Icon Position Switching Using Marks Across Desktops

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Solution Overview

Problem

Managing multiple icons on a display interface is cumbersome and time-consuming, particularly when switching icons across desktops, as existing methods require manual dragging and are inefficient.

Innovation Solution

A method involving user inputs to mark and switch positions of objects, such as application icons, using marks to facilitate quick adjustments without manual dragging, allowing for convenient and time-saving operations across desktops.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If manual dragging method is used to adjust icon positions, then icon position adjustment can be achieved, but operation complexity increases and time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveicon position adjustment operationVSAvoidtime consumption for icon management

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the core function of icon position adjustment from the manual dragging process. By introducing a position switching mode that allows users to select multiple icons and switch their positions through simple tapping operations, the complex continuous dragging motion is replaced with discrete selection and switching steps, significantly reducing operation complexity and time consumption.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical dragging operation with a digital selection and switching mechanism. Instead of requiring users to physically drag icons to new positions, the system provides a mode where users can select multiple icons and switch their positions through tap operations, substituting the mechanical interaction model with a more efficient digital control model.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Ease of operation

If manual dragging method is used to adjust icon positions, then icon position adjustment can be achieved, but operation complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveicon position adjustment operationVSAvoidoperation complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the essential function of icon repositioning from the complex dragging operation. By providing a position switching mode that allows users to select multiple icons and switch their positions through simple tapping, the system removes the complexity of continuous drag gestures while preserving the core repositioning functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of requiring users to drag icons to their target positions (forward approach), the patent inverts the approach by allowing users to select icons and then switching their positions through tap operations. This reverse operation sequence simplifies the interaction model and reduces operation complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Data Source

PatentEP4016975B1Object position adjustment method, and electronic apparatus

Publication Date: 2025.09.03 VIVO MOBILE COMM CO LTD

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AI summary

The present disclosure provides an object position adjustment method and an electronic device. The object position adjustment method includes: receiving a first input performed by a user; marking a first object by using a first mark in response to the first input; receiving a second input performed by the user; and switching positions of the first object and a second object in response to the second input, where the second object is marked by using a second mark.