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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
May. 20, 2014
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Steven Chi Truong, Toronto, CA;
Alexander Friedrich Kuscher, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jennifer Shien-Ming Chen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for enabling a user to switch applications within a plurality of active applications in a personal computing device having a touch-sensitive display is provided. The method includes detecting a tablet configuration in the personal computing device. In response to a tablet configuration being detected, maximizing a currently active application in the touch-sensitive display and providing a multi-task affordance in the touch-sensitive display when the touch screen personal computing device is displaying the currently active application. The multi-task affordance includes a plurality of tasks associated with a plurality of applications installed in the personal computing device. And the computer-implemented method includes providing a gestural interface to the user for application switching according to a selected task from the plurality of tasks in the multi task affordance. A personal computing device having a touch sensitive display to perform a method as described above is also provided.