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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2006
Gerhard Dietrich Klassen, Waterloo, CA;
Tatiana Kalougina, Waterloo, CA;
Shaul Wisebourt, Waterloo, CA;
Peter John Devenyi, Waterloo, CA;
Jesse Joseph Boudreau, Ottawa, CA;
Eric Johnson, Ottawa, CA;
Gerhard Dietrich Klassen, Waterloo, CA;
Tatiana Kalougina, Waterloo, CA;
Shaul Wisebourt, Waterloo, CA;
Peter John Devenyi, Waterloo, CA;
Jesse Joseph Boudreau, Ottawa, CA;
Eric Johnson, Ottawa, CA;
Reaearch In Motion Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
A method for use in controlling user interface operation of a communication device when visually displaying a map involves the steps of causing a viewable map region of the map to be visually displayed in a display, the viewable map region having a plurality of selectable map elements; maintaining a list of element identifiers which includes element identifiers corresponding to the selectable map elements in the viewable map region, each element identifier being associated with a pair of x, y coordinates for visual display; controlling end user selection of the selectable map elements via a positioning mechanism in left and right directions in accordance with a numeric order of the x-coordinates; and controlling end user selection of the selectable map elements via the positioning mechanism in up and down directions in accordance with a numeric order of the y-coordinates.