Method and portable terminal for moving icon
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorLi Liu
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Abstract
A method for moving an icon includes when a plurality of pages are simultaneously displayed on an interface in a thumbnail form, selecting a start page including a plurality of icons to be moved to a target page; moving the start page to the target page and the two pages are overlapped, detecting the overlapping ratio of two pages and/or the duration of the overlapping state, comparing the number of vacant spots within the target page with the number of all of icons within the start page, and adding all of icons within the start page to the vacant spots within the target page when the number of vacant spots within the target page is more than or equal to the number of all of icons within the start page. Other various embodiments including a portable terminal for moving an icon also are disclosed.
Claims20
An method for moving an icon in a portable terminal, comprising:
- when a plurality of pages are simultaneously displayed on an interface in a thumbnail form, selecting a start page including one or more icons to be moved to a target page;
- moving the start page toward the target page;
- detecting an overlapping ratio and/or the duration of the overlapping state, between the start page and the target page;
- comparing a number of vacant spots within the target page with a number of all of icons within the start page when the overlapping ratio of two pages is less than a predetermined value and/or the duration of an overlapping state of the two pages reaches a predetermined time;
- and
- adding all of icons within the start page to the vacant spots within the target page when the number of vacant spots within the target page is more than or equal to the number of all of icons within the start page.
A method for moving an icon in a portable terminal, the method comprising:
- selecting one or more icons within a start page to be moved to a target page;
- when a plurality of pages are simultaneously displayed on an interface in a thumbnail form, selecting the start page;
- moving the start page to the target page and the two pages are overlapped;
- detecting the overlapping ratio of the two pages and/or the duration of the overlapping state;
- and
- adding at least one icon within the start page to the vacant spots of the target page when the overlapping ratio of the two pages is less than a predetermined value and/or the duration of the overlapping state reaches a predetermined time.
A portable terminal having a display configured to display icons and a start page including one or more icons, the portable terminal comprising a processing circuitry configured to:
- move the start page or the icon according to the guide of a touch tool when the touch of a user on the start page or the icon exceeds a predetermined time;
- detect the overlapping ratio of the start page and the target page when the start page moves to overlap a part of the target page;
- compare the number of vacant spots within the target page with the number of the selected icons within the start page when the overlapping ratio is less than a predetermined value;
- and
- add at least one icon within the start page to the vacant spot of the target page.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.