Widget control of an electronic device

• US 9,836,181 B2
• Filed: 02/10/2015
• Issued: 12/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Hiroki, Asano, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Cobb, Michael J
• Application Number:
  US14/618,906
• Publication Number:
  US 20150153908A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,029 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/00 Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers subscriber services or facilities provided at exchanges H04M3/00; prepayment telephone coin boxes H04M17/00; current supply arrangements H04M19/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/236 including keys on side or rear faces

Abstract

An electronic device comprises an executing module, a display module, and a display controller. The display controller makes the display module display a first display screen containing information about execution of a certain function during execution. The executing module starts execution of a widget for making the display module display information included in the first display screen while the certain function is executed and thereafter when execution of the certain function is finished, the executing module finishes execution of the widget When the display controller makes the display module display a display screen different from the first display screen while the widget is executed, the display controller incorporates widget execution information into a partial region of the different display screen based on execution of the widget. The widget execution information includes at least part of the information on the first display screen.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a display; and

at least one controller that,

in response to an initiation of an application, displays an application screen on the display, wherein the application screen comprises first information output by the application,

in response to an operation that changes the application screen to a home screen which comprises a plurality of pages, automatically adds a widget, comprising second information output by the application, to the home screen so as not to be superimposed on any existing information in the home screen by

determining whether or not at least one of the plurality of pages of the home screen comprises an empty space sufficient to fit the widget at a first size, and

when none of the plurality of pages of the home screen comprise the empty space sufficient to fit the widget at the first size, determine whether or not at least one of the plurality of pages of the home screen comprises an empty space sufficient to fit the widget at a second size that is smaller than the first size, and,

in response to termination of the application, automatically deletes the widget from the home screen.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the application performs one of a communication using push to talk, a recording of a television program, a reproduction control of music data, making the electronic device function as an access point of a wireless local-area network (LAN), and making the electronic device communicate via an access point of a wireless LAN.

3. The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein the application performs a communication using push to talk, and the the second information includes at least one of information for specifying a communication partner, an image associated with the communication partner, a current condition of a floor in the communication, information for specifying a person currently having the floor in the communication, and a duration of the communication.

4. An electronic device comprising:

a display; and

at least one controller that,

in response to an initiation of an application, displays an application screen on the display, wherein the application screen comprises first information output by the application,

in response to an operation that changes the application screen to a home screen which comprises a plurality of pages, automatically adds a widget, comprising second information output by the application, to the home screen so as not to be superimposed on any existing information in the home screen by

determining whether or not at least one of the plurality of pages of the home screen comprises an empty space sufficient to fit the widget, and,

when at least one page of the home screen comprises the empty space sufficient to fit the widget, incorporates the widget into the empty space of the at least one page,

when one of the plurality of pages of the home screen, other than the at least one page into which the widget is incorporated, is displayed, incorporates, into the displayed page, an indication of a position of the at least one page relative to the displayed page, and,

in response to termination of the application, automatically deletes the widget from the home screen.

5. The electronic device according to claim 4, wherein the at least one controller, when none of the plurality of pages of the home screen comprise the empty space sufficient to fit the widget, automatically adds a new page to the home screen and adds the widget to the new page.

6. The electronic device according to claim 5, wherein deleting the widget from the home screen comprises deleting the new page from the home screen.

7. The electronic device according to claim 4, wherein the at least one controller, in response to the operation that changes the application screen to the home screen, automatically changes the application screen to the at least one page of the home screen into which the widget was incorporated.

8. The electronic device according to claim 4, wherein the application performs one of a communication using push to talk, a recording of a television program, a reproduction control of music data, making the electronic device function as an access point of a wireless local-area network (LAN), and making the electronic device communicate via an access point of a wireless LAN.

9. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the application performs a communication using push to talk, and the second information includes at least one of information for specifying a communication partner, an image associated with the communication partner, a current condition of a floor in the communication, information for specifying a person currently having the floor in the communication, and a duration of the communication.

10. An electronic device comprising:

a display; and

at least one controller that,

in response to an initiation of an application, displays an application screen on the display, wherein the application screen comprises first information output by the application,

in response to an operation that changes the application screen to a home screen which comprises a plurality of pages, automatically adds a new page to the home screen, and automatically adds a widget, comprising second information output by the application, to the new page of the home screen so as not to be superimposed on any existing information in the home screen,

when one of the plurality of pages of the home screen, other than the new page into which the widget was added, is displayed, incorporates, into the displayed page, an indication of a position of the at least one page relative to the displayed page, and,

in response to termination of the application, automatically deletes the widget from the home screen.

11. The electronic device according to claim 10, wherein deleting the widget from the home screen comprises deleting the new page from the home screen.

12. The electronic device according to claim 10, wherein the at least one controller, in response to the operation that changes the application screen to the home screen, automatically changes the application screen to the at least one page of the home screen into which the widget was added.

13. The electronic device according to claim 10, wherein the application performs one of a communication using push to talk, a recording of a television program, a reproduction control of music data, making the electronic device function as an access point of a wireless local-area network (LAN), and making the electronic device communicate via an access point of a wireless LAN.

14. The electronic device according to claim 13, wherein the application performs a communication using push to talk, and the second information includes at least one of information for specifying a communication partner, an image associated with the communication partner, a current condition of a floor in the communication, information for specifying a person currently having the floor in the communication, and a duration of the communication.