DYNAMIC CROSS-ENVIRONMENT APPLICATION CONFIGURATION/ORIENTATION

• US 20130024778A1
• Filed: 02/17/2012
• Published: 01/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Original Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Inventors: Reeves, Brian, Reeves, Paul E., Liu, Wuke
• Application Number:
  US13/399,929
• Publication Number:
  US 20130024778A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/744
• 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 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0492 Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/047 using display data channel standard [DDC] communication
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/12 Use of DVI or HDMI protocol in interfaces along the display data pipeline
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

Dynamic configuration of cross-environment applications enhances the computing experience in a computing environment with an extended active user environment and/or multiple active user environments. A mobile computing device maintains multiple active device configurations associated with multiple active user environments and/or application windows within active user environments. Device configuration qualifiers are determined from a variety of sources including device characteristics, device indicators, user settings, and/or application presentation. The mobile computing device selects active resource sets for applications based on the device configuration qualifiers. Application presentation is dynamically updated by disestablishing an application screen and establishing a new active application screen using a different resource set. The mobile computing device may be a smartphone running the Android mobile operating system and a full desktop Linux distribution on a modified Android kernel.

Claims

1. A method for dynamically configuring an active application screen of a first application running in a first operating system of a mobile computing device, the first operating system associated with a first active user environment, comprising:

receiving a device configuration change message, the device configuration change message related to a device configuration of a second active user environment, the second active user environment receiving graphics information from the mobile computing device through a graphics interface;

receiving a display parameter associated with an active display of the second active user environment;

selecting an active resource set from a plurality of resource sets associated with the first application based at least in part on the display parameter;

disestablishing a first application screen associated with the first application; and

displaying a second application screen associated with the first application using the active resource set on the active display of the second user environment.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second active user environment is associated with a second operating system, the second operating system in active concurrent execution with the first operating system on a shared kernel of the mobile computing device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising translating a plurality of configuration parameters including the received display parameter into a configuration qualifier, wherein the configuration qualifier is used in selecting the active resource set from the plurality of resource sets.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein at least one of the plurality of configuration parameters is associated with the first active user environment.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the display parameter is based on a property of a console window associated with a console application running on the second operating system.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the display parameter comprises a resolution of the console window.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the display parameter comprises an aspect ratio of the console window.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the device configuration change message indicates a connection state of the second active user environment.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the device configuration change message comprises a user input that indicates that the active application screen is to be moved from a display associated with the first user environment to the display associated with the second user environment.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

selecting a secondary resource set from the plurality of resource sets associated with the application;

displaying a first application screen of the application in a first portion of a display associated with the second active user interaction space using the resource set; and

displaying a second application screen of the application in a second portion of the display associated with the second active user interaction space using the secondary resource set.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the second active user interaction space is associated with the first operating system.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the selecting of the resource set is in response to a user input that indicates that the application should be moved from the first active user interaction space to the second active user interaction space.

13. A mobile computing device including a computer-readable medium storing instructions for a physical processor, the instructions, when executed, causing the processor to perform steps comprising:

running a first application in a first operating system of the mobile computing device, the first operating system associated with a first active user environment;

receiving a device configuration change message, the device configuration change message related to a device configuration of a second active user environment, the second active user environment receiving graphics information from the mobile computing device through a graphics interface;

receiving a display parameter associated with an active display of the second active user environment;

selecting an active resource set from a plurality of resource sets associated with the first application based on the display parameter;

disestablishing a first application screen associated with the first application; and

displaying a second application screen associated with the first application using the active resource set on the active display of the second active user environment.

14. The mobile computing device of claim 13, wherein the second active user environment is associated with a second operating system, the second operating system in active concurrent execution with the first operating system on a shared kernel of the mobile computing device.

15. A method comprising:

maintaining, in a mobile operating system of a mobile computing device, a first active device configuration associated with a first user environment, the first user environment including a display of the mobile computing device;

running a first application on a first operating system of the mobile computing device;

selecting resources for a first application screen associated with the first application according to the first active device configuration;

displaying the first application screen on the display of the mobile computing device;

maintaining a second active device configuration associated with a second user environment;

running a second application on the first operating system;

selecting resources for a second application screen associated with the second application according to the second active device configuration; and

displaying the second application screen on a display of the second user environment.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the second user environment is associated with a second operating system, the second operating system in active concurrent execution with the first operating system on a shared kernel of the mobile computing device.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the second application screen is displayed within a console window associated a console application running on the second operating system.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the second active device configuration includes a qualifier associated with a parameter of the console window.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the second active device configuration includes a qualifier associated with an input device of the second user environment.