REDUCED-SIZE USER INTERFACES FOR DYNAMICALLY UPDATED APPLICATION OVERVIEWS

• US 20160062589A1
• Filed: 08/10/2015
• Published: 03/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: WAN, Wan Si, BUTCHER, Gary Ian, CHAUDHRI, Imran, DYE, Alan C., Federighi, Craig M., FOSS, Christopher Patrick, IVE, Jonathan P., LEMAY, Stephen O., LYNCH, Kevin, MARIC, Natalia, NOVICK, Gregory, WILLIAMS, Jeff, WILSON, Christopher, Yang, Lawrence Y.
• Granted Patent: US 10,254,948 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04105 Pressure sensors for measuring the pressure or force exerted on the touch surface without providing the touch position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

An electronic device with a touch-sensitive display can detect a contact with the display, and in response to detecting the contact, the device can display a user interface screen representing a corresponding application. The user interface screen can include an affordance for launching the application, and a set of information obtained from the application, where the set of information is updated in accordance with data from the application.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display, cause the device to:

detect a contact with the touch-sensitive display;

in response to detecting the contact, display a user interface screen representing a corresponding application, the user interface screen comprising;

an affordance for launching the application; and

a set of information obtained from the application, wherein the set of information is updated in accordance with data from the application.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the affordance for launching the application is the displayed user interface screen.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the corresponding application is executing on the electronic device and is not displayed on the touch-sensitive display.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the application is executing on an external device, and wherein the set of information is received from the external device.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, further comprising instructions to cause the device to:

detecting a selection of the affordance for launching the application; and

in response to detecting the selection of the affordance, replacing display of the user interface screen with display of the application.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the contact is a swipe on the touch-sensitive display.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the set of information is a first set of information, further comprising instructions to cause the device to:

detecting a second contact on the touch-sensitive display at a location corresponding to the user interface screen; and

in response to detecting the second contact, displaying a second set of information obtained from the application, wherein the second set of information is different from the first set of information, and wherein the second set of information is updated in accordance with data from the application.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 7, wherein the second contact is a substantially vertical swipe on the touch-sensitive display.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the displayed user interface screen is selected from a set of user interface screens that represent a set of corresponding applications.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 9, wherein the displayed user interface screen is selected based on the most recently viewed user interface screen in the set of user interface screens.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 9, wherein the displayed user interface screen is selected based on configuration data on the electronic device.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the user interface screen further comprises a user interface object representing an operation that can be executed by the corresponding application, further comprising instructions to cause the device to:

detecting a third contact on the touch-sensitive display at a location corresponding to the user interface object; and

in response to detecting the third contact, providing data to the application to cause it to perform the operation.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 9, further comprising instructions to cause the device to:

detecting a fourth contact on the touch-sensitive display;

in response to detecting the fourth contact, displaying a second user interface screen selected from the set of user interface screens, wherein the second user interface screen represents a corresponding second application, the second user interface screen comprising;

an affordance for launching the second application; and

a set of information obtained from the second application, wherein the set of information is updated in accordance with data from the second application.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 13, wherein the fourth contact is a substantially horizontal swipe.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 13, wherein displaying the second user interface screen replaces display of the first user interface screen.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 13, wherein the set of user interface screens is an ordered set, and wherein the second user interface screen is adjacent in order to the user interface screen.

17. A method, comprising:

at an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display;

detecting a contact with the touch-sensitive display;

in response to detecting the contact, displaying a user interface screen representing a corresponding application, the user interface screen comprising;

an affordance for launching the application; and

a set of information obtained from the application, wherein the set of information is updated in accordance with data from the application.

18. An electronic device, comprising:

a touch-sensitive display;

one or more processors;

a memory; and

one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

detecting a contact with the touch-sensitive display;

in response to detecting the contact, displaying a user interface screen representing a corresponding application, the user interface screen comprising;

an affordance for launching the application; and

a set of information obtained from the application, wherein the set of information is updated in accordance with data from the application.