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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2014
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Christopher Doan, Seattle, WA (US);
Matthew I. Worley, Bellevue, WA (US);
Tyler J. Donahue, Bellevue, WA (US);
Emily Grace Sappington, Seattle, WA (US);
Sohit Karol, Seattle, WA (US);
Nidhi S. Sanghai, Newcastle, WA (US);
Miron Vranjes, Seattle, WA (US);
Matthew Kiichi Slemon, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andrew P. Mittereder, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A multi-finger touchpad gesture refers to a movement of multiple fingers in a particular pattern across a touchpad. The touchpad senses the multiple fingers, and based on the sensed finger locations and finger movements, one of multiple multi-finger touchpad gestures is detected. A user interface being presented on a display is altered as appropriate in response to the detected multi-finger touchpad gesture. Various different multi-finger touchpad gestures can be detected. The multi-finger touchpad gestures can include a gesture that traverses different hierarchical views of the operating system user interface, a gesture that switches between two recent windows, a gesture that traverses a back stack of windows, a gesture that displays a window selection view and selects a particular window, and a gesture that moves a window to a different location (including snapping a window to an edge or corner of the display).