Google Inc.

Qualcomm Incorporated

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Palm, Incorporated

Daniel Marc Gatan Shiplacoff

Matias Gonzalo Duarte

Jeremy Godfrey Lyon

Alexander James Faaborg

Paul Mercer

Ralph Thomas

Lee Brandon Keely

James Brooks Miller

Richard R Dellinger

Michael Andrew Cleron

Leon Hong

John Nicholas Jitkoff

Gabriel Aaron Cohen

Peter Ng

Marco Paglia

Mindy Pereira

Daniel Robert Sandler

Thomas Ramon Karlo

Mark Thomas Renouf

Ned Burns

Peter Nils Skillman

Simon Tickner

Richard Zarek Cohen

Peter John Hodgson

Selim Flavio Cinek

Michael Adam Cohen

Bjorn Erik Bringert

Christoph Emanuel Studer

Michael Morrissey

Richard Eugene Fulcher

Luca Zanolin

Christian Robertson

Michael Steven Feldstein

Chet Haase

Ashish Sharma

Pawel Pietryka

Jens Nagel

Adam William Powell

Henrique Penha

Jorim Dorian Jaggi

Jeff Sharkey

Adrian Roos

Jp Abgrall

Ming Jia

Dianne Parry Dominguez

Andrew Anderson Stewart

Hector Ouilhet Olmos

In an electronic device capable of running multiple software applications concurrently, applications, documents, cards, or other activities can be selected for hibernation so as to free up system resources for other activities that are in active use. A determination is made as to which activities should hibernate, for example based on a determination as to which activities have not been used recently or based on relative resource usage. When an activity is to hibernate, its state is preserved on a storage medium such as a disk, so that the activity can later be revived in the same state and the user can continue with the same task that was being performed before the activity entered hibernation.

Selective hibernation of activities in an electronic device

A mobile computing device runs multiple activities concurrently and provides at least two modes for interacting with the activities. The user may toggle between the modes as desired. In a full-screen mode, one activity occupies substantially an entire display screen. In a windowed mode, the activity is visible within a window, and a portion of at least one other window is also visible. In the windowed mode, the user can cause windows to move, thereby changing focus from one activity to another. For example, the window having focus can be moved off the screen, to be replaced by a new window that is then given focus. The windows are ordered in a sequence and move in concert with one another; pushing one window off one edge of the screen causes a new window to appear at the opposite edge. A persistent positional relationship can be established among windows.

Navigating among activities in a computing device

In various embodiments, a card metaphor is established, in which each activity can be represented within an area of the screen referred to as a card. In various embodiments, any of several display modes are available for viewing, interacting with, manipulating, initiating, and dismissing cards. A persistent positional relationship can be established among cards, represented by a one-dimensional sequence. Newly opened cards are generally placed at the end of the sequence, although a new card that bears a relationship to an already open card may, in some embodiments, be placed adjacent to the already open card. In various embodiments, cards may be grouped, with such groups being represented as stacks of cards or by other visually distinctive means.

Application management in a computing device

A computing device runs multiple activities concurrently and provides at least two modes for interacting with the activities. The user may toggle between the modes as desired. In a full-screen mode, one activity occupies substantially an entire display screen. In a windowed mode, the activity is visible within a window, and a portion of at least one other window is also visible. In the windowed mode, the user can cause windows to move, thereby changing focus from one activity to another. For example, the window having focus can be moved off the screen, to be replaced by a new window that is then given focus. The windows are ordered in a sequence and move in concert with one another; pushing one window off one edge of the screen causes a new window to appear at the opposite edge. A persistent positional relationship can be established among windows.

A computing device includes at least one processor; a display device; and at least one module. The at least one processor may be operable to store data that defines a plurality of discrete graphical elements (DGE's), wherein the plurality of DGE's includes at least one root DGE, and wherein dismissal of the root DGE causes dismissal of all of the plurality of DGE's. The at least one module may be operable to output a particular DGE of the plurality of DGE's; output, for display, the root DGE, responsive to receiving a first indication of user input of a particular input type; and ignore the second indication of user input to refrain from dismissal of the root DGE, responsive to receiving a second indication of user input of the particular input type within a threshold time duration that is initiated responsive to outputting the root DGE.

Inadvertent dismissal prevention for graphical content

A device that includes one or more processors may determine a configuration of a display region of the device. The device may also receive a request to perform an animation of a virtual object within the display region. The request may be indicative of a given duration for the animation based on the animation being performed within a given display region having a given configuration. The device may also modify the given duration to determine an adjusted duration for the animation based on a comparison between the configuration and the given configuration. The device may also perform the animation within the display region based on the animation having the adjusted duration.

Methods and systems for adjusting animation duration

A computing device outputs an arrangement of a set of windows organized into one or more visual stacks. Each respective visual stack from the one or more visual stacks comprises a respective subset of the set of windows sequenced based on a characteristic. The computing device determines that a first window from the set of windows has a particular relationship with a second window from the set of windows, wherein the particular relationship is not based on the characteristic. The computing device outputs, responsive to the determining, a visual indication of the first window that visually differentiates the first window from windows from the set of windows not having the particular relationship with the second window.

Indicating relationships between windows on a computing device

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Daniel Marc Gatan Shiplacoff