Patent ID: 9390688
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: G06F,G09G,H04M

Claim Text:
1. Apparatus, comprising: at least one processor; and memory including computer program instructions configured to, working with the at least one processor, control the apparatus at least to: access at least one standby screen layout file which defines a plurality of elements, each element relating to an individually resizable graphical item displayed in a standby screen, wherein each element has a plurality of attributes relating to at least the position and size at which a related graphical item is displayed in a standby screen which is shown when a used application exits until another application or the same application is started; cause display of the standby screen, which comprises the plurality of related graphical items having the sizes and positions defined by their related elements in the at least one standby screen layout file; respond to at least a first user input by causing the electronic device to enter a standby screen customization mode in which a plurality of zones representing said graphical items are displayed in a representation of said standby screen, wherein each graphical item of the standby screen is provided in a zone displayed in said representation of the standby screen, wherein a standby screen customization mode enables each zone to be individually selected for resizing in said representation of the standby screen, and resizing a zone in said representation of said standby screen changes at least the size attribute of the element related to the graphical item represented by said zone defined in the at least one standby screen layout file; respond to at least a second user input, provided subsequent to the at least a first user input and provided while the electronic device is in the standby screen customization mode, which modifies the size of an individual zone in said representation of said standby screen by amending and automatically updating at least the size attributes of the element related to the graphical item represented by said zone in said at least one standby screen layout file; cause display, in response to modifying the size of a said zone, of a representation of said standby screen including the zone with said modified size when said electronic device remains in said standby screen customization mode; cause the at least one standby screen layout file having the amended and automatically updated size attributes to be saved; and cause display of the graphical item related to the element represented by said zone with the modified size when said electronic device exits said standby screen customization mode, and returns to displaying the standby screen.