is to identify if the one or more messages is to be made sticky, wherein the predetermined keyword includes a pound sign or number sign;
identifying the predetermined keyword in content of the one or more messages; and
removing the predetermined keyword, including the pound sign or number sign, from the content of the one or more messages to provide a modified content of the one or more messages.
3. The telecommunications device as recited in claim 1 , wherein the stuck text content of the one or more messages includes a to-do list or a check list; and in response to determining that the list has been completed, sending a message to a sender of the one or more messages that notifies the sender that the list has been completed.
4. The telecommunications device as recited in claim 1 , wherein in response to the sticking the content of the one or more messages outside the context of the inbox, presenting to the user an option provided to the user to include the content of one or more of the messages into a collection of such content accessible by the device and the sticking comprises including the content of the one or more messages into a collection of such content accessible by the device.
5. The telecommunications device as recited in claim 1 , wherein the user interaction system is further configured to allow removal of the presented widget or icon, wherein such removal does not alter the one or more messages that were the source of the content.
6. The telecommunications device as recited in claim 1 , wherein the touch and hold event is a user touch and hold event, involving a user body part or user implement, that includes touching and holding static on one or more of the presented one or more messages of the inbox.
7. A method comprising:
presenting one or more messages in an inbox of such messages,
wherein the one or more messages include text;
detecting a touch and hold event on text content of one or more messages in the inbox;
in response to detecting the touch and hold event and determining that the detected touch and hold event has occurred for at least a predetermined period, sticking the text content of the one or more messages outside the context of the inbox,
wherein the stuck text content of the one or more messages includes a to-do list or a check list; and
in response to determining that the list has been completed, sending a message to a sender of the one or more messages that notifies the sender that the list has been completed.
8. The method as recited in claim 7 , wherein the sticking includes posting the content of the one or more messages onto a home-screen user interface (UI) of a telecommunications device, or sticking includes wallpapering a home-screen user interface (UI) of a telecommunications device with the content of the one or more messages.
9. The method as recited in claim 7 , wherein
in response to the sticking the content of the one or more messages outside the context of the inbox
wallpaper the home-screen UI with the content of the one or more messages, wherein the content includes text obtained from the one or more messages,
or alternatively, present a widget or icon to the user on the home-screen UI, wherein the widget or icon contains the stuck content of the one or more messages and information related to a source of the one or more messages.
10. The method as recited in claim 7 , wherein the sticking comprises including the content of the one or more messages into a collection of such content accessible by a telecommunications device.
11. The method as recited in claim 7 , further comprising:
parsing the one or more messages for a predetermined keyword that is to identify if the one or more messages is to be made sticky,
wherein the predetermined keyword includes a pound sign or number sign;
identifying the predetermined keyword in content of the one or more messages; and
removing the predetermined keyword, including the pound sign or number sign, from the content of the one or more messages to provide a modified content of the one or more messages.
12. The method as recited in claim 7 , further comprising presenting a widget or icon to the user on the home-screen UI, wherein the widget or icon contains the stuck content of the one or more messages.
13. The method as recited in claim 12 , further comprising enabling removal of the presented widget or icon, wherein such removal does not alter the one or more messages that were the source of the content.
14. The method as recited in claim 12 , further comprising enabling interaction via the widget or icon to enable a user to direct a mobile communications device to perform an action related to the one or more received messages that were the source of the content.
15. The method as recited in claim 7 , wherein the touch and hold event is a user touch and hold event, involving a user body part or user implement, that includes touching static on one or more of the presented one or more messages of the inbox.
16. A method comprising:
receiving a message;
parsing the message for a predetermined keyword that is to identify if the message is to be made sticky,
wherein the predetermined keyword includes a pound sign or number sign;
identifying the predetermined keyword in content of the message;
removing the predetermined keyword, including the pound sign or number sign, from the content of the message to provide a modified content of the message; and
sticking the modified content of the received message outside the context of an in box.
17. The method as recited in claim 16 , wherein the sticking includes posting the modified content of the received message onto a home-screen user interface (UI) of a telecommunications device.
18. The method as recited in claim 16 , wherein the sticking includes wallpapering a home-screen user interface (UI) of a telecommunications device with the modified content of the received message.
19. The method as recited in claim 16 , wherein the sticking comprises including the modified content of the received message into a collection of such content accessible by a telecommunications device.
20. The telecommunications device as recited in claim 16 , further comprising:
parsing the message for a predetermined keyword that is to identify if the message is to be made sticky,
wherein the predetermined keyword includes a pound sign or number sign;
identifying the predetermined keyword in content of the message;
removing the predetermined keyword, including the pound sign or number sign, from the content of the message to provide a modified content of the message; and
in response to the sticking the content of the message outside the context of the inbox—
wallpaper a home-screen UI with the content of the message, wherein the content includes text obtained from the message,
or alternatively, present a widget or icon to the user on the home-screen UI, wherein the widget or icon contains the stuck content of the message and information related to a source of the message.