Quick text entry on a portable electronic device
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1. 8 the display 410 is automatically input into the text entry field 402 The default setting by which the text entry user interface 400 is set as the active GUI element may be changed via designated input The portable electronic device 100 monitors for and detects designated input to store e g the text received in the text entry field 402 block 306 The designated input to store the received text may be a hot key a designated touch gesture a touching a designated onscreen item a designated motion gesture or other suitable input The input may be for example pressing the ENTER key of a keyboard of the portable electronic device 100 FIG 5 illustrates another example ofa text entry user interface 500 for quick text entry The text entry user interface 500 includes a Save button 502 next to the text entry field 402 Double tapping the touch sensitive display 118 at the location corresponding to the Save button 502 or clicking on or depressing the naviga tion device 122 when the Save button 502 is highlighted or focussed by the onscreen position indicator causes the text received in the text entry field 402 to be stored in the memory 110 of the portable electronic device 100 The text received in the text entry field 402 is stored as a data object of a predetermined type e g format in corre spondence an application 148 associated with the received text and optionally the content of the re2. p 1 paragraph p 3 last paragraph p 4 paragraph 6 5 4 Extended European Search Report EP 1115506837 Dated Apr 18 2011 Aza Raskin Enso 2 0 Design Thoughts Jan 31 2008 55001096 Humanized Weblog Retrieved from the Internet URL http hunnanized com weblog 2008 01 31 enso 20 design thoughts retrieved on Jun 21 2011 the whole document Howard Melman Quicksilver User Manual Verizon Jan 10 2009 pp 1 127 XP55001099 Retrieved from the Internet URL http mysite verizon net hmelman Quic ksilver pdf retrieved on Jun 21 2011 p 1 17 p 117 p 119 Extended European Search Report EP 11151940 1 Dated Jul 7 2011 Winnik Arthur Canadian Intellectual Property Office Examin er s Requisition for Canadian Patent Application No 2 768 422 dated Jan 8 2014 http web archive org web 201002181605 13 http en wikipedia org wiki Spotlight 9628software 029 cited by examiner US 8 707 199 2 Sheet 1 of 8 Apr 22 2014 U S Patent 3921nOS H3MOd HOSN3S NOILOW L JNOHdOSOIMN 801 uaxvads 921 LHOd rL L AYYNIXNY 39IA3Q NOILVOIAVN SNOLLn8S WALSASENS SNOILYOINANWNNOO 1 0 001 _A cor 30 553203 L WINY NIS YOL 31 NOILVOINNNWOO cl 0L DLT AHOWSW SWALSASENS YSHLO L Sls 91 NOILONN4 S9NISH
3. Date field or subfield of the calendar data type may be automatically determined For example the value of the Date field may be set to the current day or the next day for example if the start time for the current day is in the past The text received in the text entry field 402 may be sufficiently defined so that each of the Subject Start Duration and Reminder fields are defined and populated with text from the received text rather than default values or calculated values In the fourth example the text Buy coffee is received in the text entry field 402 In this example the associated appli cation 148 is the notepad application so a new Note data object is generated The Note data object includes the fields Title and Contents Because the associated application 148 is the notepad application the parsing function 166 parses the received text in accordance with rules for the Note data type The parsing function 166 may identify the first text string as the text for Title field and may identify the second text string as the text for the Content field In this example the text Buy coffee may be populated in the Title field and the contents field is left empty Alternatively both the Title field and the Content field may be populated with the text Buy coffee The data objects described above are merely examples Other data obj
4. blogs technet com kirtid archive 2007 05 17 cascading autocomplete As early as Apr 29 2010 4 pages Mozilla Labs Ubiquity An experimental interface based on natu ral language input http mozillalabs com ubiquity As early as Jun 10 2010 7 pages YubNub Youbnub org A social command line for the web http yubnub org As early as Jun 10 2010 1 page Cuil www cuil pt As early as Dec 21 2011 1 page ALIPR Automatic photo tagging and visual image search www simplr com As early as Jun 10 2010 1 pagel Google Toolbar http www google com intl en uk toolbar ie in dex html at least as early as Aug 24 2009 Vlingo Voice to Text Applications Powered by Intelligent Voice Recognition http www vlingo com at least as early as Aug 24 2009 2 pages Ubiquity Firefox Wikipedia entry http en wikipedia org wiki Ubiquity Firefox at least as early as Sep 20 2011 2 pages Quicksilver software Wikipedia entry http en wikipedia org wiki Quicksilver software at least as early as Sep 19 2011 4 pages Continued Primary Examiner Rashawn Tillery 74 Attorney Agent or Firm Ridout amp Maybee LLP 57 ABSTRACT A method for quick text entry on a portable electronic device and a portable electronic device configured for the same are provided In accordance with one embodiment there is pro vided a method for quick text entry comprising displaying a text entry
5. launch the application select a menu option to add the new data input the data and store the new or changed data item This process is time consuming and cumbersome due to the menu navigation A more efficient method for text entry on a portable electronic device is desirable BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG 1 is a simplified block diagram of components of a portable electronic device in accordance with one example embodiment of the present disclosure FIG 2 is a front view ofan example ofa portable electronic device in a portrait orientation FIG 3A is a flowchart of a method for text entry on a portable electronic device in accordance with one embodi ment of the present disclosure FIG 3B is a flowchart of a method for storing quick text entry on a portable electronic device in accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure FIG 4 is a front view of the portable electronic device of FIG 2 in portrait orientation and displaying a home screen with a text entry user interface in accordance with one example embodiment of the present disclosure FIG 5 is a front view of the portable electronic device of FIG 2 in portrait orientation and displaying a home screen with a text entry user interface in accordance with another example embodiment of the present disclosure FIGS 6A and 6B are front views of the portable electronic device of FIG 2 in portrait orientation and displaying user interface screens used in sele
6. type The receive text is a string of ten numbers which the parsing function 166 identifies as a phone number and then populates the Phone Number field with the text 5195551234 The Name field and other fields of the con tact record are left empty There is no further text so the parsing function 166 does not need to parse further In the third example the text Gym530am is received in the text entry field 402 In this example the associated appli cation 148 is the calendar application and the type of data object is a calendar data object The calendar data object includes the fields Subject Start Duration and Reminder Because the associated application 148 is the calendar application the parsing function 166 parses the received text in accordance with rules for the calendar data type The parsing function 166 parses the received text into the two text strings Gym and 5 30am which the parsing func tion 166 identifies as a subject for the Subject field and a start time for a Start field and populates the Subject field with the text Gym and the Start field with the text 5 30am The value of the other fields of the calendar data type may be populated with default values or may be populated with auto matically determined e g calculated values For example the value of the Duration field and Reminder field may be set to default values A
