Mobile Communications Device Home Screen

• US 20100105440A1
• Filed: 05/20/2009
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Guntaur, Paula, Friedman, Jonathan D., Apfel, Darren A., Smuga, Michael A., Wilson, Brian M., Teng, Stephanie E., Kruzeniski, Michael J.
• Application Number:
  US12/469,458
• Publication Number:
  US 20100105440A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04807 Pen manipulated menu
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0202 Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the input device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0219 Special purpose keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0227 Cooperation and interconnection of the input arrangement with other functional units of a computer G06F3/023 - G06F3/037 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• 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 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72466 with selection means, e.g. keys, having functions defined by the mode or the status of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 : for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 : Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 : Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 : Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 : from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

A mobile communications device home screen is described. In one or more implementations, a method is performed by a mobile communications device that includes receiving status updates of contacts from a social network service. A home screen of the mobile communications device is configured to include the status updates.

Claims

1. A method performed by a mobile communications device, the method comprising:

receiving status updates of contacts from a social network service; and

configuring a home screen of the mobile communications device to include the status updates.

2. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the home screen is a base level of a hierarchical structure usable to organize content and applications of the mobile communications device.

3. A method as described in claim 2, wherein the hierarchical structure is managed as part of an operating system executed by the mobile communications device.

4. A method as described in claim 1, wherein at least one said status update is text that was input by a user associated with the social network service that describes a message to be communicated to friends of the user.

5. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the contacts are specified as friends of a user associated with an account of the social network service.

6. A method as described in claim 1, wherein:

the home screen includes a plurality of views;

a first said view includes the status updates and profile information of a user associated with an account of the social network service; and

the account references the contacts from which the status updates are to be received.

7. A method as described in claim 6, wherein the profile information in the first said view includes a portion that is configured to accept a status update of the user.

8. A method as described in claim 6, wherein the first said view aggregates status updates from a plurality of said social network services.

9. A method as described in claim 6, wherein the first said view aggregates the status updates with updates from one or more specified websites, at least one of which is an ecommerce website.

10. A method as described in claim 6, wherein a second said view of the home screen includes representations of the contacts.

11. A method as described in claim 10, wherein:

the contacts included in the second said view are a subset of a plurality of contacts stored on the mobile communications device such that at least one of the plurality of contacts is not used to provide a status update in the first said view; and

the second said view includes a portion that is selectable to view the plurality of contacts.

12. A method as described in claim 6, wherein:

a third said view of the home screen includes representations of a subset of a plurality of applications that are available for execution on the mobile communications device; and

the third said view includes a portion that is selectable to view the plurality of applications.

13. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the mobile communications device includes telephone functionality and at least one representation of the contacts is selectable to initiate a telephone call.

14. A method as described in claim 1, wherein:

the home screen includes a plurality of views between which navigation is achievable through detection of a pan gesture using touchscreen functionality of the mobile communications device;

a first said view includes the status updates and profile information of a user associated with an account of the social network service;

a second said view includes representations of the contacts; and

a third said view includes representations of a plurality of applications that are available for execution on the mobile communications device.

15. A mobile communications device comprising a display device and one or more modules to provide telephone functionality and to configure a user interface for display on the display device to include a plurality of views between which navigation is achievable through detection of a pan gesture, in which:

a first said view is configured to display network feed information;

a second said view is configured to display representations of contacts, at least one of which is configured to aid in initiating a telephone call using the telephone functionality; and

a third said view is configured to display representations of a plurality of applications.

16. A mobile communications device as described in claim 15, wherein the network feed information includes status updates received from a social network service.

17. A mobile communications device as described in claim 15, wherein the network feed information includes data received from an ecommerce website.

18. A mobile communications device as described in claim 15, wherein the network feed information is prioritized in the first said view based on:

which contacts were selected for display in the second said view, wherein the contacts that were selected for display are a subset of a plurality of contacts that are stored by the mobile communications device;

or

which representations of applications were selected for display in the third said view, wherein the representations of the applications that were selected for display are a subset of a plurality of applications that are available for execution by the mobile communications device.

19. One or more computer-readable media comprising instructions that are executable by a mobile communications device to configure a home screen to include:

a portion to receive an input that is to be communicated as a status update via a social network service to friends of a user associated with an account of the social network service; and

display one or more status updates received from one or more of the friends via the social network service.

20. One or more computer-readable media as described in claim 19, wherein the home screen is a base level of a hierarchical structure usable to organize content and applications by an operating system of the mobile communications device included in the one or more instructions.