Device and method for filtering messages

• US 9,313,316 B2
• Filed: 07/17/2013
• Issued: 04/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Shirzadi, Farhoud
• Primary Examiner(s): BADAWI, ANGIE M
• Application Number:
  US13/943,847
• Publication Number:
  US 20150026590A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,000 Days
• Field of Search: 715/751
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

A device and method for filtering messages is provided. The device comprises: a processor; a memory storing messages, at least a subset of the messages designated as unread messages; and a touchscreen including a display. A sliding touch input is detected at the touchscreen, the sliding touch input including a change in direction, the sliding touch input terminating in a static touch input proximal an edge of the touchscreen. In response to detecting the static touch input, a list of the unread messages is provided at the display.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a memory storing messages, the messages comprising messages designated as unread messages and messages designated as read messages;

a touchscreen including a display;

a processor configured to;

detect a sliding touch input at the touchscreen, the sliding touch input including a change in direction, the sliding touch input terminating in a static touch input;

in response to detecting the change in direction of the sliding touch input, provide, at the display, an initial list of messages and a bar adjacent an edge of the touchscreen display indicating an area for the static touch input, the initial list of messages including at least one of the read messages and at least one of the unread messages; and

,

in response to detecting the static touch input in the bar and proximal the edge of the touchscreen, provide, at the display, an unread message list, the unread message list comprising one or more of the unread messages from the initial list of messages.

2. The device of claim 1, the processor further configured to:

generate the unread message list by filtering out the read messages from the initial list of messages.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein a first portion of the sliding touch input is in a first direction and a second portion of the sliding touch input is in a second direction, and the processor is further configured to:

after the static touch input is detected in the bar and proximal the edge of the touchscreen, detect another sliding touch input beginning at a position of the static touch input, in an opposite direction to the second direction; and

, in response,

replace, at the display, the unread message list with the the initial list of messages.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to, in response to detecting the static touch input in the bar and proximal the edge of the touchscreen, provide, at the display, a preview of a given unread message in the unread message list when providing the unread message list.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein the preview includes:

one or more of metadata associated with the given unread message and a subject of the given unread message; and

,

at least a portion of a body of the given unread message,

wherein data provided in the unread message list for each of other unread messages comprises respective metadata and a respective subject.

6. The device of claim 4, wherein the processor is further configured to, in response to detecting a further sliding touch input beginning at a position of the static touch input:

when the further sliding touch input is in a first direction relative to the position of the static touch input, provide, at the display, a preview of a next unread message in the unread message list; and

when the further sliding touch input is in a second direction opposite the first direction, provide, at the display, a preview of a previous unread message in the the unread message list.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the processor is further configured to, when a given change in position of the further sliding touch input occurs in a length of time greater than a threshold time period, designate a respective one of the unread messages as a read message.

8. The device of claim 6, wherein the processor is further configured to, when a given change in position of the further sliding touch input occurs in a length of time greater than a threshold time period, delete a respective one of the unread messages.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to provide, at the display, in the bar and proximal a position of the static touch input, one or more of:

a first icon indicative that the list of the unread messages can be navigated;

a second icon indicative that the list of the unread messages can be navigated to preview a next unread message; and

,

a third icon indicative that the list of the unread messages can be navigated to preview a previous unread message.

10. A method comprising:

at device comprising;

a processor;

a memory storing messages, the messages comprising messages designated as unread and messages designated as read messages; and

a touchscreen including a display,

detecting a sliding touch input at the touchscreen, the sliding touch input including a change in direction, the sliding touch input terminating in a static touch input;

in response to detecting the change in direction of the sliding touch input, providing, at the display, an initial list of messages and a bar adjacent an edge of the touchscreen indicating an area for the static touch input, the initial list of messages including at least one of the read messages and at least one of the unread messages; and

,

in response to detecting the static touch input in the bar and proximal the edge of the touchscreen, providing, at the display, an unread message list comprising one or more of the unread messages from the initial list of messages.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

generating the unread message list by filtering out the read messages from the message list.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein a first portion of the sliding touch input is in a first direction and a second portion of the sliding touch input is in a second direction, and the method further comprises:

after the static touch input is detected in the bar and proximal the edge of the touchscreen, detecting another sliding touch input beginning at a position of the static touch input, in an opposite direction to the second direction; and

, in response,

replacing, at the display, the unread message list with the message list.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising, in response to detecting the static touch input in the bar and proximal the edge of the touchscreen, providing, at the display, a preview of a given unread message in the unread message list when providing the unread message list.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising, in response to detecting a further sliding touch input beginning at a position of the static touch input:

when the further sliding touch input is in a first direction relative to the position of the static touch input, providing, at the display, a preview of a next unread message in the unread message list; and

when the further sliding touch input is in a second direction opposite the first direction, providing, at the display, a preview of a previous unread message in the unread message list.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising, when a given change in position of the further sliding touch input occurs in a length of time greater than a threshold time period, designating a respective one of the unread messages as a read message.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising, when a given change in position of the further sliding touch input occurs in a length of time greater than a threshold time period, deleting a respective one of the unread messages.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising providing, at the display, in the bar proximal a position of the static touch input, one or more of:

a first icon indicative of at least one of that the list of the unread messages can be navigated;

a second icon indicative that the list of the unread messages can be navigated to preview a next unread message; and

,

a third icon indicative that the list of the unread messages can be navigated to preview a previous unread message.

18. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program code configured to be executed to implement a method comprising:

at device comprising;

a processor;

a memory storing messages, the messages comprising messages designated as unread messages and messages designated as read messages; and

a touchscreen including a display,

detecting a sliding touch input at the touchscreen, the sliding touch input including a change in direction, the sliding touch input terminating in a static touch input;

in response to detecting the change in direction of the sliding touch input, providing, at the display, an initial list of messages and a bar adjacent an edge of the touchscreen indicating an area for the static touch input, the initial list of messages including at least one of the read messages and at least one of the unread messages; and

,

in response to detecting the static touch input in the bar and proximal an edge of the touchscreen, providing, at the display, an unread message list comprising one or more of the unread messages from the initial list of messages.