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Patent No.:

US 8121652 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2012

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2008

Portable electronic device including touchscreen and method of controlling the portable electronic device

Applicants:

Douglas Clayton Rider, Ottawa, CA;

Michael George Langlois, Ottawa, CA;

Jeffrey Brent Kenney, Ottawa, CA;

Inventors:

Douglas Clayton Rider, Ottawa, CA;

Michael George Langlois, Ottawa, CA;

Jeffrey Brent Kenney, Ottawa, CA;

Assignee:

Research In Motion Limited, Waterloo, CA;

Attorneys:

Geoffrey deKleine

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Primary Examiner:

Lam T Mai

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of controlling a portable electronic device having a touch screen display includes rendering a graphical user interface including a plurality of user-selectable features on the touch screen display and, in response to detecting a touch event on the touch screen display proximal one of the user-selectable features, rendering an indicator for one of the user-selectable features corresponding to a location of the touch event prior to selection of any of the user-selectable features. The indicator is rendered intermediate ones of the user-selectable features for identifying the one of the user-selectable features absent obstruction of other ones of the user-selectable features.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Rider, Douglas. (2012). Portable electronic device including touchscreen and method of controlling the portable electronic device (U.S. Patent No. 8121652). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8121652

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