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Apple patents list management that moves items between categories

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Patent drawing from the official filing.

Apple has been granted a patent for a computer system that displays lists of items sorted into different categories. The system allows users to add new items to a list and move them from one category to another using specific input controls.

Why it mattersThis filing describes a standard user interface feature for organizing digital data, which likely improves how users manage tasks or files on Apple devices.

In the filing’s own words

The present disclosure generally relates to managing a list of items.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A computer system that is in communication with a display generation component and one or more input devices, the computer system comprising: one or more processors; and memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for: displaying, via the display generation component, a list of items, wherein the list of items includes: one or more items assigned to a first category; and one or more items assigned to a second category different from the first category; while displaying, via the display generation component, the list of items, detecting, via the one or more input devices, a first set of one or more inputs corresponding to a request to add a first new item to a third category; in response to detecting the first set of one or more inputs: updating dispay of, via the display generation component, the list of items to include the first new item in the third category; and in accordance with a determination that a first set of one or more criteria is satisfied, displaying, via the display generation component, a control corresponding to the first new item; while displaying the control corresponding to the first new item, detecting, via the one or more input devices, a second set of one or more inputs corresponding to selection of the control; and in response to detecting the second set of one or more inputs, updating display of, via the display generation component, the list of items to include the first new item in a fourth category different from the third category without including the first new item in the third category.

Facts

Company
Apple (Apple Inc.)
Official title
Techniques for managing a list of items
Patent number
US12761773B2
Application number
18643146
Filed
Apr 23, 2024
Granted
Oct 13, 2026
Inventors
3
Claims
45

Classified under

G06F 3/0482 Physics & computingG06F 3/0484 Physics & computing

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