Techniques for providing a user interface having bi-directional writing tools

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8928591-B2
Application number	US-201213646850-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 8, 2012
Priority date	Jun 30, 2011
Publication date	Jan 6, 2015
Grant date	Jan 6, 2015

Abstract

A computer-implemented technique includes determining, at a computing device including one or more processors, one or more scripts in which a user is capable of inputting text. The technique includes determining, at the computing device, whether at least one of the one or more scripts is a script having a right-to-left (RTL) writing directionality. The technique also includes automatically outputting, at the computing device: (i) a first user interface when at least one of the one or more scripts is a script having an RTL writing directionality, wherein the first user interface is configured to allow the user to adjust the writing directionality at the computing device, or (ii) a second user interface when none of the one or more scripts is a script having an RTL writing directionality, wherein the second user interface is not configured to allow the user to adjust the writing directionality at the computing device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
displaying, at a computing device including one or more processors, a first user interface using a script having a left-to-right (LTR) writing directionality;
receiving, at the computing device, a first input from a user via the first user interface, the first input including at least one of (i) content of e-mails sent by the user, (ii) social network commentary generated by the user, and (iii) search queries gene…

Assignees

• Google Inc

Inventors

• Swartz Luke Hiro
• Buryak Kirill
• Lanin Vladimir
• Guy Gadi

Classifications

• G06F3/04883

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F40/10

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/0237 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic