Patent ID: 9626100
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method performed on a computing device comprising a touch display screen, the method comprising: presenting a user interface (UI) screen upon the touch display screen, the UI screen showing an application that is running on the computing device; receiving a first UI gesture that starts within an active display area of the touch display screen, engages the application shown on the UI screen, and crosses a first edge of the touch display screen; detecting a second UI gesture that starts outside of the active display area and crosses a second edge of the touch display screen when moving toward the active display area, the second edge forming a corner with the first edge; determining whether the second UI gesture that crosses the second edge is within a specified distance tolerance of the first UI gesture that crosses the first edge; and responsive to determining that the second UI gesture is within the specified distance tolerance of the first UI gesture, blocking a UI event associated with the second UI gesture.