US 11,740,763 B2
Previewing a new event on a small screen device
Gerhard D. Klassen, Waterloo (CA); Craig A. Dunk, Guelph (CA); and Christopher R. Wormald, Kitchener (CA)
Assigned to BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo (CA)
Filed by BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo (CA)
Filed on Oct. 23, 2017, as Appl. No. 15/790,586.
Application 15/790,586 is a continuation of application No. 13/481,379, filed on May 25, 2012, granted, now 9,830,045.
Application 13/481,379 is a continuation of application No. 13/358,737, filed on Jan. 26, 2012, granted, now 8,631,353, issued on Jan. 14, 2014.
Application 13/358,737 is a continuation of application No. 10/784,781, filed on Feb. 24, 2004, granted, now 8,209,634, issued on Jun. 26, 2012.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/525,958, filed on Dec. 1, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2018/0046333 A1, Feb. 15, 2018
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2022.01); G06F 3/0488 (2022.01); G06Q 10/107 (2023.01); H04L 51/04 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/0482 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); H04L 51/04 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of displaying a numeric count of distinct senders on a wireless communication device, the method comprising:
displaying an icon corresponding to an electronic messaging application on a graphical user interface of the wireless communication device;
receiving a plurality of electronic messages associated with the electronic messaging application from each of a plurality of senders;
prior to a user invocation of the electronic messaging application, visually modifying the displayed icon corresponding to the electronic messaging application to depict a distinct sender count that numerically identifies a number of distinct senders for which one or more of the plurality of received electronic messages remain unread;
in response to a user invocation of the electronic messaging application associated with the visually modified icon, displaying a graphic interface that includes a plurality of messaging entries, each messaging entry associated with a distinct sender; and
opening the electronic messaging application in response to selection of the displayed icon.