Huawei cross-device drag-and-drop method patent announcement

Huawei has now added one more patent to its portfolio. The patent for “an object dragging method and device” applied by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. was recently published.

As per the patent details, the application relates to the field of electronic equipment, which improves the efficiency of multi-terminal collaborative use.

The first terminal receives the drag operation input by the user to initiate the drag operation on the object; in response to the drag operation, the first terminal the animation of the object moving with the drag operation is displayed on the display screen; after the first terminal determines that the user’s drag intention is to drag across devices, it sends the drag data to the second terminal, and the drag data is used by the second device.