Patent ID: 9384013
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: G06F,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: displaying a first user interface element on a shareable launch surface associated with a multi-user system; controlling the first user interface element to present first information concerning a current owner of the launch surface and a potential owner of the launch surface, where ownership of the launch surface controls the context with which an action taken through the launch surface will be associated, where an active user of the multi-user system has an active context, where a context comprises an attribute and a state, the attribute being an account identifier and a data plan identifier, and at least one of; a screen name, a billing identifier, a parental control setting, a display preference, or a social media data, and the state being a data plan balance and a connectivity level, and at least one of a billing balance, an account balance, an experience level, an access time, or an engaged time; and upon detecting a first selection associated with the first information presented by the first user interface element, selectively changing ownership of the launch surface as a function of the first selection, where the ownership of the launch surface is changed while maintaining a first user experience associated with the multi-user system, where maintaining the first user experience associated with the multi-user system comprises changing the context of an application running on the multi-user system without navigating to the launch surface and changing the context of the running application without exiting the running application.