Patent ID: 11880551
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 34:
35. A mobile computing device comprising:
means for operating at least a first application and a second application concurrently;
a display screen coupled to the means for operating;
means for receiving an input indicative of a gesture input on the display screen; and
means for operating the mobile computing device in any one of at least two display modes that includes a full-screen mode and a windowed mode, wherein:
in the full-screen mode, the means for operating presents, on the display screen, a user interface for only one of the first application or the second application; and
in the windowed mode, the means for operating:
presents, on the display screen, a plurality of windows arranged linearly along an axis of the display screen, the plurality of windows including at least a portion of a first window displaying a view of the first application and at least a portion of a second window displaying a view of the second application, the first application different than the second application;
responds to a first user directional gesture in a first direction along the axis by moving the plurality of windows in concert with one another in the first direction along the axis such that the portion of the second window presented on the display screen increases or decreases based on the first direction;
responds to a second user directional gesture on a selected window of the first window or the second window that drags the selected window, along a second direction that is different than the first direction, out of linear arrangement with the non-selected windows arranged along the axis and dismisses the selected window from the display screen in the second direction; and
closes the corresponding first application or second application based on the dismissal of the selected window; and

means for transitioning, in response to receiving one or more user inputs indicating a mode change, the mobile computing device at least (i) from the full-screen mode to the windowed mode, or (ii) from the windowed mode to the full-screen mode.