Unlock Screen
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsStephanie E. Teng, Jinsheng Shi, Albert Shen, Ryan M. Haning, Paula Guntaur, Michael J. Kruzeniski
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Abstract
Unlock screen and notification techniques are described. In an implementation, an unlock screen is displayed by a mobile communications device that indicates that one or more keys of the mobile communications device are locked. If an input is detected at the mobile communications device to remove the lock, an animation is displayed that gives an appearance that the unlock screen is a page that is being turned and removing the lock of the one or more keys.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- displaying an unlock screen by a mobile communications device that indicates that one or more keys of the mobile communications device are locked;
- and
- if an input at the mobile communications device is detected to remove the lock, displaying an animation that gives an appearance that the unlock screen is a page that is being turned and removing the lock of the one or more keys.
A mobile communications device comprising a display device and one or more modules to display a clock on the display device in response to a waking of the display device and minimize the display of the clock after a specified amount of time has passed since the waking of the display device.
One or more tangible computer-readable media comprising instructions that are executable by a mobile communications device to display an animation that gives an appearance that an unlock screen is a page being turned that follows a gesture input via a touch screen of the mobile communications device to remove a lock of the mobile communications device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.