DOCUMENT INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS

• US 20110161807A1
• Filed: 12/22/2010
• Published: 06/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: CHOI, Ko-eun, Kwak, Jung-ki, Choi, Ryuan
• Application Number:
  US12/976,306
• Publication Number:
  US 20110161807A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/255
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• 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

Provided is a document information transmission method and apparatus, in which upon sensing of a touch or click input on an opened document, the sensed input is recognized as an information transmission command for the document, and upon sensing of a release input on a target object, information about the document is transmitted to the target object.

Claims

1. A document information transmission method comprising:

recognizing a sensed input as an information transmission command for a document, upon sensing a touch or click input on the opened document; and

transmitting information about the document to a target object, upon sensing a release input on the target object.

2. The document information transmission method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the information comprises determining information to be transmitted to the target object according to a type of the target object.

3. The document information transmission method of claim 1, further comprising switching an event mode to a transmission mode for transmitting the information about the document.

4. The document information transmission method of claim 3, wherein switching the event mode comprises switching the event mode to the transmission mode when the target object to which the information about the document is to be transmitted is selected or opened.

5. The document information transmission method of claim 1, wherein recognizing the sensed input as the information transmission command comprises:

generating and displaying a movable object for temporarily storing the information about the document, upon sensing the touch or click input; and

moving the movable object, upon sensing a move or drag input.

6. The document information transmission method of claim 1, wherein the opened document is a web page.

7. The document information transmission method of claim 6, wherein transmitting the information comprises storing an address of the web page in a bookmark list if the target object is the bookmark list.

8. The document information transmission method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the information comprises:

generating a snap shot of the document; and

storing the snap shot in a clip board if the target object is the clip board.

9. The document information transmission method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the information comprises inserting document content into a document which is currently being edited by a document editor if the target object is the document editor.

10. The document information transmission method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the information comprises storing a file corresponding to the document in a folder if the target object is the folder.

11. The document information transmission method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the information comprises instructing a text message transmission application to transmit document content to a phone number corresponding to a phone directory item on which the release input is sensed, if the target object is a phone directory.

12. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing a document information transmission method comprising:

recognizing a sensed input as an information transmission command for a document, upon sensing a touch or click input on the opened document; and

transmitting information about the document to a target object, upon sensing a release input on the target object.

13. A document information transmission apparatus comprising:

a touch screen for inputting and outputting information; and

a controller for, upon sensing a touch or click input on an opened document, recognizing the sensed input as an information transmission command for the document, and upon sensing a release input on a target object, transmitting information about the document to the target object.

14. The document information transmission apparatus of claim 13, wherein the controller determines information to be transmitted to the target object according to a type of the target object.

15. The document information transmission apparatus of claim 13, wherein if an event mode is switched to a transmission mode for transmitting the information about the document, the controller recognizes the touch or click input as an information transmission command for the document.

16. The document information transmission apparatus of claim 13, wherein the controller switches the event mode to the transmission mode when the target object to which the information about the document is to be transmitted is selected or opened.

17. The document information transmission apparatus of claim 13, wherein the controller generates and displays a movable object for temporarily storing the information about the document upon sensing the touch or click input, and moves the movable object upon sensing a move or drag input.

18. The document information transmission apparatus of claim 13, wherein the opened document is a web page.

19. The document information transmission apparatus of claim 18, wherein the controller stores an address of the web page in a bookmark list if the target object is the bookmark list.

20. The document information transmission apparatus of claim 13, wherein the controller instructs a text message transmission application to transmit document content to a phone number corresponding to a phone directory item on which the release input is sensed, if the target object is a phone directory.