Samsung patents screen layout that groups app tasks by usage context
Samsung describes a system for electronic devices that groups multiple app functions into visual objects based on how often a user performs them in specific situations. When a user taps one of these grouped tasks, the device opens the relevant screen while keeping the other grouped tasks visible on the display.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device may include memory, a touch screen display and at least one processor, wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to: display, through the touch screen display, a plurality of functions executed by at least one application; obtain, through the touch screen display, a first input with respect to any one function among the plurality of functions; and display, on the touch screen display, a first execution screen related to the any one function on the basis of the first input.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device, comprising: memory, a touch screen display, and at least one processor, comprising processing circuitry, wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed by at least one processor individually and/or collectively, cause the electronic device to: display, via the touch screen display, a plurality of tasks executable by at least one application, wherein the plurality of tasks are displayed as a visual object indicating a task executed in relation to a context of use at least once according to the context of use of a user for the electronic device, obtain, via the touch screen display, a first input for one task among the plurality of tasks, and based on the first input, display, via the touch screen display, a first execution screen related to the one task, wherein at least one task other than the one task among the plurality of tasks is displayed as a specified first visual object via the touch screen display while the first execution screen related to the one task is displayed.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR GROUPING AND PROVIDING PLURALITY OF FUNCTIONS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR
- Publication number
- US20260310344A1
- Application number
- 19462267
- Filed
- Jan 28, 2026
- Published
- Oct 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 3/0488 Physics & computingG06F 3/0482 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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