7. The text entry user interface 400 may be selected by highlighting or focusing the text entry user interface 400 by touching the touch sensitive display 118 at a location corresponding to the text entry user interface 400 or by moving the onscreen position indicator to the location corresponding to the text entry user interface 400 When the text entry user interface 400 is the active GUI element a cursor is located within the text entry field 402 The cursor 323 is an onscreen indicator used to navigate between character positions within the text entry field 402 and delete characters in response to backspace input from a corresponding key of a mechanical or onscreen keyboard Alternatively when the text entry user interface 400 is a permanent aspect of the home screen 410 the text entry user interface 400 may be set as the active GUI element by default such that any key input from a keyboard of the portable electronic device 100 while the home screen 410 is displayed on the display 112 is automatically input into the text entry field 402 When the portable electronic device 100 has a touch sensitive display 118 but no keyboard or the keyboard is hidden e g when the keyboard is a slider style keyboard or otherwise inactive or inaccessible any input received via an onscreen virtual keyboard invoked on the touch sen sitive display 118 while the home screen 410 is displayed on 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65
8. displayed on the display at a specified time 14 The method of claim 13 wherein the reminder message is dynamically generated using content from the data object 15 The method of claim 13 wherein the reminder notifi cation includes a link to the data object 16 The method of claim 1 wherein the text entry user interface is hidden in response to designated input 17 The method of claim 1 comprising displaying a confir mation message window on the display in response to the storing the confirmation message window including mes sage text 18 The method of claim 17 wherein the content of the message text is dynamically generated using content from the data object 19 The method of claim 18 wherein the confirmation mes sage window includes onscreen buttons one of the onscreen buttons for accepting the data object one of the onscreen buttons for editing the data object and one of the onscreen buttons for cancelling the data object the method comprising performing an action associated with one of the onscreen buttons in response to selecting input selecting one of the onscreen buttons 20 A portable electronic device comprising a processor a display and memory coupled to the processor wherein the processor is configured for receiving text when a home screen is displayed on the display the home screen being a primary user interface providing interaction points for launching two or more applica tions in responseto receiv
9. one motion sensor 136 which is coupled to the processor 102 and which is controlled by one or a combination of a monitoring circuit and operating software The motion sensor 136 has a sensing element which detects acceleration from motion and or gravity The sensor generates and outputs an electrical signal representative of the detected acceleration Changes in movement of the portable electronic device 100 results in changes in acceleration which produce corresponding changes in the electrical signal output of the sensor The motion sensor 136 may be an accelerometer such as a three axis accelerometer having three mutual orthogonally sensing axes The accelerometer detects changes in the acceleration of the portable electronic device 100 Other types of motion sensors such as a proximity sensor and or gyroscope may be used by the motion detection subsystem in addition to or instead of the accelerometer Changes in acceleration proximity and orientation detected by the accelerometer proximity sensor and or gyro scope may be interpreted by the portable electronic device 100 as motion ofthe portable electronic device 100 When the changes in acceleration proximity and orientation are within threshold tolerance s ofregularity or predictability when the changes in acceleration proximity and orientation match pre determined motion criteria e g stored in the memory 110 the changes may be interpreted by the portable electronic device 1
10. the GUI element or by moving an onscreen position indicator commonly referred to as a caret cursor or focus using the navigation device 122 to the location corresponding to the GUI element Double tapping the touch sensitive display 118 at the loca tion corresponding to the GUI element e g icon 416 or clicking on or depressing the navigation device 122 when the GUI element e g icon 416 is highlighted or focussed by the onscreen position indicator causes the action logically asso ciated with the GUI element to be performed If the GUI element e g icon 416 represents an application 148 the processor 102 causes the application 148 logically associated with the icon 416 to be launched for example the email application Referring again to FIG 3A the text entry field 402 of the text entry user interface 400 receives text in the form of an input string of one or more characters 304 such as alpha numerical characters and symbol characters The text entry user interface 400 is caused to be the active GUI element before any text will be received by the text entry field 402 Invoking the text entry user interface 400 automatically causes the text entry user interface 400 to be the active GUI element without further input Otherwise when the text entry user interface 400 is part of the home screen 410 designated input selecting the text entry user interface 400 causes the text entry user interface 400 to be the active GUI element
11. user interface within a graphical user interface the text entry user interface element including a text entry field receiving text in the text entry field storing the text received in text entry field in memory in response to corresponding input 21 Claims 8 Drawing Sheets US 8 707 199 2 Page 2 56 References Cited OTHER PUBLICATIONS Mueller J M Work Smarter With Smart Tags Journal of Accoun tancy American Institute of Certified Public Accountants New York US vol 194 No 5 Nov 1 2008 pp 1 9 XP002325787 ISSN 0021 8448 1 line 1 4 line 4 figures Jalbert P Quick Google Calendar Tip Say it All in One Line Apr 25 2007 XP002631802 Retrieved from the Internet URL http www googletutor com quick google calendar tip say it all in one line retrieved on Apr 7 2011 the whole document Gries T Wiki Based Intranet and Internet Search Assistant and Bookmark Sharing Tool Using Auto Type Detection and Approxi mate and Regular Expression Pattern Shortcuts WIBISA Research Disclosure Mason Publications Hampshire GB No 488004 Nov 10 2004 page Complete XP001152001 ISSN 0374 4353 the whole document Miller et al Documents to Object An Overview of LiveDoc Internet Citation Apr 1998 XP002460066 Retrieved from the Internet URL http www sigchi org bulletin 1998 2 miller3 html retrieved on Nov 27 2007
12. 00 as a pattern of motion Multiple patterns of motion may be recognized by the portable electronic device 100 To identify a subscriber for network access the portable electronic device 100 uses a Subscriber Identity Module or a Removable User Identity Module SIM RUIM card 138 for communication with a network such as the wireless network 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 4 150 Alternatively user identification information may be programmed into memory 110 The portable electronic device 100 includes an operating system 146 and software applications or programs 148 that are executed by the processor 102 and are typically stored in a persistent updatable store such as the memory 110 Addi tional applications or programs 148 may be loaded onto the portable electronic device 100 through the wireless network 150 the auxiliary I O subsystem 124 the data port 126 the short range communications subsystem 132 or any other suit able subsystem 134 The applications 148 may include but are not limited to any one or combination ofthe following a contacts application also known as an electronic address book a calendar application for scheduling appointments a browser for browsing Web content or other content a calcu lator an email application for email messaging an instant messaging IM application for instant messaging a text mes saging application for text messaging such as SMS Short Message Service or
