Method and arrangment for a primary actions menu that defaults according to historical user activity on a handheld electronic device

A handheld electronic device programmed to display, upon user request, a menu of user-selectable actions on a display screen of the handheld electronic device that are relevant to a currently running application on the device, said handheld electronic device comprising:

• a display screen on which application pages are displayed when applications are run on the handheld electronic device;
• a keyboard located below the display screen and configured to accommodate textual input to the handheld electronic device;
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• a microprocessor having a control program associated therewith for controlling operation of said handheld electronic device, said control program configured to run an application on the handheld electronic device and thereby cause an application page to be displayed on a display screen of the handheld electronic device and to display a menu of user-selectable actions relevant to the displayed page and default-designating one menu item for user-selection based on historical user activity.

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:

• operating system software that controls operation of an incorporating handheld electronic device and said operating system software is programmed to control operation of said handheld electronic device, said operating system software is configured:
• to run an application on the handheld electronic device and thereby cause an application page to be displayed on a display screen of the handheld electronic device and to display a menu of user-selectable actions relevant to the displayed page and default-designating one menu item for user-selection based on historical user activity;
• to display a menu of user-selectable actions after a first portion of text has been displayed on the display screen of the handheld electronic device, said user-selectable actions comprising (i) copy, (ii) cut and (iii) paste and default-designating the paste menu item when one of the cut and the copy actions was last user-selected from the immediately-previous display of the menu;
• and to again display the menu of user-selectable actions comprising (i) copy, (ii) cut and (iii) paste and not default-designate the paste menu item when the paste action was last user-selected from the immediately-previous display of the menu.