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Apparatus and method for displaying a portion of a plurality of background applications

  • US 10,289,290 B2
  • Filed: 06/04/2015
  • Issued: 05/14/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for displaying application information on a mobile device, the method comprising:

  • executing a foreground application in a foreground and first and second background applications in a background;

    displaying a user interface for the foreground application;

    receiving, on the user interface for the foreground application, a first user input to display a user interface for the first background application executing in the background; and

    in response to receiving the first user input on the user interface for the foreground application, displaying, through a hole in the user interface for the foreground application at a location corresponding to the first user input, a stack of the user interfaces for the background applications at a scale at which the user interfaces for the background applications were most recently displayed while maintaining display of the user interface for the foreground application outside of the hole,wherein displaying the stack comprises display of a portion of a user interface for the first background application displayed over a portion of a user interface for the second background application displayed over the user interface for the foreground application, andwherein the displayed stack is initially displayed as corresponding to the location and a shape of the hole.

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