Patent ID: 7761815
Filing Date: 2010-07-20
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: connecting a portable wireless apparatus to a chat in which messages are processed on a display area of the apparatus, and during the chat, monitoring a plurality of alphanumeric keys for a press to begin composition of a chat message and in response to a press of any one of the plurality of monitored alphanumeric keys at the apparatus, opening in the display area of the apparatus a pop-up display covering part of the display area of the apparatus, and allowing the pop-up display to be used for displaying a composed and edited user message suitable for forming part of the chat, in which the user message is composed and edited using at least input from at least one of the plurality of alphanumeric keys, in which a part of the display area uncovered by the pop-up display comprises a field for reading messages of the chat, and wherein information in the pop-up display and information in the field for reading messages are processed separately such that processing the information in the pop-up display does not affect contents of the field for reading messages, and such that while the pop-up display is open the contents of the field for reading messages can be read without any effect on the contents of the pop-up display.