Presenting a New User Screen in Response to Detection of a User Motion

• US 20110291933A1
• Filed: 05/26/2011
• Published: 12/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Xobni Incorporated
• Inventors: Holzer, Michael, Bonforte, Jeffrey
• Granted Patent: US 8,982,053 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/167
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 90/00 Systems or methods specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes, not involving significant data processing

Abstract

A second user interface screen is presented to a user in response to detection of a predefined user motion associated with a first user interface screen. In one embodiment, a method includes: presenting, via a display of an end-user device, a first user interface screen; detecting, via a user input device of the end-user device, a predefined user motion associated with the first screen, wherein the user motion is substantially in a direction of movement in a plane parallel to the display; and in response to detecting the user motion, presenting a second user interface screen via the display, the second screen including information corresponding to the first screen.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

presenting, via a display of an end-user device, a first user interface screen;

detecting, via a user input device of the end-user device, a predefined user motion associated with the first screen, wherein the user motion is substantially in a direction of movement in a plane parallel to the display; and

in response to detecting the user motion, presenting a second user interface screen via the display, the second screen including information corresponding to the first screen.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the direction of movement is one of upwards, downwards, diagonally, leftwards, and rightwards.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the user input device is a trackball and the predefined user motion is an upward movement by a user on the trackball.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the detecting the user motion comprises determining at least one of a velocity and an acceleration of the upward movement of the trackball to be exceeding a predetermined limit.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the user input device is a touch screen and the predefined user motion is an upward movement by a user on the touch screen.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first screen includes an input field to identify a person, and the second screen includes a list of a plurality of persons.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the second screen further includes a search input field to permit searching of stored information in a database, the stored information corresponding to personal data available for user selection as an input for the first screen, and the method further comprising updating the list of persons of the second screen in response to a result obtained from searching the stored information.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the input field of the first screen is an email address field for a new email being composed on the end-user device, and the list of persons of the second screen provides user access to a respective email address for each of the plurality of persons.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the first screen includes a list of data items for a plurality of persons, each respective data item corresponding to a unique one of the plurality of persons;

the predefined user motion is associated with a first person of the plurality of persons; and

the second screen presents a personal profile for the first person, the profile comprising an email address and a phone number.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the user motion corresponds to movement of a position indicator on the display; and

the detecting the user motion comprises determining that the predefined user motion occurs when the position indicator is at a predefined location of the first screen.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the position indicator is one of a cursor and a highlighted field.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the predefined location is one of an input field, an area, and a position.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising presenting an indicator in the first user interface screen to indicate to a user that the end-user device has a present ability to detect the predefined user motion, and wherein the predefined location is an area located beneath the indicator.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the indicator is at least one of the following:

a horizontal bar extending across at least a portion of the first user interface screen, and an icon.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a user selection input on the second user interface screen; and

providing a data input for the first user interface screen, the data input corresponding to the user selection input.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the first screen is a phone dialing interface, the user selection input corresponds to a person to be called, and the data input for the first screen is a phone number for the person to be called.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the first screen is a new appointment interface, the user selection input corresponds to a person to be invited to an appointment, and the data input for the first screen is an addition of the person to be invited as an invitee of the appointment.

18. A method, comprising:

presenting, via a display of an end-user device, a first user interface screen including an input field to identify a person;

detecting, via a user input device of the end-user device, a predefined user motion associated with the first screen;

in response to detecting the user motion, presenting a second user interface screen via the display, the second screen including a list of persons and further including a search input field configured to initiate a search of stored personal data available for use as a data input for the first screen; and

updating the list of persons of the second screen in response to the searching of the stored personal data.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the detecting the user motion comprises determining that the user motion is associated with a predefined portion of the first user interface screen.

20. A method, comprising:

presenting, via a display of a mobile device, a first user interface screen including an input field to identify a person;

detecting, via a trackball of the mobile device, a predefined user motion associated with the first screen, wherein the user motion is an upward movement on the trackball by a user of the mobile device;

in response to detecting the user motion, presenting a second user interface screen via the display, the second screen including a list of persons and corresponding personal data, the personal data being available as input data for the first screen upon selection of a person by the user;

receiving a selection by the user of a first person from the list of persons of the second screen; and

displaying personal data corresponding to the first person on the first screen.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the detecting the user motion comprises determining at least one of a velocity and an acceleration of the upward movement of the trackball to be exceeding a predetermined limit.

22. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium tangibly storing thereon computer-readable instructions, the instructions causing a data processing system to perform a method, the method comprising:

presenting, via a display of the data processing system, a first user interface screen;

detecting, via a user input device of the data processing system, a predefined user motion associated with the first screen, wherein the user motion is substantially in a direction of movement in a plane parallel to the display; and

in response to detecting the user motion, presenting a second user interface screen via the display, the second screen including information corresponding to the first screen.

23. An end-user device, comprising:

a display to provide a user interface to a user;

a user input device to receive input from the user corresponding to the user interface; and

at least one processor configured to perform a method comprising;

presenting, via the display, a first user interface screen;

detecting a predefined user motion associated with the user input device, wherein the user motion is associated with the first screen, and the user motion is substantially in a direction of movement in a plane parallel to the display; and

in response to detecting the user motion, presenting a second user interface screen via the display, the second screen including information corresponding to the first screen.