Responding to a dynamic input

• US 9,141,277 B2
• Filed: 06/28/2012
• Issued: 09/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WSOU Investments, LLC (WSOU Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Oksman, Markku Olavi
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Kevin
• Assistant Examiner(s): ALMEIDA, CORY A
• Application Number:
  US13/536,363
• Publication Number:
  US 20140002372A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,181 Days
• Field of Search: 345173-179
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3818 Arrangements for facilitating insertion or removal of identification devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0202 Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. of speakers or microphones H04M1/03
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

Apparatus comprises at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to be responsive to receipt of a dynamic input by a touch-sensitive transducer of an electronic device configured to receive a removable member to cause actuation of the removable member relative to the electronic device.

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, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to:

receive a swipe input at a location on a touchscreen of the apparatus, the apparatus being configured to receive a removable member, and the swipe input being a swipe touch input or a swipe hover input;

determine that the location on the touchscreen overlays a location of the removable member; and

cause ejection of the removable member relative to the apparatus based, at least in part, on the swipe input and the determination that the location on the touchscreen overlays the location of the removable member.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein a direction of movement of the swipe input corresponds to the direction of ejection of the removable member.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the direction of movement of the swipe input is a direction of movement from the location on the touchscreen, and the direction of ejection of the removable member is a direction of ejection from the location of the removable member relative to the apparatus.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the location on the touchscreen overlies the location of the removable member when the removable member is received in the apparatus.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the removable member is a removable memory medium.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to:

cause at least one processing operation associated with the removable memory medium to be shut down in response to the receipt of the swipe input at the location on the touchscreen, wherein the causation of ejection of the removable memory medium relative to the apparatus is performed subsequent to the shutdown of the at least one processing operation associated with the removable memory medium.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to:

cause a visual indicator to be displayed on the touchscreen prior to the receipt of the swipe input, wherein the visual indicator is configured to indicate the location on the touchscreen.

8. A method comprising:

receiving a swipe input at a location on a touchscreen of an apparatus, the apparatus being configured to receive a removable member, and the swipe input being a swipe touch input or a swipe hover input;

determining that the location on the touchscreen overlays a location of the removable member; and

causing ejection of the removable member relative to the apparatus based, at least in part, on the swipe input and the determination that the location on the touchscreen overlays the location of the removable member.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein a direction of movement of the swipe touch input corresponds to the direction of ejection of the removable member.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the direction of movement of the swipe input is a direction of movement from the location on the touchscreen, and the direction of ejection of the removable member is a direction of ejection from the location of the removable member relative to the apparatus.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the location on the touchscreen overlies the location of the removable member when the removable member is received in the apparatus.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the removable member is a removable memory medium.

13. The method of claim 12, comprising:

causing at least one processing operation associated with the removable memory medium to be shut down in response to the receipt of the swipe input at the location on the touchscreen, wherein the causation of ejection of the removable memory medium relative to the apparatus is performed subsequent to the shutdown of the at least one processing operation associated with the removable memory medium.

14. The method of claim 8 comprising:

causing a visual indicator to be displayed on the touchscreen prior to the receipt of the swipe input, wherein the visual indicator is configured to indicate the location on the touchscreen.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-readable code, which, when executed by an apparatus, causes the apparatus to:

receive a swipe input at a location on a touchscreen of the apparatus, the apparatus being configured to receive a removable member, and the swipe input being a swipe input or a swipe hover input;

determine that the location on the touchscreen overlays a location of the removable member; and

cause ejection of the removable member relative to the based, at least in part, on the swipe input and the determination that the location on the touchscreen overlays the location of the removable member.

16. The medium of claim 15, wherein a direction of movement of the swipe input corresponds to the direction of ejection of the removable member.

17. The medium of claim 15, wherein the predetermined location overlies the location of the removable member when the removable member is received in the apparatus.

18. The medium of claim 15, wherein the removable member is a removable memory medium.

19. The medium of claim 15, further having stored thereon computer-readable code that, when executed by the apparatus, causes the apparatus to:

cause at least one processing operation associated with the removable memory medium to be shut down in response to the receipt of the swipe input at the location on the touchscreen, wherein the causation of ejection of the removable memory medium relative to the apparatus is performed subsequent to the shutdown of the at least one processing operation associated with the removable memory medium.

20. The medium of claim 15, further having stored thereon computer-readable code that, when executed by the apparatus, causes the apparatus to:

cause a visual indicator to be displayed on the touchscreen prior to the receipt of the swipe input, wherein the visual indicator is configured to indicate the location on the touchscreen.