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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.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2001
Jeffrey C. Hawkins, Atherton, CA (US);
Robert Y. Haitani, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Debbie O. Chyi, Burlingame, CA (US);
William B. Rees, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Vitaly Kruglikov, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jeffrey C. Hawkins, Atherton, CA (US);
Robert Y. Haitani, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Debbie O. Chyi, Burlingame, CA (US);
William B. Rees, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Vitaly Kruglikov, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Palm, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A technique to navigate through one or more menus of a handheld computer is disclosed. In one embodiment, the technique uses a handheld device having a first button to cause a cursor to navigate through a plurality of menu items and to highlight a desired menu item. The device also has a second button to cause the cursor to navigate through a plurality of menus when the cursor is highlighting one of the menus or a first menu item, and to cause the cursor to highlight a previous menu item when the cursor is highlighting a menu item other than the first menu item.