ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH FUNCTION FOR SEARCHING FOR ICONS REPRESENTING APPLICATIONS AND METHOD THEREOF
First Claim
1. An electronic device comprising:
- a touch screen;
a storage unit storing a user-defined touch database, a relationship table recording relationships between user-defined touches and icons representing applications of the electronic device, and a plurality of modules of a searching system, wherein, in the relationship table, each user-defined touch of the user-defined touch database is related to one or more of the icons; and
a processor to execute the plurality of modules of the searching system to perform operations of searching for one or more of the icons representing applications of the electronic device, the operations comprising;
determining whether an input touch is a user-defined touch recorded in the user-defined touch database when a currently displayed interface of the electronic device is an icon interface;
searching within the relationship table to find one or more icons related to the input touch when the input touch is a user-defined touch recorded in the user-defined touch database; and
displaying a window to show the one or more found icons on the touch screen.
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Abstract
A method for searching for icons relating to applications in an electronic device is computer-implemented. When a currently displayed interface of the electronic device is an application icon interface including a plurality of icons, an input touch is determined to be either an already-recorded user-defined touch or a system-defined touch. System-defined touches have automatic consequences. A relationship table is searched to find one or more icons related to the input touch when the input touch is determined to be a previously-recorded user-defined touch. A window is displayed to simultaneously show one or more found icons on the touch screen for the convenience of the user, avoiding any page-up or page-down operation.
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15 Claims
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1. An electronic device comprising:
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a touch screen; a storage unit storing a user-defined touch database, a relationship table recording relationships between user-defined touches and icons representing applications of the electronic device, and a plurality of modules of a searching system, wherein, in the relationship table, each user-defined touch of the user-defined touch database is related to one or more of the icons; and a processor to execute the plurality of modules of the searching system to perform operations of searching for one or more of the icons representing applications of the electronic device, the operations comprising; determining whether an input touch is a user-defined touch recorded in the user-defined touch database when a currently displayed interface of the electronic device is an icon interface; searching within the relationship table to find one or more icons related to the input touch when the input touch is a user-defined touch recorded in the user-defined touch database; and displaying a window to show the one or more found icons on the touch screen. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A computer-implemented method for searching icons of an electronic device, comprising:
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determining whether an input touch is a user-defined touch recorded in a user-defined touch database when a currently displayed interface of the electronic device is an icon interface; searching within a relationship table to find one or more of the icons related to the input touch when the input touch is a user-defined touch recorded in the user-defined touch database, wherein, in the relationship, each user-defined touch recorded in the user-defined touch database is related to one or more of the icons; and displaying a window to show the one or more found icons on the touch screen. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer-readable storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations of searching icons of an electronic device, the operations comprising:
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determining whether an input touch is a user-defined touch of a user-defined touch database when a currently displayed interface of the electronic device is an icon interface; searching within a relationship table to find one or more of the icons related to the input touch when the input touch is a user-defined touch recorded in the user-defined touch database, wherein, in the relationship, each user-defined touch recorded in the user-defined touch database is related to one or more of the icons; and displaying a window to show the one or more found icons on the touch screen. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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