13. 1234 Subject Gym Start 5 30 AM Duration default Reminder default Title Buy coffee Contents empty 2 5195551234 Contacts 3 Gym530am Calendar 4 Buy coffee Notepad In the first example the text Hank5195551234 is received in the text entry field 402 In this example the associated application 148 is the contacts application so a new contact record is generated Because the associated application 148 is the contacts application the parsing function 166 parses the received text in accordance with rules for the contact data type The received text is a string of four letters followed by ten numbers which the parsing function 166 identifies as two string sequences Hank and 5195551234 which are deter US 8 707 199 2 11 mined to be a name and a phone number The processor 102 then populates the Name field with the text Hank and populates the Phone Number field with the text 5195551234 The other fields of the contact record are left empty There is no further text so the parsing function 166 does not need to parse further In the second example the text 5195551234 is received in the text entry field 402 In this example the associated appli cation 148 is the contacts application so a new contact record is generated Because the associated application 148 is the contacts application the parsing function 166 parses the received text in accordance with rules for the contact data
14. 2 also includes selectable onscreen inputs in the form of onscreen buttons 904a Cancel 9045 and Edit 904c in the shown example The onscreen buttons 904a 9045 904c are mapped to the Accept command Cancel command and Edit command respectively The Accept command Cancel command or Edit command is executed by the processor 102 in response to input selecting a respective one of the onscreen buttons 904a 9045 or 904c US 8 707 199 2 15 The Accept command accepts the newly generated data object The Cancel command deletes the newly generated data object The newly generated data object may be known for example if information describing the newly generated data object is maintained as a runtime variable of the method 320 for example until selection input in response to the confirmation message window 902 has been received Selec tion input in response to the confirmation message window 902 may be used to terminate the method 320 The Edit command launches Edit user interface which is dis played on the display 112 for editing the newly generated data object The confirmation message window 902 is termi nated and removed in response to selection input selecting any one of Accept command Cancel command Edit command While the present disclosure is described primarily in terms of methods the present disclosure is also dire
15. DEVICE TECHNICAL FIELD The present disclosure relates to computing devices and in particular to a method for quick text entry on a portable electronic device and a portable electronic device configured for the same BACKGROUND Electronic devices including portable electronic devices have gained widespread use and may provide a variety of functions including for example telephonic electronic mes saging and other personal information manager PIM appli cation functions Portable electronic devices include for example several types of mobile stations such as simple cellular telephones smart telephones wireless personal digi tal assistants PDAs and laptop computers with wireless 802 11 or Bluetooth capabilities Portable electronic devices such as PDAs or smart tele phones are generally intended for handheld use and ease of portability Smaller devices are generally desirable for port ability Smaller devices have smaller displays which cannot display as much information as larger displays Designing a graphical user interface GUI for portable electronic devices such that the appropriate information is displayed or readily available to the user at any given time and a size which is appropriate for the user remains an ever present issue add new data such as a new contact or other data item on a portable electronic device typically requires the user to navigate through the GUI to locate the relevant application
16. Multimedia Messaging Service MMS messaging a device to device messaging application some times known as PIN personal identification number mes saging application a phone application task application or notepad application A PIM application which integrates some ofthe above applications such as the messaging appli cations calendar applications task and notepad applications may be provided instead of individual applications in some embodiments The memory 110 also includes a text entry control 162 a number of databases 164 each containing data objects of the same type each associated with the same application 148 or both and a parsing function 166 the functions of which are described more fully below The text entry control 162 and parsing function 166 may each be part ofthe operating system 146 or may be separate applications 148 The text entry con trol 162 provides a text entry user interface on the display 112 for user interaction The GUI which may be part of the operating system 146 generates user interface screens com prising user elements and displays the user interface screens on the display in response to instructions from the operating system 146 and applications 148 A received signal such as a text message an e mail mes sage or web page download is processed by the communica tion subsystem 104 and input to the processor 102 The pro cessor 102 processes the received signal for output to the display 112 and o
17. Vd vol SasvavLvd 09 LX3 L WALSAS SNILVH3dO U S Patent Apr 22 2014 Sheet 2 of 8 US 8 707 199 B2 FIG 2 U S Patent Apr 22 2014 Sheet 3 of 8 US 8 707 199 B2 x 300 302 DISPLAY TEXT ENTRY UI RECEIVE TEXT IN TEXT ENTRY FIELD 304 INPUT TO STORE CREATE AND STORE DATA OBJECT IN MEMORY 320 308 322 CREATE NEW DATA OBJECT FIG 324 326 POPULATE NEW DATA OBJECT WITH PARSED TEXT 328 STORE NEW DATA OBJECT IN MEMORY FIG 3B U S Patent Apr 22 2014 Sheet 4 of 8 US 8 707 199 B2 FRI JAN 13 332pM lm FIG 4 U S Patent Apr 22 2014 Sheet 5 of 8 US 8 707 199 B2 FIG 5 US 8 707 199 2 Sheet 6 of 8 Apr 22 2014 U S Patent 0 dogguesns pues Wd m I OLY viv Nd 55 5 m IHd U S Patent Apr 22 2014 Sheet 7 of 8 US 8 707 199 B2 FIG 7 U S Patent Apr 22 2014 Sheet 8 of 8 US 8 707 199 B2 100 mm mm m b ar 52 zm 5 O gt 24 9 E 52 oO 2p LL a 5 5 5 e o 00 WIJ st lt x lt e e T q m a 2 9 e gt 2 288 eo Sa 85256 O yo LL 55e zos LL 802 414 416 US 8 707 199 2 1 QUICK TEXT ENTRY ON PORTABLE ELECTRONIC
18. a text entry user interface within a graphical user interface the text entry user interface including a text entry field the text entry field being pre populated with at least a portion of the received text the text entry user interface being hidden from display on the home screen prior to receiving text at the home screen and storing the text in the text entry field in memory in response to corresponding input to store the text 2 The method of claim 1 wherein the storing comprises generating a data object of a particular type in accordance with an associated application populating the data object in accordance with the text in text entry field storing the data object in the memory 3 The method of claim 2 comprising selecting the associ ated application in accordance with received selection input selecting the associated application from a number of appli cations 4 The method of claim 3 wherein the text entry user inter face includes onscreen buttons for each application in the number of applications the selecting input comprising input selecting an onscreen button corresponding to the associated application 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 16 5 The method of claim 3 wherein the selectine input is the input to store the text 6 The method of claim 3 comprising displaying an application selection user interface window in response to the input to store the text wherein the applicatio
