Electronic device and method of displaying information in response to a gesture

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9507495-B2
Application number	US-201313856003-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 3, 2013
Priority date	Apr 3, 2013
Publication date	Nov 29, 2016
Grant date	Nov 29, 2016

Abstract

A method includes displaying a first item on an electronic device and detecting a gesture requesting display of a list. In response to detecting the gesture, a first plurality of representations of items in the list is displayed in a first area while displaying at least a part of the first item in a second area. A characteristic of the gesture that identifies a second item from the list is detected. In response to detecting the characteristic of the gesture, a representation of the second item is displayed as a focused item in the first area. In response to detecting discontinuation of the gesture, the second item is displayed and display of the list is discontinued.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
displaying a first item on an electronic device;
detecting a gesture, requesting display of a list associated with the first item, in a first direction, wherein the list includes a plurality of representations of items, the plurality of representations of items including a representation of the first item;
in response to detecting the gesture performed in the first direction, displaying the list in a first area while displaying a par…

Assignees

• Blackberry Ltd

Inventors

• Johansson Per Åke Daniel
• Carlsson Håkan
• Larsson Anders

Classifications

• G06F3/0482 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/04883

  Physics · mapped topic