Patent ID: 9690445
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G06F,G09G

Claim:
1. A method of controlling a mobile telephony device comprising a touch-screen user interface, the method comprising: monitoring a status of one or more applications having access to the touch-screen user interface of the mobile telephony device; and in response to the monitoring indicating that a telephony application is displaying an in-call screen on the touch-screen user interface during a call conducted by the mobile telephony device, configuring at least one overlay portion over a part of the displayed in-call screen, wherein configuring the at least one overlay portion comprises configuring one or more touch-sensitive screen regions which are operable to initiate one or more operations of the mobile telephony device in response to user input via the one or more touch-sensitive screen regions, wherein the at least one overlay portion comprises: wherein, when the size of the at least one overlay portion is varied in response to user input via the one or more touch-sensitive screen regions, the method comprises: