Patent ID: 8769431
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. In a large form-factor mobile electronic device having a touchscreen for receiving user thumb input actions via an operating system desktop to facilitate user-software interactions, a method of enabling single-handed user-software interactions, comprising the steps of: generating a designated dynamic area on the touchscreen for defining a single-handed utilization zone; positioning said single-handed utilization zone in real time at a currently detected thumb location on the touchscreen; rendering a proxy desktop within said zone at a native resolution of the touchscreen, said proxy desktop providing at least some of the same functionality of the operating system desktop of the large form-factor mobile electronic device; wherein said currently detected thumb location is tracked in real time on the touchscreen and updated to provide another currently detected thumb location each time the thumb of a user is relocated on the touchscreen to automatically position said single-handed utilization zone at about said another currently detected thumb location with context-aware intelligence; wherein said proxy desktop is populated with a plurality of actionable icons arranged within said zone to facilitate easy thumb access; wherein the actionable icons are further arranged in a horizontal pitch and a vertical pitch determined based on a usage profile and the single-handed utilization zone size; and wherein said usage profile is a thumb profile based on one or more thumb size demographics including at least a thumb length, a thumb thickness and a thumb range of motion.