Method for presenting data on a small screen
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1. A method for controlling display of data on a screen of a portable electronic device, the method comprising:
- launching an application, the application having a parent-field, in a record in a window displayed on the screen, for receiving parent data, and a child-field for receiving child data;
providing a parent-field label on the screen to identify the parent-field;
prompting a user to enter the parent data into the parent-field by typing characters into the parent-field;
removing the parent-field label from the screen when the parent data is typed into the parent-field;
displaying the child-field in the record in the window on the screen,wherein the child-field is initially hidden but becomes displayed once at least one character is typed into the parent-field, the child-field including a child-field label to identify the child-field, and thereafter;
prompting the user to enter child data into the child-field by typing further characters into the child-field; and
removing the child-field label from the screen when the child data is typed into the child-field.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for controlling display of data on a screen of a portable electronic device. The method includes launching an application that includes at least one field for receiving data and at least one field label for identifying the at least one field, entering data into the at least one field and removing the at least one field label from the screen when data is entered into the at least one field.
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1. A method for controlling display of data on a screen of a portable electronic device, the method comprising:
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launching an application, the application having a parent-field, in a record in a window displayed on the screen, for receiving parent data, and a child-field for receiving child data; providing a parent-field label on the screen to identify the parent-field; prompting a user to enter the parent data into the parent-field by typing characters into the parent-field; removing the parent-field label from the screen when the parent data is typed into the parent-field; displaying the child-field in the record in the window on the screen, wherein the child-field is initially hidden but becomes displayed once at least one character is typed into the parent-field, the child-field including a child-field label to identify the child-field, and thereafter; prompting the user to enter child data into the child-field by typing further characters into the child-field; and removing the child-field label from the screen when the child data is typed into the child-field. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 21)
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11. A portable electronic device comprising:
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a processor for launching an application, the application being provided in a window displayed on a screen of the portable electronic device, the application having a parent-field, in a record in the window displayed on the screen, for receiving parent data by receiving characters typed into the parent-field, a parent-field label being provided to identify the parent-field, and a child-field for receiving child data; an input device for typing data into the parent-field and the child-field; wherein the processor is configured to remove the parent-field label from the screen when the parent data is typed into the parent-field and to display the child-field in the record in the window on the screen, wherein the child-field is initially hidden but becomes displayed once at least one character is typed into the parent-field, the child-field including a child-field label to identify the child-field; the processor further configured to remove the child-field label from the child field when the child data is entered into the child-field by receiving further characters typed into the child-field. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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22. A method for displaying a list of contacts in an address book application of a portable electronic device, the method comprising:
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providing the list of contacts, the list including at least one contact name, a name record of the contact name being stored in the address book application; and providing visual icon identifiers adjacent each contact name, and on a same line as each the contact name, each the visual icon identifier being associated with a respective populated field of the name record; wherein each the visual icon identifier is provided when a corresponding populated field of the name record for the contact name is populated to provide a summary of information contained in the name record, each the visual icon identifier customized to differentiate between different types of fields in the name record, and every populated field in the name record is represented by a different visual identifier. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24)
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