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US 8,711,116 B2Granted
Navigating applications using side-mounted touchpad
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorsMatthew Nicholas Papakipos, Matthew Cahill
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a user of a mobile device navigates between application user interface layers by using touch inputs to the mobile device's side-mounted touchpad.
Claims16
A method comprising:
- by a computing device, detecting a touch event on a side-mounted touchpad of the computing device during display of a current user interface of an application executing on the computing device, wherein the application comprises a navigation hierarchy that comprises a home user-interface layer, a plurality of sub user-interface layers, and a plurality of user-interface branches;
- by the computing device, determining a particular sub user-interface layer and user-interface branch that the current user interface corresponds to;
- by the computing device, if the touch event is a forward lateral flick event and there is a next user-interface layer in the particular user-interface branch of the current user interface, then navigating to the next user-interface layer in the particular user-interface branch of the current user interface;
- and
- by the computing device, if the touch event is a backward lateral flick event and there is a previous sub user-interface layer in the particular user-interface branch of the current user interface, then navigating to the previous user-interface layer in the particular user-interface branch of the current user interface.
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An device comprising:
- a display;
- a side-mounted touchpad;
- one or more processors;
- and
- a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors being operable when executing the instructions to:
- detect a touch event on the side-mounted touchpad of the device during display of a current user interface of an application executing on the computing device, wherein the application comprises a navigation hierarchy that comprises a home user-interface layer, a plurality of sub user-interface layers, and a plurality of user-interface branches;
- determine a particular sub user-interface layer and user-interface branch that the current user interface corresponds to;
- if the touch event is a forward lateral flick event and there is a next user-interface layer in the particular user-interface branch of the current user interface, then navigate to the next user-interface layer in the particular user-interface branch of the current user interface;
- and
- by the computing device, if the touch event is a backward lateral flick event and there is a previous sub user-interface layer in the particular user-interface branch of the current user interface, then navigating to the previous user-interface layer in the particular user-interface branch of the current user interface.
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One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:
- detect a touch event on a side-mounted touchpad of the computing device during display of a current user interface of an application executing on the computing device, wherein the application comprises a navigation hierarchy that comprises a home user-interface layer, a plurality of sub user-interface layers, and a plurality of user-interface branches;
- determine a particular sub user-interface layer and user-interface branch that the current user interface corresponds to;
- if the touch event is a forward lateral flick event and there is a next user-interface layer in the particular user-interface branch of the current user interface, then navigate to the next user-interface layer in the particular user-interface branch of the current user interface;
- and
- if the touch event is a backward lateral flick event and there is a previous sub user-interface layer in the particular user-interface branch of the current user interface, then navigate to the previous user-interface layer in the particular user-interface branch of the current user interface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.