Varying User Interface Based on Location or Speed

• US 20140222912A1
• Filed: 02/05/2013
• Published: 08/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: St. Clair, Luke
• Application Number:
  US13/759,821
• Publication Number:
  US 20140222912A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• 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 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion

Abstract

In one embodiment, a mobile computing device may determine a current location of the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device may, in response to determining the current location and without manual user input, modify a user interface of the mobile computing device based at least in part on the current location.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

by a mobile computing device, determining a current location or velocity of the mobile computing device; and

by the mobile computing device, in response to determining the current location or velocity and without manual user input, modifying a user interface of the mobile computing device based at least in part on the current location or velocity.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the user interface of the mobile computing device comprises providing for display on the user interface of the mobile computing device a user-interface element that is relevant to the current location or velocity.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the user-interface element is associated with a service of a social-networking system accessible through the mobile computing device, the social-networking system comprising a graph comprising a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, at least one node in the graph corresponding to a user of the mobile computing device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the service comprises:

a location check-in on the social-networking system;

photograph uploading to the social-networking system;

a search for other users of the social-networking system in proximity to the user that have nodes in the graph corresponding to them with edges connected to at least one node corresponding to the user;

or

a search for places of interest in proximity to the user based on information in the graph of the social-networking system.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the user-interface element corresponds to:

a dictionary tool;

or

a language-translation tool.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the user interface comprises changing a display prominence of a user-interface element on the user interface of the mobile computing device.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein changing the display prominence of the user-interface element comprises changing a display size, display color, or display location of the user-interface element on the user interface of the mobile computing device.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the user-interface element is associated with a service of a social-networking system accessible through the mobile computing device, the social-networking system comprising a graph comprising a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, at least one node in the graph corresponding to a user of the mobile computing device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the service comprises:

a location check-in on the social-networking system;

photograph uploading to the social-networking system;

a search for other users of the social-networking system in proximity to the user that have nodes in the graph corresponding to them with edges connected to at least one node corresponding to the user.

a search for places of interest in proximity to the user based on information in the graph of the social-networking system.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the method further comprises, by the mobile computing device, determining a previous location or velocity of the mobile computing device;

the user interface of the mobile computing device is modified based at least in part on the previous location or velocity in addition to the current location or velocity.

11. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed by a mobile computing device to:

determine a current location or velocity of the mobile computing device; and

in response to determining the current location or velocity and without manual user input, modify a user interface of the mobile computing device based at least in part on the current location or velocity.

12. The media of claim 11, wherein to modify the user interface of the mobile computing device, the software is operable when executed by the mobile computing device to provide for display on the user interface of the mobile computing device a user-interface element that is relevant to the current location or velocity.

13. The media of claim 12, wherein the user-interface element is associated with a service of a social-networking system accessible through the mobile computing device, the social-networking system comprising a graph comprising a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, at least one node in the graph corresponding to a user of the mobile computing device.

14. The media of claim 13, wherein the service comprises:

a location check-in on the social-networking system;

photograph uploading to the social-networking system;

a search for other users of the social-networking system in proximity to the user that have nodes in the graph corresponding to them with edges connected to at least one node corresponding to the user;

or

a search for places of interest in proximity to the user based on information in the graph of the social-networking system.

15. The media of claim 12, wherein the user-interface element corresponds to:

a dictionary tool;

or

a language-translation tool.

16. The media of claim 11, wherein to modify the user interface, the software is operable when executed by the mobile computing device to change a display prominence of a user-interface element on the user interface of the mobile computing device.

17. The media of claim 16, wherein the changing the display prominence of the user-interface element comprises changing a display size, display color, or display location of the user-interface element on the user interface of the mobile computing device.

18. The media of claim 16, wherein the user-interface element is associated with a service of a social-networking system accessible through the mobile computing device, the social-networking system comprising a graph comprising a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, at least one node in the graph corresponding to a user of the mobile computing device.

19. The media of claim 18, wherein the service comprises:

a location check-in on the social-networking system;

photograph uploading to the social-networking system;

a search for other users of the social-networking system in proximity to the user that have nodes in the graph corresponding to them with edges connected to at least one node corresponding to the user.

a search for places of interest in proximity to the user based on information in the graph of the social-networking system.

20. The media of claim 11, wherein:

the software is further operable when executed by the mobile computing device to determine a previous location or velocity of the mobile computing device;

the user interface of the mobile computing device is modified based at least in part on the previous location or velocity in addition to the current location or velocity.