METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LAUNCHING ACTIVITIES
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Abstract
A handheld electronic device having a microprocessor housed within a body including a display area and a contact-sensitive area is disclosed. The contact-sensitive area detects contact engagement therewith and produces instruction data based thereupon. A microprocessor-run software program receives instruction data from the contact-sensitive area. The contact-sensitive area has a home zone area and a plurality of activity launch zone areas. The software program is programmed to process the instruction data and determine sweeping contact motion detected on the contact-sensitive area originating at the home zone area and terminating at one of the plurality of activity launch zone areas. The program responsively launches an operator-instructed activity corresponding to the activity launch zone area at which the sweeping contact motion terminated.
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47 Claims
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26. A wireless communication device comprising:
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a display area adapted to render information; a contact-sensitive area adapted to detect contact engagement therewith; a processor communicatively coupled with the display and contact-sensitive area; and a memory comprising instructions which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform the steps comprising; rendering a home location and application icons on the display area; detecting a sweeping motion on the contact-sensitive area originating at a single home zone area and terminating at one of a plurality of activity launch zone areas, where the single home zone area corresponds to the home location and each activity launch zone area corresponds to one of the application icons; launching an application corresponding to the activity launch zone area at which the sweeping contact motion terminated; detecting a sweeping motion on the contact-sensitive area originating at one of two home zone areas and terminating at one of a plurality of activity launch zone area, where each activity launch zone area corresponds to an associated function corresponding to the launched application; and executing the function corresponding to the launched application and activity launch zone area at which the contact motion terminated. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A method for a wireless communication device, said method comprising:
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rendering a home location and application icons on a display area of the wireless communication device; detecting a sweeping motion on a contact-sensitive area originating at a single home zone area and terminating at one of a plurality of activity launch zone areas, where the single home zone area corresponds to the home location and each activity launch zone area corresponds to one of the application icons; launching an application corresponding to the activity launch zone area at which the sweeping contact motion terminated; detecting a sweeping motion on the contact-sensitive area originating at one of two home zone areas and terminating at one of a plurality of activity launch zone area, where each activity launch zone area corresponds to an associated function corresponding to the launched application; and executing the function corresponding to the launched application and activity launch zone area at which the contact motion terminated. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47)
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