19. az United States Patent Smith US008707199B2 10 Patent No US 8 707 199 2 45 Date of Patent Apr 22 2014 54 QUICK TEXT ENTRY ON A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE 75 Inventor Ryan Tracy Smith Guelph CA 73 Assignee Blackberry Limited Waterloo CA Notice Subject to any disclaimer the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U S C 154 b by 426 days 21 Appl No 13 030 429 22 Filed Feb 18 2011 65 Prior Publication Data US 2012 0216140 A1 Aug 23 2012 51 Int CI G06F 3 048 2013 01 52 08 715 780 58 Field of Classification Search USPC 715 780 781 825 704 9 application for complete search history 56 References Cited U S PATENT DOCUMENTS 6 895 430 5 2005 Schneider 7 634 732 1 12 2009 Blagsvedtetal 715 712 2007 0214122 1 9 2007 Bala 2007 0282595 1 12 2007 Tunning etal 704 9 2008 0244446 Al 10 2008 LeFevre etal 715 810 2008 0301581 Al 12 2008 Baek et al 2009 0055356 Al 2 2009 Hanyu 2009 0172541 Al 7 2009 Acedo et al 2010 0036927 1 2 2010 Saras 709 206 2010 0175001 1 7 2010 Lazarus et al 715 753 2011 0246944 Al 10 2011 Byrne etal 715 835 700 414 FRI JAN 13 I Susan930pl I OTHER PUBLICATIONS Hello Kirti Cascading AutoComplete http
20. be carried out by software executed for example by the processor 102 Coding of software for carrying out such a method 300 is within the scope of a person of ordinary skill in the art provided the present disclosure The method 300 may contain additional or fewer processes than shown and or described and may be performed in a different order Computer readable code executable by at least one processor 102 of the portable elec tronic device 100 to perform the method 300 may be stored in a computer readable medium such as the memory 110 The portable electronic device 100 displays a text entry user interface on the display 112 302 for user interaction The text entry user interface includes a text entry field which may be populated with text by a user Text input in the text 20 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 6 entry field is processed by the text entry control 162 The text entry user interface is an element of the GUI of the portable electronic device 100 which allows text to be quickly entered and stored on the portable electronic device 100 The text entry user interface may be a widget in some embodiments A widget is a GUI building block which when called by an application 148 or the operating system 146 processes and manages available interactions with the particular type of data or information A text entry widget provides a single interac tion point for quick text entry for a number of applications 148 Typical
21. carrying out such a method 320 is within the scope person of ordinary skill in the art given the present disclosure The method 320 may contain additional or fewer processes than shown and or described and may be performed in a different order Com puter readable code executable by at least one processor 102 ofthe mobile terminal 100 to perform the method 320 may be stored in a computer readable medium such as the memory 110 The text received in the text entry field 402 ofthe text entry user interface is parsed using a parsing function 166 which parses the received text using one or more parsing techniques such as for example top down or bottom up parsing tech niques 322 The first step of the parsing process is lexical analysis or token generation Lexical analysis is performed by a program called a lexer which separates the received text into a series of string sequences called tokens using a set of rules defined by the lexer Each string sequence is a language object such as a word word fragment or symbol A word fragment is a short string of characters for example one to three characters in length which represent parts or words abbreviations or acronyms The rules are usually called regu lar expressions and define the set of possible character sequences that are used to form individual tokens Delimiter inputs such as space characters are also defined by a regular expression and influences the recognition of other token
22. ceived text For example the received text may be stored as an appointment or other calendar object accessible by a calendar application on the portable electronic device 100 or a note or memo object accessible by a notepad or memo application on the portable electronic device 100 The associated application 148 may be a predetermined or dynamically determined in accordance with user input orthe content ofthe received text as described more fully below The text entry control 162 interacts with the operating system 146 applications 148 databases 164 and parsing function 166 using a number of application programming interfaces APIs The text entry control 162 can interact with the operating system 146 databases 164 and parsing function 166 and at least some of the other applications 148 possibly all of the other applications 148 using the APIs The APIs may be used by the text entry control 162 to determine the data type data structure e g format naming conventions and location of database s associated with the applications 148 among other uses The APIs may include specifications for routines data structures data object classes and protocols APIs may be provided for each data type supported by the text entry control 162 For example APIs may be provided to generate contacts appointments memos tasks emails text messages instant messages IMs etc The data stored on the portable electronic device 100 may be organized at
23. cted to a portable electronic device configured to perform at least part of the methods The portable electronic device may be con figured using hardware modules software modules a com bination of hardware and software modules or any other suitable manner The present disclosure is also directed to a pre recorded storage device or computer readable medium having computer readable code stored thereon the computer readable code being executable by at least one processor of the portable electronic device for performing at least parts of the described methods The present disclosure may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from its spirit or essential character istics The described embodiments are to be considered in all respects as being only illustrative and not restrictive The present disclosure intends to cover and embrace all suitable changes in technology The scope of the present disclosure is therefore described by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description All changes that come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are intended to be embraced within their scope The invention claimed is 1 A method for quick text entry comprising receiving text when a home screen is displayed the home screen being a primary user interface providing interac tion points for launching two or more applications in response to receiving text when the home screen is displayed displaying
24. cting an associated application during quick text entry in accordance with one example embodiment of the present disclosure FIG 7 is a front view of the portable electronic device of FIG 2 in portrait orientation and displaying a home screen 30 40 45 50 55 60 65 2 with a text entry user interface in accordance with a further example embodiment of the present disclosure and FIGS 8 and 9 are front views of the portable electronic device of FIG 2 in portrait orientation and displaying a con firmation message in accordance with example embodiments of the present disclosure DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EXAMPLE EMBODIMENTS For simplicity and clarity of illustration reference numer als may berepeated among the figures to indicate correspond ing or analogous elements Numerous details are set forth to provide an understanding of the embodiments described herein The embodiments may be practiced without these details In other instances well known methods procedures and components have not been described in detail to avoid obscuring the embodiments described The description is not to be considered as limited to the scope of the embodiments described herein The disclosure generally relates to a portable electronic device such as a handheld electronic device Examples of handheld electronic devices include wireless communication devices such as for example pagers mobile telephones smartphones tablets slate comp
