Application control using a gesture based trigger

• US 10,474,353 B2
• Filed: 05/31/2016
• Issued: 11/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Inventors: Burfitt, Joseph
• Primary Examiner(s): Bycer, Eric J.
• Application Number:
  US15/169,288
• Publication Number:
  US 20170344246A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,260 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9032 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• 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: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Systems and methods for control of application actions using a modification trigger to visually modify an electronic document are disclosed. A computing device, such as a mobile computing device having a touchscreen display, can display an electronic document having a first portion and a second portion. Initially upon displaying the electronic document, the computing device displays the first portion and the second portion may lie out of view, not displayed. A user can swipe along a scroll direction, causing the second portion to be displayed. The second portion can include or otherwise be associated with a modification trigger. Upon receiving a gesture on the second portion, the modification trigger performs actions, including, for example, subscribing to a series of electronic documents and minimizing the visual display of the electronic document.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

displaying, on a touchscreen display of a client device, a first full screen panel of an electronic document, the electronic document including the first full screen panel and a second full screen panel, the first full screen panel being navigable to the second full screen panel along a scroll direction of the electronic document, the second full screen panel comprising a modification trigger configured to initiate a subscription request to an electronic document server;

receiving, on the first full screen panel, a first gesture along the scroll direction;

displaying, on the touchscreen display of the client device, the second full screen panel of the electronic document in response to the receiving of the first gesture;

receiving, on the second full screen panel a second gesture along the scroll direction; and

executing the modification trigger in response to receiving the second gesture on the second full screen panel that comprises the modification trigger, the executing of the modification trigger causing the client device to transmit the subscription request to the electronic document server.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the subscription request is associated with a first point in time;

and wherein the method of claim 1 further comprises;

receiving, by the client device from the electronic document server, one or more additional electronic documents published at a second point in time after the first point in time.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the displaying of the second full screen panel occurs without executing the modification trigger.

4. The method of claim 1, Therein the modification trigger is triggered by code embedded in the second full screen panel of the electronic document.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a bottom boundary with the electronic document is a terminating edge of the electronic document in the scroll direction, and wherein the second full screen panel shares a boundary with the bottom boundary.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein executing the modification trigger further causing the client device to visually minimize the electronic document such that the first full screen panel and the second full screen panel are removed from display on the touchscreen display.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic document is displayed in a primary application display area of a full screen size, and wherein the first full screen panel and the second full screen panel both have a screen size that coincides with the full screen size, and wherein the receiving the first gesture comprises receiving, through the touchscreen display, the first gesture anywhere within the first full screen panel of the electronic document, and wherein the receiving the second gesture comprises receiving, through the touchscreen display, the second gesture anywhere within the second full screen panel of the electronic document.

8. A system, the system comprising:

one or more processors of a machine; and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the machine to perform operations comprising;

displaying, on a touchscreen display of a client device, a first full screen panel of an electronic document, the electronic document including the first full screen panel and a second full screen panel, the first full screen panel being navigable to the second full screen panel along a scroll direction of the electronic document, the second full screen panel comprising a modification trigger configured to initiate a subscription request to an electronic document server;

receiving, on the first full screen panel, a first gesture along the scroll direction;

displaying, on the touchscreen display of the client device, the second full screen panel of the electronic document in response to the receiving of the first gesture;

receiving, on the second full screen panel, a second gesture along the scroll direction; and

executing the modification trigger in response to receiving the second gesture, the executing of the modification trigger causing the client device to transmit the subscription request to the electronic document server.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the subscription request is associated with a first point in time, and wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, by the client device from the electronic document server, one or more additional electronic documents published at a second point in time after the first point in time.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the displaying of the second full screen panel occurs without executing the modification trigger.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the modification trigger is triggered by code embedded in the second full screen panel of the electronic document.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein a bottom boundary of the electronic document is a terminating edge of the electronic document in the scroll direction, and wherein the second full screen panel shares a boundary with the bottom boundary.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein executing the modification trigger further causing the client device to visually minimize the electronic document such that the first full screen panel and the second full screen panel are removed from display on the touchscreen display.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the electronic document is displayed in a primary application display area of a full screen size, and wherein the first full screen panel and the second full screen panel both have a screen size that coincides with the full screen size, and wherein the receiving the first gesture comprises receiving, through the touchscreen display, the first gesture anywhere within the first full screen panel of the electronic document, and wherein the receiving the second gesture comprises receiving, through the touchscreen display, the second gesture anywhere within the second full screen panel of the electronic document.

15. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium embodying instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

displaying, on a touchscreen display of a client device, a first full screen panel of an electronic document, the electronic document including the first full screen panel and a second full screen panel, the first full screen panel being navigable to the second full screen panel along a scroll direction of the electronic document, the second full screen panel comprising a modification trigger configured to initiate a subscription request to an electronic document server;

receiving, on the first full screen panel, a first gesture along the scroll direction;

displaying, on the touchscreen display of the client device, the second full screen panel of the electronic document in response to the receiving of the first gesture;

receiving, on the second full screen panel, a second gesture along the scroll direction; and

executing the modification trigger in response to receiving the second gesture, the executing of the modification trigger causing the client device to transmit the subscription request to the electronic document server.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the subscription request is associated with a first point in time, and wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, by the client device from the electronic document server, one or more additional electronic documents published at a second point in time after the first point in time.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the displaying of the second full screen panel occurs without executing the modification trigger.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the modification trigger is triggered by code embedded in the second full screen panel of the electronic document.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein a bottom boundary of the electronic document is a terminating edge of the electronic document in the scroll direction, and wherein the second full screen panel shares a boundary with the bottom boundary.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the electronic document is displayed in a primary application display area of a full screen size, and wherein the first full screen panel and the second full screen panel both have a screen size that coincides with the full screen size, and wherein the receiving the first gesture comprises receiving, through the touchscreen display, the first gesture anywhere within the first full screen panel of the electronic document, and wherein the receiving the second gesture comprises receiving, through the touchscreen display, the second gesture anywhere within the second full screen panel of the electronic document.