Patent ID: 8228300
Filing Date: 2012-07-24
Classification: G06F,H04M

Abstract:
1. One or more nontransitory computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of enabling a user to control a mobile communications device that includes a vibration component, the method comprising: in response to an event, presenting an object on a touchscreen display of the mobile communications device, wherein the object is an informational element that includes information about the event that gave rise to a presentation of the object; enabling the object to be moveable on the touchscreen by way of a touch interaction; and in real time, continuously varying an intensity of an output of the vibration component to cause a vibrational response of the mobile communications device, such that movement of the object in a first direction causes a first continuous vibrational output, and movement of the object in a second direction causes a second continuous vibrational output, wherein the second continuous vibrational output results in the mobile communications device vibrating with a second intensity, wherein the second intensity monotonically decreases as the object is progressively more displaced in the second direction such that every advancement of the object in the second direction produces a vibrational response that is less than when the object was at in any preceding position until the object is moved in the second direction beyond a threshold distance from a starting position, wherein thereafter, as the object is moved further in the second direction, the vibrational response is no longer monotonically decreasing.