Patent ID: 9372615
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: G06F,G09G

Claim Text:
1. An input method for an electronic device, the method comprising: detecting an input of a key button of the electronic device; when the input of the key button is detected without a maintained touch input on a touch screen, performing a first function based on the input of the key button; when the input of the key button is detected with the maintained touch input on the touch screen within a predetermined range of time of the maintained touch input on the touch screen, performing a second function, based on both the maintained touch input and the input of the key button, that is different than the first function; and when the input of the key button is detected with the maintained touch input on the touch screen after the predetermined range of time of the maintained touch input on the touch screen, invalidating the maintained touch input and performing the first function based on the input of the key button.