Method and Apparatus for Simple Presentation and Manipulation of Stored Content

• US 20150026616A1
• Filed: 07/22/2014
• Published: 01/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NUBO Software
• Original Assignee: NUBO Software
• Inventors: Litan Sever, Anat, Lifshitz, Israel, Mugrabi, Asi
• Application Number:
  US14/337,809
• Publication Number:
  US 20150026616A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/765
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• 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

A method and apparatus for manipulating and moving stored electronic content in a device. A display and a user interface are provided that allow a user of a simple and limited resource (e.g., mobile) device to interact with breadcrumb graphical representations of stored information objects (e.g., files, folders) and to move a selected object from one level to another in a multi-level hierarchy of stored information objects in a single active application window. In some aspects, a touch-sensitive display is provided that allows the user to move an object from one location to another with a single (e.g., drag) gesture, even moving the selected object up and down through a directory structure without the need for multiple windows to be presented to the user to do so.

Claims

1. A method for representing information in a mobile electronic device having a touch-sensitive single-window user interface capable display, comprising:

organizing a plurality of information objects stored in said mobile electronic device according to a multilevel hierarchy, whereby each of said information objects occupies some level in said hierarchy;

presenting on said display, in said single-window user interface, an inline series of graphical icons, each icon representing a corresponding one the group of information objects, and arranging each of the icons on said display according to its object'"'"'s level in said hierarchy;

using a single gesture by a user, whereby said gesture comprises a user interaction with a surface of said display, selecting a selected one of said information objects by way of its graphical icon, and translating the graphical icon of said selected information object in a movement corresponding to said user'"'"'s gesture, thereby moving the icon of said selected information object from a first level in said hierarchy to a second level in said hierarchy.

2. The method of claim 1, said user interaction comprising inputting and accepting contact with a touch-sensitive element of said display.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising physically reorganizing said plurality of information objects stored in said mobile device to store them according to a new order based on said user'"'"'s gesture.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising logically reorganizing said plurality of information objects stored in said mobile device by updating a logical relationship between said plurality of information objects based on said user'"'"'s gesture.

5. The method of claim 1, said gesture further requiring a user to interact with said graphical icon of the selected object for a predetermined length of time prior to translating said graphical icon.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting on said display a graphical listing of contents of a folder that is selected by said user.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting stored content in a level of said hierarchy as an inline row of icons on said display.

8. A mobile electronic device having a touch-sensitive graphical display unit, data storage unit and processing unit, the device comprising:

said data storage unit that stores a plurality of information objects in a multilevel hierarchical structure;

said touch-sensitive graphical display unit comprising an interactive screen that presents graphical representations of stored information objects and that responds to interactive gestures of a user and affects a status of information on said device responsive thereto; and

said processing unit that executes machine-readable instructions including instructions to present a graphical user interface on said graphical display, and that executes machine-readable instructions to accept user interface inputs from a user of said device through said graphical display unit including accepting signals responsive to a single user interface gesture translate a graphical icon of a selected information object displayed on said graphical display in a movement corresponding to said user'"'"'s gesture, thereby moving the icon of said selected information object from a first level in said hierarchy to a second level in said hierarchy and displacing data stored in said data storage unit corresponding to said movement of said icon.

9. The device of claim 8, said graphical representations including breadcrumb icon representations corresponding to respective stored information objects and arranged in an inline row for a given level of said hierarchy.

10. The device of claim 8, further comprising an event handler module that detects and responds to events through a user interface of said device.

11. The device of claim 10, said event handler module comprising a touch events module that detects and responds to display touching events.

12. The device of claim 8, further comprising a counter or timer module that detects a length of time that a touch event continues for and responds thereto in a long click or long-touch response if said touch event continues for a duration greater than a predetermined length of time.