Patent ID: 9696871
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. An method of moving an icon in a portable terminal, comprising: displaying a plurality of pages on an interface of the portable terminal in a thumbnail form, each of the plurality of pages comprising one or more icons; detecting a selection input from a user to select a start page including one or more icons to be moved to a target page among the displayed plurality of pages; detecting a movement of the selected start page toward the target page in response to the selection input; determining an overlapping ratio or a duration of an overlapping state, between the start page and the target page; comparing a number of vacant spots the target page with a number of all of icons within the start page when the overlapping ratio of the start page and the target page is less than a predetermined value or the duration of the overlapping state of the start page and the target page reaches a predetermined time; adding all of the icons within the start page to the vacant spots within the target page when the number of the vacant spots within the target page is more than or equal to the number of all of the icons within the start page; displaying a pop up window, when the number of the vacant spots within the target page is less than the number of all of the icons from the start page, wherein the pop up window displays at least a portion of all of the icons from the start page and a notification information comprising the number of the vacant spots of the target page; detecting an input from the user to re-select one or more icons according to the number of the vacant spots to be moved to the target page through the pop up window; and in response to detecting the input for re-selecting the one or more icons, adding the re-selected one or more icons to the vacant spots of the target page.