USER INTERFACES FOR SMALL ELECTRONIC DEVICES

• US 20110029868A1
• Filed: 08/01/2010
• Published: 02/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Modu Limited (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Levin, Michal, Tal, Orlee, Brison, Uriel, Moran, Dov
• Application Number:
  US12/848,178
• Publication Number:
  US 20110029868A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations

Abstract

A user interface for a mobile electronic device, including a slider bar that supports three user inputs; namely, (i) slide up, (ii) slide down, and (iii) press, wherein slide up and slide down cause respective scrolling up and scrolling down through a menu of items, and wherein press causes selection of a scrolled-to menu item.

Claims

1. A user interface for a mobile electronic device, comprising a slider bar that supports three user inputs;

namely, (i) slide up, (ii) slide down, and (iii) press, wherein slide up and slide down cause respective scrolling up and scrolling down through a menu of items, and wherein press causes selection of a scrolled-to menu item.

2. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said slider bar supports multiple levels of slide up and slide down inputs, and wherein the multiple levels cause different rates of scrolling through the menu of items.

3. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said slider bar also supports a long press, and wherein said long press causes a menu to be displayed.

4. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said slider bar comprises a touch-based slider bar responsive to finger movements on a touch-sensitive screen.

5. The user interface of claim 1 wherein said slider bar comprises a physical control responsive to finger movements on the physical control.

6. The user interface of claim 5 wherein said physical control comprises a switch.

7. The user interface of claim 5 wherein said physical control comprises a dial.

8. The user interface of claim 1 wherein the mobile electronic device includes a text message, wherein the menu of items is a list of rows of character sequences, and wherein selection of a scrolled-to row toggles through the character sequences for entry into a text message.

9. The user interface of claim 1 wherein the mobile electronic device includes a cellular phone, wherein the menu of items is a list of entries in a contact list, and wherein selection of a scrolled-to contact entry causes the cellular phone to call the selected contact entry.

10. The user interface of claim 1 wherein the mobile electronic device includes a media player, wherein the menu of items is a list of media content, and wherein selection of a scrolled-to media content causes the media player to play the selected media content.

11. The user interface of claim 1 wherein the mobile electronic device includes an image viewer, wherein the menu of items is a list of images, and wherein selection of a scrolled-to image causes the image viewer to render the selected image.