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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2009
Nicole Coddington, Kirkland, WA (US);
Nicole Coddington, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments related to the manipulation of objects on a multi-touch graphical user interface are disclosed. For example, in one disclosed embodiment, a method of operating a graphical user interface of a computing device comprises presenting a group of objects on the graphical user interface in a group representation, where the group of objects includes two or more objects. The method further comprises receiving a multi-touch gesture at the graphical user interface in which two or more temporally overlapping touches are moved relative to each other on the graphical user interface. The method further comprises changing an organization of the group of objects presented on the graphical user interface in response to a changing of a distance between the two or more temporally overlapping touches as they are moved relative to each other on the graphical user interface.