Using gestures to deliver content to predefined destinations
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorAndrew Russell Turner
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Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments for using gestures to deliver content to predefined destinations. After a user designates a content item, a flick gesture is detected, where the flick gesture has a point of origin and crosses a trip line surrounding the point of origin. A destination associated with the flick gesture is identified from a plurality of predefined destinations. Each predefined destination is associated with a region in a predefined plurality of display regions. The content item is delivered to the determined destination.
Claims20
A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying computer-readable program instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device, direct the at least one computing device to at least:
- detect a selection of content via a touchscreen;
- detect a first flick gesture via the touchscreen, the first flick gesture comprising flicking towards a first edge of the touchscreen;
- determine a clipboard from among a plurality of clipboard destinations based on the first flick gesture;
- add the content to the clipboard in response to the first flick gesture;
- detect a second flick gesture via the touchscreen, the second flick gesture comprising flicking from the first edge of the touchscreen towards a user interface display associated with an application, wherein the application is separate from the clipboard;
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- deliver the content from the clipboard to the application in response to the second flick gesture.
A method, comprising:
- detecting, by at least one computing device, a first selection of first content via a touchscreen;
- detecting, by the at least one computing device, a first flick gesture via the touchscreen, the first flick gesture comprising flicking towards a first edge of the touchscreen;
- determining, by the at least one computing device, a first clipboard from among a plurality of clipboard destinations and adding the content to the first clipboard based on the first flick gesture;
- detecting, by the at least one computing device, a second selection of second content via the touchscreen;
- detecting, by the at least one computing device, a second flick gesture via the touchscreen, the second flick gesture comprising flicking from the first edge of the touchscreen towards a user interface display associated with an application, wherein the application is separate from the first clipboard;
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- determining, by the at least one computing device, a second clipboard from among the plurality of clipboard destinations and adding the second content to the second clipboard based on the second flick gesture.
A system, comprising:
- at least one computing device comprising a processor, a memory, and a touchscreen;
- machine-readable instructions stored in the memory that, when executed by the processor, cause the at least one computing device to at least:
- detect a selection of first content and a first flick gesture via the touchscreen, the first flick gesture comprising flicking towards a first edge of the touchscreen;
- determine a clipboard from among a plurality of clipboard destinations based on the first flick gesture;
- add the first content to the clipboard in response to the first flick gesture;
- detect a selection of second content and a second flick gesture via the touchscreen, the second flick gesture comprising flicking from the first edge of the touchscreen towards a user interface display associated with an application, wherein the application is separate from the clipboard;
- determine the clipboard from among the plurality of clipboard destinations based on the second flick gesture;
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- add the second content to the clipboard in response to the second flick gesture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.