User interface tap selection on touchscreen device

• US 10,025,497 B2
• Filed: 04/12/2016
• Issued: 07/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Church, Caroline, Frost, Mark P., Storey, Dominic J., Wesley, John F., Yatawara, Lakshman S. B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sharifi-Tafreshi, Koosha
• Application Number:
  US15/096,652
• Publication Number:
  US 20160224237A1
• Time in Patent Office: 826 Days
• Field of Search: 345156, 345169, 345173, 345174, 345175, 715810, 715863
• 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 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A tap associated with an active area on a user interface of a touchscreen device is received at a first time. The active area is associated with an origination time. It is determined that a period of time between the origination time and the first time is within a specified period of time. In response to the determining, an action associated with the active area is not performed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a first time, a first tap associated with an active area on a user interface of a touchscreen device, the active area associated with an origination time;

determining that a period of time between the origination time and the first time is within a specified period of time;

in response to the determining, not performing an action associated with the active area;

requesting a confirmation of the first tap;

receiving the confirmation of the first tap;

in response to the receiving the confirmation, performing the action,

wherein the requesting the confirmation of the first tap comprises providing a zoomed section of the user interface, the zoomed section containing the active area, and wherein the receiving the confirmation of the first tap comprises receiving a second tap on the zoomed section associated with the active area.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the requesting the confirmation of the first tap comprises providing a dialog box for requesting confirmation.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface is a web browser.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the specified period of time is between 0.15 seconds and 0.30 seconds.

5. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a computer to perform a method comprising:

receiving, at a first time, a first tap associated with an active area on a user interface of a touchscreen device, the active area associated with an origination time;

determining that a period of time between the origination time and the first time is within a specified period of time;

in response to the determining, not performing an action associated with the active area;

requesting a confirmation of the first tap;

receiving the confirmation of the first tap; and

in response to the receiving the confirmation, performing the action,

wherein the requesting the confirmation of the first tap comprises providing a zoomed section of the user interface, the zoomed section containing the active area, and wherein the receiving the confirmation of the first tap comprises receiving a second tap on the zoomed section associated with the active area.

6. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the requesting the confirmation of the first tap comprises providing a dialog box for requesting confirmation.

7. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the user interface is a web browser.

8. A system for generating responses to an electronic communication, the system comprising:

one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable tangible storage devices, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to receive, at a first time, a first tap associated with an active area on a user interface of a touchscreen device, the active area associated with an origination time;

program instructions to determine that a period of time between the origination time and the first time is within a specified period of time; and

program instructions to, in response to the determining, not perform an action associated with the active area,

wherein the origination time is identified from a timestamp associated with the active area on a tap-action map associated with the user interface.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the program instructions for execution further comprise:

program instructions to request a confirmation of the first tap;

program instructions to receive the confirmation of the first tap; and

program instruction to, in response to the receiving the confirmation, perform the action.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the program instructions to request the confirmation of the first tap comprise program instructions to provide a dialog box for requesting confirmation.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the user interface is a web browser.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the specified period of time is between 0.15 seconds and 0.30 seconds.