Input error remediation

• US 9,965,130 B2
• Filed: 05/11/2012
• Issued: 05/08/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Vibrant Licensing LLC (IP Edge LLC)
• Original Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Inventors: Kim, Seungil, Lee, Changheon
• Primary Examiner(s): Chow, Doon
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, LE V
• Application Number:
  US13/701,349
• Publication Number:
  US 20130305174A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,188 Days
• Field of Search: 715863, 715831, 715715, 715808
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3322 using system suggestions G06F16/3325 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3325 Reformulation based on results of preceding query
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/002 Specific input/output arrangements not covered by G06F3/01 - G06F3/16 other optical apparatus G02B27/00
• 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 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

Technologies are generally described for an input error remediation scheme for an electronic device with a touch screen display. In some examples, a method performed under control of an electronic device with a touch screen display may include displaying a first page on the touch screen display, detecting a first input from a user of the electronic device, detecting a second input from the user; determining whether the first input is inadvertent based at least in part on the second input, and displaying a second page on the touch screen display, if the first input is determined to be inadvertent.

Claims

1. An electronic device that includes a touch screen display, the electronic device comprising:

a display unit configured to display a page on the touch screen display, wherein the page displays objects that include links to other pages;

a touch detection unit configured to detect at least a first touch and a second touch on the touch screen display, wherein the first touch includes a selection of a link of the links; and

a determination unit configured to determine that the first touch is inadvertent in response to a determination that the second touch is associated with a command to cancel a command associated with the first touch and that a time interval between the touch detection unit having detected the first touch and having detected the second touch is less than a particular amount of time, wherein;

the display unit is further configured to, in response to the determination unit having determined that the first touch is inadvertent, display a modified version of the page on the touch screen display,

the modified version of the page includes a pop-up window that includes the selected link and at least one link other than the selected link,

the modified version of the page includes a downsized version of the displayed page, and

the display of the modified version of the page includes a display of the pop-up window and the downsized version of the displayed page.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the determination unit is further configured to determine that the first touch is inadvertent when the touch detection unit detects the second touch before the electronic device completes the command associated with the first touch.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the pop-up window includes a section of the displayed page on which the first touch is made.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the pop-up window includes an area of the displayed page with the first touch as a center.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the pop-up window is non-overlapping with the downsized version of the displayed page.

6. A method performed under control of an electronic device that includes a touch screen display, the method comprising:

displaying a first page on the touch screen display, wherein the first page displays includes objects that include links to other pages;

detecting at least a first touch and a second touch on the touch screen display, wherein the first touch includes a selection of a link of the links;

determining that the first touch is inadvertent in response to determining that the second touch is associated with a command to cancel a command associated with the first touch and that a time interval between the detecting the first touch and the detecting the second touch is less than a particular amount of time; and

in response to the determination that the first touch is inadvertent, displaying a second page on the touch screen display, wherein the second page includes a modified version of the first page, and wherein displaying the second page includes;

enlarging at least a portion of the first page in a vicinity of the first touch, wherein the enlarged at least the portion includes at least one object other than the selected link,

reducing at least another portion of the first page in the vicinity of the first touch, wherein the reduced at least the another portion includes the selected link, and wherein the selected link is associated with the first touch that is determined to be inadvertent, and

displaying the second page that includes the enlarged at least the portion and the reduced at least the another portion on the touch screen display, wherein displaying the second page includes displaying the second page disposed as a pop-up window on the first page, thereby displaying the first page and the modified version of the first page as the second page simultaneously.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the determining includes:

determining that the first touch is inadvertent when the second touch is detected before the electronic device completes the command associated with the first touch.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the enlarged at least the portion includes a section of the first page on which the first touch is made.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the vicinity of the first touch includes an area of the first page with the first touch as a center.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the first page includes a web page and each of the links includes text.