Method and apparatus pertaining to a gesture-controlled snooze instruction

摘要

A control circuit (101) detects a predetermined event (such as but not limited to a particular time of day) and responsively automatically switches to an alarm state. While in this alarm state the control circuit monitors at least one non-snooze-specific area (503) of a user input (103) (such as but not limited to an area of a touch-sensitive display (218)) for a user's gesture (such as but not limited to a swipe). In response to detecting the user's gesture while in the alarm state the control circuit (101) automatically interprets the user's gesture as a snooze instruction regarding the alarm state.