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Definitions

• the device is a desktop computer.
• the device is portable (e.g., a notebook computer, tablet computer, or handheld device).
• the device has a graphical user interface (GUI), one or more processors, memory and one or more modules, programs or sets of instructions stored in the memory for performing multiple functions.
• GUI graphical user interface
• the user interacts with the GUI primarily through finger contacts and gestures on the touch-sensitive display.
• the functions may include various types of editing, drawing, presenting, word processing, website creating, disk authoring, spreadsheet making, game playing, telephoning, video conferencing, e-mailing, instant messaging, workout support, digital photographing, digital videoing, web browsing, digital music playing, and/or digital video playing.
• Executable instructions for performing these functions may be included in a computer readable storage medium or other computer program product configured for execution by one or more processors.
• a method is performed at a multifunction device with a touch screen display.
• the method includes displaying a soft keyboard having a plurality of buttons including a plurality of unconditionally enabled buttons and one or more conditionally enabled buttons, detecting a first input with a first button at a first time, and responding to detecting the first input by activating the first button.
• the method further includes detecting a second input with a second button at a second time, and responding to detection of the second input with the second button at the second time.
• the method activates the second button.
• the method conditionally disables the second button.
• a method is performed at a multifunction device with a touch screen display.
• the method includes displaying a soft keyboard having a plurality of buttons including a plurality of unconditionally enabled buttons and one or more conditionally enabled buttons detecting a first input with a respective unconditionally enabled button at a first time, and responding to detection of the first input at the first time by activating the respective unconditionally enabled button, and disabling at least one of the conditionally enabled buttons for a predefined period of time commencing from the first time.
• the method further includes detecting a second input with a conditionally enabled button disabled in response to the first input, the second input being detected at a second time that is within the predefined period of time, and responding to detection of the second input at the second time by disregarding the second input.
• Figure 2 illustrates a portable multifunction device having a touch-sensitive display in accordance with some embodiments.
• the device supports a variety of applications, such as one or more of the following: a drawing application, a presentation application, a word processing application, a website creation application, a disk authoring application, a spreadsheet application, a gaming application, a telephone application, a video conferencing application, an e-mail application, an instant messaging application, a workout support application, a photo management application, a digital camera application, a digital video camera application, a web browsing application, a digital music player application, and/or a digital video player application.
• applications such as one or more of the following: a drawing application, a presentation application, a word processing application, a website creation application, a disk authoring application, a spreadsheet application, a gaming application, a telephone application, a video conferencing application, an e-mail application, an instant messaging application, a workout support application, a photo management application, a digital camera application, a digital video camera application, a web browsing application, a digital music player application, and/or a digital video player application.
• Touch screen 112 and display controller 156 may detect contact and any movement or breaking thereof using any of a plurality of touch sensing technologies now known or later developed, including but not limited to capacitive, resistive, infrared, and surface acoustic wave technologies, as well as other proximity sensor arrays or other elements for determining one or more points of contact with touch screen 112.
• touch sensing technologies now known or later developed, including but not limited to capacitive, resistive, infrared, and surface acoustic wave technologies, as well as other proximity sensor arrays or other elements for determining one or more points of contact with touch screen 112.
• projected mutual capacitance sensing technology is used, such as that found in the iPhone® and iPod Touch® from Apple Inc. of Cupertino, California.
• contacts module 137 (sometimes called an address book or contact list);
• video player module 145 includes executable instructions to display, present or otherwise play back videos (e.g., on touch screen 112 or on an external, connected display via external port 124).
• calendar module 148 includes executable instructions to create, display, modify, and store calendars and data associated with calendars (e.g., calendar entries, to do lists, etc.) in accordance with user instructions.
• map module 154 may be used to receive, display, modify, and store maps and data associated with maps (e.g., driving directions; data on stores and other points of interest at or near a particular location; and other location-based data) in accordance with user instructions.
• maps e.g., driving directions; data on stores and other points of interest at or near a particular location; and other location-based data
• Each of the above identified modules and applications correspond to a set of executable instructions for performing one or more functions described above and the methods described in this application (e.g., the computer-implemented methods and other information processing methods described herein).
• These modules i.e., sets of instructions
• video player module 145 may be combined with music player module 146 into a single module (e.g., video and music player module 152, Figure IB).
• memory 102 may store a subset of the modules and data structures identified above.
• memory 102 may store additional modules and data structures not described above.
• Event sorter 170 includes event monitor 171 and event dispatcher module 174.