25. ects may be used and the data objects described herein may have different data fields than those specified above Similarly the parsing function 166 may parse the received text differently than as described in the above examples A reminder event may be generated after the newly gener ated data object is stored in the memory 110 for example to 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 12 display reminder notification to remind the user to review and or complete the newly generated data object at a later time In some embodiments the text entry control 162 may analyze the populated data object to determine whether any data fields in the newly generated data object is empty and generate a reminder event when the text entry control 162 determines that a data field in the data object is empty The reminder event may be generated when the data object is incomplete The data object may be considered incomplete when one or more predetermined fields are empty e g fields required to properly define the data object or if any field is empty depending on the embodiment The reminder gener ates a reminder notification including a reminder message to be displayed on the display at a specified time The specified time e g start time may be automatically determined as a predetermined time the next day e g 8 am the day after the newly generated data object was generated or a time which is a predetermined duration e g 24 ho
26. erlay 114 operably connected to an elec tronic controller 116 that together comprise a touch sensitive display 118 a navigation device 122 one or more auxiliary input output subsystems 124 a data port 126 a speaker 128 a microphone 130 short range communications sub system 132 and other device subsystems 134 User interac tion with the GUI is performed through the touch sensitive overlay 114 The processor 102 interacts with the touch sensitive overlay 114 via the electronic controller 116 Infor mation such as text characters symbols images icons and other items that may be displayed or rendered on a portable electronic device 100 is displayed on the touch sensitive display 118 via the processor 102 The navigation device 122 may be a depressible or click able joystick such as a depressible optical joystick a depressible trackball a depressible scroll wheel or a depress ible touch sensitive trackpad or touchpad FIG 2 shows the navigation device 122 in the form of a depressible optical joystick The auxiliary I O subsystems 124 may include other input devices such as a keyboard and or keypad neither of which is not shown In some embodiments a conventional a non touch sensitive display such as an LCD screen may be provided instead of the touch sensitive display 118 along with a keyboard and or keypad The portable electronic device 100 also comprises a motion detection subsystem not shown comprising at least
27. ext entry user interface When the text entry user interface is displayed the text entry user interface is typically a pop up or overlay user interface which overlays the current user interface screen which was displayed on the display 122 when the text entry user interface was invoked Alternatively when the text entry user interface 15 part of the home screen invoking the text entry user interface causes the home screen to be displayed and the text entry user inter face to become the active element of the GUI of the portable electronic device 100 FIG 4 illustrates one example of a text entry user interface 400 for quick text entry The text entry user interface 400 includes a text entry field 402 also known as a text box for receiving text in the form input string comprising one or more characters such as alphanumerical characters and sym bol characters Text input in the text entry field 402 is pro cessed by the text entry control 162 The text entry user interface 400 is part of the home screen 410 of the portable electronic device 100 in the shown example The home screen 410 is a user interface screen of the GUI which provides the primary user interface component for interacting with the portable electronic device 100 The home screen 410 allows user to navigate menus to locate interaction points such as commands functions device settings and applications 148 which may be launched on the portable electronic device 100 T
28. he text entry user interface 400 occupies only a portion of a display area ofthe display 112 The text entry user interface 400 may be located anywhere on the display 112 and may be of varying size Typically the text entry user interface 400 is located for convenient navigation for example by corre sponding input via the touch sensitive display 118 or naviga tion device 122 The text entry user interface 400 is provided US 8 707 199 2 7 along with other content of the home screen 410 such as status bar 412 and icon menu 414 The status bar 412 displays information such as the current date and time icon based notifications device status and or device state The icon menu 414 displays a plurality of icons 416 only one of which is labelled in FIG 4 The GUI elements on the home screen 410 such as the icons 416 are each selectable to cause an associated action be performed The action may be for example launching an associated command function application 148 or menu or opening an associated folder The icons 416 may be used for example to select the contacts application email application calendar application notepad application or other applica tion 148 A user may select a GUI element such as an appli cation 148 to be launched by highlighting or focusing the GUI element such as an icon 416 associated with the respec tive application 148 by touching the touch sensitive display 118 at a location corresponding to
29. ing text when the home screen is displayed causing a text entry user interface to be displayed within a graphical user interface on the dis play the text entry user interface including a text entry US 8 707 199 2 17 field the text entry field being pre populated with at least a portion of the received text the text entry user interface being hidden from display on the home screen prior to receiving text at the home screen and storing the text in the text entry field in memory in response to 5 corresponding input to store the text 21 The method of claim 1 further comprising after dis playing the text entry user interface receiving additional text in the text entry field
30. ip style devices The touch sensitive display 118 may be any suitable touch sensitive display such as a capacitive resistive infrared surface acoustic wave SAW touch sensitive display strain gauge optical imaging dispersive signal technology acous tic pulse recognition and so forth as known in the art capacitive touch sensitive display includes a capacitive touch sensitive overlay 114 The overlay 114 may be an assembly of multiple layers in a stack including for example a substrate a ground shield layer a barrier layer one or more capacitive touch sensor layers separated by a substrate or other barrier and a cover The capacitive touch sensor layers may be any suitable material such as patterned indium tin oxide ITO One or more touches also known as touch contacts or touch events may be detected by the touch sensitive display 118 The processor 102 may determine attributes ofthe touch including a location of a touch Touch location data may include an area of contact or a single point of contact such as a point at or near a centre of the area of contact The location of a detected touch may include x and y components e g horizontal and vertical components respectively with respect to one s view ofthe touch sensitive display 118 For example the x location component may be determined by a signal generated from one touch sensor and the y location component may be determined by a signal generated from another t
