STAGE INTERACTION FOR MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20100162160A1
• Filed: 12/22/2008
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Data Services LLC (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: STALLINGS, Heath, ROBERTS, Brian F., RELYEA, Donald H. JR., DUNNAM, Daniel Spurgeon
• Granted Patent: US 8,453,057 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

A device displays, on a screen, a graphical window from a sequence of graphical windows, where the graphical window includes a group of display elements. The device also receives a user input to the graphical window and identifies a type of the user input, where the type of the user input includes a horizontal input or a vertical input. The device displays, on the screen, another graphical window from the sequence of graphical windows when the type of user input is a horizontal input and scrolls through a stack of the display elements within the graphical window when the type of user input is a vertical input.

Claims

1. A computing device-implemented method, comprising:

displaying, on a screen of the computing device, a graphical window from a sequence of graphical windows, the graphical window including a group of display elements;

receiving a user input to the graphical window;

identifying a type of the user input, where the type of the user input includes a horizontal input or a vertical input;

displaying, on the screen of the computing device, another graphical window from the sequence of graphical windows when the type of user input is horizontal input; and

scrolling through a stack of the display elements within the graphical window when the type of user input is vertical input.

2. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, where the type of the user input further includes a selection input, the method further comprising:

associating the location of the user input with a particular display element of the group of display elements when the type of user input is selection input; and

launching an application associated with the particular display element when the type of user input is selection input.

3. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying, on the screen of the computing device, a footer to indicate a relative position of the displayed graphical window among the sequence of graphical windows.

4. The computing device-implemented method of claim 3, where the footer is displayed in one of an active state or an inactive state, the active state including a graphical image associated with each graphical window of the sequence of graphical windows to distinguish each graphical window among the sequence of graphical windows.

5. The computing device-implemented method of claim 4, further comprising:

displaying the footer in an active state when the type of user input is horizontal input.

6. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, where the group of display elements include a link to one or more of:

a telephone application,

a text-messaging application,

an email application,

an instant messaging (IM) application,

a calendar application,

a multimedia messaging service (MMS) application, or

a short message service (SMS) application.

7. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, where the user input includes:

a touch on a touch-sensitive display.

8. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, where the user input includes one of:

input from a device guiding a cursor,

input from one of a set of control buttons, or

input from a keypad.

9. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying, beside the graphical window on the screen of the computing device, another graphical window from the sequence of graphical windows, the other graphical window including a different group of display elements.

10. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, where the computing device comprises one or more of:

a radiotelephone,

a personal communications system (PCS) terminal, or

a personal digital assistant (PDA).

11. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, where the computing device comprises one or more of:

a laptop computer,

a personal computer,

a tablet computer,

an ultra-mobile personal computer,

a personal gaming system, or

a global positioning system (GPS) unit.

12. A device, comprising:

a touch-sensitive display;

a memory to store a plurality of instructions; and

a processor to execute instructions in the memory to;

display, on the touch-sensitive display, a graphical window from a sequence of graphical windows, the graphical window including a group of display elements;

receive a user input to the graphical window;

identify a type of the user input, where the type of the user input includes a selection input or a horizontal input;

associate the location of the user input with a particular display element of the group of display elements when the type of user input is selection input; and

display, on the touch-sensitive display, another graphical window from the sequence of graphical windows when the type of user input is horizontal input.

13. The device of claim 12, where the type of the user input further includes a vertical input, and where the processor further executes instructions in the memory to:

scroll through a stack of the display elements within the graphical window when the type of user input is vertical input.

14. The device of claim 12, where the processor further executes instructions in the memory to:

launch an application associated with the particular display element when the type of user input is selection input.

15. The device of claim 12, where the processor further executes instructions in the memory to:

display, on the touch-sensitive display, a footer to indicate a relative position of the displayed graphical window among the sequence of graphical windows.

16. The device of claim 12, where the group of display elements include a link to one or more of:

a telephone application,

a text-messaging application,

an email application,

an instant messaging (IM) application,

a calendar application,

a multimedia messaging service (MMS) application, or

a short message service (SMS) application.

17. The device of claim 12, where the device comprises one or more of:

a radiotelephone,

a personal communications system (PCS) terminal,

a personal digital assistant (PDA),

a laptop computer,

a personal computer,

a tablet computer,

an ultra-mobile personal computer,

a camera,

a gaming system, or

a global positioning system (GPS) unit.

18. The device of claim 12, further comprising one or more of:

a set of control buttons, or

a keypad,

where the processor further executes instructions in the memory to receive the user input to the graphical window from the set of control buttons or the keypad.

19. A device, comprising:

means for displaying, on a screen of the computing device, a graphical window from a sequence of graphical windows, the graphical window including a group of display elements;

means for receiving a user input to the graphical window;

means for identifying a type of the user input, the type of the user input including a vertical input, a horizontal input, or a selection input;

scrolling through a stack of the display elements within the graphical window when the type of user input is vertical input;

displaying, on the screen of the computing device, another graphical window from the sequence of graphical windows when the type of user input is horizontal input; and

associating the location of the user input with a particular display element of the group of display elements and launching an application associated with the particular display element when the type of user input is selection input.

20. The device of claim 19, further comprising:

means for displaying, on the screen of the computing device, a footer to indicate a relative position of the displayed graphical window among the sequence of graphical windows.