Patent ID: 6463304
Filing Date: 2002-10-08
Classification: G06F,H04M

Abstract:
In a two-way mobile communication device having a display and an input interface, a method of initiating one of a plurality of resident applications, said method comprising:displaying a key map on said display of the two-way mobile communication device, the key map including graphical symbolic identifiers for a group of the resident application programs, each of said graphical symbolic identifiers are distinct and represent a corresponding one of the resident application programs, and each of said graphical symbolic identifiers provide information relating to the assignment of a key of a group of keys of the two-way mobile communication device; receiving a selection of the keys in the group of keys; and executing one of the resident applications within the group of the resident applications that is associated with the selected one of the keys in the group of keys, wherein the arrangement of the graphical symbolic identifiers within the key map corresponds to an arrangement of the keys in the group of keys, wherein the keys in the group of keys are navigation keys for the two-way mobile communication device and are arranged in a circular pattern, and wherein the arrangement of the graphical symbolic identifiers is circular with a like configuration as the navigation keys in the circular pattern, and wherein at least two of the resident application programs within the group of resident application programs are chosen from the group of: email application, address book application, notepad application, and network browser application.