31. ived text as described above predetermined application may be default application such as for example the notepad appli cation Device settings may allow the user to change the default application Raw text entries received in the text entry field 402 may be stored in the notepad application or other designated text processing application in addition to being stored in a data object readable by an associated application 148 Within the notepad application raw unparsed text entries may be stored inasingle note or in separate notes depending on the embodi ment This provides a repository for all text entries via the text entry control 162 and may be useful for example if the user cannot remember which application 148 the text entry was sent to and the data object was generated in Selection of a particular input from a number of selectable onscreen inputs displayed on the display 122 in response to input to store the received text may provide the input for selecting an associated application 148 Each selectable onscreen input is mapped to a different application 148 on the portable electronic device 100 The received text will be stored to the application corresponding to the selected onscreen input The onscreen inputs may be selected using any suitable input FIGS 6A and 6B show a series of user interface screens used in selecting an associated application during quick text entry in accordance with one example embodiment of the
32. ject to be generated is a new note and then proceeds to generate that new note Alternatively the data object may be generated before parsing the received text in which case the content of the received text is not used in determining the type of data object Next the new data object is populated in accordance with the parsed text The data object may have a particular struc ture or schema 326 which may include one or more data fields The portable electronic device 100 uses the parsed text to populate the data fields of the new data object Next the populated data object is stored in the memory 110 ofthe portable electronic device 100 for example in an appro priate database 164 in accordance with the data object type associated application 148 or both 328 The data objects once stored in memory 110 may be viewed and or edited at a later time using the associated application 148 The method 320 for generated and storing a data object is typically per formed without any changes to the GUT of the portable electronic device 100 Table 1 shown below provides examples of how text received by the text entry control 162 may be parsed to gen erate different data objects for different applications TABLE 1 Example Received Text Text received in the text entry field Application Populate data object 1 Hank5195551234 Contacts Name Hank Phone Number 519 555 1234 Name New Unknown Timestamp Phone Number 519 555
33. least partially into a number of databases 164 FIG 1 each con taining data objects ofthe same type each associated with the same application 148 or both For example data objects such as contacts appointments memos tasks emails text mes sages and IMs may be stored in individual databases within the memory 110 The application s 148 associated with each database 164 is stored for example in a data table and acces sible to the text entry control 162 and other applications 148 The databases 164 act as data stores for data objects associ ated by type and application 148 and do not necessarily have any formal organizational structure The particular databases 164 resident on the portable electronic device 100 depends on the particular applications 148 and capabilities ofthe portable electronic device 100 The text entry control 162 using the APIs of the respective applications 148 can generate and US 8 707 199 2 9 store data objects such as contacts appointments memos tasks emails text messages and IMs among other data objects Referring again to FIG 3A a new data object is generated and stored in the memory 110 of the portable electronic device 100 for the received text in response to the designated input to store 308 An example method 320 for generating and storing a data objectis shownin FIG 3B The method 320 may be carried out by software executed for example by the processor 102 Coding of software for
34. ly all applications 148 on the portable electronic device 100 which allow for quick text entry may utilize a shared widget and invoke the same widget The text entry user interface may be a permanent part of the home screen of the portable electronic device 100 or may be invoked and closed on demand In some embodiments the text entry user interface may be invoked at any time when any application 148 is active on the portable electronic device 100 The text entry user interface may be invoked in response to designated input such as for example a designated button or designated key in a keyboard e g a hot key a designated touch gesture a touching designated onscreen item a designated motion gesture or other suitable input The text entry user interface may in some embodiments be invoked when the home screen is displayed on the display 112 by starting to type any text using a key board of the portable electronic device 100 or possibly a virtual keyboard of the portable electronic device 100 The processor 102 causes the text entry user interface to be displayed on the display 112 in response to detecting the designated input when the text entry user interface is not currently displayed Conversely the processor 102 causes the text entry user interface to be hidden in response to detecting the designated input when the text entry user interface is currently displayed The designated input acts as a display hide toggle for the t
35. n selection user interface window includes onscreen buttons for each application in the number of applications the selecting input comprising input select ing an onscreen button corresponding to the associated application 7 The method of claim 2 comprising parsing the text in the text entry field wherein the data object is populated with the parsed text 8 The methodofclaim 7 wherein the particulartype of data object is determined in accordance with the associated appli cation and the parsed text 9 The method of claim 7 wherein the data object includes anumber of data fields wherein at least one of data field ofthe data object is populated with at least a portion of the parsed text and wherein one data field is populated with a default value or automatically determined value 10 The method of claim 7 wherein the text in the text entry field is parsed in accordance with rules for the associated application when the associated application is predetermined 11 The method ofclaim 7 wherein unparsed text in the text entry field is stored to a designated text processing applica tion 12 The method of claim 7 comprising selecting the asso ciated application in accordance with characteristics of the text in the text entry field 13 The method of claim 1 comprising generating a reminder event for the data object when the data object is incomplete the reminder event causing a reminder notifica tion including a reminder message to be
36. nse to input selecting one of the onscreen buttons 702a 7026 or 702c the portable electronic device 100 stores the text string Susan930p in accordance with the application 148 mapped to the selected onscreen button 702a 7025 or 702c Double tapping the touch sensitive display 118 at the location corresponding of a particular onscreen button or clicking on or depressing the navigation device 122 when the particular onscreen button is highlighted or focussed by the onscreen position indicator causes the received text in the text entry field 402 to be stored in the memory 110 ofthe portable electronic device 100 as a data object associated with the application 148 mapped to the particular onscreen button as a data object of the type associated with the applica tion 148 mapped to the particular onscreen button The shown example eliminates the separate input to store the received text and provides the user with notice of the appli cations 148 with which the received text may be associated A confirmation message may be generated and displayed on the display 112 in response to storing the text Referring again to the example in FIG 6B a new calendar object may be generated in response to designated input to store the received text Susan930p received in the text entry field to the calen dar application e g double tapping the touch sensitive dis play 118 at the location corresponding to the Calendar but ton 602b or clicking
