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USER INTERFACE FOR A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE

  • US 20120245745A1
  • Filed: 06/06/2012
  • Published: 09/27/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2010
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An apparatus, comprising:

  • an energy-management-application configured to operate on a mobile computing device, where the energy management application is configured to connect to and facilitate bidirectional communications with an Internet-based management server system, where the energy-management-application is also configured to present a touch-screen graphic user interface with multiple pages to both

         1) monitor information, including site conditions and electrical energy production, regarding one or more remote solar-powered generation sites and

         2) control components, including positioning of solar arrays, within the one or more remote solar-powered generation sites from the mobile computing device having a touch screen display, where the graphic user interface is configured to display on the touch screen a sequence of the multiple pages, where each page contains any of a list of data items, links, and objects, across various hierarchical levels of the one or more remote solar-powered generation sites on the touch screen display, where the sequence of the multiple pages are organized into the hierarchical levels going from an overview of the one or more remote solar-powered generation sites to lower levels including individual components making up an individual remote solar-powered generation site; and

    where the energy-management-application is configured to detect as an input on a currently displayed page from the sequence of multiple pages both a rate and a pattern of finger swipe gestures made on the currently displayed page displayed on the touch screen display; and

    in response to detection of both the rate and pattern of the finger gestures on the touch screen, the energy-management-application performs at least one of

         1) activate one or more of the data items, one or more of the links, or one or more of the objects, and

         2) navigate to another page in the sequence of pages, where a user of the mobile computing device is able to interact with the energy-management-application to control and monitor the one or more solar power generation sites by navigating through the sequence of multiple pages, interacting with the data items, the links, and the objects contained on the pages, where any portions of the energy-management-application implemented in software are stored on a non-transitory computing-device readable-medium in an executable format.

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