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US 9,851,896 B2Granted
Edge swiping gesture for home navigation
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorJohn Nicholas Jitkoff
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Abstract
Methods for navigating to a home screen and providing switching, launching, and notifications from the home screen are provided. An example method may include detecting a swiping gesture originating proximate to a top edge of a touchscreen display of a mobile device and extending away from the top edge. The method may further include, in response to detecting the swiping gesture, displaying at least a portion of a home screen extending from the top edge into an area of the touchscreen display. In addition, the home screen may include a plurality of interface items associated with active applications and applications available for launch. Systems, devices, and computer-readable media are also described.
Claims19
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- detecting, via one or more processors, a swiping gesture originating proximate to a top edge of a touchscreen display of a mobile device and extending away from the top edge;
- determining a speed and length of the detected swiping gesture;
- in response to the speed and length of the detected swiping gesture meeting first criteria, displaying a home screen comprising detent bars separating a plurality of groups of first interface items displayed on the home screen, each group comprising a different type of first interface items and having a fixed appearance between a respective set of the detent bars, the home screen overlapping an interface screen of currently displayed grouping of one or more second interface items, wherein each of the detent bars is aligned in parallel with the top edge of the touchscreen display;
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- in response to the speed and length of the detected swiping gesture meeting second criteria, lowering the home screen from the top edge of the touchscreen display to over the interface screen according to the swiping gesture and the detent bars,
- wherein in response to a release of the swiping gesture the lowering is stopped and a top one of the detent bars displayed nearest the top edge aligns with the top edge such that a revealed portion of the home screen is displayed from the top detent bar to a bottom of the home screen, and wherein the revealed portion of the home screen overlapping the interface screen with a portion of the interface screen is visible below the bottom of the home screen and operable to receive user input at one of the displayed second interface items.
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A device comprising:
- a touchscreen display;
- one or more processors;
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- a memory including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
- detect a swiping gesture originating proximate to a top edge of and extending away from the top edge;
- in response to the detected swiping gesture meeting first criteria, displaying a home screen comprising detent bars separating a plurality of groups of first interface items displayed on the home screen, each group comprising a different type of first interface items and having a fixed appearance between a respective set of the detent bars, the home screen overlapping an interface screen of currently displayed grouping of one or more second interface items, wherein each of the detent bars is aligned in parallel with the top edge of the touchscreen display;
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- in response to the detected swiping gesture meeting second criteria, lowering the home screen from the top edge of the touchscreen display to over the interface screen according to the swiping gesture and the detent bars,
- wherein in response to a release of the swiping gesture the lowering is stopped and a top one of the detent bars displayed nearest the top edge aligns with the top edge such that a revealed portion of the home screen is displayed from the top detent bar to a bottom of the home screen, and wherein the revealed portion of the home screen overlapping the interface screen with a portion of the interface screen is visible below the bottom of the home screen and operable to receive user input at one of the displayed second interface items.
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A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions stored therein, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations, the machine-readable medium comprising:
- instructions for detecting a swiping gesture originating proximate to a top edge of a touchscreen display of a mobile device and extending away from the top edge;
- instructions for determining a speed and length of the detected swiping gesture;
- instructions for, in response to the speed and length of the detected swiping gesture meeting first criteria, displaying a home screen comprising detent bars separating a plurality of groups of first interface items displayed on the home screen, each group comprising a different type of first interface items and having a fixed appearance between a respective set of the detent bars, the home screen overlapping an interface screen of currently displayed grouping of one or more second interface items, wherein each of the detent bars is aligned in parallel with the top edge of the touchscreen display;
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- instructions for, in response to the speed and length of the detected swiping gesture meeting second criteria, lowering the home screen from the top edge of the touchscreen display to over the interface screen according to the swiping gesture and the detent bars,
- wherein in response to a release of the swiping gesture the lowering is stopped and a top one of the detent bars displayed nearest the top edge aligns with the top edge such that a revealed portion of the home screen is displayed from the top detent bar to a bottom of the home screen, and wherein the revealed portion of the home screen overlapping the interface screen with a portion of the interface screen is visible below the bottom of the home screen and operable to receive user input at one of the displayed second interface items.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.