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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020

Filed:

May. 11, 2016
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Ragava Mysore Veera, Bangalore, IN;

Karthikeyan Subramani, Bangalore, IN;

Barath Raj Kandur Raja, Bangalore, IN;

Venkata Sreenath Yalamarthi, Bangalore, IN;

Kamal Krishna, Bangalore, IN;

Indira Preethi Jain Gargatti Ajith, Bangalore, IN;

Sharath Venkataram Bangalore Shiva Kumar, Bangalore, IN;

Sujay Srinivasa Murthy, Bangalore, IN;

Anup Kumar Kandhari, Bellary, IN;

Abhishek Kumar Bansal, Bathinda, IN;

Dhruv Modi, Bangalore, IN;

Shwetank Choudhary, Ashoknagar, IN;

Sharmila Mani, Bangalore, IN;

Ravi Krishnan, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 9/451 (2018.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 9/445 (2013.01); G06F 9/44505 (2013.01); G06F 9/44526 (2013.01); G06F 9/453 (2018.02); G06F 3/048 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus for managing applications by an electronic device are provided. The method and apparatus include identifying, by a processor, a secondary application based on an application executed on the electronic device or content included in the application, displaying a representation corresponding to the secondary application on the electronic device, selecting the representation based on an input, and invoking the secondary application corresponding to the selected representation on the electronic device.


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