Systems and methods for performing actions for users from a locked device

• US 10,114,536 B2
• Filed: 03/29/2013
• Issued: 10/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Barrus, Adam, Lin, Eugene, Steinglass, Alice, Murray, Jessica, Yu, Mao, Koo, Katrina, Gloystein, Ginger
• Primary Examiner(s): Chavez, Renee D
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lobo, Carl P
• Application Number:
  US13/853,353
• Publication Number:
  US 20140298190A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,041 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724634 With partially locked states, e.g. when some telephonic functional locked states or applications remain accessible in the locked states

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing actions for users of a computer device from a lock screen interface are provided. A computing device may comprise a touch-sensitive display screen that may allow a user to scroll through a set of user interfaces that may comprise a set of lock screen interfaces—one of which may be associated with the user, if authorized for using the computing device. The computing device may allow the user to scroll to one of the following: a set of locked screen interfaces, a set of sign-in interfaces, a set of applications allowed for use (e.g., a camera) by the computer device (even if the user is not signed-in) and a new mode of functionality for computing device (e.g., a children'"'"'s entertainment application). The computer system may allow swiping from multiple discernible directions to allow the scrolling through user interfaces in a natural manner.

Claims

1. A computing device comprising:

a controller;

a touch-sensitive display; and

an operating system configured to execute on the controller;

the operating system being further configured to;

provide a plurality of different user-specific storage locations where application content is stored for different users of the computing device;

provide different lock screen interfaces for presentation on the computing device, the different lock screen interfaces being personalized for the different users of the computing device;

receive a swipe input in a particular direction while the computing device is in a locked state;

in response to the swipe input, scroll in the particular direction through the different lock screen interfaces to a selected lock screen interface for a selected user of the computing device;

receive another swipe input in another direction while the selected lock screen interface for the selected user is displayed on the computing device;

responsive to the another swipe input, activate a particular application while the computing device remains in the locked state;

based at least on the another swipe input being received while the selected lock screen interface for the selected user is displayed on the computing device, identify a selected user-specific storage location associated with the selected user for storing further application content provided by the particular application while the computing device remains in the locked state; and

when the particular application provides the further application content while the computing device remains in the locked state, store the further application content in the selected user-specific storage location associated with the selected user.

2. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the particular application is a camera application, the application content comprises images captured by the camera application prior to occurrence of the another swipe input, and the further application content comprises further images captured by the camera application after occurrence of the another swipe input.

3. The computing device of claim 2, wherein the selected user-specific storage location is a selected camera roll associated with the selected user and the plurality of different user-specific storage locations include other user-specific camera rolls provided by the operating system for other users.

4. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the operating system is further configured to:

in response to a further swipe input in the particular direction, scroll in the particular direction through the different lock screen interfaces to another selected lock screen interface for another selected user of the computing device;

in response to an additional swipe input in the another direction received while the another selected lock screen interface is displayed on the computing device, activate the particular application for the another selected user while the computing device remains in the locked state;

based at least on the additional swipe input being received while the another selected lock screen interface is displayed, identify another selected user-specific storage location associated with the another selected user for storing other application content provided by the particular application while the computing device remains in the locked state; and

when the particular application provides the other application content while the computing device remains in the locked state, store the other application content provided by the particular application in another user-specific storage location associated with the another selected user.

5. The computing device of claim 4, wherein the particular application is a camera application and the application content, the further application content, and the other application content each include images captured by the camera application.

6. The computing device of claim 5, wherein the selected user-specific storage location is a camera roll associated with the selected user and the another user-specific storage location is another camera roll associated with the another selected user.

7. A method performed on a computing device, the method comprising:

providing a plurality of different user-specific storage locations where application content is stored for different users of the computing device;

providing different lock screen interfaces for presentation on the computing device, the different lock screen interfaces being personalized for different users of the computing device;

in response to a swipe input in a particular direction received while the computing device is in a locked state, scrolling in the particular direction through the different lock screen interfaces to a selected lock screen interface for a selected user of the computing device;

while the selected lock screen interface is displayed on the computing device, activating a particular application for the selected user while the computing device remains in the locked state;

based at least on the particular application having been activated while the selected lock screen interface is displayed on the computing device, identifying a selected user-specific storage location associated with the selected user for storing further application content provided by the particular application; and

as the further application content is provided by the particular application, storing the further application content in the selected user-specific storage location associated with the selected user.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

unlocking the computing device in response to further input from the selected user.

9. The method of claim 7, the swipe input comprising a touch input.

10. The method of claim 7, performed by an operating system of the computing device.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the particular direction is a horizontal direction.

12. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

activating the particular application in response to another swipe input that is received while the selected lock screen interface is displayed on the computing device.

13. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

in an instance when the particular application is activated again, selecting another user-specific storage location for storing other application content provided by the particular application based at least on which of the different lock screen interfaces was displayed when the particular application was activated.

14. The method of claim 7, the particular direction being to the right from the perspective of the selected user.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

receiving another swipe input that is in a vertically down direction; and

activating the particular application responsive to the another swipe input.

16. A computing device comprising:

a processor; and

a physical storage media storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

provide a plurality of different user-specific storage locations for different users of the computing device;

provide different lock screen interfaces for presentation on the computing device, the different lock screen interfaces being personalized for different users of the computing device;

allow the different users to activate a particular application from the different lock screen interfaces while the computing device remains in a locked state;

when the particular application provides application content for storage while the computing device is in the locked state;

identify an individual user-specific storage location in which to store the application content based at least on which of the different lock screen interfaces was used to activate the particular application; and

store application content provided by the particular application in the individual user-specific storage location.

17. The computing device of claim 16, further comprising a touch-sensitive display configured to display the different lock screen interfaces, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

scroll through the different lock screen interfaces in response to one or more swipe inputs on the touch-sensitive display; and

activate the particular application in response to one or more other swipe inputs on the touch-sensitive display.

18. The computing device of claim 16, the different user-specific storage locations comprising different folders.

19. The computing device of claim 17, the one or more swipe inputs being horizontal swipe inputs and the one or more other swipe inputs being vertical swipe inputs.

20. The computing device of claim 16, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

receive a further swipe input while a selected lock screen interface for a selected user is displayed by the computing device;

in response to the further swipe input, present a sign-on screen for the selected user; and

provided the selected user properly signs-on via the sign-on screen, unlock the computing device.