US 10,649,626 B2Granted

Gesture-based workflow progression

AssigneeBoxer, Inc.

InventorsAndrew Eye, Adam Cianfichi

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Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for displaying, by the one or more processors, at least one graphical representation associated with an electronic document on a touchscreen display; and receiving, by the one or more processors, user input to the at least one graphical representation, the user input indicating a touchscreen gesture to the touchscreen display, and in response: determining a type of the touchscreen gesture; determining a degree of the touchscreen gesture; identifying one or more actions based on the type and the degree, each action of the one or more actions being executable to progress through a workflow; and displaying one or more action elements on the touchscreen display, each action element representing an action of the one or more actions.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for taking at least one action on an item in a user interface comprising:

rendering, by a computing device, a representation of an email message associated with a mailbox in the user interface;
detecting, by the computing device, user input on the representation of the email message;
determining, by the computing device, that the user input corresponds to a particular gesture in a first direction;
rendering, by the computing device, a graphical depiction of a first action when a length of the particular gesture is less than a threshold percentage of a dimension of a touchscreen display in which the user interface is displayed and the user input occurs in the first direction, wherein the first action is taken with respect to the email message in response to the user input being released from the representation of the email message when the length of the particular gesture is less than the threshold percentage;
rendering, by the computing device, a graphical depiction that the first action has been completed with respect to the email message in response to the user input being released from the representation of the email message when the length of the particular gesture is less than the threshold percentage;
rendering, by the computing device, a graphical depiction of a second action when the length of the particular gesture is greater than or equal to the threshold and the user input occurs in the first direction;
fading, by the computing device, the graphical depiction of the first action when the length of the particular gesture is greater than or equal to the threshold percentage and the user input occurs in the first direction, wherein the second action is taken with respect to the email message in response to the user input being released from the representation of the email message when the length of the particular gesture is greater than or equal to the threshold percentage;
and
rendering, by the computing device, a graphical depiction that the second action has been completed with respect to the email message in response to the user input being released from the representation of the email message when the length of the particular gesture is greater than or equal to the threshold percentage.

6 more elements

A system for taking at least one action on an item in a user interface comprising:

a mobile computing device;
and
an application executed by the mobile computing device, the application configured to cause the mobile computing device to at least:
render a representation of an email message associated with a mailbox in the user interface;
detect user input on the representation of the email message;
determine that the user input corresponds to a particular gesture in a first direction;
render a graphical depiction of a first action when a length of the particular gesture is less than a threshold percentage of a dimension of a touchscreen display in which the user interface is displayed and the user input occurs in the first direction, wherein the first action is taken with respect to the email message in response to the user input being released from the representation of the email message when the length of the particular gesture is less than the threshold percentage;
render a graphical depiction that the first action has been completed with respect to the email message in response to the user input being released from the representation of the email message when the length of the particular gesture is less than the threshold percentage;
render a graphical depiction of a second action when the length of the particular gesture is greater than or equal to the threshold and the user input occurs in the first direction;
fade the graphical depiction of the first action when the length of the particular gesture is greater than or equal to the threshold and the user input occurs in the first direction, wherein the second action is taken with respect to the email message in response to the user input being released from the representation of the email message when the length of the particular gesture is greater than or equal to the threshold percentage;
and
render a graphical depiction that the second action has been completed with respect to the email message in response to the user input being released from the representation of the email message when the length of the particular gesture is greater than or equal to the threshold percentage.

9 more elements

A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying instructions for taking at least one action on an item in a user interface that, when executed by a mobile computing device, cause the mobile computing device to at least:

render a representation of an email message associated with a mailbox in the user interface;
detect user input on the representation of the email message;
determine that the user input corresponds to a particular gesture in a first direction;
render a graphical depiction of a first action when a length of the particular gesture is less than a threshold percentage of a dimension of a touchscreen display in which the user interface is displayed and the user input occurs in the first direction, wherein the first action is taken with respect to the email message in response to the user input being released from the representation of the email message when the length of the particular gesture is less than the threshold;
render a graphical depiction that the first action has been completed with respect to the email message in response to the user input being released from the representation of the email message when the length of the particular gesture is less than the threshold percentage;
render a graphical depiction of a second action when a length of the particular gesture is greater than or equal to a threshold and the user input occurs in the first direction;
and
fade the graphical depiction of the first action when the length of the particular gesture is greater than or equal to the threshold and the user input occurs in the first direction, wherein the second action is taken with respect to the email message in response to the user input being released from the representation of the email message when the length of the particular gesture is greater than or equal to the threshold;
and
render a graphical depiction that the second action has been completed with respect to the email message in response to the user input being released from the representation of the email message when the length of the particular gesture is greater than or equal to the threshold percentage.

7 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/597,716Filed 17 May 2017 · continuation
Priority: 14 Mar 2013
Published: US 2017/0249065 A131 Aug 2017
Granted: 12 May 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06F 3/0482
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…
G06F 3/04883
Using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures: for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
G06F 3/0488
Using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of…:…
G06F 3/04886
Using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures: by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the…

Family

Application61/781,688Us provisional application · filed 14 Mar 2013
Application14/199,630Parent of this continuation · filed 6 Mar 2014
US 2017/0249065 A1Pre-grant publication · published 31 Aug 2017
US 10,025,459 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2014/0282243 A1Published application
US 10,649,626 B2This patent

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