SCREEN DISPLAY METHOD FOR MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20140137037A1
• Filed: 01/21/2014
• Published: 05/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jin, Sang Hoon, Lee, Su Yeul
• Granted Patent: US 10,613,718 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/799
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04804 Transparency, e.g. transparent or translucent windows
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

A content display method for a mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal includes at least two hierarchical structures each having at least two contents at a level. The content display method includes: displaying, in response to selection of a content, a window associated with the selected content; displaying, in response to input of a multi-window display request, windows associated with contents at the same level as the selected content together on a single screen; and rearranging, in response to input of a window movement request, the content windows by window movement to display the rearranged content windows together on a single screen. As a result, same-level contents or application windows in execution can be displayed together on a single screen according to a user request. Hence, the user can readily transition between contents or applications with enhanced user convenience.

Claims

1. A content display method for a mobile terminal using at least two hierarchical structures each having at least two contents at a level, comprising:

displaying, in response to selection of a content, a window associated with the selected content;

displaying, in response to input of a multi-window display request, windows associated with contents at the same level as the selected content together on a single screen; and

rearranging, in response to input of a window movement request, the content windows by window movement to display the rearranged content windows together on a single screen.

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