Method and apparatus for controlling interrupt in portable terminal

• US 10,031,661 B2
• Filed: 01/04/2016
• Issued: 07/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Chun, Eun-Jin
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Nimesh G
• Application Number:
  US14/987,657
• Publication Number:
  US 20160117073A1
• Time in Patent Office: 932 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4812 by interrupt, e.g. masked
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72484 wherein functions are triggered by incoming communication events
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/048 Arrangements providing optical indication of the incoming call, e.g. flasher circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/005 Transmission of information for alerting of incoming communication

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for controlling an interrupt in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes executing an application based on user'"'"'s control, determining whether an event occurs during the application execution, displaying information representing the event occurrence on a screen while continuing the application execution, and determining whether to interrupt the application by the event based on user'"'"'s control.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

a touch screen configured to display information and receive user inputs; and

a controller configured to;

detect a reception of a message during an execution of an application,

control the touch screen to display a notification window associated with the received message in response to detecting the reception of the message while displaying at least a portion of an application screen associated with continuous execution of the application,

control the touch screen to display a portion of content of the received message in the notification window, and

in response to detecting a drag input on the notification window, control the touch screen to display another portion of the content of the received message in the notification window while displaying changes in the application screen according to the continuous execution of the application.

2. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the changes in the application screen are displayed to reflect the continuous execution of the application while the displayed content in the notification window is being altered.

3. The mobile communication terminal of claim 2, wherein the controller is further configured to:

in response to detecting a touch input on a region of the notification window,

pause the display of changes reflecting the continuous execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

4. The mobile communication terminal of claim 2, wherein the controller is further configured to:

in response to detecting a touch input on the notification window,

pause the display of changes reflecting the continuous execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

5. The mobile communication terminal of claim 2, wherein the controller is further configured to:

detect a touch input on the notification window while the displayed content in the notification window is being altered; and

in response to detecting the touch input on the notification window,

pause the display changes reflecting the continuous execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

6. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

continue the execution of the application while altering the displayed content in the notification window and cause information shown in the application screen to change during the continuing execution of the application.

7. The mobile communication terminal of claim 6, wherein the controller is further configured to:

in response to detecting a touch input on a region of the notification window,

pause the execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

8. The mobile communication terminal of claim 6, wherein the controller is further configured to:

in response to detecting a touch input on the notification window,

pause the execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

9. The mobile communication terminal of claim 6, wherein the controller is further configured to:

detect a touch input on the notification window while altering the displayed content in the notification window; and

in response to detecting the touch input on the notification window,

pause the execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

10. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the changes in the application screen are displayed to reflect the continuous execution of the application.

11. The mobile communication terminal of claim 10, wherein the controller is further configured to:

in response to detecting a touch input on a region of the notification window,

pause the display of changes reflecting the continuous execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

12. The mobile communication terminal of claim 10, wherein the controller is further configured to:

detect a touch input on the notification window while the displayed content in the notification window is being altered; and

in response to detecting the touch input on the notification window,

pause the display of changes reflecting the continuous execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

13. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to:

continue the execution of the application while displaying the notification window; and

cause information shown in the application screen to change during the continuing execution of the application.

14. The mobile communication terminal of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to:

in response to detecting a touch input on a region of the notification window,

pause the execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

15. The mobile communication terminal of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to:

detect a touch input on the notification window while the displayed content in the notification window is being altered; and

in response to detecting the touch input on the notification window,

pause the execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

16. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the notification window is displayed at a position of the touch screen not interrupt to obstruct the portion of the application screen associated with the continuous execution of the application.

17. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1,

wherein the at least the portion of the application screen associated with the continuous execution of the application is located on a first portion of the touch screen, and

wherein the controller is further configured to display the notification window at a second position of the touch screen, where the second position does not overlap the first portion of the touch screen.

18. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the application is a multimedia player, and the execution of the application is the multimedia player playing multimedia content on touch screen.

19. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the changes in the application screen are displayed while the notification window is transitioning from displaying the portion of the message to displaying the other portion of the message, to reflect the continuous execution of the application.

20. The mobile communication terminal of claim 19, wherein the controller is further configured to:

in response to detecting a touch input on a region of the notification window,

pause the display of changes reflecting the continuous execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

21. The mobile communication terminal of claim 19, wherein the controller is further configured to:

in response to detecting a touch input on the notification window,

pause the display of changes reflecting the continuous execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

22. The mobile communication terminal of claim 19, wherein the controller is further configured to:

detect a touch input on the notification window while the displayed content in the notification window is being altered; and

in response to detecting the touch input on the notification window,

pause the display of changes reflecting the continuous execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

23. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

a touch screen configured to display information and receive user inputs; and

a controller configured to;

detect a reception of a message during an execution of an application,

control the touch screen to display a notification window associated with the received message in response to detecting the reception of the message while displaying at least a portion of an application screen associated with continuous execution of the application,

control the touch screen to display a portion of content of the received message in the notification window,

in response to detecting a drag input on the notification window, control the touch screen to display another portion of the content of the received message in the notification window while displaying changes in the application screen according to the continuous execution of the application, and

in response to detecting a touch input on the notification window,

pause the display of changes that are in accordance with the continuous execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

24. The mobile communication terminal of claim 23, wherein the controller is further configured to detect the touch input on a region of the notification window.

