US 11,726,631 B2
Apparatus and method for a simplified menu screen in handheld mobile wireless devices
Tara Chand Singhal, Torrance, CA (US)
Filed by Tara Chand Singhal, Torrance, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 2, 2013, as Appl. No. 14/44,697.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/869,662, filed on Aug. 24, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2015/0058805 A1, Feb. 26, 2015
Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 3/0482 (2013.01) 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A handheld mobile wireless device, comprising:
a CPU, a memory, a device operating system, a touch screen, and an original menu having a number of application icons displayed on the touch screen;
a user interface resident in the memory and operating in the CPU, wherein user interface logic, when the handheld mobile wireless device is first activated for use, provides display of a first mode, wherein the number of application icons displayed in the first mode is less than the number of application icons displayed on the original menu screen;
user interface logic creates a group of application icons for the first mode,
wherein the device responds to a finger swipe by transitioning from the original menu to the first mode, or transitioning from the first mode to the original menu;
wherein the first mode displays icons arranged in two groups, the two groups of application icons being displayed either in a vertical orientation or in a horizontal orientation on the touch screen of the device; and
upon unlocking, the handheld mobile wireless device enters the first mode.