IP Library Granted Patent US 9,367,232
Granted Patent B2
US 9,367,232 · App. 14/011,639 · Granted Jun 14, 2016

Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface supporting user navigations of graphical objects on a touch screen display

Inventors: Andrew Emilio Platzer (Santa Clara, CA); Charles J. Pisula (Bethesda, MD); Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco, CA); Steven P. Jobs; Gregory Christie (San Jose, CA); Scott Forstall (Los Altos, CA); Stephen O. Lemay (San Francisco, CA); Michael Matas (San Francisco, CA); Gregory Novick (San Francisco, CA); Marcel van Os (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee: APPLE INC.
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,367,232
App. No.
14/011,639
Granted
Jun 14, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A portable multifunction device displays a first user interface object and a second user interface object on a touch screen display. Upon detecting a finger-down event at the first user interface object and one or more finger-dragging events on the touch screen display, the device moves the first user interface object on the touch screen display along a path determined by the finger-dragging events until the first user interface object at least in part overlaps the second user interface object. Upon detecting a finger-up event at the second user interface object, the device visually replaces the second user interface object with the first user interface object.

Claims (35)

1. A method, comprising:

at a portable electronic device with a touch screen display:

presenting a first plurality of category icons in a first region of the touch screen display of the portable electronic device, wherein:

each category icon in the first plurality of category icons provides an organization of selections in a digital music library,

each category icon is associated with a category that includes at least a portion of the selections of the digital music library,

selection of one of the category icons causes at least a portion of the digital music library selections within the associated category to be displayed in a second region of the touch screen display that is distinct from the first region of the touch screen display, and

each icon of the first plurality of category icons is constantly displayed in the first region of the touch screen display; and,

in a user interface for configuring category icons shown in the first region of the touch screen display:

displaying a second plurality of category icons on the touch screen display;

receiving a touch input dragging a selected category icon from the second plurality of category icons to a location in the first region of the touch screen display occupied by a category icon of the first plurality of category icons; and

in response to removal of the touch input, placing the selected category icon in the first region of the touch screen display to form a revised plurality of category icons in the first region of the touch screen display, and removing at least one category icon of the first plurality of category icons from the first region of the touch screen display.

2. A portable electronic device, comprising:

a touch screen display;

one or more processors;

memory; and

a program, wherein the program is stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the program including instructions for:

presenting a first plurality of category icons in a first region of the touch screen display of the portable electronic device, wherein:

each category icon in the first plurality of category icons provides an organization of selections in a digital music library,

each category icon is associated with a category that includes at least a portion of the selections of the digital music library,

selection of one of the category icons causes at least a portion of the digital music library selections within the associated category to be displayed in a second region of the touch screen display that is distinct from the first region of the touch screen display, and

each icon of the first plurality of category icons is constantly displayed in the first region of the touch screen display; and,

in a user interface for configuring category icons shown in the first region of the touch screen display:

displaying a second plurality of category icons on the touch screen display;

receiving a touch input dragging a selected category icon from the second plurality of category icons to a location in the first region of the touch screen display occupied by a category icon of the first plurality of category icons; and

in response to removal of the touch input, placing the selected category icon in the first region of the touch screen display to form a revised plurality of category icons in the first region of the touch screen display, and removing at least one category icon of the first plurality of category icons from the first region of the touch screen display.

3. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by a portable electronic device with a touch screen display, cause the device to:

present a first plurality of category icons in a first region of the touch screen display of the portable electronic device, wherein:

each category icon in the first plurality of category icons provides an organization of selections in a digital music library,

each category icon is associated with a category that includes at least a portion of the selections of the digital music library,

selection of one of the category icons causes at least a portion of the digital music library selections within the associated category to be displayed in a second region of the touch screen display that is distinct from the first region of the touch screen display, and

each icon of the first plurality of category icons is constantly displayed in the first region of the touch screen display; and,

in a user interface for configuring category icons shown in the first region of the touch screen display:

display a second plurality of category icons on the touch screen display;

receive a touch input dragging a selected category icon from the second plurality of category icons to a location in the first region of the touch screen display occupied by a category icon of the first plurality of category icons; and

in response to removal of the touch input, place the selected category icon in the first region of the touch screen display to form a revised plurality of category icons in the first region of the touch screen display, and remove at least one category icon of the first plurality of category icons from the first region of the touch screen display.

Continuity (6)
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