User interface with stacked application management

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9052800-B2
Application number	US-94869910-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 17, 2010
Priority date	Oct 1, 2010
Publication date	Jun 9, 2015
Grant date	Jun 9, 2015

Abstract

Methods and apparatus for controlling a computing device using gesture inputs. The gesture inputs may be operative to move screens corresponding to applications executing on the handheld computing device from one display to another. Additionally, a multi portion gesture may be used to target different screens. For example, a first portion of the gesture may maintain or “pin” a screen in a display such that a second portion of the gesture is operative to move a different screen behind the pinned application.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for controlling a handheld computing device, comprising:
providing a first display and a second display associated with the handheld computing device;
logically associating one or more applications with the first display of the handheld computing device;
logically associating one or more applications with the second display of the handheld computing device;
establishing a first application stack corresponding to the one or more applications lo…

Assignees

• Sirpal Sanjiv
• Z124

Inventors

• Sirpal Sanjiv

Classifications

• G06F3/0412

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/1423

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/04886

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/04845

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/0416

  Physics · mapped topic