REARRANGING DISPLAY OF MOBILE APPLICATIONS BASED ON GEOLOCATION

• US 20160103583A1
• Filed: 10/09/2014
• Published: 04/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Barillaud, Franck, Cho, Insoo, Thill, Mark R., Zhang, David S., Christiani, Daniel
• Granted Patent: US 9,936,063 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2111 Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4451 User profiles; Roaming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72472 wherein the items are sorted according to specific criteria, e.g. frequency of use
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/30 Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes

Abstract

Rearranging a set of generated application display panels is provided. A set of application display icons corresponding to a set of mobile applications installed on a mobile data processing system having matching keyword tags with a geolocation keyword tag corresponding to a defined geographic area is inserted into a set of generated application display panels. The set of generated application display panels with the inserted set of application display icons corresponding to the set of mobile applications having the matching keyword tags is rearranged based on the geolocation keyword tag corresponding to the defined geographic area. The rearranged set of generated application display panels with the inserted set of application display icons corresponding to the set of mobile applications having the matching keyword tags is displayed.

Claims

1. A method for rearranging a set of generated application display panels, the method comprising:

inserting, by a mobile data processing system, a set of application display icons corresponding to a set of mobile applications installed on the mobile data processing system having matching keyword tags with a geolocation keyword tag corresponding to a defined geographic area into a set of generated application display panels;

rearranging, by the mobile data processing system, the set of generated application display panels with the inserted set of application display icons corresponding to the set of mobile applications having the matching keyword tags based on the geolocation keyword tag corresponding to the defined geographic area; and

displaying, by the mobile data processing system, the rearranged set of generated application display panels with the inserted set of application display icons corresponding to the set of mobile applications having the matching keyword tags.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by the mobile data processing system, whether the mobile data processing system exited the defined geographic area based on currently received geographic location data corresponding to a current location of the mobile data processing system; and

responsive to the mobile data processing system determining that the mobile data processing system has not exited the defined geographic area based on the currently received geographic location data corresponding to the current location of the mobile data processing system, continuing to display, by the mobile data processing system, the rearranged set of generated application display panels with the inserted set of application display icons corresponding to the mobile applications having the matching keyword tags.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

responsive to the mobile data processing system determining that the mobile data processing system has exited the defined geographic area based on the currently received geographic location data corresponding to the current location of the mobile data processing system, determining, by the mobile data processing system, whether the mobile data processing system entered another defined geographic area based on the currently received geographic location data corresponding to the current location of the mobile data processing system; and

responsive to the mobile data processing system determining that the mobile data processing system has entered another defined geographic area based on the currently received geographic location data corresponding to the current location of the mobile data processing system, retrieving, by the mobile data processing system, a geolocation keyword tag corresponding to the another defined geographic area from a storage device of the mobile data processing system.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

responsive to the mobile data processing system determining that the mobile data processing system has not entered another defined geographic area based on the currently received geographic location data corresponding to the current location of the mobile data processing system, switching, by the mobile data processing system, to a default mobile application icon display mode.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

determining, by the mobile data processing system, whether current geographic location data of the mobile data processing system matches geographic location data corresponding to the defined geographic area; and

responsive to the mobile data processing system determining that the current geographic location data of the mobile data processing system does match the geographic location data corresponding to the defined geographic area, retrieving, by the mobile data processing system, the geolocation keyword tag corresponding to the defined geographic area from a storage device of the mobile data processing system.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the current geographic location data of the mobile data processing system is provided by a global positioning system transceiver located in data processing system.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving, by the mobile data processing system, a user profile that includes display preferences corresponding to a user of the mobile data processing system from a storage device of the mobile data processing system; and

rearranging, by the mobile data processing system, the set of generated application display panels with the inserted set of application display icons corresponding to the set of mobile applications having the matching keyword tags based on the geolocation keyword tag corresponding to the defined geographic area and the display preferences corresponding to the user.

8. A mobile data processing system for rearranging a set of generated application display panels, the mobile data processing system comprising:

a bus system;

a storage device connected to the bus system, wherein the storage device stores program instructions; and

a processor connected to the bus system, wherein the processor executes the program instructions to insert a set of application display icons corresponding to a set of mobile applications installed on the mobile data processing system having matching keyword tags with a geolocation keyword tag corresponding to a defined geographic area into a set of generated application display panels;

rearrange the set of generated application display panels with the inserted set of application display icons corresponding to the set of mobile applications having the matching keyword tags based on the geolocation keyword tag corresponding to the defined geographic area; and

display the rearranged set of generated application display panels with the inserted set of application display icons corresponding to the set of mobile applications having the matching keyword tags.

9. The mobile data processing system of claim 8, wherein the processor further executes the program instructions to determine whether the mobile data processing system exited the defined geographic area based on currently received geographic location data corresponding to a current location of the mobile data processing system;

and continue to display the rearranged set of generated application display panels with the inserted set of application display icons corresponding to the mobile applications having the matching keyword tags in response to determining that the mobile data processing system has not exited the defined geographic area based on the currently received geographic location data corresponding to the current location of the mobile data processing system.

