Patent ID: 9317196
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: in a first zoom scale, selecting text on a page using a first touch gesture on a touch screen; detecting a second touch gesture on the touch screen displaying at least a page of content in the first zoom scale, wherein the second touch gesture is a single-finger single touch, the single-finger single touch being on the selected text displayed in the page of content in the first zoom scale; at least in response to the detecting the single-finger single touch, performing a page zoom that produces at least displayed zoomed content in a second zoom scale; without detecting removal of the single-finger single touch from the touch screen, detecting a dragging movement of the single-finger single touch on the displayed zoomed content in the second zoom scale; at least in response to the detecting the dragging movement of the single-finger single touch, detecting if the single-finger single touch is near to a predetermined boundary of the displayed zoomed content in the second zoom scale; in response to the detecting that the single-finger single touch is near to the predetermined boundary of the displayed zoomed content in the second zoom scale, scrolling to display at least some additional text in the displayed zoomed content in the second zoom scale; based at least on the detecting the dragging movement on the displayed zoomed content in the second zoom scale, selecting the additional text in the displayed zoomed content as an addition to the selected text; detecting a removal of the single-finger single touch; and at least in response to the detecting the removal, zooming out on the page of content to the first zoom scale; wherein the performing the page zoom comprises: so that through a single-finger single touch, a page zoom and selection of multiple characters of text is performed while continuous contact with the touch screen is detected.