Handling user inputs

• US 8,971,973 B2
• Filed: 05/28/2010
• Issued: 03/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Happonen, Aki Petri, Vilpponen, Hannu, Hakala, Henrik Stefan Markus, Malmstedt, Matti Aleksi
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Nimesh
• Application Number:
  US12/790,205
• Publication Number:
  US 20110294555A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,740 Days
• Field of Search: 455/575.4, 370/328, 370/332, 715/206, 715/780, 715/821
• US Class Current: 455/575.4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1677 for detecting open or closed state or particular intermediate positions assumed by movable parts of the enclosure, e.g. detection of display lid position with respect to main body in a laptop, detection of opening of the cover of battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0381 Multimodal input, i.e. interface arrangements enabling the user to issue commands by simultaneous use of input devices of different nature, e.g. voice plus gesture on digitizer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0487 using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0235 Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation and other relative motions of the body parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0245 using open/close detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• 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 device includes a device body comprising a user input interface for receiving user inputs, a member slidably engaged with the device body and slidable from a first position to a second position, and at least one processor configured, under the control of machine-readable code to detect incidences of user inputs via the user input interface, to detect the sliding of the member from the first position to the second position, and to be responsive to detecting a composite user input comprising a sliding of the member from the first position to the second position while a user input is incident via the user input interface to cause a first operation to be performed.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to at least;

receive an indication of a composite user input comprising;

a) a sliding of a first user interface component from a first position to a second position, wherein the first user interface component comprises a slidable member slidably engaged with a device body and b) an additional user input comprising at least a touch input or selection of a second user interface component while the sliding of the first user interface component occurs, wherein the first user interface component is on a first surface of a first device and the second user interface component is on a second surface of the device opposite to the first surface; and

cause performance of an operation relating to an application represented by the second user interface component, in response to the composite user input, wherein the operation differs from that of another operation performed in response to only one of the sliding of the first user interface component or the additional user input.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are further configured to:

receive a subsequent indication of a user input action on the second user interface component, without an indication of a sliding of the first user interface component; and

cause performance of a subsequent operation in response to the subsequent indication.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are further configured to:

receive a subsequent indication of a sliding of the first user interface component, without an indication of an action on the second user interface component; and

cause performance of a subsequent operation in response to the subsequent indication.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the indication further comprises an indication of a messaging application, and the operation comprises causing display of a text input screen within the messaging application.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the indication further comprises an indication of a contact, and the text input screen comprises a message recipient defaulted as the contact.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the device is a mobile telephone and the apparatus is configured to receive a signal as the indication of the composite user input.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the operation performed in response to the composite input is performed on the apparatus.

8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the operation performed in response to the composite input is performed on the device.

9. A method comprising:

receiving an indication of a composite user input comprising;

a) a sliding of a first user interface component from a first position to a second position, wherein the first user interface component comprises a slidable member slidably engaged with a device body and b) an additional user input comprising at least a touch input or selection of a second user interface component while the sliding of the first user interface component occurs, wherein the first user interface component is on a first surface of a first device and the second user interface component is on a second surface of the device opposite to the first surface; and

with a processor, causing performance of an operation relating to an application represented by the second user interface component, in response to the composite user input, wherein the operation differs from that of another operation performed in response to only one of the sliding or the additional user input.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving a subsequent indication of a user input action on the second user interface component, without an indication of a sliding of the first user interface component; and

causing performance of a subsequent operation in response to the subsequent indication.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving a subsequent indication of a sliding of the first user interface component, without an indication of an action on the second user interface component; and

causing performance of a subsequent operation in response to the subsequent indication.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the indication further comprises an indication of a messaging application, and the operation comprises causing display of a text input screen within the messaging application.

13. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable program code instructions stored therein, the computer-executable program code instructions comprising program code instructions to:

receive an indication of a composite user input comprising;

a) a sliding of a first user interface component from a first position to a second position, wherein the first user interface component comprises a slidable member slidably engaged with a device body and b) an additional user input comprising at least a touch input or selection of a second user interface component while the sliding of the first user interface component occurs, wherein the first user interface component is on a first surface of a first device and the second user interface component is on a second surface of the device opposite to the first surface; and

cause performance of an operation relating to an application represented by the second user interface component, in response to the composite user input, wherein the operation differs from that of another operation performed in response to only one of the sliding or the additional user input.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the computer-executable program code instructions further comprise program code instructions to:

receive a subsequent indication of a user input action on the second user interface component, without an indication of a sliding of the first user interface component; and

cause performance of a subsequent operation in response to the subsequent indication.

15. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the computer-executable program code instructions further comprise program code instructions to:

receive a subsequent indication of a sliding of the first user interface component, without an indication of an action on the second user interface component; and

cause performance of a subsequent operation in response to the subsequent indication.

16. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the indication further comprises an indication of a destination and a data item, and the operation comprises causing transmittal of the data item to the destination.

17. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the indication further comprises an indication of a messaging application, and the operation comprises causing display of a text input screen within the messaging application.