Adding tiles to a graphical user interface

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9846750-B2
Application number	US-94880607-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 30, 2007
Priority date	Nov 30, 2007
Publication date	Dec 19, 2017
Grant date	Dec 19, 2017

Abstract

A software application having a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays content tiles along with the use of an electronic device to add tiles to the GUI is described in this disclosure. A predefined key on an input device is selected to indicate to display available tiles. One of the displayed available tiles is selected and the user designates a location on the display of the content tiles where to place the selected displayed available tiles. The selected tile is then inserted into the display with the plurality of tiles at the designated location and a tile previously at the designation location on the display is deleted and placed in a delete directory.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for adding tiles to a graphical user interface display comprising:
displaying with an application having a graphical user interface (GUI) a plurality of content tiles in a grid format, the plurality of content files corresponding to content stored on a plurality of different web sites;
selecting a predefined key on an input device to indicate and to display available tiles not included within the grid of content tiles;
in response to selection of the predefined key, displaying the available tiles;
selecting one of the displayed available tiles;
designating a location on the display of the plurality of content tiles where to place the selected one of the displayed available tiles;
inserting the selected tile into the display with the plurality of tiles at the designated location; and
upon the selected tile being placed at the designated location, deleting a tile previously at the designated location on the display and placing the deleted tile into a delete directory.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising receiving the tiles from a third party via one of either electronic mail or using a multimedia messaging system.

3. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein selecting said predefined key automatically adds a tile to the display.

4. The method as recited in claim 3 wherein the tile is automatically added to a default location on the display.

5. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein one of the displayed available tiles is selected by either depressing a zero key on a communications device, depressing a 0 menu button on the display or by selecting a zero menu from a drop down menu on the display.

6. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein a location on the display of the plurality of content tiles where to place the selected one of the displayed available tiles is designated by either selecting arrows on a keypad or selecting a location on the display.

7. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising making tiles in the delete directory available for replacement on the display with the plurality of tiles.

8. The method as recited in claim 7 further comprising adding the deleted tile to an inbox directory indicating the list of available tiles to be selected.

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, perform acts comprising:
displaying a plurality of content tiles that indicate content stored on a plurality of different web sites;
receiving a selection of a predefined key on an input device to indicate and to display available tiles not included with the plurality of content tiles available to be selected;
in response to selection of the predefined key, displaying the available tiles; receiving a selection of one of the displayed available tiles;
receiving a designation of a location on the display of the plurality of content tiles where to place the selected one of the displayed available tiles;
inserting the selected tile into the display with the plurality of tiles at the designated location; and
upon the selected tile being inserted at the designated location, deleting a tile previously at the designated location on the display and placing the deleted tile into a deleted directory.

10. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium as recited in claim 9 wherein one of the displayed available tiles is selected by either depressing a zero key on the input device, depressing a 0 menu button on the display or by selecting a zero menu from a drop down menu on the display.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium as recited in claim 9 wherein a location on the display of the plurality of content tiles where to place the selected one of the displayed available tiles is designated by either selecting arrows on a keypad or selecting a location on the display.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium as recited in claim 9 wherein the acts further comprise making tiles in the deleted directory available for replacement on the display with the plurality of tiles by moving the tiles to an inbox directory.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium as recited in claim 12 wherein the acts further comprise adding the removed tile to the list of available tiles to be selected.

14. A system comprising:
an input device;
a mobile communications device coupled with the input device operable for displaying a plurality of content tiles that indicate content stored on a plurality of different web sites stored on accessible via a service provider, said device operable for receiving a selection of a predefined key on the input device for displaying available tiles not included with the plurality of content tiles available to be selected;
the service provider operable for providing content to the mobile communications device when tiles are selected on the mobile communication device; and
said mobile communications device in response to selection of the predefined key, operable to display the available tiles, to receive a selection of one of the displayed available tiles from the input device, said device to receive a designation of a location on the display of the plurality of content tiles where to place the selected one of the displayed available tiles, to insert the selected tile into the display with the plurality of tiles at the designated location, and upon the selected tile being inserted at the designated location, to delete a tile previously at the designated location on the display and to place the deleted tile into a delete directory in memory of the device.

15. The system as recited in claim 14 , wherein the mobile communications device is further operable to receive the tiles from the service provider via one either electronic mail or using a multimedia messaging system and place the received tiles on receipt into an inbox directory on the mobile communications device.

16. The system as recited in claim 14 wherein the device automatically adds a tile to a default location on the display.

17. The system as recited in claim 14 wherein the display of the plurality of content tiles is in a grid format, and wherein said device is operative to receive an indication from the input device the designated location on the display of where to place the selected one of the displayed available tiles by the input device indicating a selection of the location on the grid, and wherein the device is operative to place the selected one of the available tiles on the grid at the designated location.

18. A method for adding tiles to a graphical user interface display, said method comprising:
displaying with an application having a graphical user interface (GUI) a plurality of content tiles in a grid format, the plurality of content tiles corresponding to content stored on a plurality of different web sites;
selecting a predefined key on an input device to indicate and to display available tiles not included within the grid of content tiles;
in response to selection of the predefined key, displaying the available tiles;
selecting one of the displayed available tiles;
designating a location, on the display of the plurality of content tiles, where to place the selected one of the displayed available tiles, wherein said location is occupied by a content tile of said plurality of content tiles;
in response to the designation of the location, moving the selected tile to the designated location and automatically moving the content tile from the designated loca

Assignees

• Moscatelli Adriana
• Sangiovanni John
• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Moscatelli Adriana
• Sangiovanni John

Classifications

• G06F16/972 Primary

  Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation · CPC title

• G06F16/951

  Indexing; Web crawling techniques · CPC title

• G06F17/30864

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30893 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic