User interface to provide enhanced control of an application program
AssigneeFrance Telecom
InventorsKeith Waters, Mike Sierra, Jay Tucker
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Abstract
A method for imparting control to an application program (AP) running on a mobile device, said method comprising the acts of displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) of the AP on a touch panel of the mobile device; capturing a touch input on a portion of the GUI; the method further comprising, when identifying the touch input as a touch input of a predefined first type, the acts of imparting a first AP control associated to the portion of the GUI; monitoring an occurrence of a spatial movement of the mobile device; imparting a second AP control associated to the portion of the GUI in response to the capture of a spatial movement.
Claims11
A method for imparting control to an application program (AP) running on a mobile device, said method comprising the acts of:
- displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) of the AP on a touch panel of the mobile device;
- capturing a touch input on a portion of the GUI;
- the method further comprising, when identifying the touch input as a touch input of a predefined first type, the acts of:
- imparting a first AP control associated to the portion of the GUI;
- monitoring an occurrence of a spatial movement of the mobile device;
- imparting a second AP control in response to the capture of a spatial movement.
A mobile device for imparting control to an application program (AP) running on said mobile device, said mobile device being arranged to:
- display a graphical user interface (GUI) of the AP on a touch panel of the mobile device;
- capture a touch input on a portion of the GUI;
- the mobile device being further arranged, when identifying the touch input as a touch input of a predefined first type, to:
- impart a first AP control associated to the portion of the GUI;
- monitor an occurrence of a spatial movement of the mobile device;
- impart a second AP control in response to the capture of a spatial movement.
An application embodied in instructions on a computer readable medium and arranged to impart control to an application program (AP) running on a mobile device having a processor for executing the instructions, the application comprising instructions for:
- displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) of the AP on a touch panel of the mobile device;
- capturing a touch input on a portion of the GUI;
- the application being further arranged, when identifying that the touch input is a touch input of a predefined first type, in instructions for:
- imparting a first AP control associated to the portion of the GUI;
- monitoring an occurrence of a spatial movement of the mobile device;
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- imparting a second AP control in response to the capture of a spatial movement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.