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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2013

Filed:

Nov. 18, 2010
Applicants:

Brian P. Mysliwy, Tonawanda, NY (US);

Donald W. Stucke, Jr., East Aurora, NY (US);

Kathleen E. Kremer, Snyder, NY (US);

William J. Mccormick, Hamburg, NY (US);

Ellen K. Donahue, East Aurora, NY (US);

Inventors:

Brian P. Mysliwy, Tonawanda, NY (US);

Donald W. Stucke, Jr., East Aurora, NY (US);

Kathleen E. Kremer, Snyder, NY (US);

William J. McCormick, Hamburg, NY (US);

Ellen K. Donahue, East Aurora, NY (US);

Assignee:

Mattel, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for navigating among activity programs in the memory of a portable handheld multifunction electronic system. Simultaneously displaying on contact-sensitive display a plurality of category icons and a subcategory icon associated with a currently selected subcategory, each category icon having a link to one or more activity programs. If a category has been selected, replacing the plurality of displayed category icons with one or more activity program icons, each of the one or more displayed activity program icons corresponding to a separate one of the activity programs belonging to the selected category and to the currently selected subcategory. If another subcategory has been selected, at least changing the link of each separate displayed category icon to a different one or more activity programs, the different one or more activity program being associated the another subcategory and with each category of the category icons being displayed.


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