Mobile application utilizing accelerometer-based control

• US 9,280,526 B1
• Filed: 03/08/2013
• Issued: 03/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NRT Technology Corp.
• Original Assignee: Joingo, LLC (NRT Technology Corp.)
• Inventors: Boyle, Stephen S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Maikhanh
• Application Number:
  US13/791,876
• Time in Patent Office: 1,096 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• 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 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

A resident mobile application for application and mobile web navigation on a mobile communication device is disclosed herein. The resident mobile application interfaces with a motion sensor of a mobile communication device.

Claims

1. A method for application and mobile web navigation on a mobile communication device, the method comprising:

opening a mobile application resident on a mobile communication device of an end user, the mobile application interfaced with an accelerometer of the mobile communication device, the end user opening the mobile application;

displaying a request page for the mobile application, the request page comprising an action instruction for retrieving a request;

shaking the mobile communication device to activate the accelerometer of the mobile communication device to transmit an accelerometer signal to the displayed request page of the mobile application, the end-user physically shaking the mobile communication device while the request page is displayed;

performing an action on the mobile application upon receiving the accelerometer signal to retrieve the request on the mobile communication device; and

displaying the request on the mobile communication device,

wherein the request is a new page in a downloaded application and the action is navigating to the new page in the downloaded application, and

wherein the action instruction is a hypertext link or a navigation button.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the request is a new page in a HTML based application and the action is navigating to the new page in the HTML based application.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the request is a form and the action is posting the form.

4. The method according to claim 1 wherein the request is a website and the action is fetching a link to the website.

5. The method according to claim 1 further comprising transmitting a command from the mobile communication device for the request to a request service over a network and receiving the request from the request service over the network at the mobile communication device.

6. A system for application and mobile web navigation on a mobile communication device, the system comprising:

a plurality of mobile communication devices, each of the plurality of mobile communication devices associated with an end-user and each mobile communication device comprising a resident mobile application that interfaces with an accelerometer of the mobile communication device, displays a request page comprising an action instruction for retrieving a request, performs an action upon receiving an accelerometer signal to retrieve the request on the mobile communication device, the accelerometer signal sent to the mobile application upon shaking of the mobile communication device by an end-user while the resident mobile application is open on each mobile communication device and the request page is displayed, and displays the request on the mobile communication device;

a network;

a plurality of a request sites, each of the plurality of request sites in communication with the network and each having a request; and

a request service, the request service in communication with each of the plurality of request sites and each of the plurality of mobile communication devices, wherein the request service receives a request transmission from each of the plurality of mobile communication devices and retrieves the request from a corresponding request site of the plurality of request sites,

wherein the request is a new page in a downloaded application and the action is navigating to the new page in the downloaded application, and

wherein the action instruction is one of a hypertext link, a navigation button and a request to a request service.

7. The system according to claim 6 wherein each of the plurality of mobile communication devices is a mobile phone or a tablet computer.

8. The system according to claim 6 wherein the request is a new page in a HTML based application and the action is navigating to the new page in the HTML based application.

9. The system according to claim 6 wherein the request is a form and the action is posting the form.

10. The system according to claim 6 wherein the request is a website and the action is fetching a link to the website.