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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2007
Glen Edmond Chalemin, Austin, TX (US);
Indran Naick, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Clifford Jay Spinac, Austin, TX (US);
Calvin Lui Sze, Austin, TX (US);
Glen Edmond Chalemin, Austin, TX (US);
Indran Naick, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Clifford Jay Spinac, Austin, TX (US);
Calvin Lui Sze, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method by which a user may move windows from one location to another on a screen of a portable computing device is provided. In accordance with the method, when the device is in window manipulation mode, the user needs only tilt the device toward a destination location and the windows are moved toward that location. Tilt detectors in the device sense an angle of tilt and provide the tilt angle as feedback to a processor. The processor, under proper software instructions, moves the windows toward the destination location on the screen based on the tilt angle. The greater the tilt angle, the faster the windows are moved toward the destination location.