Device configuration user interface

• US 10,254,911 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2015
• Issued: 04/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Yang, Lawrence Y.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hailu, Tadesse
• Application Number:
  US14/839,903
• Publication Number:
  US 20160260414A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,320 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• 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 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/12 Synchronisation between the display unit and other units, e.g. other display units, video-disc players
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to device configuration user interfaces. A first electronic device with a first touch-sensitive display is in a paired relationship with a remote second electronic device with a second display. The first device displays a user interface that includes one or more representations of locations on the second display. The first device detects a user input on the first display at a representation of a first location on the second display, where the representation of the first location includes an affordance. The first device detects movement of the user input from the representation of the first location to a representation of a second location on the second display. In response to detecting the movement of the user input from the representation of the first location to the representation of the second location, the first device associates the affordance with the second location on the second display.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of a first electronic device with a first touch-sensitive display, cause the first electronic device to:

display a user interface on the first touch-sensitive display, wherein the user interface includes a representation of a first location on a second display of a second electronic device and a representation of a second location on the second display of the second electronic device, wherein the second electronic device is in a paired relationship with the first electronic device, and wherein the second electronic device is remote from the first electronic device;

detect a user input on the first touch-sensitive display at the representation of the first location, wherein the representation of the first location includes an affordance;

while continuing to detect the user input on the first touch-sensitive display, detect movement of the user input on the first touch-sensitive display from the representation of the first location to the representation of the second location; and

in response to detecting the movement of the user input on the first touch-sensitive display from the representation of the first location to the representation of the second location, associate the affordance with the second location on the second display.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the representation of the first location includes a graphical indication of the position on the second display of the first location.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein a color of the indication matches a color associated with the first location on the second display.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the affordance is associated with a contact.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 4, wherein the affordance includes an image associated with the contact.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 4, wherein the affordance includes one or more textual indications of the contact.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the one or more textual indications include a name of the contact.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the one or more textual indications include initials associated with the name of the contact.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the user interface includes a representation of a third location of the one or more locations on the second display, wherein the representation of the third location includes a second affordance associated with a second contact, and wherein the one or more programs further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the first electronic device, cause the first electronic device to:

detect a second user input; and

in response to detecting the second user input;

cease to display the second affordance associated with the second contact.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more programs further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the first electronic device, cause the first electronic device to:

before detecting the first user input;

detect a third user input on the first display at a representation of a fourth location of the one or more locations on the second display;

in response to detecting the third user input, display a representation of one or more contacts;

detect a fourth user input on the first touch-sensitive display representing a selection of a third contact of the one or more contacts; and

in response to detecting the selection of the third contact, display a third affordance at the representation of the fourth location of the one or more locations on the second display, wherein the third affordance represents the third contact.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more locations on the second display include a plurality of locations arranged in a predetermined pattern.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the one or more representations of the one or more locations on the second display include an indication of the predetermined pattern.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the plurality of locations on the second display are equally spaced at a constant distance around a central point.

14. A method, comprising:

at a first electronic device with a first touch-sensitive display, wherein the first electronic device is in a paired relationship with a second electronic device with a second display, and wherein the second electronic device is remote from the first electronic device;

displaying a user interface on the first touch-sensitive display, wherein the user interface includes a representation of a first location on the second display and a representation of a second location on the second display of the second electronic device;

detecting a user input on the first touch-sensitive display the representation of the first location, wherein the representation of the first location includes an affordance;

while continuing to detect the user input on the first touch-sensitive display, detecting movement of the user input on the first touch-sensitive display from the representation of the first location to the representation of the second location; and

in response to detecting the movement of the user input on the first touch-sensitive display from the representation of the first location to the representation of the second location, associating the affordance with the second location on the second display.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the representation of the first location includes a graphical indication of the position on the second display of the first location.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein a color of the indication matches a color associated with the first location on the second display.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the affordance is associated with a contact.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the affordance includes an image associated with the contact.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the affordance includes one or more textual indications of the contact.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the one or more textual indications include a name of the contact.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the one or more textual indications include initials associated with the name of the contact.

23. The method of claim 14, wherein the user interface includes a representation of a third location of the one or more locations on the second display, and wherein the representation of the third location includes a second affordance associated with a second contact, the method further comprising:

detecting a second user input; and

in response to detecting the second user input;

ceasing to display the second affordance associated with the second contact.

24. The method of claim 14, the method further comprising:

before detecting the first user input;

detecting a third user input on the first display at a representation of a fourth location of the one or more locations on the second display;

in response to detecting the third user input, displaying a representation of one or more contacts;

detecting a fourth user input on the first touch-sensitive display representing a selection of a third contact of the one or more contacts; and

in response to detecting the selection of the third contact, displaying a third affordance at the representation of the fourth location of the one or more locations on the second display, wherein the third affordance represents the third contact.

25. The method of claim 14, wherein the one or more locations on the second display include a plurality of locations arranged in a predetermined pattern.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the one or more representations of the one or more locations on the second display include an indication of the predetermined pattern.

27. The method of claim 25, wherein the plurality of locations on the second display are equally spaced at a constant distance around a central point.

15. An electronic device, comprising:

a touch-sensitive display;

one or more processors; and

a memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

displaying a user interface on the first touch-sensitive display, wherein the user interface includes a representation of a first location on a second display of a second electronic device and a representation of a second location on the second display of the second electronic device, wherein the second electronic device is in a paired relationship with the first electronic device, and wherein the second electronic device is remote from the first electronic device;

detecting a user input on the touch-sensitive display at the representation of the first location, wherein the representation of the first location includes an affordance;

while continuing to detect the user input on the touch-sensitive display, detecting movement of the user input on the first touch-sensitive display from the representation of the first location to the representation of the second location; and

in response to detecting the movement of the user input on the first touch-sensitive display from the representation of the first location to the representation of the second location, associating the affordance with the second location on the second display.

28. The device of claim 15, wherein the representation of the first location includes a graphical indication of the position on the second display of the first location.

29. The device of claim 28, wherein a color of the indication matches a color associated with the first location on the second display.

30. The device of claim 15, wherein the affordance is associated with a contact.

31. The device of claim 30, wherein the affordance includes an image associated with the contact.

32. The device of claim 30, wherein the affordance includes one or more textual indications of the contact.

33. The device of claim 32, wherein the one or more textual indications include a name of the contact.

34. The device of claim 33, wherein the one or more textual indications include initials associated with the name of the contact.

35. The device of claim 15, wherein the user interface includes a representation of a third location of the one or more locations on the second display, and wherein the representation of the third location includes a second affordance associated with a second contact, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

detecting a second user input; and

in response to detecting the second user input;

ceasing to display the second affordance associated with the second contact.

36. The device of claim 15, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

before detecting the first user input;

detecting a third user input on the first display at a representation of a fourth location of the one or more locations on the second display;

in response to detecting the third user input, displaying a representation of one or more contacts;

detecting a fourth user input on the first touch-sensitive display representing a selection of a third contact of the one or more contacts; and

in response to detecting the selection of the third contact, displaying a third affordance at the representation of the fourth location of the one or more locations on the second display, wherein the third affordance represents the third contact.

37. The device of claim 15, wherein the one or more locations on the second display include a plurality of locations arranged in a predetermined pattern.

38. The device of claim 37, wherein the one or more representations of the one or more locations on the second display include an indication of the predetermined pattern.

39. The device of claim 37, wherein the plurality of locations on the second display are equally spaced at a constant distance around a central point.