Handheld electronic device having improved help facility and associated method
AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited
InventorsDale K. BRUBACHER-CRESSMAN, Jason T. Griffin
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Abstract
An improved handheld electronic device and associated method in accordance with the invention provide an improved help facility that displays a list of hot key assignments. The help facility is context-specific, meaning that it displays the hot key assignments that are activatable in the context of the specific portion of the specific application that is active on the handheld electronic device.
Claims20
A method of providing information about a handheld electronic device, the handheld electronic device including a display, an input apparatus having a number of input members, and a number of applications, at least one of said input members having at least one hot-key function assigned thereto, said method capable of at least one hot key function, comprising:
- determining that one of said applications is at least one active hot-key on said handheld electronic device;
- determining that said at least one input member has at least one hot-key function assigned thereto that is activated when said one of said applications is active;
- and
- displaying on said display an output representative of said at least one of said input members representative of said at least one hot-key function.
A handheld electronic device comprising:
- a display;
- an input apparatus including a number of input members, at least one of said input members having at least one hot-key function assigned thereto;
- and
- a processor apparatus including memory and a number of applications, including another of at least one hot-key function, said processor apparatus being adapted to detect input from said input apparatus and to provide output signals to said display,
- said processor apparatus being adapted to determine that one of said applications is active on said handheld electronic device, to determine that said at least one of said input members has at least one hot-key function assigned thereto that is activated when said one of said applications is active, and to display on said display an output representative of said at least one of said input members and representative of said another at least one hot-key function.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.