US 12,340,067 B1
Method and graphical user interface for positioning a preselection and selecting on a computing device with a touch-sensitive display
David Graham Boyers, Los Altos, CA (US)
Filed by David Graham Boyers, Los Altos, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/879,245.
Application 17/879,245 is a continuation of application No. 16/838,973, filed on Apr. 2, 2020, granted, now 11,467,712.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/828,648, filed on Apr. 3, 2019.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2022.01); G06F 3/04883 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/0482 (2013.01) [G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
at a computing device with a touch-sensitive display:
displaying a control icon;
displaying an item preselection mark at a position of an item in a list of items;
detecting a contact on the touch-sensitive display; and
in response to detecting a change in a position of the contact beginning anywhere on the control icon, changing in a number of discrete steps the position of the item preselection mark in the list of items;
detecting a gesture on the touch-sensitive display; and
in response to detecting a selection gesture on the control icon, selecting an item at a position of the item preselection mark in the list of items.