Patent ID: 8935629
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: G06F,G06T,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method, implemented in a device having touch hardware, for enabling a user to flip through a plurality of pages, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of gesture inputs via the touch hardware within a predetermined period of time; and executing a flip transition animation in response to each received gesture input, wherein execution of each transition animation sends a page inflight along a flight path, each page comprising first and second halves separated by an axis, wherein a half of an inflight page is mated to a half of the different page, as the inflight page progresses along the flight path, the mated halves of the inflight page and the different page flip about the axis, and a position of the mated halves within the flight path dictates viewable portions of the inflight page and the different page, wherein the viewable portions of the inflight page and the different page change as the inflight page progresses along the flight path, and wherein the predetermined period of time is such that at least two pages are simultaneously inflight.