Touch Sensitive UI Pinch and Flick Techniques for Managing Active Applications
First Claim
1. A device, comprising:
- a display for displaying content to a user;
a touch sensitive surface for allowing user input; and
a user interface including the ability to interact with multiple applications, wherein a pinch gesture performed on the touch sensitive surface forms a stack of active applications and a flick gesture on the touch sensitive surface performs a function on all of the active applications in the stack.
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Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for managing active applications on a touch sensitive computing device using a pinch and flick gesture input, referred to collectively herein as a manage active apps mode. The manage active apps mode allows a user to perform a pinch gesture on a display of active applications to form a stack of those active applications. The user can then perform a flick gesture on the stack to perform a function on all of the active applications in the stack. The function may include closing, stopping, force stopping, quitting, or deleting the active applications in the stack, for example. In some cases, the manage active apps mode may be configured to provide feedback (e.g., an animation or sound) after a stack has been flicked to indicate that the function was performed (e.g., that the apps were closed, stopped, etc.).
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20 Claims
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1. A device, comprising:
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a display for displaying content to a user; a touch sensitive surface for allowing user input; and a user interface including the ability to interact with multiple applications, wherein a pinch gesture performed on the touch sensitive surface forms a stack of active applications and a flick gesture on the touch sensitive surface performs a function on all of the active applications in the stack. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A mobile computing device, comprising:
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a display having a touch screen interface and for displaying content to a user; and a user interface including a manage active apps mode that can be invoked in response to user input via the touch sensitive surface, the user input comprising; a pinch gesture performed on an active apps screen that displays active applications, wherein the pinch gesture causes the active applications to form into a stack; and a flick gesture performed on the stack; wherein the manage active apps mode is configured to perform one of a close, stop, force stop, quit, and delete function on all of the active applications in the stack when invoked. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A computer program product comprising a plurality of instructions non-transiently encoded thereon to facilitate operation of an electronic device according to the following process, the process comprising:
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form a stack of active applications in response to a first user input via a touch sensitive interface of a device capable of displaying content, wherein the first user input includes a pinch gesture performed on the touch sensitive surface; and perform a function on the active applications in the stack in response to a second user input via the touch sensitive interface, wherein the second user input includes a flick gesture. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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