Patent ID: 8787993

Claim:
A method for automatically saving data in a wireless device, the wireless device having a primary display device and secondary display device, the wireless device having a sensor connected to a processor and a memory connected to the processor, the sensor providing an open signal to the processor indicating an open event when the wireless device is opened and providing a close signal to the processor indicating a close event when the wireless device is closed, the method comprising: detecting occurrence of the close event while data is being entered in an application on the wireless device; saving, in the memory as saved data, data entered in the application at a time of the detecting; displaying, on the secondary display, a notification that the entered data is saved; displaying, a notification that the entered data is saved on the primary display device of the wireless device in response to detecting the open event, wherein the notification provides selectable options including one or more of resuming the application on the primary display in a data entry mode with the entered data loaded from the memory, acknowledging the notification and taking no further action, and acknowledging the notification and creating a reminder notification for subsequent display on the primary display; and performing one of the options provided in displayed notification in response to selection of the option in the displayed notification; wherein an auto-save manager module resident in the memory of the wireless device executes the method when data is being entered in an application for which configuration settings in the auto-save manager module indicate that the method should be active.