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AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsMatthew Richard Lee, Piotr Konrad Tysowski
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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 a first page of a plurality of sequentially linked pages being displayed on a screen. If the next page of the sequentially linked page is designated through use of the auxiliary user input device and no menu is displayed, the user may initiate an ambiguous request. Various short menus 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 progressively displaying, for user viewing, sequential pages on a handheld electronic device, said method comprising:
A handheld electronic device programmed to display, upon multiple actuations of an auxiliary user input device, sequential pages for user viewing on a display screen of the device, 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.