Triggering display of application
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsYu WANG, Yi XIAO, Guang YANG, Jia ZOU
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Abstract
A method and system are provided for triggering display of an application. The method includes: in response to receiving a gesture denoting an approximate closed region or a closed region on a display screen, determining a non-full-screen display region corresponding to the gesture on the display screen; displaying shortcuts of at least one application in the non-full-screen display region; and in response to a user selecting one of the shortcuts, launching an application corresponding to the selected shortcut, and displaying an interface of the application in the non-full-screen display region.
Claims20
A method for triggering display of an application, the method comprising:
- in response to receiving a gesture denoting an approximate closed region or a closed region on a display screen, determining a non-full-screen display region corresponding to the gesture on the display screen;
- displaying shortcuts of at least one application in the non-full-screen display region;
- and
- in response to a user selecting one of the shortcuts, launching a first application corresponding to the selected shortcut and displaying an interface of the first application in the non-full-screen display region.
A system for triggering display of an application, the system comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- a processing device communicatively coupled to the memory, wherein the system performs a method comprising:
- in response to receiving a gesture denoting an approximate closed region or a closed region on a display screen, determining a non-full-screen display region corresponding to the gesture on the display screen;
- displaying shortcuts of at least one application in the non-full-screen display region;
- and
- in response to a user selecting one of the shortcuts, launching a first application corresponding to the selected shortcut and displaying an interface of the first application in the non-full-screen display region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.