发明名称 Method and apparatus for launching activities
摘要 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.
申请公布号 US9417702(B2) 申请公布日期 2016.08.16
申请号 US201313865765 申请日期 2013.04.18
申请人 BlackBerry Limited 发明人 Fyke Steven;Orr Kevin;Moosavi Vahid
分类号 G06F3/048;G06F3/01;G06F3/0482;G06F3/0488;H04M1/725 主分类号 G06F3/048
代理机构 Fish & Richardson P.C. 代理人 Fish & Richardson P.C.
主权项 1. A wireless communication device comprising: 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 first 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, wherein the first sweeping contact motion is associated with the single home zone area, 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 first sweeping contact motion terminated;following the launch of the application, detecting a second 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 areas, wherein the second sweeping contact motion is associated with the two home zone areas, each of the two home zone areas is different than the single home zone area, each activity launch zone area corresponds to an associated function corresponding to the launched application, and a plurality of functions associated with the plurality of activity launch zone areas are the only functions performed by the second sweeping contact motion; andexecuting the function corresponding to the launched application and activity launch zone area at which the second sweeping contact motion terminated.
地址 Waterloo, Ontario CA