Unlock screen

• US 8,892,170 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2012
• Issued: 11/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Teng, Stephanie E., Shi, Jinsheng, Shen, Albert, Haning, Ryan M., Guntaur, Paula, Kruzeniski, Michael J.
• Primary Examiner(s): TRAN, CONGVAN
• Application Number:
  US13/712,777
• Publication Number:
  US 20130102366A1
• Time in Patent Office: 706 Days
• Field of Search: 455/145, 455/158.4, 455/158.5, 455/566, 715/273, 715/761, 715/762, 715/828, 715/863, 715/864
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/082 using revocation of authorisation

Abstract

Unlock screen and notification techniques are described. In an implementation, an unlock screen is displayed by a mobile communications device that indicates that the mobile communications device is locked. If an input is detected to remove the lock by dragging across a Y-axis of the display device, an animation is displayed that gives an appearance that the unlock screen is being removed and the lock on the mobile communications device is removed.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

displaying, on a display device of a mobile communications device, an unlock screen that indicates the mobile communications device is locked; and

when input at the mobile communications device is detected to remove the lock by dragging across a Y-axis of the display device;

displaying an animation that gives an appearance that the unlock screen is being removed;

progressively revealing a user interface of the mobile communications device as the animation gives the appearance that the unlock screen is being removed, the user interface not the same as the unlock screen; and

removing the lock on the mobile communications device.

2. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the input is received via a gesture at the mobile communications device.

3. A method as described in claim 2, wherein the gesture includes selecting a touch target on the display device and dragging the touch target across the display device of the mobile communications device.

4. A method as described in claim 3, wherein the touch target is displayed as an upturned corner of a page.

5. A method as described in claim 3, wherein the input is detected once the touch target is dragged across a threshold defined by the Y-axis of the display device.

6. A method as described in claim 3, wherein if the touch target is released and is not across a threshold defined by the Y-axis of the display device, the touch target is animated to return to an original location on the display device.

7. A method as described in claim 3, wherein the animation is displayed progressively with the dragging of the touch target across the display.

8. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the lock on the mobile communications device is configured to restrict use of inputs effective to remove the lock, to the input that is configured to remove the lock.

9. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the unlock screen is configured to indicate that one or more keys of the mobile communications device are locked and removing the lock on the mobile communications device comprises removing the lock on the one or more keys of the mobile communications device.

10. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the displaying of the unlock screen includes displaying representations of one or more notifications to be output by the mobile communications device since a last time at which the lock was removed.

11. A method as described in claim 10, wherein the representation of the one or more notifications are displayed on the unlock screen as silhouettes of the notifications that are to be output in the user interface after the removing of the lock is performed.

12. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving an indication associated with waking of a display device;

responsive to receiving the indication, causing a first display of a clock on the display device; and

after an amount of time has passed since the waking of the display device, modifying the first display of the clock to produce a second display of the clock on the display device, the second display of the clock having an appearance different from the appearance of the first display of the clock.

13. A method as described in claim 12, further comprising causing display of the clock when in a key locked state.

14. A method as described in claim 13, further comprising causing display of, in conjunction with the clock, silhouettes of one or more notifications that are to be displayed on the display device after the key locked state is removed.

15. A method as described in claim 12, further comprising moving the display of the clock from a location of the display device to a corner of the display device after the amount of time has passed.

16. A method as described in claim 12, further comprising awakening the display device, the awakening to a device locked state, the device locked state being removable by a touch input that drags a touch target across a specified threshold defined by a Y-axis of the display device.

17. A method as recited in claim 12, wherein the appearance of the first display of the clock is a first size and the appearance of the second display of the clock is a second size, the first size larger than the second size, and modifying the first display of the clock to produce the second display of the clock minimizes the clock from the first size to the second size.

18. A mobile communications device comprising:

one or more tangible computer-readable media comprising instructions that are executable by the mobile communications device to;

display, on a display device integrated with the mobile communications device, an unlock screen that indicates the mobile communications device is locked by a lock;

detect an input to remove the lock on the mobile communications device, the input comprising a touch input that is dragged across a Y-axis of the display device; and

responsive to the input being detected, cause display of an animation that;

gives an appearance that the unlock screen is being removed; and

progressively reveals a user interface of the mobile communications device,

the user interface not the same as the unlock screen.

19. A mobile communications device as described in claim 18, wherein the input is detected once the touch input is dragged across a threshold defined by the Y-axis of the display device.

20. A mobile communications device as described in claim 18, wherein the display of the unlock screen includes representations of one or more notifications that are to be output in the user interface after the unlock screen is removed and which are displayed on the unlock screen as silhouettes of the one or more notifications.