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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2013
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Steven Frederickson, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Doan, Seattle, WA (US);
Alan Stephenson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Bret Anderson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Michael Seibert, Redmond, WA (US);
Robert Jarrett, Seattle, WA (US);
Aleksandar Uzelac, Seattle, WA (US);
Steven Welch, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods of blocking, ignoring, suspending, or otherwise altering edge-related UI gestures on touch-sensitive computing devices or on non-touch sensitive computing devices having active edge I/O commands in certain situations are disclosed. In one embodiment, a second UI gesture coming from an outside edge may be altered after a first UI gesture from a user using an running application under certain conditions—e.g., if the second UI gesture is made within a certain time period after the first UI gesture, the second UI gesture is made within a certain proximity of the first UI gesture, etc. In another embodiment, a computing device is disclosed that comprises a controller, a display screen and an operating system that alters certain edge-related UI gestures that might be made by an operating system if, e.g., certain conditions are present.