Motorola Corporation

Deborah A Matteo

Jon Godston

Kenneth W Douros

William F Zancho

Steven J Nowlan

Christopher W Drackett

Maria B Thompson

Prakairut Tarlton

A method and apparatus are for manipulating a keypad of an electronic device (). The electronic device has a plurality of tactile keys (). The method includes sensing a proximity of a object to one of the plurality of tactile keys and presenting, on an output () of the electronic device, a preview () of an action that will take place upon pressing the one of the plurality of tactile keys.

Method and apparatus for keypad manipulation

A configuration of an electronic device () is managed by obtaining () stakeholder attributes of a component resident in the electronic device from stakeholder requirements (FIGS.) of one or more stakeholders and correlating () the respective stakeholder attributes as well as available sets of values of attributes of the component to determine () a set of selected values of the attributes, and establishing () at least a portion of a new configuration of the electronic device using the set of selected values of the attributes of the component. When the stakeholder requirements cannot be met with an existing application in the electronic device, the application may be formed () from components of existing applications.

Configuration management of an electronic device wherein a new configuration of the electronic device is selected based on attributes of an application

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Deborah A Matteo