SCREEN SHUFFLE

• US 20120084719A1
• Filed: 09/01/2011
• Published: 04/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Original Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Inventors: Sirpal, Sanjiv, Reeves, Paul Edward, de Paz, Alexander, Schrock, Rodney Wayne
• Granted Patent: US 10,664,121 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/799
• 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 1/1641 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 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 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 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 3/04817 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 3/04842 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

Abstract

Systems and methods are provides for changing a window stack for a multi-screen device. The window stack can change based on the movement of a window. The system can receive a gesture indicating a change in the position of a window in the device. Upon receiving the gesture, the system determines a new position in the window stack for the moved window. Then, the system can determine a display associated with the moved window and change the logic data structure associated with the moved window to describe the new position of the moved window in the window stack.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium, having stored thereon, computer-executable instructions executable by a processor, the computer-executable instructions causing the processor to execute a method for creating a window stack for a multi-screen device, the computer-executable instructions comprising:

instructions to receive a gesture to move a window associated with the device;

instructions to determine a display associated with the moved window;

instructions to determine a new position in the window stack for the moved window; and

after determining the position of and the display associated with the moved window, instructions to change a logic data structure associated with the moved window to describe the new position of the moved window in the window stack.

2. The computer readable medium as defined in claim 1, wherein the window stack is a logical arrangement of active and inactive windows for the multi-screen device.

3. The computer readable medium as defined in claim 2, wherein the moved window is displayed on at least one of two displays of the multi-screen device.

4. The computer readable medium as defined in claim 1, wherein the new position in the window stack can be associated with a different display of the at least two displays.

5. The computer readable medium as defined in claim 1, wherein the new position in the window stack can be a position among all windows without association to one of the displays of the multi-screen device.

6. The computer readable medium as defined in claim 1, wherein the logical data structure comprises one or more of:

a window identifier adapted to identify the moved window in relation to other windows in the window stack;

a window stack position identifier adapted to identify the new position in the window stack for the moved window; and

a display identifier adapted to identify which one of two displays of the multi-screen device the moved window is associated.

7. The computer readable medium as defined in claim 6, wherein a first display of the multi-screen device is associated with a first stack and a second display of the multi-screen device is associated with a second stack.

8. The computer readable medium as defined in claim 7, wherein the logic data structure further comprises a window stack identifier adapted to identify which one or more of the first stack and second stack the moved window is associated.

9. The computer readable medium as defined in claim 8, wherein the moved window is displayed across both the first and second display.

10. The computer readable medium as defined in claim 9, wherein the moved window has an identifier for a composite display associated with all the displays of the multi-screen device.

11. A device comprising:

at least two displays;

a memory;

a processor in communication with the memory and each of the at least two displays, the processor operable to;

receive a gesture on the device, wherein the gesture moves a window;

determine a new position in the window stack for the moved window or the one or more altered windows;

determine one of the two displays of the device associated with the moved window or the one or more altered windows; and

after determining the position and associated display of the moved window or the one or more altered windows, change the one or more logic data structures associated with the moved window or the one or more altered windows to describe the new position of the moved window or the one or more altered windows in the window stack, wherein the window stack is an arrangement of the moved window and at least one other window for at least one of the at least two displays.

12. The computer readable medium as defined in claim 11, wherein the moved window is displayed on at least one of the at least two displays of the device.

13. The computer readable medium as defined in claim 11, wherein the position in the window stack can be associated with at least one of the at least two displays or among all windows without association to one of the at least two displays of the device.

14. The computer readable medium as defined in claim 11, wherein the logic data structure comprises one or more of:

a window identifier adapted to identify the moved window in relation to other windows in the window stack;

a window stack position identifier adapted to identify the position in the window stack for the moved window; and

a display identifier adapted to identify which one of the at least two displays of the multi-screen device the moved window is associated.

15. The computer readable medium as defined in claim 14, wherein a first display of the multi-screen device is associated with a first stack and a second display of the multi-screen device is associated with a second stack.

16. A method for changing a window stack in a multi-screen device, the method comprising:

receiving a gesture associated with a window in a first display of the multi-screen device;

interpreting the gesture as moving the window;

determining if the gesture affects one or more other windows;

determining a new position in the window stack for the moved window;

determining a display associated with the moved window;

changing a logic data structure associated with the moved window to describe the new position of the moved window in the window stack

if the gesture affects one or more other windows;

determining a second new position for at least one of the one or more other windows; and

changing a second logic data structure associated with at least one of the one or more other windows to describe the second new position of the at least one of the one or more other windows in the window stack.

17. The method defined in claim 16, wherein the logic data structure comprises one or more of:

a window identifier that identifies the moved window in relation to other windows in the window stack;

a window stack position identifier adapted to identify the new position in the window stack for the moved window; and

a display identifier adapted to identify at least one of the first display or a second display of the multi-screen device is associated with the moved window.

18. The method defined in claim 16, wherein the window stack includes at least one inactive window.

19. The method defined in claim 16, wherein the moved window is also associated with a second display of the multi-screen device.

20. The method defined in claim 19, wherein the logic data structure also comprises a second display identifier adapted to identify that the second display of the multi-screen device is associated with the moved window.