Portable electronic device and method of controlling same

• US 8,884,892 B2
• Filed: 08/12/2011
• Issued: 11/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Bakker, Jan Hendrik Lucas
• Primary Examiner(s): Hicks, Charles V
• Application Number:
  US13/209,254
• Publication Number:
  US 20130038541A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,187 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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 for a User Equipment (UE), includes responsive, at least in part, to an ATtention (AT) command for touch-sensitive display action, emulating or reporting a meta-navigation gesture for a touch-sensitive input including a display area and a non-display area.

Claims

1. A method for a User Equipment (UE), the method comprising:

responsive, at least in part, to an ATtention (AT) command for touch-sensitive input device action, emulating a meta-navigation gesture for a touch-sensitive input device including a display area and a non-display area; and

responsive, at least in part, to an ATtention (AT) command for orientation information, providing orientation information comprising at least one of;

unsolicited result codes, unsolicited ATtention (AT) commands, or unsolicited events.

2. The method according to claim 1, comprising responsive, at least in part, to an AT command for non-display boundary information, providing non-display boundary information.

3. The method according to claim 1, comprising responsive, at least in part, to an AT command for command screen size, providing command screen size information.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the orientation information comprises an identification of at least one feature of the touch-sensitive input device as a reference.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the orientation information comprises an identification of at least one corner of the touch-sensitive input device.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the orientation information comprises coordinate values of the at least one corner.

7. The method according to claim 4, wherein the orientation information comprises an identification of at least one side of the touch-sensitive input device.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the orientation information comprises a scalar representing an angle of rotation of the UE to a reference orientation.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the orientation information comprises a scalar representing an angle of tilt.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the at least one scalar comprises one of a fixed number of values representing the angle of rotation.

11. The method according to claim 3, wherein the command screen size information comprises a maximum x coordinate value and a maximum y coordinate value.

12. The method according to claim 2, wherein the non-display boundary comprises a boundary between the non-display area and the display area.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the non-display boundary information comprises coordinate values of the boundary.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the coordinate values comprise coordinate values of opposing corners of the boundary.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein the meta-navigation gesture comprises a multi-touch gesture.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the touches of the multi-touch gesture are identified by a same identifier.

17. The method according to claim 1, comprising, responsive, at least in part, to an ATtention (AT) command for at least one of the display area and the non-display area, providing an indication of a property of the at least one of the display area and the non-display area.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-readable code executable by at least one processor of the UE to:

responsive, at least in part, to an ATtention (AT) command for touch-sensitive input device action, emulate a meta-navigation gesture for a touch-sensitive input device including a display area and a non-display area; and

responsive, at least in part, to an ATtention (AT) command for orientation information, provide orientation information comprising at least one of;

unsolicited result codes, unsolicited ATtention (AT) commands, or unsolicited events.

19. A User Equipment (UE) comprising:

a touch-sensitive display;

memory;

a processor coupled to the touch-sensitive display and the memory and configured to;

responsive, at least in part, to an ATtention (AT) command for touch-sensitive input device action, emulate a meta-navigation gesture for a touch-sensitive input device including a display area and a non-display area; and

responsive, at least in part, to an ATtention (AT) command for orientation information, provide orientation information comprising at least one of unsolicited result codes, unsolicited ATtention (AT) commands, or unsolicited events.

20. A method for a device, the method comprising:

issuing an ATtention (AT) command to emulate a meta-navigation gesture for a touch-sensitive input device including a display area and a non-display area; and

issuing an ATtention (AT) command to provide orientation information comprising at least one of unsolicited result codes, unsolicited ATtention (AT) commands, or unsolicited events.

21. The method according to claim 20, comprising issuing an AT command for non-display boundary information and receiving the non-display boundary information from the UE.

22. The method according to claim 20, comprising issuing an AT command for command screen size and receiving command screen size information from the UE.

23. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-readable code executable by at least one processor of a device to:

issue an ATtention (AT) command to emulate a meta-navigation gesture for a touch-sensitive input device including a display area and a non-display area; and

issue an ATtention (AT) command to provide orientation information comprising at least one of unsolicited result codes, unsolicited ATtention (AT) commands, or unsolicited events.