Restricted user interface navigation
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsEric JOHNSON, Ronald Anthony DICKE
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Abstract
A method and system that permits a user to navigate or browse a long list on a handheld device with a restricted user interface, such as a limited display and a limited user input device. The user first uses a coarse search to find a generally desired area in the list. The user then uses finer and finer search intervals in the vicinity of the desired area, until the desired entry is located.
Claims21
1-12. (canceled)
A method comprising:
- providing, at a display, a first portion of a list;
- moving through further portions of the list, at the display, at a first coarse interval from each preceding portion in response to actuation of an input device in a first dimension;
- and
- moving through the further portions of the list, at the display, at a second finer interval in response to actuation of the input device in a second dimension orthogonal to the first dimension.
A device comprising:
- a display, a processor and an input device, the processor configured to:
- provide, at the display, a first portion of a list;
- move through further portions of the list, at the display, at a first coarse interval from each preceding portion in response to actuation of the input device in a first dimension;
- and
- move through the further portions of the list, at the display, at a second finer interval in response to actuation of the input device in a second dimension orthogonal to the first dimension.
A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method comprising:
- providing, at a display, a first portion of a list;
- moving through further portions of the list, at the display, at a first coarse interval from each preceding portion in response to actuation of an input device in a first dimension;
- and
- moving through the further portions of the list, at the display, at a second finer interval in response to actuation of the input device in a second dimension orthogonal to the first dimension.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.