Patent ID: 9584644
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04M

Claim:
1. A method for handling an incoming call of an electronic device, the method comprising: displaying a user interface for handling the incoming call using a screen boundary of the electronic device, when receiving incoming call information while executing an application program on the electronic device; sensing a touch event on the user interface for handling the incoming call using the screen boundary; and performing an incoming call handling function based on the sensed touch event, wherein the user interface for handling the incoming call using the screen boundary is displayed to overlap the user interface of the executed application program, and includes at least one of an incoming call permission user interface, an incoming call rejection user interface, an incoming call wait user interface, and a message handling user interface, and wherein the user interface is displayed on a plurality of screen boundaries when a plurality of user interfaces are displayed.