Device, method, and graphical user interface for viewing application launch icons

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9619143-B2
Application number	US-24285108-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 30, 2008
Priority date	Jan 6, 2008
Publication date	Apr 11, 2017
Grant date	Apr 11, 2017

Abstract

A computing device with a touch screen display displays a first set of a first plurality of icons in a first area of the touch screen display, the first plurality of icons including a plurality of sets of icons that are separately displayed in the first area of the touch screen display, the first plurality of icons including application launch icons; displays a second plurality of icons in a second area on the touch screen display, the second plurality of icons including application launch icons, wherein the second area is different from the first area; detects a finger swipe gesture in the first area; and, in response replaces display of the first set with display of a second set of the first plurality of icons in the first area while maintaining the display of the second plurality of icons in the second area.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising: at a computing device with a touch screen display:
displaying a first set of a first plurality of icons in a first area of the touch screen display, wherein:
the first plurality of icons includes a plurality of sets of icons that are separately displayed in the first area of the touch screen display;

displaying a second plurality of icons in a second area on the touch screen display, wherein: the second area is different from the first area, and
both of the first plurality of icons and the second plurality of icons includes application launch icons, wherein each application launch icon represents a particular application, and activation of a respective application launch icon causes:
launching and displaying of the particular application represented by the activated application launch icon, when the particular application is not already launched, and
displaying of the particular application represented by the activated application launch icon, when the particular application is already launched;

while displaying the first set of the first plurality of icons in the first area of the touch screen display, detecting a first finger swipe gesture on the touch screen display in the first area in a first direction;
in response to detecting the first finger swipe gesture, replacing display of the first set of the first plurality of icons with display of a second set of the first plurality of icons in the first area on the touch screen display, while maintaining the display of the second plurality of icons in the second area on the touch screen display, wherein the second set of the first plurality of icons is distinct from the first set of the first plurality of icons;
while displaying the first set of the first plurality of icons in the first area of the touch screen display, detecting a second finger swipe gesture on the touch screen display in the first area in a direction that is substantially opposite the first direction;
in response to detecting the second finger swipe gesture, replacing display in the first area of the first set of the first plurality of icons with a display of information, other than a set of the plurality of sets of icons, customized to a user of the device, while maintaining the display of the second plurality of icons in the second area on the touch screen display;
while displaying the second set of the first plurality of icons in the first area of the touch screen display, detecting a third finger swipe gesture on the touch screen display in the first area in the direction that is substantially opposite the first direction; and
in response to detecting the third finger swipe gesture, replacing display in the first area of the second set of the first plurality of icons with display of the first set of the first plurality of icons in the first area on the touch screen display, while maintaining the display of the second plurality of icons in the second area on the touch screen display.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first plurality of icons includes one or more web-clip widget icons, wherein in response to detecting activation of a web-clip widget icon, a portion of a web page that corresponds to the activated web-clip widget icon is displayed.

3. The method of claim 1 , including:
detecting a fourth finger gesture on an icon in the second set of the first plurality of icons; and,
in response to detecting the fourth finger gesture, displaying an application that corresponds to the icon in the second set upon which the fourth finger gesture was detected.

4. The method of claim 1 , including:
detecting a fourth finger gesture on the touch screen display;
in response to detecting the fourth finger gesture, replacing display of the second set of the first plurality of icons with display of a third set of the first plurality of icons in the first area on the touch screen display while maintaining the display of the second plurality of icons in the second area on the touch screen display;
detecting a fifth finger gesture on an icon in the third set of the first plurality of icons; and,
in response to detecting the fifth finger gesture, displaying an application that corresponds to the icon in the third set upon which the fifth finger gesture was detected.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first finger swipe gesture is at a location in the first display area that does not align with any indicia representative of said replacing.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of sets of icons includes a number of sets of icons that are configured to be separately displayed as a sequence of sets of icons in the first area of the touch screen display; and further including:
displaying two or more set-sequence-indicia icons, wherein the set-sequence-indicia icons provide information about the number of sets of icons in the plurality of sets of icons and a position of a displayed set of icons in the sequence of sets of icons; and,
in response to detecting the first finger swipe gesture, updating the information provided by the set-sequence-indicia icons to reflect the replacement of the displayed first set by the second set.

7. The method of claim 6 , further including:
in response to detecting the second finger swipe gesture:
updating the information provided by a customized-information indicia icon and the set-sequence-indicia icons to reflect the replacement of the displayed first set by the information customized to the user.

8. A computing device, comprising:
a touch screen display;
one or more processors;
memory; and
one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:
displaying a first set of a first plurality of icons in a first area of the touch screen display, wherein:
the first plurality of icons includes a plurality of sets of icons that are separately displayed in the first area of the touch screen display;

displaying a second plurality of icons in a second area on the touch screen display, wherein:
the second area is different from the first area, and
both of the first plurality of icons and the second plurality of icons includes application launch icons, wherein each application launch icon represents a particular application, and activation of a respective application launch icon causes:
launching and displaying of the particular application represented by the activated application launch icon, when the particular application is not already launched, and
displaying of the particular application represented by the activated application launch icon, when the particular application is already launched;

while displaying the first set of the first plurality of icons in the first area of the touch screen display, detecting a first finger swipe gesture on the touch screen display in the first area in a first direction;
in response to detecting the first finger swipe gesture, replacing display of the first set of the first plurality of icons with display of a second set of the first plurality of icons in the first area on the touch screen display, while maintaining the display of the second plurality of icons in the second area on the touch screen display, wherein the second set of the first plurality of icons is distinct from the first set of the first plurality of icons;
while displaying the first set of the first plurality of icons in the first area of the touch screen display, detecting a second finger swipe gesture on the touch screen display in the first area in a direction that is substantially opposite the first direction;
in response to detecting the second finger swipe gesture, replacing

Assignees

• Herz Scott
• Chaudhri Imran
• Christie Greg
• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Herz Scott
• Chaudhri Imran
• Christie Greg

Classifications

• G06F9/451

  Execution arrangements for user interfaces · CPC title

• G06F3/0486

  Drag-and-drop · CPC title

• G06F3/04817

  using icons (graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34) · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title

• G06Q10/109

  Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting · CPC title