PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF INFORMATION RENDERING ON PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20110109634A1
• Filed: 11/06/2009
• Published: 05/12/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: ECHEVERRI, Oscar, ROGERS, Jeffrey Christopher, CUNDILL, Andrew Philip
• Application Number:
  US12/614,041
• Publication Number:
  US 20110109634A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/473
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence

Abstract

A portable electronic device-implemented method includes rendering information on a display of the portable electronic device, detecting receipt of an initiating input, and rendering a band, including at least one field, along an edge of the display.

Claims

1. A portable electronic device-implemented method comprising:

rendering information on a display of the portable electronic device;

detecting receipt of an initiating input; and

rendering a band, including at least one field, along an edge of the display.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein rendering the band comprises:

rendering a first band along a top edge of the display; and

rendering a second band along a bottom edge of the display, each of the first and second bands including at least one field.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein rendering the band comprises rendering an animated band that enters the display from the edge.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein rendering the band comprises rendering a band over the information such that the information, where the band is rendered, is at least partially visible.

5. The method according to claim 1, comprising discontinuing display of the band after a threshold period of time while continuing to display the information rendered on the display.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein discontinuing display of the band comprises animating the band to exit from the edge.

7. The method according to claim 1, comprising starting a timer when the band is rendered on the display.

8. The method according to claim 1, comprising detecting whether or not input is received to maintain the band and, when input is received to maintain the band, restarting the timer.

9. The method according to claim 8, comprising comparing the timer to a threshold period of time and, when the timer exceeds the threshold period of time, discontinuing display of the band while continuing to display the information rendered on the display.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the field comprises at least one selectable feature.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the field comprises a plurality of selectable features.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein a limited number of the selectable features are displayed in the band at one instance in time.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein first ones of the selectable features are displayed in the band.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein further ones of the selectable features are displayed in response to receipt of an input to display further ones of the selectable features.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the selectable features are animated such that the selectable features appear to slide along the band in response to receipt of the input to display others of the selectable features.

16. A computer-readable medium having computer-readable code executable by at least one processor of a portable electronic device to perform the method of claim 1.

17. A portable electronic device comprising:

a display;

an input device;

a memory; and

a processor operably connected to the display, the input device and the memory to execute a program stored in the memory to cause the portable electronic device to render information on the display, detect receipt of an initiating input, and render a band, including at least one field, along an edge of the display.