Patent ID: 8519963

Claim:
A method, comprising: at a portable electronic device with a touch screen display that displays a plurality of user interface objects: detecting a first finger-down event at a first position on the touch screen display, wherein: the first position is adjacent to a first displayed user interface object that has a first hidden hit region surrounding the first displayed user interface object, wherein the first displayed user interface object is a slide control user interface object that includes a displayed slide bar and a displayed slide object; the first position is adjacent to a second displayed user interface object that has a second hidden hit region surrounding the second user interface object, wherein the second displayed user interface object is a button control user interface object; the first displayed user interface object is different from the second displayed user interface object; the first hidden hit region partially overlaps the second hidden hit region in an overlapping hidden hit region; and the first position falls within the overlapping hidden hit region between the first displayed user interface object and the second displayed user interface object; detecting a second finger event at a second position on the touch screen display, wherein the second finger event is selected from the group consisting of a finger-dragging event and a finger-up event; determining a type of the second finger event and a distance between the first position and the second position; performing a first action associated with the first displayed user interface object if the distance is greater than a predefined threshold; and performing a second action associated with the second displayed user interface object if the distance is less than the predefined threshold and the second finger event is a finger-up event.