Patent ID: 9250766
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method executed in a computing device for providing a textual assistance associated with a context based menu, the method comprising: detecting the context based menu displayed on a user interface in one of a collapsed and expanded state, wherein the context based menu appears adjacent to a focus point including one of: an insertion point and a selection point, and allows commands associated with one or more items represented by one or more graphical icons that are displayed on the context based menu to be scoped by context; in response to a first selection of the one or more items on the context based menu, displaying a pre-tooltip associated with the first selected item, wherein the pre-tooltip provides a first information that describes a first action to be executed on an activation of the first selected item; in response to detecting an activation of the first selected item, positioning the pre-tooltip and the post-tooltip on one of an interior and an exterior of the context based menu in response to the first selection and the activation; and in response to positioning the pre-tooltip and the post-tooltip on the exterior of the context based menu, configuring the pre-tooltip and the post-tooltip to curve around the context based menu and presenting the pre-tooltip and the post-tooltip at an offset from one of the one or more graphical icons associated with the first selected item to avoid an occlusion of the pre-tooltip and the post-tooltip on the context based menu.