37. on or depressing the navigation device 122 when the Calendar button 6025 is highlighted or focussed by the onscreen position indicator The new calen dar object could also be generated when the calendar appli cation is a predetermined application using the user interface screen shown in FIG 6A or when the calendar application is generated in response to selecting an onscreen button using the user interface screen shown in FIG 7 FIG 8 illustrates one example confirmation message win dow 802 which includes the message text New appointment Susan at 9 30 pm tomorrow generated in Calendar In shown example the content of the message text is dynami cally generated using content from the data object However content of the message text may vary For example the con tent of the message text may be fixed in other embodiments For example the message text may indicate the text inputted through the text entry field 402 has been stored to a particular application e g the Calendar application e g New appointment generated in Calendar The confirmation mes sage window 802 may be displayed for a predetermined dura tion of time for example 3 seconds after the expiry of which the confirmation message window 802 is removed FIG 9 illustrates another example confirmation message window 902 which includes the message text New appoint ment generated in Calendar The message text may vary The confirmation message window 90
38. ouch sensor A signal is provided to the controller 116 in response to detection of a touch A touch may be detected from any suitable object such as a finger thumb appendage or other items for example a stylus pen or other pointer depending on the nature of the touch sensitive dis play 118 Multiple simultaneous touches may be detected The centre of the area of contact of each touch is commonly referred to as the touch point or centroid It will be appreciated that during a touch event the touch point moves as the object detected by the touch sensitive display 118 moves The actuator s 120 may be depressed by applying suffi cient force to the touch sensitive display 118 to overcome the actuation force of the actuator 120 The actuator 120 may be actuated by pressing anywhere on the touch sensitive display 118 The actuator 120 may provide input to the processor 102 when actuated Actuation of the actuator 120 may result in provision of tactile feedback The auxiliary I O subsystems 124 could include other input devices such as one or more control keys a keyboard or keypad navigation device or any combination thereof The navigation device may be a depressible clickable trackball a depressible clickable scroll wheel a touch sensitive optical trackpad or a touch sensitive touchpad A flowchart illustrating one example embodiment of a method 300 for text entry on a portable electronic device is shown in FIG 3A The method 300 may
39. present disclosure In FIG 6A the text string Susan930p is input in the text entry field 402 of a text entry user interface 400 displayed on the display 112 When the Save button 502 is activated or other designated input to store is received an Application Selection user interface window 600 is generated and displayed on the display 112 In the shown example the Application Selection user interface window 600 displays a prompt with the text Send Susan930p to along with selectable onscreen inputs such as selectable onscreen buttons 602a 6026 and 602c content of the prompt may vary between embodiments The onscreen buttons 602a 6022 602 are mapped to the con tacts calendar and notepad applications respectively In the shown example the onscreen buttons 602a 6025 602c are located below the prompt but may be located elsewhere In response to input selecting one of the onscreen buttons the portable electronic device 100 stores the text string Susan930p in accordance with the application 148 mapped to the selected onscreen button Double tapping the touch sensitive display 118 at the location corresponding to a par ticular onscreen button or clicking on or depressing the navi gation device 122 when the particular onscreen button is highlighted or focussed by the onscreen position indicator causes the received text in the text entry field 402 to be stored in the memory 110 of the portable elect
40. r an appointment in the calendar application reminder event may only be generated for designated applications such as for example the contacts or calendar applications Device settings may allow the user to enable and disable the use of reminder events specify the applica tions 148 for which reminder events are to be generated and or specify the conditions in which reminder events are to be generated At the start time of the reminder event the reminder noti fication is displayed on the display 112 The reminder notifi cation may include an option to Dismiss the reminder noti fication or Snooze the reminder notification for a duration oftime the Snooze duration which may be configurable by the user at the time of the selecting Dismissing the reminder notification permanently cancels the reminder notification causing it to be removed from the display 112 Snoozing the reminder notification temporarily cancels the reminder noti fication causing it to be removed from the display 112 and changing the start time of the reminder event such that it reoccurs at a later time in accordance with the Snooze dura tion Methods for determining the associated application 148 will now be described The associated application 148 may be a predetermined application may be dynamically determined US 8 707 199 2 13 in accordance with user input may be dynamically deter mined in accordance with the content of the rece
41. r to the auxiliary I O subsystem 124 A subscriber may generate data items for example e mail mes sages which may be transmitted over the wireless network 150 through the communication subsystem 104 For voice communications the overall operation of the portable elec tronic device 100 is similar The speaker 128 outputs audible information converted from electrical signals and the micro phone 130 converts audible information into electrical signals for processing FIG 2 shows a front view of an example of a portable electronic device 100 in portrait orientation The portable electronic device 100 includes a housing 200 that houses internal components including internal components shown in FIG 1 and frames the touch sensitive display 118 such that the touch sensitive display 118 is exposed for user interac tion therewith when the portable electronic device 100 is in use It will be appreciated that the touch sensitive display 118 may include any suitable number of user selectable features rendered thereon for example in the form of virtual buttons for user selection of for example applications options or keys of a keyboard for user entry of data during operation of the portable electronic device 100 While the shown portable electronic device 100 is a bar or brick style device the US 8 707 199 2 5 present disclosure 15 intended to capture all types of form factors including but not limited to slider style and fl
