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AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited
InventorsMatthew Richard LEE, Fahd Sohail BUTT, Taneem TALUKDAR
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A system and method is disclosed that provides for displaying on the screen of a handheld electronic device, an extended menu or a short menu, which is a subset of the corresponding extended menu. The system and method include an application displayed on a screen. If the application is currently running, and no menu is displayed, the user may initiate an ambiguous request. Various short menus, including those with solely one menu item, are provided with their respective menu items being dependent and adjustable based upon the position of a cursor on the display page, the currently opened application, and/or the previous selections. Further, a selection from the short menu is capable of displaying the extended menu corresponding thereto.
A method for displaying, upon user request, an abbreviated menu on a display screen of a handheld electronic device that is relevant to a currently running application on the device, said method comprising:
A handheld electronic device programmed to display an abbreviated menu of action options on a display screen of the device based on a user request and the page that is displayed on the display screen at the time of the user request, said handheld electronic device comprising:
A processing subsystem configured to be installed in a handheld electronic device comprising a user interface including a display and a keyboard having a plurality of input keys with which letters are associated, said processing subsystem comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.