Electronic device and method of displaying information in response to input

• US 8,689,146 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2012
• Issued: 04/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Lazaridis, Mihal, Yach, David Paul, Lindsay, Donald James
• Primary Examiner(s): Lo, Weilun
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chuang, Jessica
• Application Number:
  US13/607,330
• Publication Number:
  US 20120331424A1
• Time in Patent Office: 571 Days
• Field of Search: 715/863
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0202 Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the input device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0338 with detection of limited linear or angular displacement of an operating part of the device from a neutral position, e.g. isotonic or isometric joysticks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2747 Scrolling on a display

Abstract

A method includes displaying, in a window or field, first information associated with a first source running on a portable electronic device and detecting an input to display second information associated with a second source. After the detecting, second information associated with the second source and the first information in the window or field is displayed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

displaying, by a messaging application running on an electronic device, message information in a window;

detecting, by the electronic device, a gesture while the message information is displayed and while calendar events associated with a calendar application are not displayed;

in response to detecting the gesture, without icon selection and without entering a menu, displaying the calendar events while displaying at least some of the message information during a first period of time;

wherein at least some of the message information and the calendar events are combined in a single list in the messaging application, which single list is scrolled through during a second period of time subsequent to the first period of time;

during a third period of time immediately subsequent to the second period of time, in response to the calendar events scrolling off the display, removing the calendar events from the single list and scrolling through the message information without displaying the calendar events.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the single list is continuous and scrollable.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the messaging application performs the temporarily combining.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the single list is scrollable.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the single list comprises a current date and time.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the calendar events comprise at least one future event.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying contact information in response to detecting a second gesture, wherein the single list is scrolled through a first direction, and the contact information is displayed in a second direction different from the first direction.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein third information associated with a third application is combined into the single list.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the third information associated with the third application comprises call information.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the calendar application is not launched upon detection of the gesture.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the third information associated with the third application comprises task information.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the single list is combined chronologically.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein a current date and time are chronologically displayed within the single list between past entries and future entries in the single list.

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

15. An electronic device comprising:

a display;

a processor configured to;

display, by a messaging application running on an electronic device, message information in a window on the display;

detect, by the electronic device, a gesture while the message information is displayed and while calendar events associated with a calendar application are not displayed;

in response to detecting the gesture, without icon selection and without entering a menu, display the calendar events while displaying at least some of the message information during a first period of time;

wherein at least some of the message information and the calendar events are combined in a single list in the messaging application, which single list is scrolled through during a second period of time subsequent to the first period of time;

during a third period of time immediately subsequent to the second period of time, in response to the calendar events scrolling off the display, remove the calendar events from the single list and scroll through the message information without displaying the calendar events.

16. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the calendar events comprise at least one future event.

17. The electronic device of claim 15, further comprising displaying contact information in response to detecting a second gesture, wherein the single list is scrolled through a first direction, and the contact information is displayed in a second direction different from the first direction.

18. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein third information associated with a third application is combined into the single list.

19. The electronic device of claim 18, wherein the third information associated with the third application comprises call information.

20. The electronic device of claim 18, wherein the third information associated with the third application comprises task information.

21. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the calendar application is not launched upon detection of the gesture.

22. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the single list is continuous and scrollable.

23. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the single list is combined chronologically.

24. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the single list is scrollable.

25. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the messaging application performs the combining.

26. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the single list comprises a current date and time.

27. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein a current date and time are chronologically displayed within the single list between past entries and future entries in the single list.