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US 8,963,894 B2Granted
Electronic device and method providing improved alarm clock feature and facilitated alarm editing mode
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsGerhard Dietrich Klassen, Kalu Onuka Kalu
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Abstract
An improved electronic device and method provide an improved clock feature that includes an improved alarm clock function and a BEDTIME mode that is initiated by execution of a BEDTIME mode routine. The alarm clock function enables an alarm to be edited very easily.
Claims20
A method on an electronic device that comprises a display, the method comprising:
- displaying an alarm time, and a current time with use of a visual object having a size in one dimension that is at least about one-half as long as a physical length of the display in the one dimension;
- responsive to an actuation of a first input, displaying in place of the alarm time, an interaction component having a plurality of fields comprising alterable elements of an alarm, the interaction component and the current time being visible at the same time;
- altering at least one of the plurality of alterable elements highlighted on the display in response to receipt of at least one second input to the interaction component;
- moving a focus on the display to highlight at least one other of the plurality of alterable elements on the display after altering a previous one of the plurality of alterable inputs, the altering and moving comprising modifying the interaction component on the display while continuing to display the current time;
- and
- updating the alarm time and replacing the interaction component with an updated alarm time after detecting a termination input.
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An electronic device comprising:
- a processor;
- a display;
- and
- a memory, the memory having stored therein a number of instructions which, when executed on the processor, causes the electronic device to perform operations comprising:
- displaying an alarm time, and a current time with use of a visual object having a size in one dimension that is at least about one-half as long as a physical length of the display in the one dimension;
- responsive to an actuation of a first input, displaying in place of the alarm time, an interaction component having a plurality of fields comprising alterable elements of an alarm, the interaction component and the current time being visible at the same time;
- altering at least one of the plurality of alterable elements highlighted on the display in response to receipt of at least one second input to the interaction component;
- moving a focus on the display to highlight at least one other of the plurality of alterable elements on the display after altering a previous one of the plurality of alterable inputs, the altering and moving comprising modifying the interaction component on the display while continuing to display the current time;
- and
- updating the alarm time and replacing the interaction component with an updated alarm time after detecting a termination input.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.