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US 9,360,940 B2Granted
Multi-pane interface
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsNoah Levin, Daniel E. Fish
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting content. In one aspect, a method includes determining that user interaction with a search result has occurred, where the search result was presented in a results pane of a display. A browsing pane is generated in which a landing page for the search result is presented. The browsing pane is presented over a portion of the results pane. The portion of the results pane is bounded by an edge of the display and a pane edge of the browsing pane, where the pane edge is located at an initial display location. A user swipe is determined to have occurred, and in response to the user swipe the pane edge is relocated to a target display location.
Claims27
A method performed by data processing apparatus, the method comprising:
- determining that user interaction with a search result presented in a results pane of a display has occurred;
- generating a browsing pane in which a landing page for the search result is presented, the browsing pane being located over a portion of the results pane, the portion of the results pane being bounded by an edge of the display and a pane edge of the browsing pane, the pane edge being located at an initial display location;
- determining that a user swipe has occurred, the determination that the user swipe has occurred being based, at least in part, on detection of a pointer at multiple locations along a path that extends from a first display location to a second display location, the first display location being within a threshold distance of the initial display location;
- in response to determining that the user swipe has occurred:
- comparing a speed of the user swipe to swipe speed thresholds for multiple different predefined target display locations, wherein a first swipe speed threshold for a first predefined target display location is lower than a second swipe speed threshold for a second predefined target display location that is farther away from a current display location than the first predefined target display location;
- and
- relocating, based on the comparing, the pane edge to a given predefined target display location, from among the first predefined target display location and the second predefined target display location, based on a higher of the first swipe speed threshold or the second swipe speed threshold that is met or exceeded by the swipe speed of the user swipe.
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A non-transitory computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by data processing apparatus cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:
- determining that user interaction with a search result presented in a results pane of a display has occurred;
- generating a browsing pane in which a landing page for the search result is presented, the browsing pane being located over a portion of the results pane, the portion of the results pane being bounded by an edge of the display and a pane edge of the browsing pane, the pane edge being located at an initial display location;
- determining that a user swipe has occurred, the determination that the user swipe has occurred being based, at least in part, on detection of a pointer at multiple locations along a path that extends from a first display location to a second display location, the first display location being within a threshold distance of the initial display location;
- in response to determining that the user swipe has occurred:
- comparing a speed of the user swipe to swipe speed thresholds for multiple different predefined target display locations, wherein a first swipe speed threshold for a first predefined target display location is lower than a second swipe speed threshold for a second predefined target display location that is farther away from a current display location than the first predefined target display location;
- and
- relocating, based on the comparing, the pane edge to a given predefined target display location from among the first predefined target display location and the second predefined target display location based on a higher of the first swipe speed threshold or the second swipe speed threshold that is met or exceeded by the swipe speed of the user swipe.
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A system comprising:
- a display in which search results are presented;
- one or more processors configured to determine that user interaction with the display has occurred, the one or more processors further configured to perform operations comprising:
- determining that the user interaction with a search result presented the search result in a results pane of the display;
- generating a browsing pane in which a landing page for the search result is presented, the browsing pane being located over a portion of the results pane, the portion of the results pane being bounded by an edge of the display and a pane edge of the browsing pane, the pane edge being located at an initial display location;
- determining that a user swipe has occurred, the determination that the user swipe has occurred being based, at least in part, on detection of a pointer at multiple locations along a path that extends from a first display location to a second display location, the first display location being within a threshold distance of the initial display location;
- in response to determining that the user swipe has occurred:
- comparing a speed of the user swipe to swipe speed thresholds for multiple different predefined target display locations, wherein a first swipe speed threshold for a first predefined target display location is lower than a second swipe speed threshold for a second predefined target display location that is farther away from a current display location than the first predefined target display location;
- and
- relocating, based on the comparing, the pane edge to a given predefined target display location from among the first predefined target display location and the second predefined target display location based on a higher of the first swipe speed threshold or the second swipe speed threshold that is met or exceeded by the swipe speed of the user swipe.
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