Systems And Methods For Launching A User Application On A Computing Device

• US 20110010619A1
• Filed: 04/08/2008
• Published: 01/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Brown, Craig Thomas
• Application Number:
  US12/867,709
• Publication Number:
  US 20110010619A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

In one embodiment, a system and a method pertain to detecting user input of a symbol into a touch-sensitive input device of the computing device and, responsive to that detection, launching a user application associated with the symbol.

Claims

1. A method for launching a user application on a computing device, the method comprising:

detecting user input of a symbol into a touch-sensitive input device of the computing device;

determining a user application associated with the input symbol; and

launching the user application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting user input comprises detecting user input of the symbol into a touchpad of the computing device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting user input comprises detecting user input of the symbol into a touch-sensitive display of the computing device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting user input comprises detecting input of the symbol by a finger.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting user input comprises detecting input of the symbol by a stylus.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting user input comprises detecting user input of a stylized “

M”

symbol.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein determining a user application associated with the input symbol comprises determining a set of user applications associated with the input symbol.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein launching the user application comprises presenting a user interface of the user application in a display of the computing device.

9. A computer-readable medium that stores an application launch manager, the application launch manager comprising:

logic configured to detect user input of a symbol into a touch-sensitive device of a computing device; and

logic configured to launch a user application associated with the symbol.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the logic configured to detect user input comprises logic configured to detect user input of the symbol into a touchpad of the computing device.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the logic configured to detect user input comprises logic configured to detect user input of the symbol into a touch-sensitive display of the computing device.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the logic configured to detect user input comprises logic configured to detect user input of a stylized “

M”

symbol.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the logic configured to launch the user application comprises logic configured to present a user interface of the user application in a display of the computing device.

14. A computing device comprising:

a processing device;

a touch-sensitive input device; and

memory that stores an application launch manager, the application launch manager being configured to detect user input of a symbol into the touch-sensitive input device and, responsive to that detection, launch a user application associated with the symbol.

15. The computing device of claim 14, wherein touch-sensitive input device comprises a touchpad of the computing device.

16. The computing device of claim 14, wherein touch-sensitive input device comprises a touch-sensitive display of the computing device.

17. The computing device of claim 14, wherein the application launch manager is configured to detect user input of a stylized “

M”

symbol.

18. The computing device of claim 14, wherein the user application is configured to present a user interface of the user application upon launching the user application.

19. The computing device of claim 14, wherein the computing device is a notebook computer.

20. The computing device of claim 14, wherein the computing device is a desktop computer.