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Block-based content selecting technique for touch screen UI

  • US 9,134,893 B2
  • Filed: 12/14/2012
  • Issued: 09/15/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A device, comprising:

  • a touch screen display for displaying content to a user and allowing user input; and

    a user interface including a content selecting mode that can be activated in response to user contact via the touch screen display, the user contact including an initial press and hold touch point targeting a block of displayed content and that transitions into a dragging touch point within the block of content, wherein the content selecting mode is configured to cause only a piece of content that is within the block of content and that is touched by the initial press and hold touch point to be selected, and to further cause the entire block of displayed content to be selected only after the press and hold touch point transitions into the dragging touch point, and wherein the content selecting mode is further configured to assign each page of a multi-page selection with a selection page count commencing from one and sequentially increasing by one for each subsequent page in the selection, such that the first page of the selection is identified as page 1, and wherein the content selecting mode is further configured to cause each page of the selection to be displayed with the corresponding page number assigned by the content selecting mode, and wherein the selection page count assigned to and displayed on each page is in addition to original page numbering also displayed on each page of the selection.

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