10. The mobile data processing system of claim 9, wherein the processor further executes the program instructions to determine whether the mobile data processing system entered another defined geographic area based on the currently received geographic location data corresponding to the current location of the mobile data processing system in response to determining that the mobile data processing system has exited the defined geographic area based on the currently received geographic location data corresponding to the current location of the mobile data processing system;

and retrieve a geolocation keyword tag corresponding to the another defined geographic area from the storage device of the mobile data processing system in response to determining that the mobile data processing system has entered another defined geographic area based on the currently received geographic location data corresponding to the current location of the mobile data processing system.

11. The mobile data processing system of claim 10, wherein the processor further executes the program instructions to switch to a default mobile application icon display mode in response to determining that the mobile data processing system has not entered another defined geographic area based on the currently received geographic location data corresponding to the current location of the mobile data processing system.

12. The mobile data processing system of claim 10, wherein the processor further executes the program instructions to determine whether current geographic location data of the mobile data processing system matches geographic location data corresponding to the defined geographic area;

and retrieve the geolocation keyword tag corresponding to the defined geographic area from the storage device of the mobile data processing system in response to determining that the current geographic location data of the mobile data processing system does match the geographic location data corresponding to the defined geographic area.

13. The mobile data processing system of claim 8, wherein the processor further executes the program instructions to retrieve a user profile that includes display preferences corresponding to a user of the mobile data processing system from the storage device of the mobile data processing system;

and rearrange the set of generated application display panels with the inserted set of application display icons corresponding to the set of mobile applications having the matching keyword tags based on the geolocation keyword tag corresponding to the defined geographic area and the display preferences corresponding to the user.

14. A computer program product for rearranging a set of generated application display panels, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a mobile data processing system to cause the mobile data processing system to perform a method comprising:

inserting, by the mobile data processing system, a set of application display icons corresponding to a set of mobile applications installed on the mobile data processing system having matching keyword tags with a geolocation keyword tag corresponding to a defined geographic area into a set of generated application display panels;

rearranging, by the mobile data processing system, the set of generated application display panels with the inserted set of application display icons corresponding to the set of mobile applications having the matching keyword tags based on the geolocation keyword tag corresponding to the defined geographic area; and

displaying, by the mobile data processing system, the rearranged set of generated application display panels with the inserted set of application display icons corresponding to the set of mobile applications having the matching keyword tags.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, further comprising:

determining, by the mobile data processing system, whether the mobile data processing system exited the defined geographic area based on currently received geographic location data corresponding to a current location of the mobile data processing system; and

responsive to the mobile data processing system determining that the mobile data processing system has not exited the defined geographic area based on the currently received geographic location data corresponding to the current location of the mobile data processing system, continuing to display, by the mobile data processing system, the rearranged set of generated application display panels with the inserted set of application display icons corresponding to the mobile applications having the matching keyword tags.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, further comprising:

responsive to the mobile data processing system determining that the mobile data processing system has exited the defined geographic area based on the currently received geographic location data corresponding to the current location of the mobile data processing system, determining, by the mobile data processing system, whether the mobile data processing system entered another defined geographic area based on the currently received geographic location data corresponding to the current location of the mobile data processing system; and

responsive to the mobile data processing system determining that the mobile data processing system has entered another defined geographic area based on the currently received geographic location data corresponding to the current location of the mobile data processing system, retrieving, by the mobile data processing system, a geolocation keyword tag corresponding to the another defined geographic area from a storage device of the mobile data processing system.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, further comprising:

responsive to the mobile data processing system determining that the mobile data processing system has not entered another defined geographic area based on the currently received geographic location data corresponding to the current location of the mobile data processing system, switching, by the mobile data processing system, to a default mobile application icon display mode.

18. The computer program product of claim 16, further comprising:

determining, by the mobile data processing system, whether current geographic location data of the mobile data processing system matches geographic location data corresponding to the defined geographic area; and

responsive to the mobile data processing system determining that the current geographic location data of the mobile data processing system does match the geographic location data corresponding to the defined geographic area, retrieving, by the mobile data processing system, the geolocation keyword tag corresponding to the defined geographic area from a storage device of the mobile data processing system.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein the current geographic location data of the mobile data processing system is provided by a global positioning system transceiver located in data processing system.

20. The computer program product of claim 14, further comprising:

retrieving, by the mobile data processing system, a user profile that includes display preferences corresponding to a user of the mobile data processing system from a storage device of the mobile data processing system; and

rearranging, by the mobile data processing system, the set of generated application display panels with the inserted set of application display icons corresponding to the set of mobile applications having the matching keyword tags based on the geolocation keyword tag corresponding to the defined geographic area and the display preferences corresponding to the user.