Blackberry Corporation

Research in Motion Corporation

Joel Paul Steele

Przemyslaw Abratowski

Giang Manh La

Donald James Lindsay

Patryk Adamczyk

Tedford Chan

Todd Andrew Wood

Sherryl Lee Lorraine Scott

Julian Paas

Oskar Plaza Olivestedt

Scott A Arnold

Oliver Ng

Michael George Langlois

Brian Dennis Paschke

David Noel Vanden Heuvel

Scott Hayman

Sherryl Lee Scott

Jason Tyler Griffin

Mihal Lazaridis

Yu Gao

David Bukurak

Alen Mujkic

Zaheen Somani

Mikhail V Fomitchev

Steven Robert Grenier

Shigeharu Furukawa

Peter Giang Manh La

Donald J Lindsay

Scott Sherryl Lee Lorraine,

Display screen with icon

A device, which may have a touchscreen display, and methods for its operation are provided using a graphical user interface and an overlay user input interface such as a virtual keyboard. The graphical user interface may include one or more user interface elements displayed in a first region of the display that are actuatable to invoke a corresponding function. When the virtual keyboard is invoked for display in the same region, the underlying graphical user interface is redrawn with a further user interface element corresponding to at least one of the user interface elements previously displayed in the first region, so that the further user interface element is actuatable to invoke a command to carry out the corresponding function. In another embodiment, the virtual keyboard may be modified instead to provide an action key corresponding to a function related to an application executing on the device.

User interface for a touchscreen display

Display screen or portion thereof with icon

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Richmond Hill, Canada

Joel Paul Steele