25. The mobile communication terminal of claim 23, wherein the controller is further configured to detect the touch input on the notification window while the displayed content in the notification window is being altered.

26. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

a touch screen configured to display information and receive user inputs; and

a controller configured to;

execute a video application to play a video image on the touch screen,

detect a reception of a message while the video image is being played via the execution of the video application on the touch screen,

in response to detecting the reception of the message, control the touch screen to display on a portion of the touch screen a notification window associated with the received message, while playing the video image associated with the execution of the video application on the touch screen,

control the touch screen to display a portion of content of the received message in the notification window, and

in response to detecting a first touch input on the notification window, control the touch screen to display another portion of content of the received message in the notification window while playing the video image via the execution of the video application.

33. The mobile communication terminal of claim 26, wherein the first touch input, which is a drag input, is detected on the displayed content of the received message, and wherein the controller is further configured to:

continue the execution of the video application while altering the displayed content in the notification window and cause the video image to reflect the continuous execution of the video application while the displayed content in the notification window is being altered.

34. The mobile communication terminal of claim 26, wherein the controller is further configured to:

continue the execution of the video application while altering the displayed content in the notification window and cause the video image to change according to the continuous execution of the video application.

35. The mobile communication terminal of claim 26, wherein the controller is further configured to continue displaying results of the execution of the video application while altering the portion of the content of the received message displayed in the notification window.

27. A mobile communication terminal comprising:

a touch screen configured to display information and receive user inputs; and

a controller configured to;

execute a video application to play a video image on the touch screen,

detect a reception of a message while the video image is being played via the execution of the video application on the touch screen,

in response to detecting the reception of the message, control the touch screen to display, on a portion of the touch screen, a notification window associated with the received message while playing the video image associated with the execution of the video application on the touch screen,

control the touch screen to display a portion of content of the received message in the notification window,

in response to detecting a first touch input on the notification window, control the touch screen to display another portion of content of the received message in the notification window while playing the video image via the execution of the video application, and

in response to detecting a second touch input on the notification window, pause the video image played via the execution of the video application, execute a message application, and control the touch screen to display a message application screen, wherein the message application screen is configured to display, the content of the received message.

28. The mobile communication terminal of claim 27, wherein the controller is further configured to:

in response to detecting an indication to exit the message application, continue playing the video image associated with the execution of the video application on the touch screen, from the pause.

29. The mobile communication terminal of claim 27, wherein the controller is further configured to:

detect the second touch input on a region of the notification window.

30. The mobile communication terminal of claim 27, wherein the controller is further configured to:

detect the second touch input on the notification window while altering the displayed content of the received message in the notification window.

31. The mobile communication terminal of claim 30, wherein the second touch input is one of a touch for a predetermined duration, a double touch, a curved touch, or a vertical drag.

32. The mobile communication terminal of claim 27, wherein the displayed message application occupies an entire display area of the touch screen.

36. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions that, when executed, by at least one processor of an electronic device, cause the electronic device to:

detect a reception of a message during an execution of an application;

control a touch screen of the electronic device to display a notification window associated with the received message in response to detecting the reception of the message while displaying at least a portion of an application screen associated with continuous execution of the application;

control the touch screen to display a portion of content of the received message in the notification window; and

in response to detecting a drag input on the notification window, control the touch screen to display another portion of the content of the received message in the notification window while displaying changes in the application screen according to the continuous execution of the application.

37. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 36, wherein the changes in the application screen are displayed to reflect the continuous execution of the application while the displayed content in the notification window is being altered.

38. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 37, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

in response to detecting a touch input on a region of the notification window,

pause the display of changes reflecting the continuous execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

39. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 37, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

in response to detecting a touch input on the notification window,

pause the display of changes reflecting the continuous execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

40. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 37, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

detect a touch input on the notification window while the displayed content in the notification window is being altered; and

in response to detecting the touch input on the notification window,

pause the display of changes reflecting the continuous execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

41. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 36, wherein the changes in the application screen are displayed while the notification window is transitioning from displaying the portion of the message to displaying the other portion of the message, to reflect the continuous execution of the application.

42. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 41, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

in response to detecting a touch input on a region of the notification window,

pause the display of changes reflecting the continuous execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

43. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 41, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

in response to detecting a touch input on the notification window,

pause the display of changes reflecting the continuous execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

44. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 41, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

detect a touch input on the notification window while the displayed content in the notification window is being altered; and

in response to detecting the touch input on the notification window,

pause the display of changes reflecting the continuous execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

45. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 36, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

continue the execution of the application while altering the displayed content in the notification window and cause information shown in the application screen to change during the continuing execution of the application.

46. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 45, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

in response to detecting a touch input on a region of the notification window,

pause the execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

47. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 45, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

in response to detecting a touch input on the notification window,

pause the execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

48. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 45, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

detect a touch input on the notification window while altering the displayed content in the notification window; and

in response to detecting the touch input on the notification window,

pause the execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

49. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 36, wherein the changes in the application screen are displayed to reflect the continuous execution of the application.

50. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 49, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

in response to detecting a touch input on a region of the notification window,

pause the display of changes reflecting the continuous execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

51. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 49, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

detect a touch input on the notification window while altering the displayed content in the notification window; and

in response to detecting the touch input on the notification window,

pause the display of changes reflecting the continuous execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

52. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 36, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

continue the execution of the application while displaying the notification window; and

cause information shown in the application screen to change during the continuing execution of the application.

53. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 52, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

in response to detecting a touch input on a region of the notification window,

pause the execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

54. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 52, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

detect a touch input on the notification window while altering the displayed content of the received message in the notification window; and

in response to detecting the touch input on the notification window,

pause the execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

55. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 36, wherein the notification window is displayed at a position of the touch screen not to obstruct the portion of the application screen associated with the continuous execution of the application.

56. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 36,

wherein the at least the portion of the application screen associated with the continuous execution of the application is located on a first portion of the touch screen, and

wherein the instructions are further configured to cause the at least one processor to display the notification window at a second position of the touch screen, where the second position does not overlap the first portion of the touch screen.

57. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 36, wherein the application is a multimedia player, and the execution of the application is the multimedia player playing multimedia content on touch screen.

58. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of an electronic device, cause the electronic device to:

detect a reception of a message during an execution of an application;

control a touch screen of the electronic device to display a notification window associated with the received message in response to detecting the reception of the message while displaying at least a portion of an application screen associated with continuous execution of the application;

control the touch screen to display a portion of content of the received message in the notification window;

in response to detecting a drag input on the notification window, control the touch screen to display another portion of the content of the received message in the notification window while displaying changes in the application screen according to the continuous execution of the application; and

in response to detecting a touch input on the notification window,

pause the display of changes that are in accordance with the continuous execution of the application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a screen of the message application.

59. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 58, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

wherein the instructions are further configured to cause the at least one processor to detect the touch input on a region of the notification window.

60. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 58, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

wherein the instructions are further configured to cause the at least one processor to detect the touch input on the notification window while the displayed content in the notification window is being altered.

61. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions that, when executed, by at least one processor of an electronic device, cause the electronic device to:

execute a video application to play a video image on a touch screen of the electronic device;

detect a reception of a message while the video image is being played via the execution of the video application on the touch screen;

in response to detecting the reception of the message, control the touch screen to display on a portion of the touch screen a notification window associated with the received message, while playing the video image associated with the execution of the video application on the touch screen;

control the touch screen to display a portion of content of the received message in the notification window; and

in response to detecting a first touch input on the notification window, control the touch screen to display another portion of content of the received message in the notification window while playing the video image via the execution of the video application.

66. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 61, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

continue the execution of the video application while altering the displayed content in the notification window and cause the video image to reflect the continuous execution of the video application while the displayed content in the notification window is being altered,

wherein the first touch input, which is a drag input, is detected on the displayed content of the received message.

67. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 61, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

continue the execution of the video application while altering the displayed content in the notification window and cause the video image to change according to the continuous execution of the video application.

68. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 61, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

continue displaying results of the execution of the video application while altering the portion of the content of the received message displayed in the notification window.

62. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of an electronic device, cause the electronic device to:

execute a video application to play a video image on a touch screen of the electronic device;

detect a reception of a message while the video image is being played via the execution of the video application on the touch screen;

in response to detecting the reception of the message, control the touch screen to display, on a portion of the touch screen, a notification window associated with the received message while playing the video image associated with the execution of the video application on the touch screen;

control the touch screen to display a portion of content of the received message in the notification window;

in response to detecting a first touch input on the notification window, control the touch screen to display another portion of content of the received message in the notification window while playing the video image via the execution of the video application; and

in response to detecting a second touch input on the notification window,

pause the video image played via the execution of the video application,

execute a message application, and

control the touch screen to display a message application screen,

wherein the message application screen is configured to display the content of the received message.

63. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 62, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

detect the second touch input on a region of the notification window.

64. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 62, wherein the computer executable instructions, when executed, by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to:

detect the second touch input on the notification window while the displayed content in the notification window is being altered.

65. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 62, wherein the displayed message application occupies an entire display area of the touch screen.