• application 136-1 includes application internal state 192, which indicates the current application view(s) displayed on touch sensitive display 112 when the application is active or executing.
• device/global internal state 157 is used by event sorter 170 to determine which application(s) is(are) currently active, and application internal state 192 is used by event sorter 170 to determine application views 191 to which to deliver event information.
• Event information includes information about a sub-event (e.g., a user touch on touch- sensitive display 112, as part of a multi-touch gesture).
• Peripherals interface 118 transmits information it receives from I/O subsystem 106 or a sensor, such as proximity sensor 166, accelerometer(s) 168, and/or microphone 113 (through audio circuitry 110).
• Information that peripherals interface 118 receives from I/O subsystem 106 includes information from touch- sensitive display 112 or a touch-sensitive surface.
• Active event recognizer determination module 173 determines which view or views within a view hierarchy should receive a particular sequence of sub-events. In some embodiments, active event recognizer determination module 173 determines that only the hit view should receive a particular sequence of sub-events. In other embodiments, active event recognizer determination module 173 determines that all views that include the physical location of a sub-event are actively involved views, and therefore determines that all actively involved views should receive a particular sequence of sub-events. In other embodiments, even if touch sub-events were entirely confined to the area associated with one particular view, views higher in the hierarchy would still remain as actively involved views.
• operating system 126 includes event sorter 170.
• a respective event recognizer 180 receives event information (e.g., event data
• a respective event recognizer 180 includes metadata
• a respective event recognizer 180 activates event handler 190 associated with an event when one or more particular sub-events of an event are recognized.
• a respective event recognizer 180 delivers event information associated with the event to event handler 190.
• Activating an event handler 190 is distinct from sending (and deferred sending) sub-events to a respective hit view.
• event recognizer 180 throws a flag associated with the recognized event, and event handler 190 associated with the flag catches the flag and performs a predefined process.
• the contact may include a gesture, such as one or more taps, one or more swipes (from left to right, right to left, upward and/or downward) and/or a rolling of a finger (from right to left, left to right, upward and/or downward) that has made contact with device 100.
• a gesture such as one or more taps, one or more swipes (from left to right, right to left, upward and/or downward) and/or a rolling of a finger (from right to left, left to right, upward and/or downward) that has made contact with device 100.
• inadvertent contact with a graphic may not select the graphic. For example, a swipe gesture that sweeps over an application icon may not select the corresponding application when the gesture corresponding to selection is a tap.
• E-mail client 140 which may include an indicator 410 of the number of
• Settings 412 which provides access to settings for device 100 and its various aspects
• conditionally enabled button means a button, key or object displayed on a soft keyboard or user interface that can be activated when enabled and that cannot be activated when disabled.
• conditionally enabled button is logically equivalent to “conditionally disabled button” because whether the button in enabled or disabled is conditional.
• UI user interfaces
• UI user interfaces
• a multifunction device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface, such as device 300 or portable multifunction device 100.
• UI 500B ( Figure 5B) illustrates contact 514 on touch screen 112.
• contact 514 is at a location 514- A on touch screen 112 corresponding to the location of button 510-C, which also corresponds to the activation region of button 510-C.
• a character "e” 516 is inserted into input text 506, changing text 506-1 to text 506-2, and advancing cursor 508 to position 508- B.
• the detection of contact 514 at location 514-A corresponding to the location of button 510-C also starts a time window of a predefined amount of time, during which contacts detected at locations on touch screen 112 corresponding to the locations of one or more conditionally enabled buttons (e.g., buttons 512) of keyboard 504 are disregarded; those buttons are disabled during the time window.
• the predefined duration of the time window is fixed (i.e., invariant), having a duration, for example, between 200 and 500 milliseconds; in another example the predefined duration of the time window is fixed at a value between 150 and 700 milliseconds; in yet another example the predefined duration of the time window is fixed at a value between 300 and 750 milliseconds.
• UI 500F ( Figure 5F) illustrates a contact 518 on touch screen 112 directly following contact 514.
• contact 518 is at location 518-C on touch screen 112 corresponding to the location of button 512-C, which also corresponds to the activation region of button 512-C.
• Button 512-C is a conditionally enabled button that is affected by the time window from contact 514. Depending on when contact 518 was made (and thus when contact 518 was detected), either keyboard 504 is hidden or nothing happens in response to detection of contact 518 at location 518-C.
• the device detects (704) a first input with a respective unconditionally enabled button at a first time. For example, in Figure 5B, contact 514 (the first input) is detected at time 552 at location 514-A, which corresponds to unconditionally enabled button 510-C.

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