| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090207139 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MANIPULATING A REFERENCE DESIGNATOR LISTING - An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for manipulating a reference designator listing displayed in association with an ordered content list. When the user touches the touchscreen proximate the location at which at least one reference designator is displayed, the electronic device may not only jump to the portion of the content list corresponding to the reference designator assumed to have been selected, but also zoom the reference designator listing so that the assumed selected reference designator, and one or more surrounding reference designators, are larger and can be more easily selected. In addition, by touching the touchscreen at a location at which the magnified reference designator listing is displayed and moving his or her finger, or other selection device, in some direction within the reference designator listing, the user may scroll the reference designator listing, so that a different set of magnified reference designators is displayed. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090218957 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR CONSERVING POWER IN MOBILE DEVICES - An apparatus for conserving power in mobile devices may include a processor. The processor may be configured to determine whether a condition has been satisfied and alter a state of one or more functionalities of a device if the condition has been satisfied while leaving the state of one or more other functionalities of the device unaltered. Corresponding methods, and computer program products are also provided. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090313655 | Apparatus, method, computer program and user interface for enabling access to programs. - A method, and associated apparatus, computer program and user interface, the method including receiving information comprising the trigger time of programs on a plurality of media channels; assigning a priority to the programs based on the trigger time of the program relative to a given time point such that programs with a trigger time within a first predetermined time interval of the given time point are assigned a higher priority than programs with a trigger time within a second predetermined time interval of the given time point; and presenting, at the given time point, the programs in a list in order of assigned priority so that programs with a higher assigned priority are presented at a higher position in the list than programs with a lower assigned priority and user selection of a program from the list enables the media channel associated with the selected program to be accessed. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100164878 | TOUCH-CLICK KEYPAD - A method includes detecting a short movement of a pointing device on a touch sensitive area of a display; presenting a menu of functions on the display and enabling at least one function on the menu for activation in response to detecting the short movement; and detecting a short press on the touch sensitive area to activate the enabled at least one function. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169819 | Enhanced zooming functionality - A method includes detecting an image presented on a display area of a device; detecting a pointing device input on a touch sensitive area of a device; determining that the input includes at least one point of contact on the touch sensitive area; and activating a zoom functionality of the device. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100241984 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING THE NON ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTER BASED ON A USER INPUT - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus, comprising a shorthand-aided rapid keyboarding enabled touchscreen is configured to receive a user input. Further, a processor is configured to identify a position in a text input; and determine a non alphanumeric character based at least in part on the user input. Further still, the shorthand-aided rapid keyboarding enabled touchscreen is further configured to display the non alphanumeric character in the position. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100333015 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING TEXT INFORMATION - An apparatus is provided that includes a processor and memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, working with the processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: provide for receiving text information, provide for representing at least part of received text information in an edit region, determine that less than all received text information is represented in said edit region, determine at least part of said received text information to scroll, and cause scrolling of said determined text information in at least one scrolling region is disclosed. A corresponding method and computer readable medium are also disclosed. | 12-30-2010 |