Patent ID: 8413067

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; presenting, at a presence-sensitive screen of the mobile device, a first graphical keyboard layout responsive to determining that the mobile device is contacting the surface; determining, by the mobile device, whether the user is holding the mobile device with one hand or both hands responsive to determining that the mobile device is not contacting the surface; 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, 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; and responsive to determining that the user is holding the mobile device with one hand and that the mobile device is not contacting the surface: determining a side of the mobile device where the user is holding the mobile device; and presenting a single continuous graphical keyboard that is graphically positioned towards an end of the presence-sensitive screen that is opposite to the side of the mobile device where the user is holding the mobile device with one hand.