TABBED CONTENT VIEW ON A TOUCH-SCREEN DEVICE

• US 20100169772A1
• Filed: 12/31/2008
• Published: 07/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Data Services LLC (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Dunnam, Daniel Spurgeon, Roberts, Brian F., STALLINGS, Heath, Relyea, Donald H. JR.
• Granted Patent: US 8,799,806 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4387 by the use of playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• 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 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector

Abstract

Content may be displayed on a touch-screen display of a device as part of a graphical interface in which the content is divided into categories or sections, and each category/section is associated with a graphical tab. The device may detect a selection of one of the graphic tabs based on a touch gesture received by the touch-screen display and display, on the touch-screen display, content items corresponding to the subset of content items for the selected tab.

Claims

1. A computing device-implemented method comprising:

retrieving an identification of a set of content items in response to a user request for information;

displaying a graphical interface on a display associated with the computing device, the graphical interface including a plurality of selectable graphic tabs, each tab corresponding to a subset of the set of content items;

detecting a selection of one of the graphic tabs based on a gesture made by a user of the computing-device; and

displaying, on the display, content items corresponding to the subset of the set of content items for the selected tab.

2. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, where the display includes a touch-screen display.

3. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, where the gesture includes a gesture made on a touch-screen display or a gesture input through a directional pad.

4. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, where displaying the content items includes:

displaying, for each of the content items, one of the content item itself, summary information about the content item, or a link to the content item.

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

retrieving content items from a remote server in response to the detection of the selection of the one of the graphic tabs.

6. The computing device-implemented method of claim 5, where the remote server is located over a cellular network.

7. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, where displaying the graphical interface further includes modifying the graphical interface to include additional graphic tabs as additional content items, corresponding to the additional graphic tabs, are received from the remote server.

8. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, where the content items from the set of content items includes at least one of multi-media files, documents, or photos.

9. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to the detection of a selection of the one of the graphic tabs:

visually distinguishing the selected graphic tab from non-selected ones of the graphic tabs.

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

detecting a rapid directional gesture covering multiple graphic tabs; and

displaying on the display, in response to the detected rapid directional gesture, a graphic element that represents rapid changing of content.

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

detecting a scroll command corresponding to the selected graphic tab; and

displaying, on the display, additional content items corresponding to the subset of the set of content items for the selected tab.

12. The computing device-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising:

displaying, on the screen display and in response to the scroll command, where the scroll command corresponds to an end of the content items for the selected tab, content items from a next tab in the plurality of selectable graphic tabs.

13. The computing device-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising:

visually distinguishing the graphic tab for the next tab in the plurality of selectable graphic tabs.

14. A device comprising:

a touch-screen display;

a memory to store programming instruction; and

a processing unit coupled to the memory and the touch-screen display, the processing unit executing the programming instructions to;

retrieve an identification of a set of content items in response to a user request for information,

display, on the touch-screen display, a graphical interface, the graphical interface including a plurality of selectable graphic tabs, each tab corresponding to a subset of the set of content items,

detect a selection of one of the graphic tabs based on a touch gesture on the touch-screen display, and

display, on the touch-screen display, content items corresponding to the subset of content items for the selected tab.

15. The device of claim 14, where the device includes a mobile phone.

16. The device of claim 14, where the processing unit further executes the programming instructions to:

retrieve the content items from a remote server in response to the detected selection of the one of the graphic tabs.

17. The device of claim 16, where the remote server is located over a cellular network.

18. The device of claim 14, where the content items includes at least one of multi-media files, documents, or photos.

19. The device of claim 14, where the processing unit further executes the programming instructions to, in response to the detection of a selection of the one of the graphic tabs:

visually distinguish the selected graphic tab from non-selected ones of the graphic tabs.

20. The device of claim 14, where the processing unit further executes the programming instructions to:

detect a rapid directional touch gesture covering multiple graphic tabs, and

display on the touch-screen, in response to the detected rapid directional touch gesture, a graphic element that represents a blur of content.

21. The device of claim 14, where the processing unit further executes the programming instructions to:

detect a scroll command corresponding to the selected graphic tab, and

display, on the touch-screen display, additional content items corresponding to the subset of content items for the selected tab.

22. The device of claim 21, where the processing unit further executes the programming instructions to:

display, on the touch-screen display, and in response to the scroll command in which the scroll command corresponds to an end of the content items for the selected tab, content items from a next tab in the plurality of selectable graphic tabs.

23. The device of claim 22, where the processing unit further executes the programming instructions to:

visually distinguish the graphic tab for the next tab in the plurality of selectable graphic tabs.

24. The device of claim 14, where the processing unit further executes the programming instructions to:

detect, via the touch-screen display, selection of one of the displayed content items, and

present the selected content item to the user.

25. A device comprising:

means to retrieve an identification of a set of content items in response to a user request for information;

means to display a graphical interface on display, the graphical interface including a plurality of selectable graphic tabs, each tab corresponding to a subset of the set of content items;

means to detect a selection of one of the graphic tabs based on a gesture made by a user of the computing-device; and

means to display, on the display, content items corresponding to the subset of content items for the selected tab.