Patent ID: 8719719

Claim:
A method comprising: determining, by a mobile device, whether the mobile device is contacting a surface that is not associated with a hand of a user of the mobile device; responsive to determining that the mobile device is contacting the surface, presenting, for display at a presence-sensitive screen of the mobile device, a first graphical keyboard layout; responsive to determining that the mobile device is not contacting the surface, determining, by the mobile device, whether the user is holding the mobile device with one hand or with both hands; and responsive to determining that the user is holding the mobile device with both hands and that the mobile device is not contacting the surface, presenting, for display at the presence-sensitive screen of the mobile device, a second graphical keyboard layout, different from the first graphical keyboard layout, the second graphical keyboard layout comprising a split graphical keyboard having disjointed halves that are graphically positioned towards opposite ends of the presence-sensitive screen, wherein a first half of the disjointed halves comprises a first portion of the first graphical keyboard layout, and wherein a second half of the disjointed halves comprises a second, different portion of the first graphical keyboard layout.