Blackberry Corporation

Yoojin Hong

Michael George Langlois

Thomas Jan Stovicek

Margaret Elizabeth Kuo

Donald James Lindsay

Henry Yao-Tsu Chen

Charles Laurence Stinson

Sang-Heun Kim

Dominik Buszko

Adam Cooper

Marc Anthony Lepage

Henry Chen

Michael Lee Foster

Craig James Tucker

Patryk Adamczyk

Lepage Marc Anthony Anthony

A shutter and shutter operator are displayed adjacent to a boundary of an information display region on a display of a portable electronic device. The information display region displays first information. In a first state, the shutter operator indicates a first direction of movement of the shutter away from the boundary for the display of second information. In response to an input, the second information is displayed, and the shutter operator changes to indicate another direction of movement of the shutter towards the boundary for hiding the second information.

Portable electronic device and method of controlling same

A method performed on an electronic device for character deletion is described. The electronic device has a virtual keyboard including a plurality of virtual keys organized in accordance with a keyboard layout, with each key in a position according to the layout, and the plurality of virtual keys includes a first virtual key. The method for character deletion includes associating a first virtual key of a virtual keyboard with a delete function for deleting characters; determining a language associated with the virtual keyboard; determining a customary direction in which the language is read; and updating the first virtual key to: perform, when selected, a delete function that operates in a particular operating direction based on the customary direction; and display an indicator of the particular operating direction.

Electronic device and method for character deletion

A system, device and method for providing context sensitive content on a computing device is provided. In an embodiment, a computing device in the form of a portable computing device is configured to execute a primary web-browser application and a secondary web-browser application. The primary web-browser application is configured to generate a web-page containing context sensitive items and receiving focus on one of the context sensitive items. The secondary web-browser application is configured to generate the context sensitive content related to the one of the context sensitive items.

System, device and method for providing context sensitive content on a computing device

A method includes displaying a shutter adjacent to a boundary of an information display region on a display of a portable electronic device, the information display region for displaying first information; receiving an input associated with the shutter; and displaying second information.

A virtual keyboard for an electronic device having a display. The keyboard comprises a plurality of virtual keys organized in accordance with a keyboard layout with each key in a position according to the layout. The plurality of virtual keys include a first virtual key designated to activate, upon selection, a backward-delete function for deleting characters in a first direction and a forward-delete function for deleting characters in a second direction. The first direction and the second direction are opposite to each other. The keyboard also comprises direction identifier indicia displayed on the first virtual key. The direction identifier indicia are configured to indicate the first direction when the backward-delete function is activated, and the second direction when the forward-delete function is activated.

The present specification relates to a portable electronic device comprising at least one processor; a display connected to the processor and controllable by the processor; and non-volatile storage configured to maintain a plurality of applications and an application programming interface for enabling generation and control of a title bar, wherein the application programming interface includes a private part for managing the state of the title bar and a public part that provides an interface to the applications.

Management of device settings via a plurality of interfaces

A system and method for displaying a graphical context menu on a display screen of a mobile communication device. The method includes receiving a menu request, determining the number of menu items based on the context of the menu request, generating a graphical context menu based on the determined number of the determined number of menu items, inserting the menu items into the generated graphical context menu, and displaying the generated graphical context menu on the display screen with the inserted menu items. The graphical context menu can include menu items displayed in a 3&#xd7;3 grid, a 2&#xd7;3 grid or a 1&#xd7;3 grid. The graphical context menu can include a default menu item in the center of the grid and a full menu option in the bottom most right slot of the grid.

Graphical context short menu

A method of interacting with a scrollable area on a portable electronic device is described. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of interacting with a portable electronic device having a touch-sensitive display, the method comprising: displaying a user interface screen having a scrollable area on the touch-sensitive display; and displaying a transparent scrollbar which overlays elements of the user interface screen when a touch event is detected in a display area corresponding to the scrollable area.

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Yoojin Hong