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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2012
Applicant:
Joshua John Lavallee, Breslau, CA;
Inventor:
Joshua John Lavallee, Breslau, CA;
Assignee:
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 3/0486 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 9/543 (2013.01); G06F 3/0486 (2013.01); G06F 2200/1637 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04803 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides for a touch screen electronic device to display two or more running applications simultaneously in a side-by-side layout in a split screen mode of the device. Two or more applications that are running on an operating system of the device can be easily displayed simultaneously in the split screen mode while maintaining one of the displayed applications as active so that the user can provide user inputs to the active application.