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US 10,768,782 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for presenting information associated with icons on a display screen
AssigneesAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
InventorsSheldon Kent Meredith, Brandon B. Hilliard, William Cottrill
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Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detect a first user interaction with a control button, disable an initiation of an action for a communication service, detect a second user interaction with the icon, and transmit an identification signal to a second communication device that causes the second communication device to present identification information describing the action for the communication service. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Claims20
A first communication device comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- presenting a first icon and a second icon at a touch sensitive display, wherein the first icon is a control button for temporarily disabling actions associated with the second icon that is associated with launching an application;
- temporarily disabling a capability of the second icon for initiating a first action associated with a communication service responsive to detecting a first user interaction maintaining contact with the first icon;
- transmitting an identification signal to a second communication device responsive to detecting a second user interaction with the second icon during the first user interaction maintaining contact with the first icon, wherein the transmitting the identification signal causes the second communication device to present identification information describing the first action associated with the communication service, and wherein the identification information includes identification indicia of the second icon;
- transmitting a format signal to the second communication device that causes the second communication device to present the identification information according to a selected presentation format;
- and
- re-enabling the capability of the second icon for initiating the first action associated with the communication service responsive to detecting a third user interaction terminating contact with the first icon.
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A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a first communication device, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- receiving an identification signal from a second communication device responsive to the second communication device detecting a second user interaction with a second icon during a first user interaction maintaining contact with a first icon, wherein the first icon and the second icon are presented at a touch sensitive display of the second communication device, wherein the first icon is a control button for temporarily disabling actions associated with the second icon that is associated with launching an application, wherein a capability of the second icon for initiating a first action associated with a communication service is temporarily disabled at the second communication device responsive to detecting the first user interaction maintaining contact with the first icon, and wherein the capability of the second icon for initiating the first action associated with the second communication device is re-enabled responsive to detecting a third user interaction terminating contact with the first icon;
- receiving a format signal from the second communication device;
- and
- presenting identification information describing the first action associated with the communication service responsive to the receiving the format signal, wherein the identification information includes identification indicia of the second icon, wherein the identification information is presented according to a selected presentation format received from the second communication device.
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A method comprising:
- presenting, by a processing system including a processor, a first icon and a second icon at a touch sensitive display, wherein the first icon is a control button for temporarily disabling actions associated with the second icon that is associated with launching an application;
- temporarily disabling, by the processing system, a capability of the second icon for initiating a first action associated with a communication service responsive to detecting a first user interaction maintaining contact with the first icon;
- transmitting, by the processing system, an identification signal to a second communication device responsive to detecting a second user interaction with the second icon during the first user interaction maintaining contact with the first icon, wherein the transmitting the identification signal causes the second communication device to present identification information describing the first action associated with the communication service, wherein the identification information includes identification indicia of the second icon;
- transmitting, by the processing system, a format signal to the second communication device that causes the second communication device to present the identification information according to a selected presentation format;
- and
- re-enabling, by the processing system, the capability of the second icon for initiating the first action associated with the communication service responsive to detecting a third user interaction terminating contact with the first icon.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.