Apparatus and Method for Tagging Items

• US 20090049413A1
• Filed: 08/16/2007
• Published: 02/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Lehtovirta, Daniel, Belitz, Sanna Maarit, Suutarinen, Jorma Tapio
• Application Number:
  US11/839,800
• Publication Number:
  US 20090049413A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/855
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• 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

Abstract

A method including presenting an image on a display of a device, automatically providing a tag association menu on the display, the tag association menu being provided with the image, selecting a tag from the tag association menu, the selected tag to be associated with the image and automatically closing the tag association menu.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

presenting an image on a display of a device;

automatically providing a tag association menu on the display, the tag association menu being provided with the image;

selecting a tag from the tag association menu, the selected tag to be associated with the image; and

automatically closing the tag association menu.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein automatically providing the tag association menu further comprises:

detecting a presence of the image on the display; and

providing a pop-up window on the display, the pop-up window including at least one tag item and a navigation control that allows a user to indicate a selection of one of the tag items.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the tag association menu comprises one or more predefined tag keys and selecting the tag comprises selecting a predefined tag from the tag keys.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the tag comprises:

selecting an input field function from a navigation control of the tag association menu; and

inputting a customized tag entry as the selected tag.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing feedback indicating that a tag is selected.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the tag association menu is transparently displayed over the application item.

7. The method of claim 1, where closing the tag association menu comprises:

detecting an interval of no activity with the tag association menu after the tag association menu is provided on the display; and

closing the tag association menu.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein closing the tag association menu comprises activating a key on the device to close or minimize the tag association menu.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising re-presenting the tag association menu on the display in response to a predetermined condition.

10. An apparatus comprising:

a processor;

an input device connected to the processor; and

a display connected to the processor;

wherein the processor is configured to;

automatically provide a tag association menu on the display in conjunction with a presentation of an image of an image application active in the apparatus, where the tag association menu allows a tag association between the image and a tag without leaving the image application;

associate the tag with the image in response to a tag selection; and

automatically close the tag association menu.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, where the processor is further configured to:

detect a presence of the image on the display; and

provide a pop-up window on the display, the pop-up window including at least one tag item and a navigation control that allows a user to indicate a selection of one of the tag items.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the tag association menu comprises one or more predefined tag keys and the tag selection comprises:

selection of a predefined tag from the tag keys of the tag association menu;

or

selection of an input field function from a navigation control of the tag association menu and inputting a customized tag entry as the selected tag.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to provide feedback indicating that a tag is selected.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the tag association menu is transparently displayed over the application item.

15. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to close the tag association menu in response to a detection of an interval of no activity with the tag association menu after the menu is provided on the display.

16. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to close or minimize the tag association menu in response to an activation of a key on the apparatus.

17. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the tag association menu closed by a fading of the tag association menu.

18. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to allow a re-presenting of the tag association menu on the display in response to a predetermined condition.

19. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the apparatus is a mobile communication device.

20. A computer program product embodied in a memory of a device comprising:

a computer useable medium having computer readable code means embodied therein for causing a computer to present a tag association menu, the computer readable code means in the computer program product comprising;

computer readable program code means for causing a computer to present an image on a display of the device;

computer readable program code means for causing a computer to automatically provide a tag association menu on the display, the tag association menu being provided with the image;

computer readable program code means for causing a computer to select a tag from the tag association menu, the selected tag to be associated with the image; and

computer readable program code means for causing a computer to automatically close the tag association menu.

21. The computer program product of claim 20, further comprising:

computer readable program code means for causing a computer to detect a presence of the image on the display; and

computer readable program code means for causing a computer to provide a pop-up window on the display, the pop-up window including at least one tag item and a navigation control that allows a user to indicate a selection of one of the tag items.

22. The computer program product of claim 20, wherein the tag selection comprises:

selection of a predefined tag from the tag keys of the tag association menu;

or

selection of an input field function from a navigation control of the tag association menu and inputting a customized tag entry as the selected tag.

23. The computer program product of claim 20, further comprising computer readable program code means for causing a computer to allow a re-presenting of the tag association menu on the display in response to a predetermined condition.