PHYSICAL NAVIGATION OF A MOBILE SEARCH APPLICATION

• US 20070073719A1
• Filed: 05/10/2006
• Published: 03/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Blue Hills Series 95 of Allied Security Trust I (Allied Security Trust)
• Original Assignee: Jumptap Incorporated (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ramer, Jorey, Doughty, Dennis, Soroca, Adam
• Application Number:
  US11/382,690
• Publication Number:
  US 20070073719A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• 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: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

In embodiments of the present invention, improved capabilities are described for receiving information relating to a physical movement of a mobile communication facility, and linking the physical movement with navigation of a mobile search application. In embodiments, movement of the mobile communication facility may be detected by one or more motion sensors and/or image analysis software algorithms embodied in the mobile communication facility. Direction, speed, and acceleration of movement, and the like, may be associated with actions such as zooming, scrolling, entry cancellation, function reset, and the like by software operating in the mobile communication facility.

Claims

1. A method of navigating a mobile search application comprising:

receiving information relating to a physical movement of a mobile communication facility; and

linking the physical movement with navigation of a mobile search application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the link is based at least in part on mapping a three dimensional space of the physical movement onto a two-dimensional space of a mobile communication facility display.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the physical movement is associated with a menu structure of the mobile search application.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the physical movement is raising the mobile communication facility.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the raising is associated with a movement in the menu structure of the mobile search application.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the physical movement is lowering the mobile communication facility.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the lowering is associated with a movement in the menu structure of the mobile search application.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the physical movement is tilting the mobile communication facility.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the tilting is associated with a movement in the menu structure of the mobile search application.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the physical movement is a horizontal left movement of the mobile communication facility.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the horizontal left movement is associated with a movement in the menu structure of the mobile search application.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the physical movement is a horizontal right movement of the mobile communication facility.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the horizontal right movement is associated with a movement in the menu structure of the mobile search application.

31. The method of claim 1, wherein the information relating to a physical movement is related to a camera.

32. The method of claim 1, wherein the information relating to a physical movement is related to a accelerometer.

33. The method of claim 1, wherein the information relating to a physical movement is related to a gyroscope.

34. The method of claim 1, wherein the navigation is navigation of search results.

35. The method of claim 1, wherein the navigation is navigation of a menu.

36. The method of claim 1, wherein the navigation is navigation on a map.

14-30. -30. (canceled)

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47. A system of navigating a mobile search application comprising:

a receiving facility adapted to receive information relating to a physical movement of a mobile communication facility; and

a linking facility adapted to link the physical movement with navigation of a mobile search application.

48-92. -92. (canceled)