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Enhanced user interface to transfer media content

  • US 9,632,688 B2
  • Filed: 03/29/2012
  • Issued: 04/25/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for sharing a media content displayed in a window of a first graphical user interface (GUI) of an electronic device with at least one end point, the first GUI comprising the window and data displayed around the window, said electronic device comprising a processor controlling said first GUI, the method being carried out by said processor and comprising:

  • capturing a user input within the window, the user input being of a drag type input,generating a second GUI comprising;

    the window in the same position as in the first GUI, anda free space between contours of the second GUI and the window, the free space being obtained by erasing the data displayed around the window in the first GUI,rendering the second GUI in place of the first GUI,displaying a virtual representation of the end point in the free space,capturing further drag inputs on the window,displacing the window with each additional captured drag input, andsending an activation message that the media content is to be transferred to the end point for subsequent rendering when determining that the window is within a given distance of the virtual representation of the end point in the free space.

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