Patent ID: 9310990
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: G06F,G09G,H04M

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: displaying a shutter adjacent to a boundary of an information display region on a display of a portable electronic device, the information display region configured to display a virtual keyboard on a portion of the information display region and the shutter configured to activate and deactivate the virtual keyboard; the shutter including a shutter operator that indicates a direction of a scrolling input pointing away from the boundary of the information display region to display the virtual keyboard, the shutter operator changing to indicate a direction of a scrolling input pointing towards the boundary of the information display region to hide the virtual keyboard; receiving the scrolling input associated with the shutter; and responsive to receiving the scrolling input, displaying the virtual keyboard when the scrolling input is in the direction pointing away from the boundary of the information display region, and hiding the virtual keyboard when the scrolling input is in the direction pointing towards the boundary of the information display region.