Touch gesture for detailed display

• US 8,381,106 B2
• Filed: 02/03/2011
• Issued: 02/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Bauer, German Wolfgang, Chan, Michael K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chow, Doon
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pham, Linh K
• Application Number:
  US13/020,570
• Publication Number:
  US 20120204123A1
• Time in Patent Office: 747 Days
• Field of Search: 715/722, 715/753, 715/764, 715/768, 715/779, 715/781
• US Class Current: 715/722
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

In general, the present disclosure is directed to techniques for displaying, e.g., events of multiple calendars or annotations in a word processor in a single view. In one example, a method includes, providing a first calendar and a second calendar, wherein the first calendar includes a first group of calendar events at least some of which have corresponding textual event details, and wherein the second calendar includes a second group of calendar events at least some of which have corresponding textual event details; receiving a user input to select one of the first calendar or the second calendar; displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar; and displaying visual representations of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar without displaying the corresponding textual event details.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing a first calendar and a second calendar during execution of a module on a computing device, wherein the first calendar includes a first group of calendar events at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual event details, and wherein the second calendar includes a second group of calendar events at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual event details;

receiving a user input to select the second calendar;

upon receiving the user input, displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar, wherein displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar comprises maintaining a display of the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar; and

upon receiving the user input, displaying visual representations of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar without displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the second group of calendar events.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the module is a part of a calendar application executing on the computing device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the module is a part of an operating system executing on the computing device.

4. The method of claim 1,

wherein receiving the user input comprises receiving the user input to select the first calendar,

wherein displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar comprises displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events responsive to selection of the first calendar, and

wherein displaying the visual representations of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar comprises maintaining a display of the visual representations of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar without displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the second group of calendar events.

5. The method of claim 1,

wherein displaying the visual representations of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar comprises displaying the visual representations of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar responsive to selection of the second calendar.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a second user input to select a calendar event in the second group of calendar events; and

responsive to receiving the second user input, displaying one or more textual event details corresponding to the selected calendar event in the second group of calendar events.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a second user input to select a calendar event in the first group of calendar events; and

responsive to receiving the second user input, displaying visual representations of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar without displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a second user input to select a calendar event in the second group of calendar events; and

responsive to receiving the second user input, displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a second user input to select a control in a control panel of the calendar application; and

responsive to receiving the second user input, displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a second user input to select a control in a control panel of the calendar application; and

responsive to receiving the second user input, displaying visual representations of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar without displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events and of the second group of calendar events include one or more persons or resources, a time, a date, a location, or any combination thereof.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the first group of calendar events is identified by a first unique visual property and the second group of calendar events is identified by a second unique visual property.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the first unique visual property and the second unique visual property are each a different color, shading, or other visual characteristic.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the module comprises an event module, and wherein the event module changes a calendar view in response to the user input.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a third calendar during execution of the calendar application, wherein the third calendar includes a third group of calendar events at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual event details;

receiving a user input to select one of the first calendar, the second calendar, or the third calendar; and

responsive to receiving the user input to select the third calendar, displaying visual representations of the third group of calendar events for the third calendar without displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the third group of calendar events.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that when executed cause one or more processors of a computing device to perform operations comprising:

providing a first calendar and a second calendar during execution of a module, wherein the first calendar includes a first group of calendar events at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual event details, and wherein the second calendar includes a second group of calendar events at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual event details;

receiving a user input to select the second calendar;

upon receiving the user input, displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar, wherein displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar comprises maintaining a display of the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar; and

upon receiving the user input, displaying visual representations of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar without displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the second group of calendar events.

17. A computing device, comprising:

one or more processors;

an output device;

a calendar application installed on the computing device and operable by the one or more processors to display at the output device a first calendar and a second calendar during execution of the calendar application, wherein the first calendar includes a first group of calendar events at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual event details, and wherein the second calendar includes a second group of calendar events at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual event details;

an input device to receive a user input to select the second calendar; and

means for displaying;

the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar, wherein displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar comprises maintaining a display of the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar, and

visual representations of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar without displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the second group of calendar events.

18. A method comprising:

providing a first annotation group and a second annotation group during execution of a module on a computing device, wherein the first annotation group includes annotations at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual annotation details, and wherein the second annotation group includes annotations at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual annotation details;

receiving a user input to select the second annotation group;

upon receiving the user input, displaying the one or more corresponding textual annotation details of the annotations for the first annotation group, wherein displaying the one or more corresponding textual annotation details of the annotations for the first annotation group comprises maintaining a display of the one or more corresponding textual annotation details of the annotations for the first annotation group; and

upon receiving the user input, displaying visual representations of the annotations for the second annotation group without displaying the one or more corresponding textual annotation details of the annotations of the second annotation group.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the module is a part of an application executing on the computing device.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the module comprises an event module, and wherein the event module changes an application view of the computing device in response to the user input.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein the module is a part of an operating system executing on the computing device.

22. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that cause one or more processors of a computing device to:

provide a first annotation group and a second annotation group during execution of a module, wherein the first annotation group includes annotations at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual annotation details, and wherein the second annotation group includes annotations at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual annotation details;

receive a user input to select the second annotation group;

upon receiving the user input, display the one or more corresponding textual annotation details of the annotations for the first annotation group, wherein displaying the one or more corresponding textual annotation details of the annotations for the first annotation group comprises maintaining a display of the one or more corresponding textual annotation details of the annotations for the first annotation group; and

upon receiving the user input, display visual representations of the annotations for the second annotation group without displaying the one or more corresponding textual annotation details of the annotations of the second annotation group.

23. A computing device, comprising:

one or more processors;

an output device;

an application installed on the computing device and operable by the one or more processors to display at the output device a first annotation group and a second annotation group during execution of the application, wherein the first annotation group includes a first group of annotations at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual annotation details, and wherein the second annotation group includes a second group of annotations at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual annotation details;

an input device to receive a user input to select the second annotation group; and

means for displaying;

the one or more corresponding textual annotation details of the first group of annotations for the first annotation group, wherein displaying the one or more corresponding textual annotation details of the annotations for the first annotation group comprises maintaining a display of the one or more corresponding textual annotation details of the annotations for the first annotation group, and

visual representations of the second group of annotations for the second annotation group without displaying the one or more corresponding textual annotation details of the second group of annotations.

24. A method comprising:

displaying a first group of objects and a second group of objects;

displaying first corresponding information of at least one of the first group of objects;

displaying second corresponding information of at least one of the second group of objects;

receiving, by a computing device, user input to select the second group of objects;

upon receiving the user input, displaying a quantity of the first corresponding information of the at least one of the first group of objects, wherein displaying the first corresponding information of the at least one of the first group of objects comprises maintaining a display of the first corresponding information of the at least one of the first group of objects;

upon receiving the user input, displaying a quantity of the second corresponding information of the at least one of the second group of objects, wherein the first quantity is not equal to the second quantity.

25. The method of claim 24,

wherein the first group of objects comprises a first calendar, the first calendar including a first group of calendar events;

and

wherein the second group of objects comprises a second calendar, the second calendar including a second group of calendar events.

26. The method of claim 24,

wherein the first group of objects comprises a first annotation group, the first annotation group including one or more first annotations;

and

wherein the second group of objects comprises a second annotation group, the second annotation group including one or more second annotations.

27. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

displaying visual representations of the at least one of the first group of objects when the first quantity of the first corresponding information is equal to zero.

28. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

displaying visual representations of the at least one of the second group of objects when the second quantity of the first corresponding information is equal to zero.