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Control of display of content with dragging inputs on a touch input surface

  • US 9,830,067 B1
  • Filed: 09/23/2014
  • Issued: 11/28/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented user interface method, comprising:

  • displaying content in a first window on a display of a computing device, wherein the display includes a touch input surface;

    detecting, on the touch input surface, a dragging user input from outside a peripheral edge of the first window to a location within the first window, wherein the dragging user input includes a motion having a dominant directional component generally orthogonal to the peripheral edge of the first window; and

    in response to detecting the dragging user input;

    contracting the first window on the display of the computing device, wherein the first window includes graphical elements of a first application opened within the first window,displaying, on the display of the computing device, a second window that was not displayed on the display on the computing device when the dragging user input was initiated, wherein the second window displays graphical elements of a second application opened in the second window or graphical elements of a new instantiation of the first application, but wherein the second window does not include a new pane of an existing instantiation of the first application, anddisplaying the contracted first window simultaneously with the second window.

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