Unlock Screen

• US 20100248689A1
• Filed: 03/30/2009
• Published: 09/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Shen, Albert, Haning, Ryan M., Shi, Jinsheng, Guntaur, Paula, Teng, Stephanie E., Kruzeniski, Michael J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,355,698 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/411
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/082 using revocation of authorisation

Abstract

Unlock screen and notification techniques are described. In an implementation, an unlock screen is displayed by a mobile communications device that indicates that one or more keys of the mobile communications device are locked. If an input is detected at the mobile communications device to remove the lock, an animation is displayed that gives an appearance that the unlock screen is a page that is being turned and removing the lock of the one or more keys.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

displaying an unlock screen by a mobile communications device that indicates that one or more keys of the mobile communications device are locked; and

if an input at the mobile communications device is detected to remove the lock, displaying an animation that gives an appearance that the unlock screen is a page that is being turned and removing the lock of the one or more keys.

2. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the input is received via a gesture at the mobile communications device.

3. A method as described in claim 2, wherein the gesture includes selecting a touch target of the page and dragging the touch target across a display device of the mobile communications device.

4. A method as described in claim 3, wherein touch target is displayed as an upturned corner of the page.

5. A method as described in claim 3, wherein the input is detected once the touch target is dragged across a specified Y-axis of the display device that defines a threshold.

6. A method as described in claim 3, wherein if the touch target is released and is not across a specified Y-axis of the display device, the touch target is animated to return to an original location on the display device.

7. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the input is received by exposing a keyboard of the mobile communications device.

8. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the mobile communications device includes functionality to enable a user to specify an image for display in the unlock screen.

9. A method as described in claim 8, wherein the image is downloaded from a web service via a network.

10. A method as described in claim 8, wherein the image is one of a plurality of images that are output as a slideshow on the unlock screen.

11. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the displaying of the unlock screen includes representations of one or more notifications to be output by the mobile communications device since a last time at which the lock was removed.

12. A method as described in claim 11, wherein the representation of the one or more notifications are displayed on the unlock screen as silhouettes of the notifications that are to be output in a user interface after the removing of the lock is performed.

13. A mobile communications device comprising a display device and one or more modules to display a clock on the display device in response to a waking of the display device and minimize the display of the clock after a specified amount of time has passed since the waking of the display device.

14. A mobile communications device as described in claim 13, wherein the one or more modules include functionality to receive and send telephone calls.

15. A mobile communications device as described in claim 13, wherein the one or more modules further move the display of the clock from a center of the display device to a corner of the display device after the specified amount of time has passed.

16. A mobile communications device as described in claim 13, wherein the one or more modules are configured to display the clock when in a key locked state.

17. A mobile communications device as described in claim 13, wherein the one or more modules are configured to display the clock when in a device locked state that is removable by entering a PIN.

18. One or more tangible computer-readable media comprising instructions that are executable by a mobile communications device to display an animation that gives an appearance that an unlock screen is a page being turned that follows a gesture input via a touch screen of the mobile communications device to remove a lock of the mobile communications device.

19. One or more tangible computer-readable media as described in claim 18, wherein the lock is a key lock or a device lock that is removable via a PIN.

20. One or more tangible computer-readable media as described in claim 18, wherein a corner of the page of the unlock screen follows the gesture input via the touchscreen.