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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2015
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte, Ltd., New Tech Park, SG;
David Perez-Feliciano, Morrisville, NC (US);
Catherine Pratt Davis, Raleigh, NC (US);
James Alan Pfaltzgraff, Raleigh, NC (US);
Justin Michael Ringuette, Morrisville, NC (US);
Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD., New Tech Park, SG;
Abstract
For application switching, a system, apparatus, method, and computer program product are disclosed. The apparatus, in one embodiment, includes a display, an input module that monitors user input for a switching command, an axis module that determines whether the switching command is along a first axis or along a second axis, the first axis being orthogonal to the second axis, and a switching module that presents a next application on the display in response to the switching command being along the first axis and that presents a next instance of a current application on the display in response to the switching command being along the second axis. In certain embodiments, the first axis comprises a vertical axis with respect to the display and the second axis comprises a horizontal axis with respect to the display.