US 12,236,082 B2
Electronic device including touch sensitive display and method for managing the display
Daesik Hwang, Daegu (KR); Hyesoon Jeong, Chilgok-gun (KR); Jihun Kim, Seoul (KR); Jaegyun Son, Yeongcheon-si (KR); Dongjeon Kim, Anyang-si (KR); and Jinwan An, Daegu (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Aug. 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/456,255.
Application 18/456,255 is a continuation of application No. 17/895,506, filed on Aug. 25, 2022, granted, now 11,762,550.
Application 17/895,506 is a continuation of application No. 16/915,081, filed on Jun. 29, 2020, granted, now 11,449,220, issued on Sep. 20, 2022.
Application 16/915,081 is a continuation of application No. 14/832,483, filed on Aug. 21, 2015, granted, now 10,739,987, issued on Aug. 11, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2014-0113373 (KR), filed on Aug. 28, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2023/0400979 A1, Dec. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/04883 (2022.01); G06F 3/04817 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/04883 (2013.01) [G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04803 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a touch sensitive display;
memory storing one or more computer programs; and
one or more processors communicatively coupled to the touch sensitive display and the memory,
wherein the memory storing one or more computer programs include computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to:
display, on the touch sensitive display, a first application execution screen of a first application as a whole screen and a second application execution screen of a second application as a popup window superposed on at least a portion of the whole screen,
shift the popup window on the touch sensitive display according to a touch and drag input,
based on the popup window being shifted to a predetermined region, display a guide notifying a position of an area where the popup window is to be changed into a split window, and
based on a predetermined condition being satisfied after the popup window is shifted to the predetermined region and the guide is displayed, change the popup window into a first split window of at least two split windows including the first split window and a second split window, the first split window being disposed at the position of the area where the popup window is to be changed into the split window and display the first application execution screen of the first application on the second split window.