Input to locked computing device

• US 8,839,413 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2013
• Issued: 09/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: LeBeau, Michael J., Jitkoff, John Nicholas, Guy, Romain P.
• Primary Examiner(s): SHEHNI, GHAZAL B
• Application Number:
  US13/847,301
• Publication Number:
  US 20130219346A1
• Time in Patent Office: 546 Days
• Field of Search: 726 17- 20
• US Class Current: 726/17
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/36 by graphic or iconic representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/62 Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/629 to features or functions of an application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/70 Protecting specific internal or peripheral components, in which the protection of a component leads to protection of the entire computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/032 Protect output to user by software means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2105 Dual mode as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback

Abstract

The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes receiving at a computing device that is in a locked state, one or more user inputs to unlock the device and to execute at least one command that is different from a command for unlocking the device. The method further includes executing in response to the user inputs to unlock the device an unlocking operation by the device to convert the device from a locked state to an unlocked state. The method further includes executing the at least one command in response to receiving the user inputs to execute the at least one command. The at least one command executes so that results of executing the at least one command are first displayed on the device to a user automatically after the device changes from the locked state to the unlocked state.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

outputting, by a computing system and while the computing system is in a locked state, information to cause a display of;

(a) a particular user interface element,

(b) a first user interface element that corresponds to a first action, and

(c) a second user interface element that corresponds to a second action,

wherein the computing system is configured so that a contact, with a touchscreen, that includes a dragging motion between the display of the particular user interface element and the display of the first user interface element causes the computing system to perform an unlocking operation and the first action, and a contact, with the touchscreen, that includes a dragging motion between the display of the particular user interface element and the display of the second user interface element causes the computing system to perform the unlocking operation and the second action;

receiving, by the computing system and while the computing system is in the locked state, an indication of a first contact, with the touchscreen, that includes a dragging motion between the display of the particular user interface element and the display of either of the first user interface element and the second user interface element; and

performing, by the computing system and in response to receiving the indication of the first contact with the touchscreen;

(a) the unlocking operation to convert the computing system from the locked state to an unlocked state, and

(b) one of the first action and the second action based on whether the first contact included a dragging motion between the display of the particular user interface element and the display of the first user interface element, or whether the first contact included a dragging motion between the display of the particular user interface element and the display of the second user interface element.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first contact includes a dragging motion from the display of the first user interface element or the display of the second user interface element to the display of the particular user interface element.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first contact includes a dragging motion from the display of the particular user interface element to the display of the first user interface element or the display of the second user interface element.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, further comprising identifying that the first contact released from the touchscreen at a portion of the touchscreen at which the first user interface element was being displayed or a portion of the touchscreen at which the second user interface element was being displayed.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first contact with the touchscreen contacted, without releasing from the touchscreen, both a portion of the touchscreen at which the particular user interface element was being displayed and another portion of the touchscreen at which the first user interface element or the second user interface element was being displayed.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the computing system is configured to perform the unlocking operation to convert the computing system from the locked state to the unlocked state in response to receiving an indication of a second contact, with the touchscreen, that contacted a portion of the touchscreen at which the particular user interface element was being displayed without contacting a portion of the touchscreen at which the first user interface element was being displayed and without contacting a portion of the touchscreen at which the second user interface element was being displayed.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving, by the computing system and while the computing system is in the locked state, an indication of a second contact, with the touchscreen, that has contacted a portion of the touchscreen at which the particular user interface element was being displayed without contacting a portion of the touchscreen at which the first user interface element was being displayed and without contacting a portion of the touchscreen at which the second user interface element was being displayed; and

performing, by the computing system and in response to receiving the indication of the second contact with the touchscreen, the unlocking operation to convert the computing system from the locked state to the unlocked state.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the computing system performs the one of the first action and the second action such that a result of the one of the first action and the second action is presented after the computing system has converted from the locked state to the unlocked state.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the result of the one of the first action and the second action is not presented by the computing system while the computing system is in the locked state.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein:

the first action is an action to display a telephone application program or an email application program, and

the second action is an action to display an other of the telephone application program or the email application program, that is not displayed by the first action.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, are operable to cause the one or more processors to perform operations that comprise:

outputting, by a computing system and while the computing system is in a locked state, information to cause a display of;

(a) a particular user interface element,

(b) a first user interface element that corresponds to a first action, and

(c) a second user interface element that corresponds to a second action,

wherein the computing system is configured so that a contact, with a touchscreen, that includes a dragging motion between the display of the particular user interface element and the display of the first user interface element causes the computing system to perform an unlocking operation and the first action, and a contact, with the touchscreen, that includes a dragging motion between the display of the particular user interface element and the display of the second user interface element causes the computing system to perform the unlocking operation and the second action;

receiving, by the computing system and while the computing system is in the locked state, an indication of a first contact, with the touchscreen, that includes a dragging motion between the display of the particular user interface element and the display of either of the first user interface element and the second user interface element; and

performing, by the computing system and in response to receiving the indication of the first contact with the touchscreen;

(a) the unlocking operation to convert the computing system from the locked state to an unlocked state, and

(b) one of the first action and the second action based on whether the first contact included a dragging motion between the display of the particular user interface element and the display of the first user interface element, or whether the first contact included a dragging motion between the display of the particular user interface element and the display of the second user interface element.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the first contact includes a dragging motion from the display of the first user interface element or the display of the second user interface element to the display of the particular user interface element.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the first contact includes a dragging motion from the display of the particular user interface element to the display of the first user interface element or the display of the second user interface element.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise identifying that the first contact released from the touchscreen at a portion of the touchscreen at which the first user interface element was being displayed or a portion of the touchscreen at which the second user interface element was being displayed.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the first contact with the touchscreen contacted, without releasing from the touchscreen, both a portion of the touchscreen at which the particular user interface element was being displayed and another portion of the touchscreen at which the first user interface element or the second user interface element was being displayed.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the computing system is configured to perform the unlocking operation to convert the computing system from the locked state to the unlocked state in response to receiving an indication of a second contact, with the touchscreen, that contacted a portion of the touchscreen at which the particular user interface element was being displayed without contacting a portion of the touchscreen at which the first user interface element was being displayed and without contacting a portion of the touchscreen at which the second user interface element was being displayed.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, by the computing system and while the computing system is in the locked state, an indication of a second contact, with the touchscreen, that has contacted a portion of the touchscreen at which the particular user interface element was being displayed without contacting a portion of the touchscreen at which the first user interface element was being displayed and without contacting a portion of the touchscreen at which the second user interface element was being displayed; and

performing, by the computing system and in response to receiving the indication of the second contact with the touchscreen, the unlocking operation to convert the computing system from the locked state to the unlocked state.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the computing system performs the one of the first action and the second action such that a result of the one of the first action and the second action is presented after the computing system has converted from the locked state to the unlocked state.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the result of the one of the first action and the second action is not presented by the computing system while the computing system is in the locked state.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein:

the first action is an action to display a telephone application program or an email application program, and

the second action is an action to display an other of the telephone application program or the email application program, that is not displayed by the first action.