Method and system for organizing and interacting with messages on devices
AssigneeDeborah A. Lambert
InventorsErik N. Lukas, Gregory O. Peet
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Abstract
A method performed by a mobile device includes causing display of graphical tiles on a display of the mobile device and detecting a gesture while displaying the graphical tiles. The gesture includes an indication to move a particular graphical tile among the graphical tiles. In response to the gesture, the mobile device can automatically move another graphical tile to accommodate the new location of the particular graphical tile and cause display of the graphical tiles arranged in a new order that includes the particular graphical tile in the new location.
Claims20
A computer-readable storage medium, excluding transitory signals and carrying instructions, which, when executed by at least one data processor of a virtual reality system, cause the virtual reality system to:
- cause display of a virtual reality interface including multiple graphical tiles in a particular chronological order,
- wherein each graphical tile represents an electronic message, and
- wherein one or more graphical tiles are selectively movable among the multiple graphical tiles based on a user's motion;
- detect a motion-based gesture of the user relative to the virtual reality interface while displaying the multiple graphical tiles on the virtual reality interface, correlate the motion-based gesture of the user to the display of the virtual reality interface to move a particular graphical tile to a new location among the multiple graphical tiles;
- and in response to the motion-based gesture:
- virtually displace another graphical tile of the multiple graphical tiles to
- accommodate the new location of the particular graphical tile;
- and cause display, on the
- virtual reality interface, of the multiple graphical tiles
- arranged in a new order different from the particular order,
- wherein the new order includes the particular graphical tile in the new location among the multiple graphical tiles.
A virtual reality system comprising:
- a display device;
- a data processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the data processor, cause the virtual reality system to:
- cause display, on the display device, a virtual reality interface including a first group of graphical tiles presented in chronological time order,
- wherein each group is one of multiple groups that are each constrained by a time period, and
- wherein the virtual reality system is configured to cause display, on the display device, the virtual reality interface including the multiple groups one group at a time;
- detect a motion-based gesture relative to the virtual reality interface while displaying the first group of graphical tiles on the virtual reality interface,
- wherein the motion-based gesture includes an indication to switch display of the first group of graphical tiles to a second group of graphical tiles;
- and
- in response to the gesture, cause the virtual reality interface to switch from the first group to the second group of graphical tiles.
A method performed by a virtual reality system, the method comprising:
- causing display of multiple graphical tiles presented in a particular order on a virtual reality interface of a virtual reality system,
- wherein a graphical tile is selectively movable among the multiple graphical tiles;
- detecting a motion-based gesture relative to the virtual reality interface while displaying the multiple graphical tiles,
- wherein the motion-based gesture includes an indication to move a particular graphical tile among the multiple graphical tiles;
- and
- in response to the motion-based gesture:
- automatically moving another graphical tile of the multiple graphical tiles to accommodate a new location of the particular graphical tile;
- and
- causing display, on the display device, of the multiple graphical tiles arranged in a new order different from the particular order,
- wherein the new order includes the particular graphical tile in the new location among the multiple graphical tiles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.