专利汇可以提供Method of and device for validation of a user command for controlling and appliction专利检索,专利查询,专利分析的服务。并且A portable electronic communication device comprising a display screen; a graphical user interface displayed on the display screen and comprising; a first graphical object automatically movable along a path across at least part of the display screen; movement of the first graphical object to a predetermined region of the path being indicative of validation of a user command for controlling an application; and a second graphical object displayed on the predetermined path of the first graphical object such that the second graphical object appears to obstruct movement of the first graphical object along the path to the predetermined region, the second object being movable on the display screen, in response to a user input via the graphical user interface: from a first state, indicative of the user command being unvalidated, in which the second graphical object obstructs movement of the first graphical object to the predetermined region, to a second state, i ndicative of the user command being validated, in which passage of the first graphical object to the predetermined region is enabled; and sensor means configured to determine the second state being attained; an application processor configured to execute the user command in response to detection of the second state being attained.,下面是Method of and device for validation of a user command for controlling and appliction专利的具体信息内容。
The present invention relates in general to a method and device for validating a user command for controlling an application executing on a portable electronic device.
As the number of software applications and services installed on portable electronic devices steadily increases and the applications become more and more complex, the design of user interfaces enabling ease of user interaction and enhancing user experience is becoming more and more challenging. Moreover, for applications where validations of commands have important consequences, it is becoming more important to ensure that command validations are not triggered inadvertently.
The present invention has been devised with the foregoing in mind.
Accordingly, a first aspect of the invention provides a portable electronic communication device comprising a display screen; a graphical user interface displayed on the display screen and comprising a first graphical object automatically movable along a path across at least part of the display screen; movement of the first graphical object to a predetermined region of the path being indicative of validation of a user command for controlling an application; and a second graphical object displayed on the path of the first graphical object such that the second graphical object appears to obstruct movement of the first graphical object along the path to the predetermined region, the second object being movable, on the display screen in response to a user input via the graphical user interface: from a first state, indicative of the user command being first graphical object to the predetermined region, to a second state, indicative of the user command being validated, in which passage of the first graphical object to the predetermined region is enabled; and sensor means configured to determine the second state being attained; an application processor configured to execute the user command in response to detection of the second state being attained.
The method and devices according to aspects of the invention help to facilitate user interaction and to enhance user experience for execution of user commands. Moreover, a more secure form of validation may be implemented.
In an embodiment, the sensor means is configured to detect of at least one of movement of the second graphical object in response to the user input and automatic movement of the first graphical object on the display screen.
In an embodiment, the sensor means is configured to determine at least one of location of the second graphical interface object on the display screen and location of the first graphical object on the display screen.
In an embodiment, the display screen is a touch sensitive display operable to detect one or more user contact gestures with the surface of the touch screen display and, the second object being a user interface graphical object movable on the display screen by one or more user contact gestures. The user contact gesture may be directly with a user digit such as a finger or thumb, or indirectly by means of a pointer object such as a stylus pen etc. In other embodiments, the second object may be moved by other user control means such as for example a joystick type control, a control wheel, track ball etc.
In an embodiment, the sensor means is configured to detect user contact of a region of the display screen corresponding to the second graphical interface object and a user drag gesture across the display screen from the region of the display screen corresponding to the second graphical interface object to a region of the display screen away from the path of the first graphical object.
In an embodiment, the second graphical object comprises at least two parts, separation of the at least two parts by a user contact gesture enabling passage of the first graphical object along its path between the at least two parts of the second graphical object towards the predetermined region.
In an embodiment, separation of the at least two parts is activated by user drag gestures, each user drag gesture moving a respective part of the second graphical object out of the path of the first graphical object. In an embodiment, the user drag gestures are simultaneous.
In an embodiment, the application processor is configured to enable wireless transmission of data representative of the user command from the portable electronic device to a remote server once validation of the command has been detected
In an embodiment, the user command is representative of an agreement to pay for a product or service
According to a second aspect of the invention, there is provided a computer implemented method for validating a user command for controlling an application, the method comprising displaying on a display screen of a portable electronic device a graphical user interface comprising: a first graphical object automatically movable along a path across at least part of the display screen; movement of the first object to a predetermined region of the path being indicative of validation of a user command for controlling an application; a second graphical object displayed on the path of the first graphical object such that the second object appears to obstruct movement of the first graphical object along the path to the predetermined region; receiving a user input for moving the second graphical object from a first state, indicative of the user command being unvalidated, in which the second graphical object obstructs movement of the first graphical object to the predetermined region; to a second state indicative of the user command being validated in which passage of the first object to the predetermined region is enabled; and detecting the second state being attained; executing the user command, by an application processor, in response to detection of the second state being attained.
