Electronic device with widgets and method for configuring widgets

• US 8,694,898 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2011
• Issued: 04/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Tsai, Teng-Yu
• Primary Examiner(s): Bashore, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): SHREWSBURY, NATHAN K
• Application Number:
  US13/172,136
• Publication Number:
  US 20120124499A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,014 Days
• Field of Search: 715/765, 715/761, 715/762
• US Class Current: 715/762
• 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 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

An electronic device which includes a widget management module, a processor, a source acquiring module, and a display. The widget management module adds a new window and new viewable symbols or representations (views) inside the new window. The processor counts a number of existing windows and a number of existing views in each of the existing windows, calculates a new window identification code for the new window according to the number of existing window and the number of existing views in each of the existing windows, and calculates a new view identification code for each of the new views according to the new window identification code. The source acquiring module acquires sources and data from the sources based on each of the new view identification code and associates the source information with new view corresponding to the new view identification code, leading to the display of the new views.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for configuring widgets in an electronic device, comprising:

counting a number of existing windows and a number of existing views in each of the existing windows;

adding a new window, and calculating a new window identification code of the new window according to the number of the existing windows and the number of existing views in each of the existing windows, calculating the new window identification code for the new window according to B+i*K, where “

i”

is a natural number, “

i”

equals the number of existing windows;

“

B”

is a static natural number, and is larger than the number of the existing windows, “

K”

is greater than the number of existing views in one existing window;

adding new views to the new window, and calculating a new view identification code of each of the new views according to the new window identification code, wherein calculating the new view identification code for each of the new views according to the new window identification code further comprises;

calculating the new view identification code for each of the new views equals the number of the new window+“

j”

+1, where “

j”

is a natural number and “

j”

equals the number of existing views in the new window; and

acquiring source information based on each of the new view identification code and associating the source information with new view corresponding to the new view identification code; and

displaying the new views.