Touch gesture for detailed display

• US 8,397,165 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2011
• Issued: 03/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Bauer, German Wolfgang, Chan, Michael K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chow, Doon
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pham, Linh K
• Application Number:
  US13/250,845
• Publication Number:
  US 20120204128A1
• Time in Patent Office: 529 Days
• Field of Search: 715/753, 715/764, 715/768, 715/779, 715/722, 715/781
• US Class Current: 715/722
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

In general, the present disclosure is directed to techniques for displaying, e.g., events of multiple calendars or annotations in a word processor in a single view. In one example, a method includes, providing a first calendar and a second calendar, wherein the first calendar includes a first group of calendar events at least some of which have corresponding textual event details, and wherein the second calendar includes a second group of calendar events at least some of which have corresponding textual event details; receiving a user input to select one of the first calendar or the second calendar; displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar; and displaying visual representations of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar without displaying the corresponding textual event details.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing a first calendar and a second calendar during execution of a module on a computing device, wherein the first calendar includes a first group of calendar events at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual event details, and wherein the second calendar includes a second group of calendar events at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual event details;

receiving a first user input to select a calendar event in the second group of calendar events;

upon receiving the first user input, displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar;

upon receiving the first user input, displaying visual representations of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar without displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the second group of calendar events;

receiving a second user input to select a visual representation of the calendar event in the second group of calendar events, wherein the visual representation of the calendar event is displayed without one or more corresponding textual event details; and

responsive to receiving the second user input, displaying one or more textual event details corresponding to the selected calendar event in the second group of calendar events.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the module is a part of a calendar application executing on the computing device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the module is a part of an operating system executing on the computing device.

4. The method of claim 1,

wherein displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar comprises displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events responsive to selection of the first calendar, and

wherein displaying the visual representations of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar comprises maintaining a display of the visual representations of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar without displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the second group of calendar events.

5. The method of claim 1,

wherein displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar comprises maintaining a display of the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar, and

wherein displaying the visual representations of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar comprises displaying the visual representations of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar responsive to selection of the second calendar.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a third user input to select a calendar event in the second group of calendar events; and

responsive to receiving the third user input, displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a third user input to select a control in a control panel of the calendar application; and

responsive to receiving the third user input, displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a third user input to select a control in a control panel of the calendar application; and

responsive to receiving the third user input, displaying visual representations of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar without displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events and of the second group of calendar events include one or more persons or resources, a time, a date, a location, or any combination thereof.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first group of calendar events is identified by a first unique visual property and the second group of calendar events is identified by a second unique visual property.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the first unique visual property and the second unique visual property are each a different color, shading, or other visual characteristic.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the module comprises an event module, and wherein the event module changes a calendar view in response to the first user input.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a third calendar during execution of the calendar application, wherein the third calendar includes a third group of calendar events at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual event details;

receiving a third user input to select one of the first calendar, the second calendar, or the third calendar; and

responsive to receiving the third user input to select the third calendar, displaying visual representations of the third group of calendar events for the third calendar without displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the third group of calendar events.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that when executed cause one or more processors of a computing device to perform operations comprising:

providing a first calendar and a second calendar during execution of a module, wherein the first calendar includes a first group of calendar events at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual event details, and wherein the second calendar includes a second group of calendar events at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual event details;

receiving a first user input to select a calendar event in the second group of calendar events;

upon receiving the first user input, displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar; and

upon receiving the first user input, displaying visual representations of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar without displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the second group of calendar events;

receiving a second user input to select a visual representation of the calendar event in the second group of calendar events, wherein the visual representation of the calendar event is displayed without one or more corresponding textual event details; and

responsive to receiving the second user input, displaying one or more textual event details corresponding to the selected calendar event in the second group of calendar events.

15. A computing device, comprising:

one or more processors;

an output device;

a calendar application installed on the computing device and operable by the one or more processors to display at the output device a first calendar and a second calendar during execution of the calendar application, wherein the first calendar includes a first group of calendar events at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual event details, and wherein the second calendar includes a second group of calendar events at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual event details;

an input device operable to receive a first user input to select a calendar event in the second group of calendar events;

wherein the output device is operable to display the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar and visual representations of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar without displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the second group of calendar events upon receiving the first user input;

wherein the input device is operable to receive a second user input to select a visual representation of the calendar event in the second group of calendar events, wherein the visual representation of the calendar event is displayed without one or more corresponding textual event details; and

wherein the output device is operable to display one or more textual event details corresponding to the selected calendar event in the second group of calendar events in response to receiving the second user input.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that cause one or more processors of a computing device to:

provide a first annotation group and a second annotation group during execution of a module, wherein the first annotation group includes annotations at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual annotation details, and wherein the second annotation group includes annotations at least some of which have one or more corresponding textual annotation details;

receive a first user input to select an annotation in the second annotation group;

upon receiving the first user input, display the one or more corresponding textual annotation details of the annotations for the first annotation group;

display, upon receiving the first user input, visual representations of the annotations for the second annotation group without displaying the one or more corresponding textual annotation details of the annotations of the second annotation group;

receive a second user input to select a visual representation of the annotation in the second annotation group, wherein the visual representation of the annotation is displayed without one or more corresponding textual annotation details; and

display, responsive to receiving the second user input, one or more textual annotation details corresponding to the selected annotation in the second annotation group.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the module is a part of an application executing on the computing device.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the module comprises an event module, and wherein the event module changes an application view of the computing device in response to the first user input.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the module is a part of an operating system executing on the computing device.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16,

wherein displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of annotations for the first annotation group comprises displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of annotations responsive to selection of the first annotation group, and

wherein displaying the visual representations of annotations of the second annotation group comprises maintaining a display of the annotations of the second annotation group without displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the annotations of the second annotation group.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16,

wherein displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of annotations for the first annotation group comprises maintaining a display of the textual event details of the first group of annotations responsive to selection of the first annotation group, and

wherein displaying the visual representations of the annotations of the second annotation group comprises displaying the visual representations of annotations of the second annotation group responsive to selection of the second annotation group.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 further encoded with instructions that cause one or more processors of the computing device to:

receive a third user input to select an annotation of the second annotation group; and

display the one or more corresponding textual event details of the annotations of the second annotation group, responsive to receiving the third user input.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 further encoded with instructions that cause one or more processors of the computing device to:

receive a third user input to select a control in a control panel of the annotation application; and

display the one or more corresponding textual event details of the annotations of the second annotation group, responsive to receiving the third user input.

24. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 further encoded with instructions that cause one or more processors of the computing device to:

receiving a third user input to select a control in a control panel of the annotation application; and

responsive to receiving the third user input, displaying visual representations of the annotations of the first annotation group without displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the annotations of the first annotation group.

25. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the one or more corresponding textual event details of the annotations of the first annotation group include one or more persons or resources, a time, a date, a location, or any combination thereof.

26. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the annotations of the first annotation group are identified by a first unique visual property and the annotations of the second annotation group are identified by a second unique visual property.

27. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 26, wherein the first unique visual property and the second unique visual property are each a different color, shading, or other visual characteristic.