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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2005
Hideya Kawahara, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yoojin Hong, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Byrne, Los Altos, CA (US);
Frank E. Ludolph, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Curtis J. Sasaki, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Eitaro Nishijima, Tokyo, JP;
Hideya Kawahara, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yoojin Hong, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Byrne, Los Altos, CA (US);
Frank E. Ludolph, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Curtis J. Sasaki, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Eitaro Nishijima, Tokyo, JP;
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system and a method for presenting a set of icons in a display so that the icons can be selected by a user via a keypad. During operation, the display presents a set of icons to the user. The user can then select an icon from the set of icons by entering input into the keypad. The set of icons are presented in the display such that the spatial layout of the set of icons is substantially the same as the layout of the keypad, resulting in an intuitive interface that allows the user to select desired choices quickly and easily.