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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014

Filed:

Jul. 30, 2009
Applicants:

Matthew P. Lietzke, Cary, NC (US);

Eric Edward Dudkowski, Raleigh, NC (US);

Timothy Humphrey, Raleigh, NC (US);

Howard Locker, Cary, NC (US);

Jeffrey E. Skinner, Raleigh, NC (US);

Adam Miles Smith, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Aaron Michael Stewart, Raleigh, NC (US);

Russell Speight Vanblon, Brentwood, NC (US);

Inventors:

Matthew P. Lietzke, Cary, NC (US);

Eric Edward Dudkowski, Raleigh, NC (US);

Timothy Humphrey, Raleigh, NC (US);

Howard Locker, Cary, NC (US);

Jeffrey E. Skinner, Raleigh, NC (US);

Adam Miles Smith, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Aaron Michael Stewart, Raleigh, NC (US);

Russell Speight VanBlon, Brentwood, NC (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An approach is provided that receives a gesture from a user with the gesture being directed at a graphical user interface element. The gesture is received by the user at a touch-enabled display screen. Emulated physics properties are retrieved that correspond to the selected graphical user interface element. The system detects a speed and a direction from the received gesture and, based on this information, determines an initial trajectory of the selected graphical user interface element. The initial trajectory is adjusted based on the retrieved emulated physics properties with the movement of the element being rendered on the display screen based upon the adjusted trajectory.


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