Information processing device, information processing method and information processing program

• US 9,285,956 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2013
• Issued: 03/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kirkpatrick, Eric, Ogai, Takia
• Primary Examiner(s): CHUANG, JUNG-MU T
• Application Number:
  US14/127,860
• Publication Number:
  US 20150033158A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,146 Days
• Field of Search: 715/765
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/168 Details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems, e.g. browsing and visualisation, 2d or 3d GUIs query results presentation G06F16/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• 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 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An information processing device includes a selection accepting unit that accepts selection of three or more objects among a plurality of displayed objects, a movement control unit that moves one or more objects in accordance with movement of input position related to selection of one or more objects among the selected objects, and a processing execution unit that executes specified processing using information related to the moved object on each of a plurality of fixed objects when a position of the moved object is included in a determination area for the fixed object. Processing on the plurality of fixed objects is thereby executed at a time simply by performing the operation of moving the position of one moved object into the determination area for the fixed object.

Claims

1. An information processing device including:

a display that displays an image containing a plurality of objects;

at least one memory operable to store program instructions;

at least one processor operable to access said memory, read said program instructions, and operate according to said program instructions, said program instructions including;

detection instructions that cause at least one of said at least one processor to detect an input from a user indicating a position on the display;

selection accepting instructions that cause at least one of said at least one processor to accept a selection of three or more objects based on the input by the user detected by the detection instructions;

movement control instructions that cause at least one of said at least one processor to move on said display one or more objects in accordance with a selection of the one or more objects among the three or more objects for which the selection of the one or more objects is accepted by the selection accepting instructions and movement of an input position related to the selected one or more objects,

wherein the one or more objects being moved is a subset of the three or more objects, wherein a remaining subset of the three or more objects remains fixed as a plurality of fixed objects, wherein the plurality of fixed objects comprises two or more fixed objects; and

processing execution instructions that cause at least one of said at least one processor to, when a position on the display of one moved object among the one or more moved objects moved by the movement control instructions is included in a determination area of any one of the plurality of fixed objects not moved by the movement control instructions among the three or more objects, execute specified processing on each of the plurality of fixed objects using information related to the moved object,

wherein the processing execution instructions cause at least one of said at least one processor to allow the user to select and copy a subset of attribute information associated with the moved object to edit within each of the plurality of fixed objects as the specified processing, without copying the entire moved object to said plurality of fixed objects.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the processing execution instructions cause at least one of said at least one processor to execute the specified processing when the input position related to selection of the moved object that has been detected in the determination area becomes not detected in the determination area without detection of movement of the input position out of the determination area.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

instructions cause at least one of said at least one processor to display information on said display related to the moved object in association with each of the plurality of fixed objects displayed on the display after the position of the one moved object is included in the determination area for the fixed object and before executing the specified processing.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

when the moved object is identification information identifying a file and the fixed objects are folders capable of storing files, the processing execution instructions cause at least one of said at least one processor to store the file into each of the plurality of folders as the specified processing.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the processing execution instructions cause at least one of said at least one processor to cause the display to display a plurality of attribute information of the moved object, accepts input of selection of one or more attribute information among the plurality of displayed attribute information by a user, and reflects the selected attribute information on each of the fixed objects before executing the specified processing.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

a plurality of objects are moved by the movement control instructions,

the plurality of moved objects moved by the movement control instructions are objects having attribute information related to values, and

the processing execution instructions cause at least one of said at least one processor to execute processing in accordance with an amount of values in the attribute information of the plurality of moved objects on each of fixed objects.

7. An information processing device including:

a display that displays an image containing a plurality of objects;

at least one memory operable to store program instructions;

at least one processor operable to access said memory, read said program instructions, and operate according to said program instructions, said program instructions including;

detection instructions that cause at least one of said at least one processor to detect an input from a user indicating a position on the display;

selection accepting instructions that cause at least one of said at least one processor to accept a selection of three or more objects based on the input by the user detected by the detection instructions;

movement control instructions that cause at least one of said at least one processor to move on said display one or more objects in accordance with a selection of the one or more objects among the three or more objects for which the selection the one or more objects is accepted by the selection accepting instructions and movement of an input position related to the selected one or more objects; and

wherein the one or more objects being moved is a subset of the three or more objects, wherein a remaining subset of the three or more objects remains fixed as a plurality of fixed objects, wherein the plurality of fixed objects comprises two or more fixed objects; and

processing execution instructions that cause at least one of said at least one processor to, when a position on the display of one moved object among the one or more moved objects moved by the movement control instruction is included in a determination area of any one of the plurality of fixed objects not moved by the movement control instructions among the three of more objects, execute specified processing on each of the plurality of fixed objects using information related to the moved object,

wherein when the moved object is an identification information identifying a file and the plurality of fixed objects are folders capable of storing files, if the file related to the moved object is already stored in the folders related to the plurality of fixed objects, the processing execution instructions cause at least one of said at least one processor to delete the file stored in the folders as the specified processing, without adding a new copy of said file, to ensure that no copy of said file remains in the folders.

8. An information processing method in an information processing device including at least one processor and a display that displays an image containing a plurality of objects, the method performed by said at least one processor and comprising:

detecting an input from a user indicating a position on the display;

accepting a selection of three or more objects based on the input by the user detected;

moving one or more objects in accordance with a selection of the one or more objects among the three or more objects for which the selection of the one or more objects is accepted and movement of an input position related to the selected one or more of the objects,

wherein the one or more objects being moved is a subset of the three or more objects, wherein a remaining subset of the three or more objects remains fixed as a plurality of fixed objects, wherein the plurality of fixed objects comprises two or more fixed objects,

when a position on the display of one moved object among the one or more moved objects moved by the movement control instructions is included in a determination area of any one of the plurality of fixed objects not moved by the movement control instructions among the three or more objects, execute specified processing on each of the plurality of fixed objects using information related to the moved object,

wherein the processing execution instructions cause at least one of said at least one processor to allow the user to select and copy a subset of attribute information associated with the moved object to edit within each of the plurality of fixed objects as the specified processing, without copying an entire attribute information associated with the moved object to said plurality of fixed objects.