Systems and Methods for Proactively Identifying and Surfacing Relevant Content on an Electronic Device with a Touch-Sensitive Display

• US 20200304955A1
• Filed: 06/04/2020
• Published: 09/24/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Gross, Daniel C., Coffman, Patrick L., Dellinger, Richard R., Foss, Christopher P., Gauci, Jason J., Haghighi, Aria D., Irani, Cyrus D., Jones, Bronwyn A., Kapoor, Gaurav, Lemay, Stephen O., Morris, Colin C., Siracusa, Michael R., Yang, Lawrence Y., Ramerth, Brent D., Bellegarda, Jerome R., Dolfing, Jannes G.A., Pagallo, Giulia P., Wang, Xin, Hatori, Jun, Moha, Alexandre R., Clark, Kevin D., Kohlschuetter, Karl Christian, Andersen, Jesper A., Arras, Hafid, Carlhian, Alexandre, Deniau, Thomas, Martel, Mathieu J., Toudji, Sofiane
• Granted Patent: US 11,070,949 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04186 Touch location disambiguation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

Systems and methods for proactively identifying and surfacing relevant content on an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display are disclosed herein. In one aspect, a method includes presenting content in a first application. At least a portion of the content is presented without requiring input from a user. The method further includes receiving a request to open a second application. In response to receiving the request, the second application is presented with an input-receiving field. Before receiving any user input at the input-receiving field, a selectable user interface object is displayed with an indication that the portion of the content was viewed in the first application, allowing the user to paste at least the portion of the content into the input-receiving field. In response to detecting a selection of the selectable user interface object, the portion of the content is pasted into the input-receiving field.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

at an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display;

presenting content in a first application for viewing by a user, wherein at least a portion of the content is presented without requiring input from the user;

receiving a request from the user to open a second application that is distinct from the first application, the second application including an input-receiving field;

in response to receiving the request, presenting the second application with the input-receiving field;

before receiving any user input at the input-receiving field, providing a selectable user interface object to allow the user to paste at least the portion of the content into the input-receiving field; and

in response to detecting a selection of the selectable user interface object, pasting the portion of the content into the input-receiving field,

wherein the selectable user interface object is displayed with an indication that the portion of the content was recently viewed in the first application.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

before providing the selectable user interface object, identifying the input-receiving field as a field that is capable of accepting the portion of the content.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein identifying the input-receiving field as a field that is capable of accepting the portion of the content is performed in response to detecting a selection of the input-receiving field.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the portion of the content corresponds to an image.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the portion of the content corresponds to textual content.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the portion of the content corresponds to textual content and an image.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first application is a web browsing application and the second application is a messaging application.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first application is a photo browsing application and the second application is a messaging application.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

before receiving the request to open the second application, receiving a request to copy at least the portion of the content.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable instructions that, when executed by an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display, cause the electronic device to:

present content in a first application for viewing by a user, wherein at least a portion of the content is presented without requiring input from the user;

receive a request from the user to open a second application that is distinct from the first application, the second application including an input-receiving field;

in response to receiving the request, present the second application with the input-receiving field;

before receiving any user input at the input-receiving field, provide a selectable user interface object to allow the user to paste at least the portion of the content into the input-receiving field; and

in response to detecting a selection of the selectable user interface object, paste the portion of the content into the input-receiving field,

wherein the selectable user interface object is displayed with an indication that the portion of the content was recently viewed in the first application.

11. An electronic device, comprising:

a touch-sensitive display;

one or more processors; and

memory storing one or more programs that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the electronic device to;

present content in a first application for viewing by a user, wherein at least a portion of the content is presented without requiring input from the user;

receive a request from the user to open a second application that is distinct from the first application, the second application including an input-receiving field;

in response to receiving the request, present the second application with the input-receiving field;

before receiving any user input at the input-receiving field, provide a selectable user interface object to allow the user to paste at least the portion of the content into the input-receiving field; and

in response to detecting a selection of the selectable user interface object, paste the portion of the content into the input-receiving field,

wherein the selectable user interface object is displayed with an indication that the portion of the content was recently viewed in the first application.