Patent ID: 8904286

Claim:
A method for displaying a menu on a screen of a wireless handheld electronic device, said method comprising: displaying a cursor-navigable page on a screen of a wireless handheld electronic device without a menu showing on the cursor-navigable page; receiving an ambiguous request for display of menu action items corresponding to the cursor-navigable page while a cursor is positioned at a location on the cursor-navigable page; displaying a short menu in response to the received ambiguous request, said short menu having a first list of menu action items associated with the cursor-navigable page, said first list including items that are a subset of an extended menu having a second list of menu action items that lists all available menu action items associated with the cursor-navigable page and with an application causing display of the cursor-navigable page, said first list of menu action items having been assessed a higher probability for being user-selected than at least some action items of the second list of menu action items not included in said first list of menu action items, said first list including a menu action item for displaying the extended menu; and displaying the extended menu in response to a selection of a menu action item on the first list of the short menu, the wireless handheld electronic device being capable of transmitting data to, and receiving data from, a communication network utilizing radio frequency signals, and the data of the short menu is transmitted, via the communication network, to a central location that is separate from the wireless handheld electronic device.