Modifying A Selection Based on Tapping

摘要

A mobile device enables refined adjustments of selections shown on its display by detecting and responding to a user's tapping actions relative to the sides of the mobile device. In response such tapping, the mobile device can finely alter the scope of the selection in an expected direction. For example, if the user has selected text having leftmost and right-most selection boundaries, then the mobile device can respond to the user's touching of one of those boundaries by making that boundary the currently “active” boundary, and then respond to the user's tapping on a side of the mobile device by moving the currently active boundary one text character away from the tapped side, thereby causing different text characters to be contained within the selected text. Using this technique, the mobile device's user can more easily refine the scope of the selected items to include slightly more or slightly fewer items.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving tap input that is associated with a physical force applied to at least one side of a mobile device; determining a magnitude and a direction of the tap input; and modifying a scope of currently selected data based on the magnitude and direction of the tap input.