In an embodiment, the display screen is a touch sensitive display operable to detect one or more user contact gestures with the surface of the touch screen display and, the method comprises detecting one or more user contact gestures for moving the second graphical object on the display screen.
In an embodiment, the method includes detecting user contact of a region of the display screen corresponding to the second graphical interface object and a user drag gesture across the display screen from the region of the display screen corresponding to the second graphical interface object to a region of the display screen away from the path of the first graphical object.
In an embodiment, the second graphical object comprises at least two parts, the method comprising detecting user contact gestures enabling separation of the at least two parts for passage of the first graphical object along its path between the at least two parts of the second graphical object towards the predetermined region.
At least parts of methods according to the invention may be computer implemented. The methods may be implemented in software on a programmable apparatus. They may also be implemented solely in hardware or in software, or in a combination thereof.
Since some parts of the present invention can be implemented in software, the present invention can be embodied as computer readable code for provision to a programmable apparatus on any suitable carrier medium. A tangible carrier medium may comprise a storage medium such as a floppy disk, a CD-ROM, a hard disk drive, a magnetic tape device or a solid state memory device and the like. A transient carrier medium may include a signal such as an electrical signal, an electronic signal, an optical signal, an acoustic signal, a magnetic signal or an electromagnetic signal, e.g. a microwave or RF signal.
Embodiments of the invention will now be described, by way of example only, and with reference to the following drawings in which:-
Embodiments of the invention will be described with reference to the
The portable electronic communication device 100 communicates with remote devices such as the application provider server 200 and the service provider server 300 by means of the data communication network 50. The data communication network 50 may be a wireless network such as a 3G type network, may comprise a combination of fixed and wireless networks.
Application provider server 200 is configured to exchange data with an associated application executing on portable electronic communication device 100. The service provider server 300 is configured to communicate with the application provider server for the management of financial transactions related to the application and accesses data concerning user profiles and financial data stored in database 350. The application provider server 200 and the service provider server 300 may communicate with one another by means of fixed and/or wireless networks.
The touch sensitive screen arrangement 150 (referred to hereafter as touch screen) is provided with a touch sensitive surface operatively connected with a sensor or a plurality of sensors that detect user contact with the touch sensitive screen and provide signals indicative of user contact gestures on the screen based on haptic and/or tactile contact. The touch screen 150 may be configured for single and/or multipoint sensing. The touch screen 150 with a contact processor 152 enable detection of a user contact with the screen and the conversion of the detected contact into a user interaction signal for controlling an application. Examples of touch screen technology include liquid crystal displays (LCD), Light Emitting Polymer display (LPD) for example. It will be appreciated that any suitable touch screen technology enabling user contact with the surface of the screen 150 to be detected and converted into an exploitable signal may be used, for example touch sensing technologies based on capacitive, resistive, infrared, surface acoustic wave technology, pressure sensing, optical sensing proximity sensor arrays etc.
The user contact gesture or event detected may include direct user contact with the touch screen 150 by a digit (finger or thumb) gesture of the user such as finger contact, removal of finger contact, an opening or closing pinch gesture, a swipe gesture, a slide gesture, a tap gesture, a tap and hold gesture, a drag gesture etc. In some embodiments more accurate stylus based user contact may be used.
The graphical user interface includes user interface objects displayed on the touch sensitive screen 150 which may include objects in the form of icons or images representing the various applications executable on the portable electronic device 150. These displayed objects may be manipulated by the user manipulations mentioned above. Other user interface objects include keypads such as soft keyboards enabling a user to input characters including letters, symbols and numbers for execution of applications, soft control pads for providing control, windows, menus, cursors, scroll bars, dialogue boxes etc.
