MODALS IN DUAL DISPLAY COMMUNICATION DEVICES

• US 20120084693A1
• Filed: 09/28/2011
• Published: 04/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Original Assignee: IMERJ LLC (Flex, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Sirpal, Sanjiv, Gimpl, Martin
• Application Number:
  US13/247,311
• Publication Number:
  US 20120084693A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/16 Constructional details or arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1641 the display being formed by a plurality of foldable display components G06F1/1647 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1677 for detecting open or closed state or particular intermediate positions assumed by movable parts of the enclosure, e.g. detection of display lid position with respect to main body in a laptop, detection of opening of the cover of battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• 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 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• 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: 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 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 : Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 : Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 : for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 : Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 : for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 : Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 : Drag-and-drop
• 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: 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: G06F 3/1423 : controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1446 : display composed of modules, e.g. video walls
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/02 : Affine transformations for image registration G06T3/147; for image mosaicing G06T3/4038
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 : Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2356/00 : Detection of the display position w.r.t. other display screens
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 : Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 : Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation

Abstract

The present disclosure is directed to methodologies and devices for handling modals in a set of related windows.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by processor executable middleware in a multi-display communication device, a command to at least one of minimize and maximize a set of related windows from a common multi-screen application, the set of related windows comprising a higher level window and a lower level window at least one of displayed and to be displayed by different touch sensitive displays and at least one of the higher and lower level windows comprises a modal launched from one of the higher and lower level windows;

applying, by the processor executable middleware, the following rules;

(B1) when the set of related windows is to be maximized, maintaining the modal in view in the one of the higher and lower level windows from which the modal was launched; and

(B2) when the set of related windows is to be minimized, applying at least one of the following sub-rules;

(B2i) when the at least one of the higher and lower level windows comprising the modal is displayed after the set of related windows is minimized, maintaining the modal in view; and

(B2ii) when the at least one of the higher and lower level windows comprising the modal is not to be displayed after the set of related windows is minimized, cancelling automatically the modal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein rule (B1) applies and wherein the processor executable middleware selects a predetermined touch sensitive display for displaying one of the higher and lower level windows and causes the other of the higher and lower level windows to be displayed on the other touch sensitive display.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein, prior to maximization, the modal is displayed on the higher level window and wherein the modal was launched from the lower level window.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein a drag or flick command is received, wherein neither the higher nor lower level window is displayed in the predetermined touch sensitive display when the command is received, and wherein the lower level window appears to move from the other touch sensitive display to the predetermined touch sensitive display, thereby revealing the higher level window in the other touch sensitive display.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein a drag or flick command is received, wherein the lower level window is in the predetermined touch sensitive display when the command is received, wherein the higher level window appears to move from the predetermined touch sensitive display to the other touch sensitive display, whereby the lower level window is displayed by the predetermined touch sensitive display and the higher level window is displayed by the other touch sensitive display.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein rule (B2i) applies.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein rule (B2ii) applies.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein rule (B2) applies, wherein the processor executable middleware selects a touch sensitive display for displaying the higher level window and ceases to display the lower level window on the other touch sensitive display, wherein a drag or flick command is received, wherein the higher and lower level window are concurrently displayed in the selected and other touch sensitive displays when the command is received, wherein the lower level display is displayed in the selected touch sensitive display when the command is received, and wherein the higher level window appears to move from the other touch sensitive display to the selected touch sensitive display, thereby covering the lower level window in the other touch sensitive display.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein rule (B2) applies, wherein the processor executable middleware selects a touch sensitive display for displaying the higher level window and ceases to display the lower level window on the other touch sensitive display, wherein a drag or flick command is received, wherein the higher and lower level window are concurrently displayed in the selected and other touch sensitive displays when the command is received, wherein the higher level display is displayed in the selected touch sensitive display when the command is received, and wherein the lower level window appears to move from the other touch sensitive display to the selected touch sensitive display, thereby disappearing under the higher level window in the other touch sensitive display.

10. A non-transient and tangible computer readable medium comprising processor executable instructions to perform the steps of claim 1.

11. A multi-display communication device operable to perform the steps of claim 1.

12. A method, comprising:

receiving, by processor executable middleware in a multi-display communication device comprising first and second touch sensitive displays, a command to rotate a display from one of portrait and landscape display mode to the other of portrait and landscape display mode, wherein the first touch sensitive display comprises a modal launched from at least one of a higher and lower level window in a set of related windows comprising a higher level window and a lower level window at least one of displayed and to be displayed by different touch sensitive displays;

applying, by the processor executable middleware, the following rules;

(B1) when the first and second touch sensitive displays are rotated from a portrait display mode to a landscape display mode, applying at least one of the following sub-rules;

(B1i) when the first touch sensitive display is, relative to the second touch sensitive display, in an upper position after rotation and the first touch sensitive display displays the at least one of a higher and lower level window, displaying the modal in the first touch sensitive display after rotation; and

(B1ii) when the first touch sensitive display is, relative to the second touch sensitive display, in a lower position after rotation and neither the first nor second touch sensitive display displays the at least one of a higher and lower level window, not displaying, after rotation, the modal in either the first or second touch sensitive display; and

(B2) when the first and second touch sensitive displays are rotated from a landscape display mode to a portrait display mode, displaying the modal, after rotation, on the one of the first and second touch sensitive displays on which the modal was launched.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the set of related windows is maximized before and after rotation.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein rule (B1i) applies.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein, after rotation, the at least one of a higher and lower level window displaying the modal is displayed on both the first and second touch sensitive displays and wherein, during rotation, a lower level window displayed on the second touch sensitive display is covered by the at least one of a higher and lower level window.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein, before rotation, the at least one of a higher and lower level window displaying the modal is displayed on the second touch sensitive display, wherein, after rotation, the modal is displayed on the first touch sensitive display, and wherein, after rotation, the at least one of a higher and lower level window is displayed on both the first and second touch sensitive displays.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein rule (B1ii) applies.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the modal is canceled automatically at least one of during and after rotation.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein rule (B2) applies.

20. A non-transient and tangible computer readable medium comprising processor executable instructions to perform the steps of claim 12.

21. A multi-display communication device operable to perform the steps of claim 12.