Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120102400 | Touch Gesture Notification Dismissal Techniques - In an exemplary embodiment, touch input received by a computing device can be used to dismiss notifications. For example, a notification, e.g., a window including information about an event, can be displayed by a touch-screen. A user can touch touch-screen and dismiss the notification by performing a gesture. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the detailed description, claims, and figures. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102437 | Notification Group Touch Gesture Dismissal Techniques - In exemplary embodiments, multiple notifications can be displayed by a touch-screen of a computing device and dismissed as a group. For example, touch input sensed by the touch-screen can be used to select multiple notifications. The multiple notifications can then be dismissed using a dismissal gesture. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the detailed description, claims, and figures. | 04-26-2012 |
20130179838 | MAINTANENCE OF TERMINATED APPLICATIONS WITHIN THE BACKSTACK - The claimed subject matter provides for systems and/or methods for affecting the maintenance of applications, and re-launching of applications, on a backstack in a computing environment in which the applications have been killed and/or terminated. The backstack comprises a list of application that have been recently used or otherwise invoked by the computing environment or the user via the computing environment. In one embodiment, the computing environment comprises a graphical user interface (GUI) in which the user may engage in deliberate gestures to interact with applications, including the re-launching of killed or otherwise terminated applications. Upon a user command intending such relaunching, the computing environment may present to the user a temporary UI screen associated with the killed application and present a more fully functioning screen upon a commit signal to execute the killed application. | 07-11-2013 |
20140310642 | DEFERRED PLACEMENT PROMPT - A deferred placement prompt is provided in a user interface when an application window is launched. Responsive to the presentation of the deferred placement prompt, the user can provide a directional placement instruction (e.g., a “drag” of the prompt, a selection of a screen region, a keyboard input) to indicate the user's preference for placement of the launched window. The user interface can give cooperative feedback to the user during the deferred placement prompt operation, such as highlighting an application window to be replaced, responsive to a directional placement instruction, animating the deferred placement prompt, etc. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310646 | Application Window Divider Control for Window Layout Management - An application window divider control is shared by a first application window and a second application window in a user interface. Based on a received directional instruction that moves the application window divider control along an axis of the user interface, placement of the first application window and the second application window may be positioned across a range of consistently spaced points along an axis of the user interface. Placement adjustment can also impact other application windows in the user interface. The application window divider control may also snap to provide “magnetic” points along the axis when certain conditions are satisfied. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310728 | APPLICATION-TO-APPLICATION LAUNCH WINDOWING - A window management system manages the placement of a window of a target application within a user interface. A source application launches the target application. The window management system arbitrates placement of a window of a target application within the user interface based on a target application placement preference parameter and a source application placement preference parameter. The window management system displays the window of the target application within the user interface according to the arbitrated placement. The window management system can also display a window of the source application within the user interface according to the arbitrated placement. | 10-16-2014 |
20140325430 | CONTENT-BASED DIRECTIONAL PLACEMENT APPLICATION LAUNCH - A user can select content on an interface screen and provide an associated directional placement instruction to launch a new application window that displays the selected content or information associated with the selected content. The directional placement instruction may indicate an area of the screen where the user prefers to display the new application window. Responsive to the initiation of the directional placement instruction, a conversion module converts the selected content into a placeable representation of the new application. Responsive to receipt of the directional placement instruction, a window management system presents the new application window in the user interface in a location based on the directional placement instruction. | 10-30-2014 |
20160070423 | COMBINED SWITCHING AND WINDOW PLACEMENT - Systems, methods, computer storage media, and graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are provided for combined switching and placement of windows based on a single action. The single action may be moving an element to a hot spot or a snap portion of a display area. In response to the single action, an element is automatically launched, repositioned according to a snap portion or a hot spot that recognized the element, and opened, and a view is automatically switched to a view of at least the element. | 03-10-2016 |