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Publication Number
US-12474817-B2
Publication Date
2025-11-18
Expiration Date
Abstract
A portable electronic device displays icons (e.g., graphical objects) in one or more regions of a user interface of a touch-sensitive display, and detects user input specifying an exchange of positions of icons in the user interface. In some aspects, the respective positions of two icons in a user interface can be selected to exchange positions in the one or more regions of the user interface, and one or both icons can change their visual appearance to indicate their selection status.
Core Innovation
An editing interface for a touch-sensitive portable device provides an interface reconfiguration mode in which icons are animated to suggest movability. A user input directed to a first icon is detected while the user interface includes a first page of icons, and the input includes a single movement via at least one of a finger and a stylus input directed to the first icon at a first position in the first page of icons.
In response to detecting the first input directed to the first icon at the first position, the interface moves the first icon in accordance with the movement to an occupied position in a second page of icons that is occupied by a second icon. The interface replaces the first page of icons with the second page of icons, and replaces the second icon at the occupied position with the first icon based on the single movement.
During the drag-and-drop movement in the interface reconfiguration mode, the visual appearance of the first icon or the first icon and a target icon changes in response to the user input, and the interface may emit an audible tone as additional feedback based on the user input and proximity. When the user drags toward an edge within a predetermined distance, page replacement is enabled.
Claims Coverage
The independent claims are 1, 9, and 17. They cover a user interface with first and second pages of icons, detection of a single movement directed to a first icon in a first position, and responsive movement of the first icon to an occupied position in the second page while replacing the first page with the second page and swapping the icons based on the single movement.
Icon page replacement with single-movement swap using finger/stylus input
Displaying a user interface with a first page of icons and a first icon in a first position; detecting a first input directed to the first icon, where the first input includes a single movement via at least one of a finger and a stylus input; and in response moving the first icon to an occupied position in a second page of icons, replacing the first page of icons with the second page of icons, and replacing the second icon at the occupied position with the first icon based on the single movement.
Page replacement based on occupied target position in a second page of icons
Moving the first icon in accordance with the movement to an occupied position in a second page of icons that is occupied by a second icon, and replacing the first page of icons with the second page of icons while replacing the second icon at the occupied position with the first icon.
Single movement drag to enable icon exchange and page swap
Detecting a first input directed to the first icon that includes a single movement via at least one of a finger and a stylus input, and in response performing the icon exchange and page replacement based on the single movement.
Across independent claims 1, 9, and 17, the inventive coverage centers on detecting a single movement directed to a first icon and, in response, swapping icons between an occupied position in a second page of icons while replacing the first page with the second page. Dependent claims add interface reconfiguration mode, changes in icon appearance, emission of an audible sound, mapping of the first icon to an application program, and a predetermined distance-from-edge determination governing when page replacement occurs.
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