Patent ID: 7111044

Claim:
A method of presenting a chat session on the display of a hand-held chat-enabled wireless mobile unit, comprising: providing a user-operable switch on the hand-held wireless mobile unit for allowing a user to selectively operate the hand-held wireless mobile unit in either a first display mode or a second display mode; in response to user activation of the first display mode via the user-operable switch, operating the hand-held wireless mobile unit in the first display mode where the display presents a chat conversation without presenting a text edit area for a user to enter and edit chat messages, the displayed chat conversation being progressively updated in real-time so that chat messages included in the conversation scroll on the display; and in response to user activation of the second display mode via the user-operable switch, activating a text edit function and operating the hand-held wireless mobile unit in the second display mode where the display presents the text edit area on a portion of the display previously occupied by the displayed chat conversation while simultaneously continuing to present the chat conversation on reduced portion of the display, the text edit function allowing the user to compose one or more chat messages in the text edit area while the displayed chat conversation progresses.