Patent ID: 8896552
Filing Date: 2014-11-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for selecting text, the method comprising: identifying, by a computing device, that user contact with a touchscreen display of the computing device includes a single finger that initiated contact with the touchscreen display in a middle of a first word that is displayed by the touchscreen display; determining, by the computing device, that the single finger moved across the touchscreen display from the middle of the first word to a second word that is displayed by the touchscreen display, without the single finger having released from contact with the touchscreen display, wherein the touchscreen display presents one or more words between the first word and the second word; responsive to the computing device identifying that the user contact with the touchscreen display includes the single finger, in distinction to multiple fingers, and while the user contact is in contact with the second word without the single finger having released from contact with the touchscreen display since contacting the middle of the first word, displaying at the touchscreen display an indication that text between the first word and the second word is selected as individual characters so that the first word is indicated as partially selected in distinction to the first word being indicated as fully selected; and responsive to the computing device determining that the user contact with the touchscreen display has switched from including the single finger to including multiple fingers due to an addition of another finger contacting the touchscreen display, and while the user contact is in contact with the second word without the single finger having released from contact with the touchscreen display since contacting the touchscreen display in the middle of the first word, switching from (i) displaying the indication that text between the first word and the second word is selected as individual characters so that the first word is indicated as partially selected in distinction to the first word being indicated as fully selected to (ii) displaying at the touchscreen display an indication that text between the first word and the second word is selected as whole words so that an entirety of the first word is indicated as selected.