US 11,907,516 B2
Electronic device, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for identifying set of information according to change in size of display area of flexible display
Kuenyoung Seo, Suwon-si (KR); Semin Park, Suwon-si (KR); Kyunghoon Han, Suwon-si (KR); Haemi Yoon, Suwon-si (KR); Hyungjoo Nam, Suwon-si (KR); Sumi Shim, Suwon-si (KR); Eunhye Lee, Suwon-si (KR); and Minji Cho, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Jan. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/099,403.
Application 18/099,403 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2023/000567, filed on Jan. 12, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0047227 (KR), filed on Apr. 16, 2022; and application No. 10-2022-0073124 (KR), filed on Jun. 15, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0333722 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/04845 (2022.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/04883 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/04845 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1652 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
16. A method for operating an electronic device including a housing and a flexible display capable of being slid into the housing and being slid out of the housing, the method comprising:
displaying a user interface including sets of information in a display area of the flexible display exposed out of the housing;
receiving a user input for changing size of the display area from first size to second size smaller than the first size, while displaying the user interface including the sets of the information;
identifying a set of first information among the sets of the information, based on at least one of context information of the electronic device or context information of a user of the electronic device, in response to the user input; and
after the display area is changed from the first size to the second size in response to the user input:
ceasing to display remaining sets except the set of the first information among the sets of the information to cause the remaining sets to disappear from the user interface; and
further displaying, in the user interface, a set of second information associated with the set of the first information alongside the set of the first information that is maintained in the user interface after the user input is received.