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Dock-specific display modes

  • US 8,250,277 B2
  • Filed: 10/28/2010
  • Issued: 08/21/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • determining that a mobile computing device has electrically coupled by physical contact with a docking system that is adapted to supply electrical power for charging the mobile computing device;

    determining that the docking system is a first type of docking system from a plurality of types of docking systems;

    selecting a first user interface profile that corresponds to the first type of docking system from among a plurality of user interface profiles, each of the plurality of user interface profiles corresponding to a respective type of docking system from the plurality of types of docking systems; and

    presenting, by the mobile computing device for display, the first user interface profile in response to selecting the first user interface profile;

    wherein the first user interface profile includes displaying a desktop background display that changes at least in part based on a geographical position of the mobile computing device, and wherein a desktop background display is a display that is presented as a backdrop to multiple graphical interface elements that, when selected, each invoke a respective application program from a plurality of application programs;

    wherein another user interface profile from the plurality of user interface profiles includes a display of a desktop background display that does not change based at least in part on the geographical position of the mobile computing device;

    wherein the first user interface profile specifies a first combination of graphical interface elements to which the desktop background display of the first user interface profile is presented as a backdrop;

    wherein the other user interface profile specifies a second combination of graphical interface elements to which the desktop background display of the other user interface profile is presented as a backdrop;

    wherein the first combination of graphical interface elements is different than the second combination of graphical interface elements.

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