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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Itai Vonshak, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Chadwyck Wirtz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Benjamin Rottler, San Francisco, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Example embodiments relate to drag and drop application launches within a user interface (UI). In example embodiments, a command is received by which a UI object currently displayed in a window of a first application is dragged from the window and dropped onto a home screen of an operating system. A second application suitable for displaying an object type of the UI object is then identified. Finally, the second application is launched in a new window in response to the drop of the UI object on the home screen, such that the new window displays the UI object.