Patent ID: 9158442
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An interface method for generating and configuring a menu on a screen of an electronic device, the method comprising: when a contact between an object and the screen in a touch mode is continued for at least a predetermined time period, detecting a menu configuration mode conversion command to change a configuration of at least one of a plurality of service pages displayed in an area of the screen of the electronic device, wherein at least a portion of each of a plurality of menu objects is attached to a respective one of the plurality of service pages and when a particular menu object is touched for a preset-time period, a sub-menu list having each sub-menu related to a specific service page is displayed; displaying, on the screen, adjacent to the area, a plurality of menu generating objects in response to the detected menu configuration mode conversion command; receiving a menu generating object selection command; selecting one of the plurality of menu generating objects as instructed by the menu generating generation-object selection command; receiving a menu generating object motion command to move the selected menu generating object; moving the selected menu generating object onto one of the plurality of service pages in the area in response to the received menu generating object motion command; enlarging an area of at least the one service page on which the moved menu generating object is located; receiving a menu generating object drop command; and attaching the moved menu generating object to a particular one of the plurality of service pages if instructed to do so by the menu generating object drop command.