Smart Watch Device And User Interface Thereof

• US 20150253885A1
• Filed: 12/17/2014
• Published: 09/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Quixey, Inc.
• Inventors: Kagan, Tomer, Shapira, Liron
• Granted Patent: US 10,409,454 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications

Abstract

A smart watch device includes a wrist watch housing configured to be worn around a user'"'"'s wrist, a computing device included in the housing, and a display device included in the housing and communicatively coupled to the computing device. The computing device is configured to transmit a search query to a search system and receive one or more search results from the search system in response to transmitting the search query. Each search result indicates a computing device function. The computing device is further configured to display only one of the search results using the display device, detect a user selection of the displayed search result, and transmit an indication of the user selection to a performing device. The performing device is configured to perform the function indicated by the displayed search result in response to receiving the indication.

Claims

1. A smart watch device comprising:

a wrist watch housing configured to be worn around a user'"'"'s wrist;

a computing device included in the wrist watch housing; and

a display device included in the wrist watch housing and communicatively coupled to the computing device,

wherein the computing device is configured to transmit a search query to a search system configured to generate search results in response to a received search query, receive one or more search results from the search system in response to transmitting the search query, wherein each search result indicates a computing device function, display only one of the one or more search results using the display device, detect a user selection of the one of the one or more search results, and transmit an indication of the user selection to a performing device, wherein the performing device is configured to perform the function indicated by the one of the one or more search results in response to receiving the indication.

2. The smart watch device of claim 1, wherein the one of the one or more search results includes an access mechanism, and wherein to perform the function indicated by the one of the one or more search results, the performing device is configured to set an application into a state of the application using the access mechanism.

3. The smart watch device of claim 1, wherein the computing device is further configured to detect a user input configured to cause the computing device to navigate through the one or more search results, and display a different only one of the one or more search results using the display device in response to detecting the user input.

4. The smart watch device of claim 3, wherein the one of the one or more search results is associated with an application, wherein to detect the user input, the computing device is configured to detect one of a right swiping gesture and a left swiping gesture at the display device, and wherein to display the different one of the one or more search results, the computing device is configured to display one of the one or more search results that is associated with the same application.

5. The smart watch device of claim 3, wherein the one of the one or more search results is associated with a first application, wherein to detect the user input, the computing device is configured to detect one of an upward swiping gesture and a downward swiping gesture at the display device, and wherein to display the different one of the one or more search results, the computing device is configured to display one of the one or more search results that is associated with a second application that is different than the first application.

6. The smart watch device of claim 1, wherein the computing device is further configured to:

store the one or more search results within one or more of the smart watch device and a data store located outside of the smart watch device;

receive a user input configured to cause the computing device to display the stored one or more search results using the display device; and

display only one of the stored one or more search results using the display device in response to receiving the user input.

7. The smart watch device of claim 6, wherein the user input comprises a first user input, wherein the computing device is further configured to detect a second user input configured to cause the computing device to navigate through the stored one or more search results, and display a different only one of the stored one or more search results using the display in response to detecting the second user input.

8. The smart watch device of claim 1, wherein the computing device is further configured to display an indication of the performing device using the display device.

9. The smart watch device of claim 8, wherein the computing device is further configured to display an indication of each of one or more of the following using the display device:

whether the performing device is communicatively coupled to the computing device;

whether the performing device has been previously communicatively coupled to the computing device;

a communication interface by which the performing device is communicatively coupled to the computing device;

a location of the performing device; and

availability of the performing device to perform the function indicated by the one of the one or more search results.

10. The smart watch device of claim 1, wherein to transmit the indication of the user selection to the performing device, the computing device is configured to:

display an indication of each of one or more performing devices including the performing device using the display device;

detect a user selection of one of the one or more indications that corresponds to the performing device; and

select the performing device from among the one or more performing devices in response to detecting the user selection.

11. The smart watch device of claim 10, wherein each of the one or more performing devices including the performing device comprises a performing device that is capable of performing the function indicated by the one of the one or more search results in response to receiving the indication and one or more of a performing device that is communicatively coupled to the computing device, a performing device that has been previously communicatively coupled to the computing device, a performing device that is located proximate to the computing device, and a performing device that is available to perform the function indicated by the one of the one or more search results.

