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US 2011/0087964 A1Published application
Method for indicating a volume of an audio sink of a portable electronic device
AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited
InventorsAndrew Robert PATTERSON, Michael Thomas HARDY, Samer FAHMY
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Abstract
A method includes rendering data for display on a display screen of a portable electronic device and rendering an overlay for display on the display screen, the overlay being superimposed over the data and including a volume indicator and an audio sink indicator.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- rendering data for display on a display screen of a portable electronic device;
- and
- rendering an overlay for display on the display screen, the overlay being superimposed over the data and comprising a volume indicator and an audio sink indicator.
A portable electronic device comprising:
- a processor for rendering data for display on a display screen of the portable electronic device and rendering an overlay for display on the display screen, the overlay comprising a volume indicator and an audio sink indicator and being superimposed over the data;
- and
- a volume adjustment device in communication with the processor, the volume adjustment device for communicating with a media player application stored in a memory of the portable electronic device;
- wherein active audio sink and current volume level of the active audio sink is obtained from the media player application.
1 more element
A method comprising:
- displaying data on a display screen of a portable electronic device;
- and
- displaying an overlay on the display screen, the overlay being superimposed over the data and comprising a volume indicator and an audio sink indicator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.