Patent ID: 8707215
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for operating a single pointer touch sensitive user interface of a hand-held electronic device, said method comprising: defining a first one of a set of two or more controllable interface functions including at least a first controllable interface function and a second controllable interface function as being active; detecting a control gesture including a pointer pattern movement and associating the control gesture with the active one of the set of two or more controllable interface functions, where the detected pointer pattern movement adjusts the performance of the active controllable interface function; detecting a transition gesture including a pointer pattern movement, which is not included as a control gesture for any of the two or more controllable interface functions, wherein upon detection of the transition gesture, the transition gesture defines a next one corresponding to a second one of the set of two or more controllable interface functions as being the active one of the set of two or more controllable interface functions; detecting a control gesture including a pointer pattern movement and associating the control gesture with the active one of the set of two or more controllable interface functions, where the detected pointer pattern movement adjusts the performance of the active controllable interface function; and detecting the transition gesture including the pointer pattern movement, and defining a next one of the set of two or more controllable interface functions as being the active one of the two or more controllable interface function, wherein when the second one of the set of two or more controllable interface functions was the active one of the two or more controllable interface functions when the transition gesture was detected, the next one of the set of two or more controllable interface functions defined as being active is no longer the second one of the set of two or more controllable interface functions.