System and method for application management on device having a touch screen display

Abstract

The invention provides a method and system to launch and manage an application which operates on a touch screen or touch panel device, replacing traditionally used HIDs such as a mouse, mouse stick, trackball or touch pad. Variants of the system comprise a viewable screen area splitting module for indicating which target areas of the viewable screen will be used for launch and display of a new application, by an application launch module deciding which applications to launch and display in the previously selected target areas and by an application management module defining in which display mode and state of an already running application will be displayed or otherwise closed. A list of icons displays within the new target area designated for launch of the application. Selection of an icon within the target area, informs the system which application to display in the target area.

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[0001] Associated Priority Statement: [0002] The claimed priority of this application originates from the prior application of US Application No. 61 / 499,122 filed on June 20, 2011, and the present application includes the overall technical solution in the prior application. Technical field: [0003] The present invention relates to the technical field of information technology (IT), in particular to a system and method for starting and managing an application program for operating a computer system, the main input device of the computer system is a touch panel (such as a touch screen), And includes a graphical user interface (Graphical User Interface, G user interface) for starting, managing and using application programs, and operating the computer system. Background technique: [0004] For those skilled in the art involved in the present invention, it is obvious that different suppliers will provide different operating systems, and in a traditional operating system, a...

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2. The traditional method of starting and windowing management of the application program in the computer system with user interface and HID such as mouse, pointing stick, trackball or 4 touch pads as the input device, due to using people's fingers as the input device Due to natural defects, it cannot be applied to new types of touch panel devices, such as smart phones and tablet computers; the above methods are difficult to be applied to the above fields, and are inefficient and impractical

3. The methods usually used in the prior art to start and manage applications in new touch panel devices such as Figure 2, it has obvious defects, especially because different applications cannot really run in parallel, and because the process of information exchange between each other is relatively cumbersome So that multiple applications cannot be managed by the user in a sequential manner at the same time

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