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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2008
Eyal Bychkov, Hod Hasharon, IL;
Hagay Katz, Moshav Herut, IL;
Eyal Bychkov, Hod Hasharon, IL;
Hagay Katz, Moshav Herut, IL;
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A touch-based user interface for an electronic device, including a housing including electronic circuitry, a plurality of buttons mounted within a first area on a first side of the housing, and a screen mounted on a second area of a second side of the housing, the second side being opposite to the first side, and the second area being opposite to at least a portion of the first area, wherein the electronic circuitry is operative (i) to display on the screen at least one user interface control element that corresponds respectively to at least one button, each such user interface control element having a command associated therewith, and (ii) to perform the command associated with a designated user interface control element when its corresponding button is pressed. A method and a computer-readable storage medium is also described and claimed.