MOBILE APPLICATIONS SPIN MENU

• US 20100281430A1
• Filed: 05/01/2010
• Published: 11/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samir Hanna Safar
• Original Assignee: Samir Hanna Safar
• Inventors: SAFAR, SAMIR HANNA
• Application Number:
  US12/772,177
• Publication Number:
  US 20100281430A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/834
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A mobile communication system and a process of organizing applications (2) by category in simple form access menu. The process envisages displaying menu in a disc format (3) for each category menu items. The user is allowed to slide by touch his application (2) to any category disc (3) and the applications (2) in each category disc (3) will be displayed in a pie shape (5). The user can further rotate the disc (3) by touch which will result in the display of more menu items (2) on the mobile touch screen display unit (1).

Claims

1. A mobile communication and system and a process of organizing applications and displaying spin menu comprising of a system and process for displaying menu items on a mobile terminal containing a display unit (1) for displaying spin display of menu items (2) including at least one category of menu item for each disc (3) a plurality of icons (4), a touch panel for detecting a touch on the display unit (1) an execution unit for determining an icon (4) on the menu disc (3) and analyzing the touch position to execute the determined icon (4) characterized in that said process includes receiving user input responsive to user-driven rotation of a rotatable wheel located on the rear side of the mobile terminal, and selectively highlighting individual icons of the plurality of icons (4) responsive to the user-driven rotation of the wheel.

2. The mobile application spin menu as claimed in claim 1 wherein the user can slide his applications (2) to any category disc (3) according to his personal preferences and display slided applications (2) on the disc (3) in pie shape (5).

3. The mobile application spin menu as claimed in claim 1 wherein said mobile application pies (5) are sized enough to display identifiable portions of the icon image (4).

4. The mobile application spin menu as claimed in claim 1 wherein after the new disc (3) is created and categorized, icon images (4) can be slid onto and off the pies (5).

5. The mobile application spin menu as claimed in claim 1 wherein said system and process includes rotating the menu list containing the applications (2) and as disc (3) rotates more applications (2) appear.

6. The mobile application spin menu as claimed in claim 1 wherein the left rotation of the disc (3) provides forward movement of the disc (3) and the right rotation provides backward movement of the disc (3).

7. The mobile application spin menu as claimed in claim 1 wherein the user can avail the option to display the menu discs (3) individually as mini-discs (6) or in stacked format as in the center of the mobile display screen (1).

8. The mobile application spin menu as claimed in claim 1 wherein the menu discs (3) when displayed individually around the main center disc show only the category name.

9. The mobile application spin menu as claimed in claim 1 wherein when the menu discs (3) when stacked on the center, the end-user can slide the top disc off the screen so as to see the ones below it, the slided top disc being placed around the main disc (3) and becoming a mini-disc (6) which when touched comes into focus.

10. The mobile application spin menu as claimed in claim 1 wherein when the user downloads the Spin Menu applications, icon (4) copies of all applications on the mobile terminal will be lined up on the right hand side of a blank disk as and allows the user to scroll up and down the icons (4), and slide the applications (2), create a new category disc (3) on the mobile screen and enter the category name.

11. The mobile application spin menu as claimed in claim 1 wherein the user can load applications (2) onto the disc (3) to create a default application menu.