42. ronic device 100 as a data object associated with the application 148 mapped to the particular onscreen button e g as a data object of the type associated with the application 148 mapped to the particular onscreen button For example in response to selecting the Calendar button 6025 the portable electronic device 100 will store the text string Susan930p as a new calendar object associated with the calendar application The input may be selection of a particular input from a number of selectable onscreen inputs in the text entry user interface 400 itself Each selectable onscreen input is mapped to adifferent application 148 on the portable electronic device 100 The received text will be stored to the application corre sponding to the selected onscreen input The onscreen inputs may be selected using any suitable input 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 14 FIG 7 shows text entry user interface 700 which selects an associated application during quick text entry in accor dance with one example embodiment of the present disclo sure The text entry user interface 700 includes three select able onscreen inputs in the form of onscreen buttons 702 In the shown example the onscreen buttons 702 are located beside the text entry field 402 but may be located elsewhere buttons 702a 7025 and 702c are mapped to the contacts calendar and notepad applications respectively In respo
43. rther embodiment of the present disclosure there is provided a computer program product comprising a computer readable medium having stored thereon computer program instructions for implementing a method on an electronic device the computer executable instructions comprising instructions for performing the meth od s set forth herein A block diagram of an example of a portable electronic device 100 is shown in FIG 1 The portable electronic device 100 includes multiple components such as a processor 102 that controls the overall operation of the portable electronic device 100 Communication functions including data and voice communications are performed through a communica tion subsystem 104 Data received by the portable electronic device 100 is decompressed and decrypted by a decoder 106 The communication subsystem 104 receives messages from US 8 707 199 2 3 and sends messages to a wireless network 150 The wireless network 150 may be any type of wireless network including but not limited to data wireless networks voice wireless networks and networks that support both voice and data communications power source 142 such as one or more rechargeable batteries or a port to an external power supply powers the portable electronic device 100 The processor 102 interacts with other components such as Random Access Memory RAM 108 memory 110 a display 112 such as a liquid crystal display LCD with a touch sensitive ov
44. s but does not itself define a token Different rules may be applied depending on the associated application 148 the type of data object or both For example rules defining data fields of each data object may be defined and applied to more accurately parse the received text For example when the data type 1 a contact or the associated application 148 1 the contacts application the parsing func tion may identify a 10 character string of numbers as a phone number and may identify a string of alphabetic characters of any length though there may be a maximum number of characters as a contact name The next step 15 syntactic analysis or syntactic parsing which checks the token sequence to determine if it forms an allowable expression This is usually done with reference to a context free grammar which recursively defines elements which can make up an expression and an order in which the elements must appear in the token sequence to form an allow able expression When the token sequence does not form an allowable expression the token sequence is reformulated as allowable expression When the token sequence forms an allowable expression the token sequence proceeds to the final step of the parsing process The final step is semantic parsing or semantic analysis which determines how the token sequence is to be used by the associated application 148 and adds any required semantic information for example relating to the type of data objec
45. t to be generated The semantic information may also relate to data types of the tokens to be added which will form part of the data object Next anew data objectis generated typically in RAM 108 The type of data object is determined in accordance with the associated application 148 and optionally the parsed text 0 5 40 45 50 55 65 10 324 The data object may be but is not limited to contact appointment memo task email text message or IM default data type may be defined for each associated applica tion 148 which may be changed by the user The default data type may be override in favour of a specific data type based on the content of the received text or possibly other input The parsed may be analysed to determine the associated application 148 data object or both based on characteristics of the parsed text For example if the received text is parsed and a string of ten numbers is identified within the received text the text entry control 162 may determine that the asso ciated application is the contacts application and the data object to be generate is a new contact record and then pro ceeds to generate that new contact record Alternatively if the received text is parsed and a string comprised only of alpha betic characters is identified within the received text the text entry control 162 may determine that the associated applica tion 148 is the notepad application and the data ob
46. urs from the time at which the newly generated data object was generated and stored The content of the reminder message may be fixed or may be dynamically determined when the reminder event is gen erated using content from the newly generated data object e g Review or Complete Gym530am appointment from example 3 described above The reminder notification may include a link to the newly generated data object which requires review and or completion Selecting the link causes the newly generated data object to be opened within an user interface not shown for editing the newly generated data object which is displayed on the display 112 The Edit user interface allows the user to edit the content ofthe newly generated data object For example the user may edit the default values or automatically determined values populated into the data object For example the user may change the value of the Date field of a calendar data object from an automatically determined value e g the current day or next day to a particular date An option to save and store any changes to the newly generated data object or cancel and disregard any changes to the newly generated data object may be provided by the Edit user interface after which the Edit user interface is terminated and the Edit user interface removed from the display 112 The reminder event may be associated with a task in a task application o
47. uters wireless organizers personal digital assistants PDAs and so forth The portable electronic device may also be a handheld electronic device without wireless communication capabilities such as for example an electronic gaming device digital photograph album digital camera or other device The present disclosure provides a method oftext entry on a portable electronic device which avoids or at least reduces menu navigation and other processing steps required to add new data on a portable electronic device In accordance with one embodiment ofthe present disclosure there is provided a method for quick text entry comprising displaying a text entry user interface within a graphical user interface the text entry user interface element including a text entry field receiving text in the text entry field storing the text received in text entry field in memory in response to corresponding input In accordance with another embodiment of the present disclosure there is provided a portable electronic device comprising a processor a display and memory coupled to the processor wherein the processor is configured for perform ing the method s set forth herein In accordance with another embodiment of the present disclosure there is provided a portable electronic device comprising a display a processor coupled to the display wherein the processor is configured for performing the meth od s set forth herein In accordance with a fu
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