Home screen user interface for electronic device display

• US 8,843,853 B1
• Filed: 07/09/2007
• Issued: 09/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cingular Wireless II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Smoak, Andrew Thomas, Mindala, Michelle Marie, Christopher, David Ames
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Linh K
• Application Number:
  US11/775,068
• Time in Patent Office: 2,633 Days
• Field of Search: 715/744, 715/762, 715/765, 715/810, 715/839, 345/700
• US Class Current: 715/839
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• 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 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons

Abstract

Providing a user interface overlay to a native graphical user interface (GUI) of a device is described herein. By way of example, the overlay can include a graphical presentation layer (GPL) that can selectively mask and/or expose functionality of the native GUI of the device. In addition, the GPL can bundle disparate portions of native functionality in accord with one or more logical associations between a title, tag, application, purpose, type, or like qualifier, associated with the disparate portions. In addition, user preferences and device/network intelligence components can dynamically customize portions of the GPL to match a location, locale, mood, or setting or like situational context of a device and/or user.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a memory device to store executable instructions; and

a processor device coupled to the memory device that facilitates execution of the executable instructions to perform operations, comprising;

based on analyzing a user interface of a device, determining logically related functions that are accessed via the user interface, wherein the logically related functions are represented by respective graphical objects that are not displayed together on the user interface,

determining, based on a location determination and a time determination, movement information indicative of a movement of the device, wherein a geographical location of the device is determined to facilitate the location determination,

based on determining a change in the movement information, creating and updating a customized function menu that comprises the respective graphical objects of the logically related functions, and

determining a graphical presentation layer that serves as an overlay to the user interface and displays the customized function menu.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphical presentation layer presents the respective graphical objects as tiled graphical icons.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the customized function menu is determined based on news data associated with the geographical location of the device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the customized function menu is a first customized function menu and the graphical presentation layer graphically distinguishes the first customized function menu from a second customized function menu to indicate that the first customized function menu is selected.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the movement information comprises rate data indicative of a speed of the device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the movement information comprises direction data indicative of a direction of movement of the device.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the operations further comprise:

modifying the customized function menu exposed through the graphical presentation layer in accordance with theme data indicative of a defined theme.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the customized function menu is determined based on weather data associated with the geographical location of the device.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

based on determining that selection data has been received, switching a display of the device between the user interface and the graphical presentation layer.

10. A method, comprising:

based on a location determination and a time determination, determining, by a system comprising a processor, movement information indicative of a movement of a mobile communication device, wherein a geographical location of the mobile communication device is employed to facilitate the location determination;

based on determining a change in the movement information and based on analyzing functions of the mobile communication device that are exposed through a user interface on the mobile communication device, determining, by the system, logically related functions represented by respective graphical objects that are not displayed together on the user interface;

in response to the determining the logically related functions, creating and updating, by the system, a function menu group that comprises the respective graphical objects of the logically related functions; and

overlaying, by the system, the user interface of the mobile communication device with a graphical presentation layer that displays the function menu group.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the determining the function menu group comprises determining the function menu group that comprises the logically related functions that are represented by respective icons, displayed in different screen views in the user interface.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the determining the logically related functions comprises selecting the logically related functions based on a logical correlation to a name of the function menu group.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the function menu group is a first function menu group and the method further comprises:

graphically distinguishing, by the system, the first function menu group from a second function menu group on the graphical presentation layer in response to determining that the first function menu group has been selected.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the determining the movement information comprises determining a speed of the mobile communication device.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the determining the movement information comprises determining a direction of the movement of the mobile communication device.

16. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause a system comprising a processor to perform operations, comprising:

based on analyzing functionality of a mobile communication device exposed through a user interface of the mobile communication device, determining logically related functions that are exposed via the user interface, wherein the logically related functions are represented by respective graphical objects that are not displayed together on the user interface;

determining, based on a location determination and a time determination, movement information indicative of a movement of the device, wherein a geographical location of the device is determined to facilitate the location determination,

based on determining a change in the movement information, creating and updating a customized function group that comprises the respective graphical objects of the logically related functions; and

facilitating a display of a graphical presentation layer that serves as an overlay to the user interface and displays the customized function group.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the movement information represents a direction of travel of the mobile communication device.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the updating comprises updating the customized function group based on temporal data.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the updating comprises updating the customized function group based on weather data.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the operations further comprise:

switching a display of the mobile communication device between the user interface and an interface customized by the graphical presentation layer.