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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2011
Norman Miner Ladouceur, Wingham, CA;
Jason Tyler Griffin, Kitchener, CA;
Norman Miner Ladouceur, Wingham, CA;
Jason Tyler Griffin, Kitchener, CA;
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Abstract
A portable electronic device includes a plurality of physical keys, a touch-sensitive input device configured to detect a touch, and a processor coupled to the touch-sensitive input device, and the keys, and configured to, when no touch is detected on the touch-sensitive input device while a first key of the plurality of physical keys is selected, identify a first character associated with the first key, and when a touch is detected on the touch-sensitive input device while the first key is selected, identify a second character associated with the first key.