Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Messaging

• US 20170336943A1
• Filed: 09/21/2016
• Published: 11/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Chaudhri, Imran A., Anzures, Freddy A., Dellinger, Richard R., Griffin, Bradley W., Jon, Tiffany S., Karunamuni, Chanaka G., King, Nicholas V., Mohseni, Daamun, Pham, Hoan, Tyler, William M., Wan, Wan Si, Yerkes, Giancarlo
• Granted Patent: US 10,592,098 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04105 Pressure sensors for measuring the pressure or force exerted on the touch surface without providing the touch position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/00 Animation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 : Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 : Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/18 : Commands or executable codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 : Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/42 : Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 : with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 : for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• 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: H04N 23/62 : Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 : Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters

Abstract

An electronic device displays a messaging user interface of a messaging application, including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and at least one other user, and an application affordance. While displaying the messaging user interface, the device detects an input that activates the application affordance. In response to detecting the input that activates the application affordance, the device concurrently displays a launch icon for an application store and a plurality of launch icons for interactive applications. The device detects an input that activates the launch icon for the application store; in response to detecting the input that activates the launch icon for the application store: the device ceases to display the messaging user interface, and displays an application store user interface, including display of at least one interactive application available for download to the electronic device. While displaying the application store user interface, the device detects an input that corresponds to a request to download a first interactive application that is not stored in the memory of the electronic device; and, in response to detecting the input that corresponds to the request to download the first interactive application: the device downloads the first interactive application to the memory; replaces display of the application store user interface with display of the messaging user interface; and adds a launch icon that corresponds to the first interactive application to the display of the plurality of launch icons for interactive applications.

Claims

1. A computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by an electronic device with a display, and a touch-sensitive surface, cause the device to:

display a messaging user interface of a messaging application on the display, the messaging user interface including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and at least one other user, and an application affordance;

while displaying the messaging user interface, detect an input that activates the application affordance;

in response to detecting the input that activates the application affordance, concurrently display a launch icon for an application store and a plurality of launch icons for interactive applications, wherein activation of a respective launch icon for an interactive application launches a corresponding application that is displayed within the messaging application;

detect an input that activates the launch icon for the application store;

in response to detecting the input that activates the launch icon for the application store;

cease to display the messaging user interface, and

display an application store user interface, including display of at least one interactive application available for download to the electronic device;

while displaying the application store user interface, detect an input that corresponds to a request to download a first interactive application that is not stored in the memory of the electronic device; and

,

in response to detecting the input that corresponds to the request to download the first interactive application;

download the first interactive application to the memory of the electronic device;

replace display of the application store user interface with display of the messaging user interface, the messaging user interface including the conversation transcript and at least some of the plurality of launch icons for interactive applications; and

add a launch icon that corresponds to the first interactive application to the display of the plurality of launch icons for interactive applications.

2. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein:

adding a launch icon that corresponds to the first interactive application to the display of the plurality of launch icons for interactive applications includes displaying an indicia that the first interactive application is being downloaded.

3. The computer readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the indicia indicates the progress of the download of the first interactive application.

4. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the interactive application is configured to perform a subset of the functions of a corresponding application operated separate from the messaging application.

5. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the interactive application launch icon displays an identifier for a corresponding application operated separate from the messaging application.

6. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the interactive application displays a portion of the content displayed by a corresponding application operated separate from the messaging application.

7. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the interactive application causes the device to launch a corresponding application operated separate from the messaging application upon detection of a predefined input.

8. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the interactive application is operated separately from a corresponding application operated separate from the messaging application.

9. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the interactive application is operated in conjunction with a corresponding application operated separate from the messaging application.

10. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the interactive application has a dedicated portion of the memory for temporary storage that is different from a dedicated portion of the memory for temporary storage for a corresponding application operated separate from the messaging application.

11. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the corresponding application operated separate from the messaging application is configured to access the dedicated portion of memory for temporary storage for the interactive application.

12. An electronic device, comprising:

a display;

a touch-sensitive surface;

one or more processors;

memory; and

one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

displaying a messaging user interface of a messaging application on the display, the messaging user interface including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and at least one other user, and an application affordance;

while displaying the messaging user interface, detecting an input that activates the application affordance;

in response to detecting the input that activates the application affordance, concurrently displaying a launch icon for an application store and a plurality of launch icons for interactive applications, wherein activation of a respective launch icon for an interactive application launches a corresponding application that is displayed within the messaging application;

detecting an input that activates the launch icon for the application store;

in response to detecting the input that activates the launch icon for the application store;

ceasing to display the messaging user interface, and

displaying an application store user interface, including display of at least one interactive application available for download to the electronic device;

while displaying the application store user interface, detecting an input that corresponds to a request to download a first interactive application that is not stored in the memory of the electronic device; and

,

in response to detecting the input that corresponds to the request to download the first interactive application;

downloading the first interactive application to the memory of the electronic device;

replacing display of the application store user interface with display of the messaging user interface, the messaging user interface including the conversation transcript and at least some of the plurality of launch icons for interactive applications; and

adding a launch icon that corresponds to the first interactive application to the display of the plurality of launch icons for interactive applications.

13. A method, comprising:

at an electronic device having one or more processors, memory, a touch-sensitive surface, and a display;

displaying a messaging user interface of a messaging application on the display, the messaging user interface including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and at least one other user, and an application affordance;

while displaying the messaging user interface, detecting an input that activates the application affordance;

in response to detecting the input that activates the application affordance, concurrently displaying a launch icon for an application store and a plurality of launch icons for interactive applications, wherein activation of a respective launch icon for an interactive application launches a corresponding application that is displayed within the messaging application;

detecting an input that activates the launch icon for the application store;

in response to detecting the input that activates the launch icon for the application store;

ceasing to display the messaging user interface, and

displaying an application store user interface, including display of at least one interactive application available for download to the electronic device;

while displaying the application store user interface, detecting an input that corresponds to a request to download a first interactive application that is not stored in the memory of the electronic device; and

,

in response to detecting the input that corresponds to the request to download the first interactive application;

downloading the first interactive application to the memory of the electronic device;

replacing display of the application store user interface with display of the messaging user interface, the messaging user interface including the conversation transcript and at least some of the plurality of launch icons for interactive applications; and

adding a launch icon that corresponds to the first interactive application to the display of the plurality of launch icons for interactive applications.