US 2012/0084690 A1 · GESTURE BASED APPLICATION MANAGEMENT

Abstract

Methods and apparatus for controlling one or more displays using an application manager. The application manager may be displayed in response to a received gesture input. The application manager may provide information regarding applications or screens executing in one or more physical displays on the device. Furthermore, the application manager may be manipulated to change various aspects regarding the applications or screens executing in the one or more displays. This manipulation may include changing the actively displayed screen for a display, movement of screens between displays, or other manipulation of the arrangement or status of the screens.

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Dependent claims

A method for controlling a handheld computing device, comprising:

logically associating one or more applications with a first display;
providing a second display with which the one or more applications may be logically associated;
establishing a first application stack corresponding to the one or more applications logically associated with the first display and a second application stack corresponding to any applications logically associated with the second display;
receiving a gesture input at a gesture sensor of the handheld computing device;
displaying an application manager in response to the receiving,
wherein the application manager provides a graphical representation of the first application stack and the second application stack.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/948,684Filed 17 Nov 2010

Priority

1 Oct 2010

Published

5 Apr 2012

Term ends

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Classification19 codes

G06F 3/04817
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…
G06F 1/1647
Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing: including at least an…
G06F 3/017
Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer: gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a…
G06F 3/0412
Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means: digitisers structurally integrated in a display

Family

Application61/389,000Us provisional application · filed 1 Oct 2010

Application61/389,117Us provisional application · filed 1 Oct 2010

Application61/389,087Us provisional application · filed 1 Oct 2010

US 9,372,618 B2Related patent

US 2012/0084690 A1This patent

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Abstract

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