Method and Apparatus for Adding or Deleting at Least One Item Based at Least in Part on a Movement

• US 20100162179A1
• Filed: 12/19/2008
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Porat, Ofri Olavi
• Application Number:
  US12/340,434
• Publication Number:
  US 20100162179A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• 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 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprising a user interface configured to detect a first touch, detect a second touch, and detect a movement from the first touch or the second touch. The apparatus further comprises a processor configured to delete or add at least one item based at least in part on the movement.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a user interface configured to;

detect a first touch;

detect a second touch;

detect a movement from the first touch or the second touch; and

a processor configured to;

delete or add at least one item based at least in part on the movement.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the user interface is further configured to detect a movement from the first touch and the second touch.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the first touch or the second touch is a finger press.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the movement is a pinch.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the at least one item is at least one of the following:

an icon, a song title, a widget name, a thumbnail, or a file name.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein delete or add at least one item is performed by at least one of the following:

a server or electronic device.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein a last item is deleted from a list.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein a first item is added from a list.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor comprises at least one memory that contains executable instructions that if executed by the processor cause the apparatus to delete or add at least one item based at least in part on the movement.

10. A method, comprising:

detecting a first touch;

detecting a second touch;

detecting a movement from the first touch or the second touch; and

deleting or adding at least one item based at least in part on the movement.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising detecting a movement from the first touch and the second touch.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein the first touch or the second touch is a finger press.

13. The method of claim 10 wherein the movement is a pinch.

14. The method of claim 10 wherein the at least one item comprises at least one of the following:

an icon, a song title, a widget name, a thumbnail, or a file name.

15. The method of claim 10 wherein deleting or adding at least one item is performed by at least one of the following:

a server or electronic device.

16. The method of claim 10 wherein a last item is deleted from a list.

17. The method of claim 10 wherein a first item is added from a list.

18. A computer program product comprising a computer-readable medium bearing computer program code embodied therein for use with a computer, the computer program code comprising:

code for detecting a first touch;

code for detecting a second touch;

code for detecting a movement from the first touch or the second touch; and

code for deleting or adding at least one item based at least in part on the movement.

19. The computer program product of claim 18 further comprising detecting a movement from the first touch and the second touch.

20. The computer program product of claim 18 wherein the at least one item comprises at least one of the following:

an icon, a song title, a widget name, a thumbnail, or a file name.

21-35. -35. (canceled)