PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME

• US 20140245220A1
• Filed: 05/02/2014
• Published: 08/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: LEE, John Jong-Suk, Griffin, Jason Tyler, Langlois, Michael George, Mujkic, Alen, Bukurak, David William
• Granted Patent: US 10,795,562 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• 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 of controlling a portable electronic device that has a touch-sensitive display includes displaying information on the touch-sensitive display, detecting a gesture on the touch-sensitive display, scrolling through the information in a first scrolling mode when the gesture is associated with a first area of the touch-sensitive display, and scrolling through the information in a second scrolling mode when the gesture is associated with a second area of the touch-sensitive display.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing for a first application, text displayed in an area of a touch-sensitive display and a keyboard disposed below the first area relative to the orientation in which the text is displayed;

in response to detecting a first gesture that begins on the area of the touch-sensitive display, scrolling through the text to display different text in the area, wherein an amount of scrolling through the text is dependent on the length of the first gesture;

in response to detecting a second gesture that begins on the keyboard, scrolling a cursor through the text in a direction dependent on a direction of the gesture, wherein the amount of scrolling the cursor is dependent on the length of the second gesture.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the amount of scrolling through the text is also dependent on a total amount of text for display.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein scrolling through the text comprises page scrolling.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein detecting a first gesture comprises detecting a swipe.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein detecting a second gesture comprises detecting a swipe.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the keyboard is configured to receive input for display in the area and the text includes the input.

7. The method according to claim 1, comprising displaying different text in the area to advance the cursor through the text during scrolling the cursor when the cursor is located near an edge of the area.

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