Systems and Methods for Efficiently Navigating Between Applications with Linked Content on an Electronic Device with a Touch-Sensitive Display
Patent №
US 9,785,340
Granted
2017-10-10
Filed 2015
Owner
APPLE INC.
Lab
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AI components
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hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
14738672
Systems and methods for efficiently navigating between applications with linked content on a touch-sensitive display (“TSD”) are disclosed herein. In one aspect, the method includes displaying, in a full-screen mode on the TSD, a first application including a first selectable user interface (“UI”) element associated with a second application. The method further includes detecting a selection of the first selectable user interface element and, in response thereto: (i) displaying the second application, including a second selectable UI element, in a predefined portion of the TSD and (ii) displaying a first indication corresponding to the first application in an additional portion of the TSD. The method also includes detecting a selection of the second selectable UI element and, in response thereto: (i) displaying the third application in the predefined portion of the TSD and (ii) displaying a second indication corresponding to the second application in the additional portion of the TSD.
AI classification
Ownership
APPLE INC.
assignment · 360880214
Assignors
LEMAY, STEPHEN O., FOSS, CHRISTOPHER P., LEE, WOO-RAM, YANG, LAWRENCE Y., STACK, CAELAN G.
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