Mobile Device with Unified Media-Centric User Interface
AssigneeSanDisk Technologies LLC
InventorsSivaraj Velusamy, Sreeram Rajagopalan, Vithya Kannappan
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Abstract
A mobile device with a unified media-centric user interface is provided. In one embodiment, the user interface contains one or more of the following features: a unified view of the home screen, navigating between various storage locations, dragging items to collection/folder, pinch and zoom feature, stats shown for each file type, storage usage view from the app, manual and automatic backup, and magic move (keeping a low-resolution version of the original files while moving). Other embodiments are possible, and each of the embodiments can be used alone or together in combination.
Claims20
A mobile device comprising:
- a display device;
- and
- a controller in communication with the display device and a plurality of storage devices, wherein the controller is configured to:
- categorize files stored in the plurality of storage devices into different file types;
- display, on the display device, a plurality of user-selectable regions, wherein each user-selectable region is associated with a different file type;
- receive a user selection of one of the user-selectable regions;
- display representations of at least some files of the file type associated with the received user selection, wherein each representation includes an indication of which storage device stores a file represented by the representation;
- and
- display a plurality of indicia on the display device, each indicia representing one of the plurality of storage devices and indicating how many files are stored in that storage device of the file type associated with the received user selection.
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A method comprising:
- performing the following in a mobile device comprising a display device:
- displaying, on the display device, a plurality of user-selectable regions, wherein each user-selectable region is associated with a different file type;
- receiving a user selection of a user-selectable region that is associated with an image file type;
- displaying, on the display device, a view of images associated with the user-selected region, wherein the images are stored on a plurality of storage devices;
- displaying, on the display device, information about how many images are stored on each of the plurality of storage devices, wherein at least one image is stored in an internal memory of the mobile device;
- and
- creating a lower-resolution version of the at least one image for storage in the internal memory of the mobile device responsive to a user requesting that the at least one image be moved from the internal memory of the mobile device to any other one of the plurality of storage devices.
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A mobile device comprising:
- a display device;
- means for categorizing files stored in a plurality of storage devices into different file types;
- means for displaying, on the display device, a plurality of user-selectable regions, wherein each user-selectable region is associated with a different file type;
- means for receiving a user selection of one of the user-selectable regions;
- means for displaying representations of at least some files of the file type associated with the received user selection, wherein each representation includes an indication of which storage device stores a file represented by the representation;
- and
- means for displaying a plurality of indicia on the display device, each indicia representing one of the plurality of storage devices and indicating how many files are stored in that storage device of the file type associated with the received user selection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.