Gestures for keyboard switch

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10444988-B2
Application number	US-201715677422-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 15, 2017
Priority date	Jul 25, 2012
Publication date	Oct 15, 2019
Grant date	Oct 15, 2019

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes displaying a first touch-screen keyboard on a touch-screen display of a computing device; detecting a touch gesture on the touch-screen display; identifying the detected touch gesture as a particular touch gesture, the particular touch gesture being one of a plurality of touch gestures; determining, based on the identification of the particular touch gesture, a second keyboard to display on the touch-screen display, wherein the second keyboard is associated with the particular touch gesture; and displaying the second keyboard on the touch-screen display.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising, by a computing device:
displaying a first one of a plurality of touch-screen keyboards on a touch-screen display of the computing device;
detecting a touch gesture on the touch-screen display;
identifying the detected touch gesture as a particular touch gesture, the particular touch gesture being one of a plurality of touch gestures, wherein the particular touch gesture is associated with a second one of the plurality of touch-screen keyboards, and wherein the determination is independent of a location of the detected touch gesture with respect to the touch-screen display;
based on the identification of the particular touch gesture, displaying the second one of the plurality of touch-screen keyboards on the touch-screen display; and
wherein the touch gesture uniquely identifies, independent of which keyboard of the plurality of keyboards is currently displayed, the second one of the plurality of keyboards, and identifies no other touch-screen keyboard, the touch gesture further being other than a swipe gesture.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the touch gesture comprises a two-finger tap.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the touch gesture comprises a swipe touch gesture.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the swipe touch gesture comprises a one-finger swipe touch gesture.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the swipe touch gesture comprises a two-finger swipe touch gesture.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the touch gesture occurs substantially within an area of the display of the first one of the touch-screen keyboards.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying with the second one of the keyboards an indication of a third one of the keyboards that the user can make a touch-gesture to have displayed on the touch-screen display.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first one of the keyboards comprises only letters and the second one of the keyboards comprises only numbers.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first one of the keyboards comprises a standard layout and the second one of the keyboards comprises a non-standard layout.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the standard layout is a QWERTY layout and the non-standard layout is a Dvorak simplified keyboard.

11. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:
display a first one of a plurality of touch-screen keyboards on a touch-screen display of a computing device;
detect a touch gesture on the touch-screen display;
identify the detected touch gesture as a particular touch gesture, the particular touch gesture being one of a plurality of touch gestures, wherein the particular touch gesture is associated with a second one of the plurality of touch-screen keyboards, and wherein the determination is independent of a location of the detected touch gesture with respect to the touch-screen display;
based on the identification of the particular touch gesture, display the second one of the plurality of touch-screen keyboards on the touch-screen display; and
wherein the touch gesture uniquely identifies, independent of which keyboard of the plurality of keyboards is currently displayed, the second one of the plurality of keyboards, and identifies no other touch-screen keyboard, the touch gesture further being other than a swipe gesture.

12. The media of claim 11 , wherein the touch gesture comprises a two-finger tap.

13. The media of claim 11 , wherein the touch gesture comprises a swipe touch gesture.

14. The media of claim 13 , wherein the swipe touch gesture comprises a one-finger swipe touch gesture.

15. The media of claim 13 , wherein the swipe touch gesture comprises a two-finger swipe touch gesture.

16. The media of claim 11 , wherein the touch gesture occurs substantially within an area of the display of the first one of the touch-screen keyboards.

17. The media of claim 11 , wherein the software is further operable when executed to display with the second one of the keyboards an indication of a third one of the keyboards that the user can make a touch-gesture to have displayed on the touch-screen display.

18. The media of claim 11 , wherein the first one of the keyboards comprises only letters and the second one of the keyboards comprises only numbers.

19. A device comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media coupled to the processors and embodying software that is operable when executed by the processors to:
display a first one of a plurality of touch-screen keyboards on a touch-screen display of a computing device;
detect a touch gesture on the touch-screen display;
identify the detected touch gesture as a particular touch gesture, the particular touch gesture being one of a plurality of touch gestures, wherein the particular touch gesture is associated with a second one of the plurality of touch-screen keyboards, and wherein the determination is independent of a location of the detected touch gesture with respect to the touch-screen display;

based on the identification of the particular touch gesture, display the second one of the plurality of touch-screen keyboards on the touch-screen display; and
wherein the touch gesture uniquely identifies, independent of which keyboard of the plurality of keyboards is currently displayed, the second one of the plurality of keyboards, and identifies no other touch-screen keyboard, the touch gesture further being other than a swipe gesture.

20. The device of claim 19 , wherein the touch gesture comprises a two-finger tap.

Assignees

• Facebook Inc

Inventors

• St Clair Luke

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

  Business processes related to social networking or social networking services · CPC title

• G06F3/038

  Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry · CPC title

• G06F3/0489

  using dedicated keyboard keys or combinations thereof · CPC title

• G06F3/04845

  for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour · CPC title

• H04L67/04

  specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability · CPC title