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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2015
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Theodore Van Belle, Waterloo, CA;
Scotte Zinn, Waterloo, CA;
Andrew Bocking, Waterloo, CA;
Michael Hardy, Waterloo, CA;
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Abstract
A user interface and method for composing a message to be sent over a wireless network environment using a handheld device is disclosed. According to the method, upon receipt of a user request to compose a message, a screen is displayed with a recipient field for a recipient address, an associated label to indicate that the recipient field is for a recipient address, and a message body field for holding message content. The method further includes, upon each keystroke entry of text to the recipient field, looking up entries from an address book which match the text, and displaying a selection menu representing addresses from at least a portion of the entries as well as cached entries previously looked up from a global address book.