Re-configuring the standby screen of an electronic device

• US 9,953,616 B2
• Filed: 06/07/2006
• Issued: 04/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Innanen, Piia, Kangas, Tita, With, Mikko, Fowlie, Andrew, Junkkonen, Laura
• Primary Examiner(s): Mehmood, Jennifer
• Assistant Examiner(s): Abebe, Sosina
• Application Number:
  US11/449,448
• Publication Number:
  US 20060290661A1
• Time in Patent Office: 4,339 Days
• Field of Search: 345212, 345169, 345619, 345652, 715700, 715744, 715760, 715788, 715810, 715825, 715846, 715762, 715867
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/045 Zooming at least part of an image, i.e. enlarging it or shrinking it
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/373 for modifying the size of the graphic pattern
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72466 with selection means, e.g. keys, having functions defined by the mode or the status of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

An electronic device including a user interface having a display for displaying a standby screen when the device is in an idle state and a user input device, wherein the user interface provides a menu system, for re-configuring the standby screen, that is navigated using the user input device.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a user interface comprising a display;

a user input touch screen;

at least one processor; and

at least one memory storing computer program instructions that are configured, working with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to;

access at least one standby screen layout file which defines a plurality of elements, each element relating to an individually movable graphical item displayed in a standby screen of the display, the standby screen being present in a standby state defining a root of a hierarchical menu system of the apparatus, wherein each element has a plurality of attributes relating to at least the location and size at which a related graphical item is displayed in the standby screen which is shown when a used application exits until another application or the same application is started;

cause display of the standby screen, which comprises the plurality of related graphical items having the sizes and locations defined by their related elements in the at least one standby screen layout file;

respond to at least a first user input by causing the apparatus to enter a standby screen customization mode in which a plurality of zones representing said graphical items are displayed in a representation of said standby screen, wherein each graphical item of the standby screen sits in a zone displayed in said representation of the standby screen, wherein the standby screen customization mode enables a user input through the user input touch screen to select and drag each graphical item and associated text of each zone by a user one zone at a time in said representation of the standby screen, and moving a zone in said representation of said standby screen changes at least one location attribute of the element related to the graphical item represented by said zone in the at least one standby screen layout file;

respond to at least a second user input, provided subsequent to the at least a first user input and provided while the apparatus is in the standby screen customization mode, in which a user selects and drags each graphical item and associated text of an individual zone in order to modify the location of an individual zone in said representation of said standby screen by amending and updating the at least one location attribute of the element related to the graphical item represented by said zone in said at least one standby screen layout file;

cause display, in response to modifying the location of a said zone, of a representation of said standby screen including the zone with said modified location when said apparatus remains in said standby screen customization mode;

cause the at least one standby screen layout file having the amended and updated at least one location attribute to be saved; and

cause display of the graphical item related to the element represented by said zone with the modified location when said apparatus exits said standby screen customization mode and returns to displaying the standby screen.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the individually movable graphical item provides a short-cut to a first application.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user input touch screen forms at least a portion of the display.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the apparatus is a mobile cellular telephone.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the individually movable graphical item is for accessing an application.

6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the individually movable graphical item is a shortcut bar graphical item.

7. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein only a single graphical item is displayed in the zone with the modified location when the standby screen is displayed after the apparatus exits the standby screen customization mode.

8. A method, comprising:

accessing at least one standby screen layout file which defines a plurality of elements, each element relating to an individually movable graphical item displayed in a standby screen of an apparatus, the standby screen being present in a standby state defining a root of a hierarchical menu system of the apparatus, wherein each element has a plurality of attributes relating to at least the location and size at which a related graphical item is displayed in the standby screen which is shown when a used application exits until another application or the same application is started;

causing display of the standby screen, which comprises the plurality of related graphical items having the sizes and locations defined by their related elements in the at least one standby screen layout file;

responding to at least a first user input by causing the apparatus to enter a standby screen customization mode in which a plurality of zones representing said graphical items are displayed in a representation of said standby screen, wherein each graphical item of the standby screen sits in a zone displayed in said representation of the standby screen, wherein the standby screen customization mode enables a user input through a user input touch screen to select and drag each graphical item and associated text of each zone by a user one zone at a time in said representation of the standby screen, and moving a zone in said representation of said standby screen changes at least one location attribute of the element related to the graphical item represented by said zone in the at least one standby screen layout file;

responding to at least a second user input, provided subsequent to the at least a first user input and provided while the apparatus is in the standby screen customization mode, in which a user selects and drags each graphical item and associated text of an individual zone in order to modify the location of an individual zone in said representation of said standby screen by amending and updating the at least one location attribute of the element related to the graphical item represented by said zone in said at least one standby screen layout file;

causing display, in response to modifying the location of a said zone, of a representation of said standby screen including the zone with said modified location when said apparatus remains in said standby screen customization mode;

causing the at least one standby screen layout file having the amended and updated at least one location attribute to be saved; and

causing display of the graphical item related to the element represented by said zone with the modified location when said apparatus exits said standby screen customization mode and returns to displaying the standby screen.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the individually movable graphical item provides a short-cut to a first application.

10. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the method is performed on a mobile cellular telephone.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer program instructions that are configured, working with at least one processor, to cause at least the following to be performed:

accessing at least one standby screen layout file which defines a plurality of elements, each element relating to an individually movable graphical item displayed in a standby screen of an apparatus, the standby screen being present in a standby state defining a root of a hierarchical menu system of the apparatus, wherein each element has a plurality of attributes relating to at least the location and size at which a related graphical item is displayed in the standby screen which is shown when a used application exits until another application or the same application is started;

causing display of the standby screen, which comprises the plurality of related graphical items having the sizes and locations defined by their related elements in the at least one standby screen layout file;

responding to at least a first user input by causing the apparatus to enter a standby screen customization mode in which a plurality of zones representing said graphical items are displayed in a representation of said standby screen, wherein each graphical item of the standby screen sits in a zone displayed in said representation of the standby screen, wherein the standby screen customization mode enables a user input through a user input touch screen to select and drag each graphical item and associated text of each zone by a user one zone at a time in said representation of the standby screen, and moving a zone in said representation of said standby screen changes at least one location attribute of the element related to the graphical item represented by said zone in the at least one standby screen layout file;

responding to at least a second user input, provided subsequent to the at least a first user input and provided while the apparatus is in the standby screen customization mode, in which a user selects and drags each graphical item and associated text of an individual zone in order to modify the location of an individual zone in said representation of said standby screen by amending and updating the at least one location attribute of the element related to the graphical item represented by said zone in said at least one standby screen layout file;

causing display, in response to modifying the location of a said zone, of a representation of said standby screen including the zone with said modified location when said apparatus remains in said standby screen customization mode;

causing the at least one standby screen layout file having the amended and updated at least one location attribute to be saved; and

causing display of the graphical item related to the element represented by said zone with the modified location when said apparatus exits said standby screen customization mode and returns to displaying the standby screen.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium as claimed in claim 11, wherein an individually movable graphical item provides a short-cut to a first application.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium as claimed in claim 11, wherein the apparatus is a mobile cellular telephone.

14. An apparatus, comprising:

means for accessing at least one standby screen layout file which defines a plurality of elements, each element relating to an individually movable graphical item displayed in a standby screen of a display of the apparatus, the standby screen being present in a standby state defining a root of a hierarchical menu system of the apparatus, wherein each element has a plurality of attributes relating to at least the location and size at which a related graphical item is displayed in the standby screen which is shown when a used application exits until another application or the same application is started;

means for causing display of the standby screen, which comprises the plurality of related graphical items having the sizes and locations defined by their related elements in the at least one standby screen layout file;

means for responding to at least a first user input by causing the apparatus to enter a standby screen customization mode in which a plurality of zones representing said graphical items are displayed in a representation of said standby screen, wherein each graphical item of the standby screen sits in a zone displayed in said representation of the standby screen, wherein the standby screen customization mode enables a user input through a user input touch screen to select and drag each graphical item and associated text of each zone by a user one zone at a time in said representation of the standby screen, and moving a zone in said representation of said standby screen changes at least one location attribute of the element related to the graphical item represented by said zone in the at least one standby screen layout file;

means for responding to at least a second user input, provided subsequent to the at least a first user input and provided while the apparatus is in the standby screen customization mode, in which a user selects and drags each graphical item and associated text of an individual zone in order to modify the location of an individual zone in said representation of said standby screen by amending and updating the at least one location attribute of the element related to the graphical item represented by said zone in said at least one standby screen layout file;

means for causing display, in response to modifying the location of a said zone, of a representation of said standby screen including the zone with said modified location when said apparatus remains in said standby screen customization mode;

means for causing the at least one standby screen layout file having the amended and updated at least one location attribute to be saved; and

means for causing display of the graphical item related to the element represented by said zone with the modified location when said apparatus exits said standby screen customization mode and returns to displaying the standby screen.

15. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the first graphical item is a short-cut to the at least a first application and the second graphical item is a short-cut to the at least a second application.

16. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the user input touch screen forms at least a portion of the display.

17. The apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the apparatus is a mobile cellular telephone.