Mobile device and method for editing and deleting pages
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSeung Woo SHIN, Bong Won LEE
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Abstract
Provided are a method and related mobile device for editing, in an integrated, convenient and quick manner, various menu pages selectively used for a home screen. In response to a given input signal, the mobile device outputs a page edit screen including a specific page displayed on the home screen. Then, in response to subsequent input signals, the mobile device may add a new page, delete a selected page, change a title of a selected page, move or remove a selected icon in a page, change a background image of a selected page, or change a positional order of pages.
Claims20
A portable communication device comprising:
- a touchscreen display;
- memory to store a plurality of home screens including a first home screen and a second home screen to be displayed and a plurality of widgets including a first widget and a second widget;
- and
- a processor adapted to:
- present the first home screen via the touchscreen display;
- receive a user input with respect to the first home screen displayed via the touchscreen display;
- based at least in part on a determination that the user input is received with respect to a first area of the first home screen, present, via the touchscreen display, a first image indicative of the first home screen and a second image indicative of the second home screen concurrently;
- and
- based at least in part on a determination that the user input is received with respect to a second area of the first home screen, present, via the touchscreen display, the first widget and the second widget concurrently.
A portable communication device comprising:
- a touchscreen display;
- memory to store a plurality of home screens including a first home screen and a second home screen to be displayed, and a plurality of widgets including a first widget and a second widget;
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- a processor adapted to:
- present the first home screen via the touchscreen display, the first home screen including one or more icons and a background area;
- receive a user input with respect to the first home screen displayed via the touchscreen display;
- based at least in part on a determination that the user input is received with respect to an icon of the one or more icons during a specified period of time, present, via the touchscreen display, a first image indicative of the first home screen and a second image indicative of a second home screen concurrently;
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- based at least in part on a determination that the user input is received with respect to the background area during a specified period of time, present, via the touchscreen display, the first widget and the second widget concurrently.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage device storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- presenting, via a touchscreen display operatively coupled with the one or more processors, a first home screen;
- receiving a user input with respect to the first home screen displayed via the touchscreen display;
- based at least in part on a determination that the user input is received with respect to a first area, presenting, via the touchscreen display, a first image indicative of the first home screen and a second image indicative of a second home screen;
- and
- based at least in part on a determination that the user input is received with respect to a second area of the first home screen, presenting, via the touchscreen display, a first widget and a second widget concurrently.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.