Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-directional navigation between focus points on a display
- Patent Title (中): 在显示屏上的焦点之间进行多方向导航
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Application No.: US13439014Application Date: 2012-04-04
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Publication No.: US08581843B2Publication Date: 2013-11-12
- Inventor: Christopher Dale Billard , Eric Mah
- Applicant: Christopher Dale Billard , Eric Mah
- Applicant Address: CA Waterloo, Ontario
- Assignee: Blackberry Limited
- Current Assignee: Blackberry Limited
- Current Assignee Address: CA Waterloo, Ontario
- Agency: Perry + Currier Inc.
- Main IPC: G06F3/033
- IPC: G06F3/033

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for navigating between different focus points displayed on an electronic device, comprising, for each of said different focus points, maintaining a list of any adjacent ones of said focus points to which focus can move in each direction responsive to a navigation event in said direction, for each said list having only one adjacent focus point moving focus to said one adjacent focus point responsive to said navigation event, and for each said list having more than one adjacent focus point accessing a memory setting and moving focus to a predetermined one of said adjacent focus points responsive to said navigation event in accordance with said memory setting.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120188165A1 MULTI-DIRECTIONAL NAVIGATION BETWEEN FOCUS POINTS ON A DISPLAY Public/Granted day:2012-07-26
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