Restricted carousel with built-in gesture customization

• US 8,988,369 B1
• Filed: 09/29/2011
• Issued: 03/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Fulcher, Richard, Cohen, Gabriel, Westbrook, Paul, Flynn, Andrew
• Primary Examiner(s): Sitta, Grant
• Application Number:
  US13/248,911
• Time in Patent Office: 1,272 Days
• Field of Search: 345170-173, 715/700
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A method, computer program product, and system are provided for defining a touch gesture on a touch sensing device. The method can include receiving a touch gesture at the touch sensing device, determining that the touch gesture is not associated with any operations, and providing an indication of one or more operations the touch sensing device can perform in response to the touch gesture. The method can also include receiving a selection of an operation, and associating the touch gesture with the selected operation.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, at a computing device, an indication of a first touch gesture, the first touch gesture entered at a touch sensing device operatively coupled to the computing device;

responsive to determining, by the computing device, that the first touch gesture is not associated with any operations of an application stored at the computing device, determining one or more operations that can be performed by the application and outputting, for display at a display device, a menu indicating of the one or more operations that can be performed by the application;

responsive to receiving, at the computing device, an indication of a selection of a first operation of the one or more operations, associating the first touch gesture with the first operation; and

responsive to receiving, at the computing device, an indication of a selection to associate a second operation of the one or more operations with the first touch gesture, associating the first touch gesture with the second operation and disassociating the first touch gesture from the first operation.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing, by the computing device, the first operation.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more operations include at least one of switching between one or more email accounts, switching between one or more labels associated with one of the one or more email accounts, switching between one or more folders associated with one of the one or more email accounts, and taking no action.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein performing the first operation comprises:

hiding, from display at the display device, a first email account; and

outputting, for display at the display device, a second email account.

6. The computer-readable medium of claim 4, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the computing device to perform the first operation associated with the first touch gesture.

7. The computer-readable medium of claim 4, wherein the one or more operations include at least one of switching between one or more email accounts, switching between one or more labels associated with one of the one or more email account, switching between one or more folders associated with one of the one or more email accounts, and taking no action.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a computing device to:

receive an indication of a first touch gesture, the first touch gesture entered at a touch sensing device operatively coupled to the computing device;

responsive to determining that the first touch gesture is not associated with any operations of an application stored at the computing device, determine one or more operations that can be performed by the application and output, for display at a display device, a menu indicating the one or more operations that can be performed by the application;

responsive to receiving an indication of a selection of a first operation of the one or more operations, associate the first touch gesture with the first operation; and

received at the touch sensing device; and

responsive to receiving an indication of a selection to associate a second operation of the one or more operations with the first touch gesture, associate the first touch gesture with the second operation and disassociate the first touch gesture from the first operation.

8. The computer-readable medium of claim 5, wherein performing the first operation associated with the first touch gesture includes outputting, for display at the display device, one or more emails associated with a label of an email account.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the computing device is further configured to perform the first operation.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the one or more operations include at least one of switching between one or more email accounts, switching between one or more labels associated with one of the one or more email accounts, switching between one or more folders associated with one of the one or more email accounts, and taking no action.

9. A system, comprising:

a display device;

a touch sensing device; and

a computing device operatively coupled to the display device and the touch sensing device, wherein the computing device is configured to;

receive an indication of a first touch gesture, the first touch gesture entered at the touch sensing device;

responsive to determining that the first touch gesture is not associated with any operations of an application stored at the computing device, determine one or more operations that can be performed by the application and output, for display at the display device, a menu indicating the one or more operations that can be performed by the application;

responsive to receiving an indication of a selection of a first operation of the one or more operations received at the touch sensing device, associate the first touch gesture with the first operation; and

responsive to receiving an indication of a selection to associate a second operation of the one or more operations with the first touch gesture, associate the first touch gesture with the second operation and disassociate the first touch gesture from the first operation.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein performing the first operation includes outputting, for display at the display device, one or more emails associated with a folder associated with an email account.