ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME

• US 20120256846A1
• Filed: 04/05/2011
• Published: 10/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: MAK, Genevieve Elizabeth
• Application Number:
  US13/079,990
• Publication Number:
  US 20120256846A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A method includes utilizing an application, displaying information on a touch-sensitive display, detecting on the touch-sensitive display, a touch at a touch location associated with multiple functions, reporting, to the application, an indicator position associated with the touch location, and maintaining the indicator position to perform one of the multiple functions based on the indicator position when the touch ends.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

displaying, utilizing an application, information on a touch-sensitive display;

detecting, on the touch-sensitive display, a touch at a touch location associated with multiple functions;

reporting, to the application, an indicator position associated with the touch location;

maintaining the indicator position to perform a first function of the multiple functions based on the indicator position when the touch ends.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the application comprises an embedded application.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the application comprises one of an ActionScript -based and a Flash®

application.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the multiple functions comprise a first function performed in response to a roll-over and a second function performed in response to a selection.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the touch location is associated with the information.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein detecting the touch comprises detecting movement of the touch to the touch location associated with multiple functions.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first function comprises a function in response to a roll-over.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein detecting the touch comprises detecting a beginning of the touch at the touch location and wherein a second function of the multiple functions is performed in response to detecting the beginning of the touch.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the second function of the multiple functions comprises a function performed in response to a selection.

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

11. An electronic device comprising:

a touch-sensitive display;

a processor coupled to the touch-sensitive display to display information utilizing an application, detect on the touch-sensitive display, a touch at a touch location associated with multiple functions, report, to the application, an indicator position associated with the touch location, and maintain the indicator position to perform a first function of the multiple functions based on the indicator position when the touch ends.

12. The electronic device according to claim 11, wherein the application comprises an embedded application.

13. The electronic device according to claim 11, wherein the application comprises one of an ActionScript®

-based and a Flash®

application.

14. The electronic device according to claim 11, wherein the multiple functions comprise a first function performed in response to a roll-over and a second function performed in response to a selection.

15. The electronic device according to claim 11, wherein the touch location is associated with the information.

16. The electronic device according to claim 11, wherein movement of the touch to the touch location associated with multiple functions is detected and other functions of the multiple functions are not performed.

17. The electronic device according to claim 11, wherein the first function comprises a function performed in response to a roll-over.

18. The electronic device according to claim 11, wherein a beginning of the touch is detected at the touch location and wherein the second function of the multiple functions is performed in response to detecting the beginning of the touch.

19. The electronic device according to claim 18, wherein the second one of the multiple functions comprises a function performed in response to a selection.

20. A method comprising:

displaying information on a touch-sensitive display;

detecting, on the touch-sensitive display, a touch at a touch location associated with multiple functions of an embedded application;

reporting an indicator position associated with the touch location;

maintaining the indicator position at the touch location while performing a first function of the multiple functions when the touch ends.