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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 11762547 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023

Filed:

Nov. 08, 2021

Portable electronic device for instant messaging

Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Stephen O. Lemay, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Marcel Van Os, San Francisco, CA (US);

Scott Herz, San Jose, CA (US);

Greg Christie, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Primary Examiner:

Steven P Sax

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0488 (2022.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/0487 (2013.01); G06Q 10/10 (2023.01); H04L 51/04 (2022.01); G06F 3/0485 (2022.01); G06F 3/04855 (2022.01); H04M 1/27475 (2020.01); H04M 1/72403 (2021.01); H04M 1/72436 (2021.01); H04M 1/72466 (2021.01); H04L 51/216 (2022.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2022.01); G06F 3/04842 (2022.01); G06F 3/04847 (2022.01); H04L 51/043 (2022.01); H04M 1/2747 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 3/0487 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 3/04847 (2013.01); G06F 3/04855 (2013.01); G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); H04L 51/04 (2013.01); H04L 51/043 (2013.01); H04L 51/216 (2022.05); H04M 1/27475 (2020.01); H04M 1/72403 (2021.01); H04M 1/72436 (2021.01); H04M 1/72466 (2021.01); H04M 1/2747 (2020.01); H04M 2250/12 (2013.01); H04M 2250/22 (2013.01); H04M 2250/70 (2013.01);
Abstract

A portable electronic device for instant messaging is disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a graphical user interface (GUI) on a portable electronic device with a touch screen display. The GUI has a set of messages exchanged between a user of the device and another person. The set of messages are displayed in a chronological order. In response to detecting a scrolling gesture comprising a substantially vertical movement of a user contact with the touch screen display, the display of messages are scrolled in accordance with a direction of the scrolling gesture. The detecting of the scrolling gesture is substantially independent of a horizontal position of the user contact with the touch screen display.

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