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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Mark K. Hauenstein, San Francisco, CA (US);
Raymond S. Sepulveda, Portland, OR (US);
Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Oakland, CA (US);
Julian K. Missig, Burlingame, CA (US);
Jeffrey T. Bernstein, San Francisco, CA (US);
Patrick L. Coffman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Stephen O. Lemay, Palo Alto, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
System and method of moving selected content is disclosed. In response to detecting a first portion of an input that activates a move operation for selected first content, a copy of at least a portion of the first content is displayed in a container object, and the container object is moved from a first placement location to a second placement location relative to a characteristic location of the contact(s) on the touch-screen display. After the movement from the first placement location to the second placement location relative to the characteristic location of the one or more contacts, the container object moves in accordance with movement of the one or more contacts while the container object is maintained at the second placement location relative to the characteristic location of the one or more contacts as the one or more contacts move across the touch-screen display.