Patent ID: 8689138

Claim:
A method for progressively displaying, for user viewing, sequential pages on a handheld electronic device, the method comprising: displaying a first page of a plurality of sequentially linked pages on a display screen of a handheld electronic device, the plurality of sequentially linked pages being sequentially linked within a same program; receiving, after the displaying, an ambiguous request for display of menu items corresponding to the first page in response to an initial actuation of an auxiliary user input device while the first page is displayed and while a cursor is positioned at a location on the first page that is not visually signified for menu display actuation; displaying an abbreviated menu in response to receiving the ambiguous request, the abbreviated menu having a short list of menu items which is a subset of a full list of menu items of an extended menu associated with the displayed first page, the short list of menu items being displayed in the abbreviated menu with one menu item in the short list of menu items being default-selected as a currently selected menu item in response to the initial actuation of the auxiliary user input device, where the abbreviated menu is populated with the short list of menu items independent of the location at which the cursor has been positioned; receiving an actuation of the auxiliary user input device that is immediately subsequent to the initial actuation; and performing an action as defined by the one menu item that is default-selected as the currently selected menu item in response to the actuation that is immediately subsequent to the initial actuation.