Displaying a display portion including an icon enabling an item to be added to a list

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10175848-B2
Application number	US-36788509-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 9, 2009
Priority date	Feb 9, 2009
Publication date	Jan 8, 2019
Grant date	Jan 8, 2019

Abstract

The disclosed embodiments are directed to displaying a portion of a list of items and selecting an icon in the list that when activated allows additional items to be added to the list.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
causing display of a portion of a list of items, wherein the portion of the list of items is displayed as a scrolling ribbon in which the items are positioned in an order relative to one another;
determining that a notification has been received for at least one item that is included in the list of items prior to receipt of the notification but that is not in the portion of the list of items that is being displayed; and
in response to determining that the notification has been received for the at least one of the list of items, automatically scrolling the list of items to a particular position so that the at least one of the list of items that has received the notification is visible in the display while maintaining the order of the items in the list with one or more items that are independent of a notification displayed in the list between the at least one of the list of items that has received the notification and another item of the list that is associated with a notification.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising causing display of a symbol on an item that has the notification, the symbol being indicative of the notification.

3. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program instructions stored therein, the computer-readable program instructions comprising:
program instructions configured to cause display of a portion of a list of items, wherein the portion of the list of items is displayed as a scrolling ribbon in which the items are positioned in an order relative to one another;
program instructions configured to determine that a notification has been received for at least one item that is included in the list of items prior to receipt of the notification but that is not in the portion of the list of items that is being displayed; and
program instructions configured to, in response to determining that the notification has been received for the at least one of the list of items, automatically scroll the list of items to a particular position so that the at least one of the list of items that has received the notification is visible in the display while maintaining the order of the items in the list with one or more items that are independent of a notification displayed in the list between the at least one of the list of items that has received the notification and another item of the list that is associated with a notification.

4. An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory storing computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and stored computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to at least:
cause display of a portion of a list of items, wherein the portion of the list of items is displayed as a scrolling ribbon in which the items are positioned in an order relative to one another;
determine that a notification has been received for at least one item that is included in the list of items prior to receipt of the notification but that is not in the portion of the list of items that is being displayed; and
in response to determining that the notification has been received for the at least one of the list of items, automatically scroll the list of items to a particular position so that the at least one of the list of items that has received the notification is visible in the display while maintaining the order of the items in the list with one or more items that are independent of a notification displayed in the list between the at least one of the list of items that has received the notification and another item of the list that is associated with a prior notification.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the at least one memory and stored computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to further cause the apparatus to cause display of a symbol on an item that has a notification, the symbol being indicative of the notification.

6. A user interface comprising:
a display configured to display a portion of a list of items, wherein the portion of the list of items is displayed as a scrolling ribbon in which the items are positioned in an order relative to one another; and
a user interface controller configured to:
determine that a notification has been received for at least one item that is included in the list of items prior to receipt of the notification but that is not in the portion of the list of items that is being displayed; and
in response to determining that the notification has been received for the at least one of the list of items, automatically scroll the list of items to a particular position so that the at least one of the list of items that has received the notification is visible in the display while maintaining the order of the items in the list with one or more items that are independent of a notification displayed in the list between the at least one of the list of items that has received the notification and another item of the list that is associated with a notification.

7. The user interface of claim 6 , wherein the display is configured to display a symbol on an item that has a notification, the symbol being indicative of the notification.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining that a plurality of notifications are associated with a plurality of items of the list of items, and wherein the at least one of the list of items is associated with a most recent notification of the plurality of notifications.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein scrolling of the scrolling ribbon to the at least one item associated with the notification is performed in response to determining that the at least one of the list of items is located in a portion of the list of items outside of the display.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the notification indicates that a pending message is related to the at least one of the list of items.

11. The computer program product of claim 3 , further comprising program instructions configured to determine that a plurality of notifications are associated with a plurality of items of the list of items, and wherein the at least one of the list of items is associated with a most recent notification of the plurality of notifications.

12. The computer program product of claim 3 , wherein scrolling of the scrolling ribbon to the at least one item associated with the notification is performed in response to determining that the at least one of the list of items is located in a portion of the list of items outside of the display.

13. The computer program product of claim 3 , wherein the notification indicates that a pending message is related to the at least one of the list of items.

14. The computer program product of claim 3 , wherein the instructions further comprise program instructions configured to display a symbol on an item that has a notification, the symbol being indicative of the notification.

15. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the apparatus is further caused to determine that a plurality of notifications are associated with a plurality of items of the list of items, and wherein the at least one of the list of items is associated with a most recent notification of the plurality of notifications.

16. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein scrolling of the scrolling ribbon to the at least one item associated with the notification is performed in response to determining that the at least one of the list of items is located in a portion of the list of items outside of the display portion.

Assignees

• Haapsaari Joonas Petteri
• Karimaki Kimmo Juhani
• Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventors

• Haapsaari Joonas-Petteri
• Karimaki Kimmo Juhani

Classifications

• G06F3/0485

  Scrolling or panning · CPC title

• G06F3/0482 Primary

  Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus · CPC title

• G06F3/04883

  for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text · CPC title

• G06F3/14

  Digital output to display device {; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units} · CPC title