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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2006
Kenneth Kocienda, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Scott Herz, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Richard Williamson, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Gregory Novick, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Virgil Scott King, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chris Blumenberg, San Francisco, CA (US);
Marcel Van Os, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bas Ording, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Forstall, Mountain View, CA (US);
Imran Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US);
Greg Christie, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen O. Lemay, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kenneth Kocienda, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Scott Herz, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Richard Williamson, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Gregory Novick, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Virgil Scott King, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chris Blumenberg, San Francisco, CA (US);
Marcel Van Os, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bas Ording, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Forstall, Mountain View, CA (US);
Imran Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US);
Greg Christie, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen O. Lemay, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A plurality of icons are displayed on a touch-sensitive display. A respective icon in at least a subset of the plurality of icons corresponds to two or more symbols. A contact by a user with the touch-sensitive display that corresponds to the respective icon is detected. A respective symbol in the two or more symbols to which the contact further corresponds is determined. The displayed respective icon is modified to indicate that the contact corresponds to the respective symbol.