Patent ID: 7669144

Claim:
A method for displaying, upon user request, an abbreviated menu on a display screen of a handheld electronic device that is relevant to a currently running application on the device, said method comprising: running an application on the handheld electronic device and thereby causing display of a cursor-navigable page on the display screen of the handheld electronic device, wherein the cursor-navigable page does not include a displayed menu; receiving an ambiguous request for display of menu items corresponding to the displayed page while a cursor is positioned at a location on the cursor-navigable page; and displaying an abbreviated menu in response to the received ambiguous request, said 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 cursor-navigable page, said short list of menu items consisting of: (i) one menu item having been assessed a higher probability for being user-selected than at least some menu items of the full list of menu items not included in said short list of menu items and (ii) an extended menu item to expand the short list to the full, extended menu, wherein the extended menu item on the short list and a dedicated push-button on the device for displaying the extended menu are each marked with an insignia.