{
  "patent_number": "US 11449194",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How Smartphones Let You Rearrange and Organize Your Home Screen Icons",
  "original_title": "Portable electronic device with interface reconfiguration mode",
  "summary": "Apple's patent describes the specific software logic used to let users drag, drop, and rearrange app icons on a touchscreen by entering a special 'jiggle' mode.",
  "what_it_does": "The patent defines a system where a device switches from a normal operating mode to a 'reconfiguration mode' after detecting a specific user gesture, such as a long press. Once in this mode, the device allows the user to drag icons to new positions on the screen. The system also includes logic to automatically shift other icons out of the way when a new icon is dragged into their space. Additionally, it specifies that icons can visually oscillate or 'jiggle' while in this mode to indicate that they are ready to be moved or deleted.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover methods of rearranging icons that do not involve a touch-sensitive display.",
    "Does not cover automatic icon sorting algorithms that organize apps by category without user input.",
    "Does not cover voice-command-based icon reorganization.",
    "Does not cover icon movement that occurs without entering a specific reconfiguration mode."
  ],
  "filed": "2020-12-22",
  "granted": "2022-09-20",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Apple Inc",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/apple-inc",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Freddy Allen Anzures",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/freddy-allen-anzures"
    },
    {
      "name": "Scott Forstall",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/scott-forstall"
    },
    {
      "name": "Imran Chaudhri",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/imran-chaudhri"
    },
    {
      "name": "Marcel van Os",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/marcel-van-os"
    },
    {
      "name": "Greg Christie",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/greg-christie"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 0,
  "tags": [
    "consumer_electronics",
    "software"
  ],
  "abstract": "A portable electronic device displays a plurality of icons (e.g., graphical objects) in a region in a touch-sensitive display; detects a predefined user action, with respect to the touch-sensitive display, for initiating a predefined user interface reconfiguration process; and varies positions of one or more icons in the plurality of icons in response to detecting the predefined user action. The varying includes varying the positions of the one or more icons about respective average positions.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/11449194/spatial-audio-with-dynamic-head-tracking",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/11449194/spatial-audio-with-dynamic-head-tracking/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US11449194",
  "relatedPatents": []
}