Patent ID: 9032292
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for displaying maximized applications simultaneously on a touch screen of an electronic device, comprising: selecting a combined group representation representative of two or more applications, the combined group representation comprising two or more application representations that are grouped and displayed on a viewable area of the touch screen, the two or more application representations corresponding to two or more applications and the combined group representation created from a home screen displayed on the viewable area of the touch screen of the electronic device by a user in interaction with the touch screen; in response to selection of the combined group representation, entering a split screen mode and in the split screen mode running and simultaneously displaying in the viewable area of the touch screen the two or more running applications; and ungrouping the combined group representation representative of two or more applications into the two or more application representations and displaying in the viewable area of the touch screen the two or more application representations in response to separation of the grouped two or more application representations on the touch screen so that they are no longer grouped, wherein when the combined group representation is representative of four or more applications ungrouping any two of the four or more applications of the combined group representation ungroups each and every one of the four or more applications of the combined group representation into separate applications.