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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2015
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Patti Pei-Chin Hoa, San Jose, CA (US);

Gregory F. Hughes, Cupertino, CA (US);

Reginald Dean Hudson, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06F 9/451 (2018.01); G06F 8/38 (2018.01); G06F 9/44 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G06F 8/38 (2013.01); G06F 9/4446 (2013.01); G06F 9/453 (2018.02); G06F 2203/04803 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an example method, an electronic device receives data regarding a graphical user interface to be presented on a display of the electronic device. The electronic device identifies one or more key regions of the graphical user interface based on the received data and one or more rules. The one or more rules pertain to at least one of a geometric shape, a geometric size, a location, or a hierarchical property. The graphical user interface is presented on the display of the electronic device, and the at least one of the key regions of the graphical user interface is indicated using the electronic device.


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