US 2017/0357380 A1 · Content Sharing Logging

Abstract

A default virtual interface is replaced by an adapted interface to an independent application. The adapted interface allows one (dependent) application to be accessed from within a second (independent) application. This allows, for example, a game application to be executed within a text messaging application. Output of the dependent application can be conveyed to the base application. The adapted user interface optionally includes a plurality of shortcut keys each represented by a different shortcut icon. One or more of the shortcut keys are optionally configured for sharing the dependent and/or independent applications with remote devices. Content shared via the virtual interface is optionally provided as a data stream and is optionally mapped to a social network, such sharing can be tracked across social networks.

Claims28

Dependent claims

1-85. (canceled)

A method of logging communicated data, the method comprising:

executing a base application;
retrieving a first user interface for display in the base application, the first user interface including a plurality of shortcut key each associated with a different dependent application;
receiving a selection of a first member of the plurality of shortcut keys;
replacing the first user interface with a second user interface in response to the received selection, the second user interface being an interface to a first dependent application;
receiving a first user input on the second user interface;
passing the first user input to the first dependent application;
processing the first user input using the first dependent application;
providing an output of the first dependent application to an input field of the base application;
and
logging data representative of the output of the first dependent application to create a log of data, the log of data including data representing outputs of multiple dependent applications, each of the outputs of the multiple dependent applications having been provided to the input field of the base application.

7 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/675,698Filed 11 Aug 2017

Priority

11 Feb 2016

Published

14 Dec 2017

Term ends

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Classification27 codes

G06F 3/0481
Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]: based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a…
G06F 3/0219
Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the input device: special purpose keyboards
G06F 3/0426
Using a single imaging device like a video camera for tracking the absolute position of a single or a plurality of objects with respect to an…:…
G06F 3/04883
Using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures: for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Family

Application62/293,893Us provisional application · filed 11 Feb 2016

Application62/358,266Us provisional application · filed 5 Jul 2016

Application62/384,368Us provisional application · filed 7 Sep 2016

Application62/507,229Us provisional application · filed 17 May 2017

Application62/510,758Us provisional application · filed 25 May 2017

Application15/675,698Continuation in part

US 9,939,962 B2Related patent

US 2017/0357380 A1This patent

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Abstract

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