12. The smart watch device of claim 10, wherein the computing device is further configured to display an indication of each of one or more of the following using the display device:

whether each of at least one of the one or more performing devices including the performing device is communicatively coupled to the computing device;

whether each of at least one of the one or more performing devices including the performing device has been previously communicatively coupled to the computing device;

a communication interface by which each of at least one of the one or more performing devices including the performing device is communicatively coupled to the computing device;

a location of each of at least one of the one or more performing devices including the performing device; and

availability of each of at least one of the one or more performing devices including the performing device to perform the function indicated by the one of the one or more search results.

13. The smart watch device of claim 10, wherein the computing device is configured to display the one or more indications using the display device along with the one of the one or more search results displayed using the display device.

14. The smart watch device of claim 10, wherein the computing device is configured to display the one or more indications using the display device after detecting the user selection of the one of the one or more search results, wherein the computing device is configured to display the one or more indications in place of the one of the one or more search results displayed using the display device.

15. The smart watch device of claim 10, wherein to display the one or more indications of the one or more performing devices including the performing device using the display device, the computing device is configured to arrange each of at least one of the one or more indications based on one or more of:

whether the corresponding one of the one or more performing devices is communicatively coupled to the computing device;

whether the corresponding one of the one or more performing devices has been previously communicatively coupled to the computing device;

whether the corresponding one of the one or more performing devices is located proximate to the computing device;

whether the corresponding one of the one or more performing devices is available to perform the function indicated by the one of the one or more search results;

a number of times the corresponding one of the one or more performing devices has been previously selected from among one or more performing devices; and

how frequently the corresponding one of the one or more performing devices has been selected from among one or more performing devices.

16. The smart watch device of claim 1, wherein the one of the one or more search results indicates multiple computing device functions and includes multiple graphical elements that each indicate a different one of the multiple functions, wherein to detect the user selection of the one of the one or more search results, the computing device is configured to detect a user selection of one of the multiple graphical elements, wherein the indication of the user selection of the one of the one or more search results comprises an indication of the user selection of the one of the multiple graphical elements, and wherein the performing device is configured to perform the one of the multiple functions indicated by the one of the multiple graphical elements in response to receiving the indication.

17. The smart watch device of claim 16, wherein each of at least one of the multiple graphical elements further indicates one or more of:

a performing device that is configured to perform the one of the multiple functions associated with the graphical element;

whether the performing device is communicatively coupled to the computing device;

whether the performing device has been previously communicatively coupled to the computing device;

a communication interface by which the performing device is communicatively coupled to the computing device;

a location of the performing device; and

availability of the performing device to perform the one of the multiple functions.

18. The smart watch device of claim 1, wherein the computing device is further configured to detect a user input, wherein the user input is configured to cause the performing device to display an expanded version of the one of the search results, and transmit an indication of the user input to the performing device, and wherein to perform the function indicated by the one of the search results, the performing device is configured to display the expanded version of the one of the search results in response to receiving the user input, detect a user selection of the expanded version of the one of the search results, and perform the function indicated by the one of the search results in response to detecting the user selection.

19. A method comprising:

transmitting, using a smart watch device, a search query to a search system configured to generate search results in response to a received search query;

receiving one or more search results from the search system in response to transmitting the search query at the smart watch device, wherein each search result indicates a computing device function;

displaying only one of the one or more search results at the smart watch device;

detecting, using the smart watch device, a user selection of the one of the one or more search results; and

transmitting, using the smart watch device, an indication of the user selection to a performing device, wherein the performing device is configured to perform the function indicated by the one of the one or more search results in response to receiving the indication.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that cause one or more computing devices to:

transmit, using a smart watch device, a search query to a search system configured to generate search results in response to a received search query;

receive one or more search results from the search system in response to transmitting the search query at the smart watch device, wherein each search result indicates a computing device function;

display only one of the one or more search results at the smart watch device;

detect, using the smart watch device, a user selection of the one of the one or more search results; and

transmit, using the smart watch device, an indication of the user selection to a performing device, wherein the performing device is configured to perform the function indicated by the one of the one or more search results in response to receiving the indication.