Stage interaction for mobile device

• US 8,453,057 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2008
• Issued: 05/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Stallings, Heath, Roberts, Brian F., Relyea, Donald H. Jr., Dunnam, Daniel Spurgeon
• Primary Examiner(s): Stevens, Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): WIENER, ERIC A
• Application Number:
  US12/341,500
• Publication Number:
  US 20100162160A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,618 Days
• Field of Search: 715/726, 715/771, 715/784, 715788-801, 715/835, 715/840, 715/863, 715/745, 715/811, 715821-825
• US Class Current: 715/726
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

A device displays, on a screen, a graphical window from a sequence of graphical windows, where the graphical window includes a group of display elements. The device also receives a user input to the graphical window and identifies a type of the user input, where the type of the user input includes a horizontal input or a vertical input. The device displays, on the screen, another graphical window from the sequence of graphical windows when the type of user input is a horizontal input and scrolls through a stack of the display elements within the graphical window when the type of user input is a vertical input.

Claims

1. A computing device-implemented method comprising:

displaying, on a screen of the computing device, a graphical window from a sequence of graphical windows, the graphical window including a group of display elements;

displaying, on the screen of the computing device, a footer to indicate a relative position of the displayed graphical window among the sequence of graphical windows;

receiving a user input to the graphical window;

identifying the user input as a horizontal input; and

displaying, on the screen of the computing device and based on the horizontal input, another graphical window from the sequence of graphical windows,

the footer being displayed in an inactive state prior to the horizontal input and including first graphical images, and the footer being displayed in an active state, including a plurality of second graphical images that are each associated with a different graphical window of the sequence of graphical windows and each unique to information displayed in each different graphical window, based on the horizontal input, a plurality of the first graphical images being different than the plurality of the second graphical images.

2. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, where the user input further includes a selection input, the method further comprising:

associating a location of the user input with a particular display element of the group of display elements based on the user input including the selection input; and

launching an application associated with the particular display element based on the user input including the selection input.

3. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, where the user input further includes a vertical input, the method further comprising:

scrolling, based on the vertical input, through a stack of the display elements within the graphical window.

4. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, where the group of display elements include a link to one or more of:

a telephone application,

a text-messaging application,

an email application,

an instant messaging (IM) application,

a calendar application,

a multimedia messaging service (MMS) application, or

a short message service (SMS) application.

5. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, where the user input includes:

a touch on a touch-sensitive display.

6. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, where the user input includes one of:

an input from a device guiding a cursor,

an input from one of a set of control buttons, or

an input from a keypad.

7. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying, beside the graphical window on the screen of the computing device, another graphical window from the sequence of graphical windows, the other graphical window including a different group of display elements.

8. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, where the computing device comprises one or more of:

a radiotelephone,

a personal communications system (PCS) terminal, or

a personal digital assistant (PDA).

9. The computing device-implemented method of claim 1, where the computing device comprises one or more of:

a laptop computer,

a personal computer,

a tablet computer,

an ultra-mobile personal computer,

a personal gaming system, or

a global positioning system (GPS) unit.

10. A device comprising:

a touch-sensitive display;

a memory to store a plurality of instructions; and

a processor to execute instructions in the memory to;

display, on the touch-sensitive display, a graphical window from a sequence of graphical windows, the graphical window including a group of display elements;

display, on the touch-sensitive display, a footer to indicate a relative position of the displayed graphical window among the sequence of graphical windows;

receive a user input to the graphical window;

identify the user input as a horizontal input;

display, on the touch-sensitive display and based on the horizontal input, another graphical window from the sequence of graphical windows,

the footer being displayed in an inactive state prior to the horizontal input and including first graphical images, and the footer being displayed in an active state, including a plurality of second graphical images that are each associated with a different graphical window of the sequence of graphical windows and each unique to information displayed in each different graphical window, based on the horizontal input, a plurality of the first graphical images being different than the plurality of the second graphical images.

11. The device of claim 10, where the user input further includes a vertical input, and where the processor further executes instructions in the memory to:

scroll, based on the vertical input, through a stack of the display elements within the graphical window.

12. The device of claim 10, where the user input further includes a selection input, and where the processor further executes instructions in the memory to:

launch, based on the selection input, an application associated with the particular display element.

13. The device of claim 10, where the group of display elements includes a link to one or more of:

a telephone application,

a text-messaging application,

an email application,

an instant messaging (IM) application,

a calendar application,

a multimedia messaging service (MMS) application, or

a short message service (SMS) application.

14. The device of claim 10, where the device comprises one or more of:

a radiotelephone,

a personal communications system (PCS) terminal,

a personal digital assistant (PDA),

a laptop computer,

a personal computer,

a tablet computer,

an ultra-mobile personal computer,

a camera,

a gaming system, or

a global positioning system (GPS) unit.

15. The device of claim 10, further comprising one or more of:

a set of control buttons, or

a keypad,

where the processor further executes instructions in the memory to receive the user input to the graphical window from the set of control buttons or the keypad.

16. A device comprising:

means for displaying, on a screen of the computing device, a graphical window from a sequence of graphical windows, the graphical window including a group of display elements;

means for displaying, on the screen of the computing device, a footer to indicate a relative position of the displayed graphical window among the sequence of graphical windows;

means for receiving a user input to the graphical window;

means for identifying the user input as a horizontal input;

means for displaying, on the screen of the computing device and based on the horizontal input, another graphical window from the sequence of graphical windows;

means for associating a location of the horizontal input with a particular display element of the group of display elements,

the footer being displayed in an inactive state prior to the horizontal input and including first graphical images, and the footer being displayed in an active state, including a plurality of second graphical images that are each associated with a different graphical window of the sequence of graphical windows and each unique to information displayed in each different graphical window, based on the horizontal input, a plurality of the first graphical images being different than the plurality of the second graphical images.

17. The device of claim 16, further comprising:

means for identifying a selection input in connection with a particular display element; and

means for launching, based on the selection input, an application associated with the particular display element.

18. The device of claim 16, further comprising:

means for identifying a vertical input; and

means for scrolling, based on the vertical input, through a stack of the display elements within the graphical window.

19. The device of claim 16, further comprising

means for displaying, on the screen of the computing device, another graphical window from the sequence of graphical windows, the other graphical window including a different group of display elements.

20. The device of claim 16, where the user input includes:

a touch on a touch-sensitive display.