Electronic device and method for changing order or location of content

• US 10,331,329 B2
• Filed: 07/02/2014
• Issued: 06/25/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Semiconductor Group
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Cha, Soon-Hyun, Kim, Yang-Su, Cho, Jae-Wan
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Tuyetlien T
• Application Number:
  US14/322,170
• Publication Number:
  US 20150012860A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,819 Days
• Field of Search: 715810, 715841, 715845
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• 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 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/973 Scroll tool, e.g. window scroll bar

Abstract

An electronic device and a method for changing an order and location of content are provided. The method includes receiving a selection of a content from among a displayed plurality of contents, displaying, in a set region, a guide interface of expressing a current location of the selected content among the entire contents of a storage region, and changing the location of the selected content among the contents of the storage region according to sensing a control of the guide interface.

Claims

1. A method in an electronic device, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of contents included in a list on a touch screen of the electronic device;

receiving a first input for selecting, among the displayed plurality of contents, a content which is aligned at a first location in the list;

in response to receiving the first input, displaying a guide interface embedded in the list in a region corresponding to a location at which the selected content is displayed in the touch screen, the guide interface including an icon and an indicator representing an order in which the selected content among entire contents of the list is aligned;

changing the order according to a second input, the second input including an input dragging the icon in a first direction or a second direction in a state where a touch input on the icon is maintained, the second direction being a direction opposite to the first direction; and

changing the first location to a second location corresponding to the changed order,

wherein the changing of the order further comprises;

changing a unit by which the order is changed in response to dragging the icon in a clockwise direction or in a counterclockwise direction which is different from the first direction or the second direction, and

displaying, with the selected content, contents which are aligned by the changed unit on the touch screen while changing the order by the changed unit.

2. The method of claim 1,

wherein, prior to the displaying of the plurality of contents included in the list, the list among at least one list is selected.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the indicator represents a number of the entire contents and a number indicating the order in which the selected content among the entire contents in the list is aligned.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the indicator represents the order by a percentage.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the guide interface comprises a region dividing the entire contents into two regions on a basis of the order of the selected content.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the two regions comprise a first region to display a first aligned content through the selected content according to an alignment order of the entire contents and a second region to display the selected content through last content of the list according to the alignment order of the entire contents.

7. The method of claim 1,

wherein the changing of the first location comprises, when the touch input of the icon is released, moving the selected content to the second location.

8. An electronic device, the device comprising:

a touch screen; and

at least one processor configured to;

control the touch screen to display a plurality of contents included in a list,

receive a first input for selecting, among the displayed plurality of contents, a content which is aligned at a first location in the list,

in response to receiving the first input, control the touch screen to display a guide interface embedded in the list in a region corresponding to a location at which the selected content is displayed in the touch screen, the guide interface including an icon and an indicator representing an order in which the selected content among entire contents of the list is aligned,

change the order according to a second input, the second input including an input dragging the icon in a first direction or a second direction in a state where a touch input on the icon is maintained, the second direction being a direction opposite to the first direction, and

change the first location to a second location corresponding to the changed order,

wherein at least one processor is further configured to;

change a unit by which the order is changed in response to dragging the icon in a clockwise direction or in a counterclockwise direction which is different from the first direction or the second direction, and

control the touch screen to display, with the selected content, contents which are aligned by the changed unit while changing the order by the changed unit.

9. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein, prior to the display of the plurality of contents included in the list, the touch screen is configured to select the list among at least one list.

10. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the indicator represents a number of the entire contents and a number indicating the order in which the selected content among the entire contents in the list is aligned.

11. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the indicator represents the order by a percentage.

12. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the guide interface comprises a region dividing the entire contents into two regions on a basis of the order of the selected content.

13. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the two regions comprise a first region to display a first aligned content through the selected content according to an alignment order of the entire contents and a second region to display the selected content through last content of the list according to the alignment order of the entire contents.

14. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

when the touch input of the icon is released, move the selected content to the second location.