The portable electronic device 100 further includes a communication module 102 for enabling communication with one or more external devices by means of one or more external input/output (I/O) ports 103 and an antenna assembly 104 provided with RF circuitry for the transmission and reception of wireless RF signals. The I/O port may be for example a universal serial bus (USB) type port or any other type of port enabling the portable electronic communication device 100 to be connected to one or more external devices
The portable electronic device 100 also includes audio circuitry 105 provided with a speaker 106 and a microphone 107 for providing telephony communication functions; a clock 108; a digital camera 115 provided with an image sensor 114 for capturing still and/or video images and a global positioning system (GPS) 113 for determining location of the device. At least one memory 111 is provided for storing software code of applications executable on the portable electronic communication device 100 and data for use by the portable electronic communication device 100. By way of example the memory 111 may include one or more memory circuits including non-volatile memory circuits (EEPROM, FLASH etc.), Read only Memory (ROM), Random Access memory (RAM), hard disk drive or the like.
Contact processor 152 is operatively coupled to the touch screen 150 to detect user contact with the touch screen 150 and perform a function related to user contact with the touch screen 150 such as detecting if contact has occurred, where contact has occurred, if contact has occurred and been removed, if there has been movement of the contact across the screen etc in order to determine user contact gestures as mentioned above such as user digit contact, removal of user digit contact, an opening or closing pinch gesture, a swipe gesture, a slide gesture, a tap gesture, a tap and hold gesture, a drag gesture etc.
The wireless communication device may include further application modules or instructions stored as program code in memory 111 for providing a variety of functions. Such modules may include an operating system, a graphics module for rendering and displaying graphics on the touch screen 150, a text input module for providing soft key boards on the touch screen150 for entering text, an email client module, an instant messaging (IM) module for transmitting instant messages such as telephony based messages including Short Message Service (SMS) messages, or Multi Media Service messages (MMS) or internet based instant messages; a music and/or video player module, an internet browser module, widget modules and other such modules for providing functions of a multi-function portable electronic device. The portable electronic communication device 100 is provided, in use, with a Subscriber Identity Module SIM card (not shown) for identification. The applications of the portable electronic communication device 100 are executed by processor 109.
While in the non-limiting example illustrated in
A method of validating a user command for controlling an application executing on the portable electronic communication device 100 will now be described with reference to
With reference to
In this particular embodiment of the invention, the second graphical interface object 120 is provided in the form of a cloud assembly made up of two parts (clouds) 120_1 and 120_2 separable from one another by a user contact gesture on the touch screen 150 enabling the first graphical object 121 to pass between the two separate parts 120_1 and 120_2 to move along its path from the first region of the screen 161 to the second region of the screen 162. As illustrated in
Although the present invention has been described hereinabove with reference to specific embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments, and modifications will be apparent to a skilled person in the art which lie within the scope of the present invention.
For instance, while the foregoing examples have been explained with respect to an application for topping up credit to operate the portable electronic communication device for communication purposes it will be appreciated that the method may be applied to other executable applications, such as for example sending an email. In such an example the first graphical object may represent an envelope and the second graphical interface object may be positioned to obstruct movement of the envelope towards a recipient until the second graphical object is moved to enable the envelope to move along a predetermined path representative of a path towards the recipient of the email. Other applications may be envisaged, in particular applications which execute solely on the electronic portable communication device 100 and which do not require communication with a remote server or other device.
Moreover, while the previous embodiments have been described with respect to user digit contact manipulation of a touch screen type display, it will be appreciated that in further embodiments of the invention the graphical objects may be controlled with a stylus type device on a touch sensitive screen or by a user control device of the portable electronic device separate to the screen itself such as a joystick type control, a control wheel, track ball etc.
The method and devices according to embodiments of the invention help facilitate user interaction and to enhance user experience for execution of user commands. Moreover, a more secure form of validation may be implemented.
Many further modifications and variations will suggest themselves to those versed in the art upon making reference to the foregoing illustrative embodiments, which are given by way of example only and which are not intended to limit the scope of the invention, that being determined solely by the appended claims. In particular the different features from different embodiments may be interchanged, where appropriate.
In the claims, the word "comprising" does not exclude other elements or steps, and the indefinite article "a" or "an" does not exclude a plurality. The mere fact that different features are recited in mutually different dependent claims does not indicate that a combination of these features cannot be advantageously used. Any reference signs in the claims should not be construed as limiting the scope of the invention.
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