Patent ID: 8875046
Filing Date: 2014-10-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented user interface method, comprising: displaying content in a first window on a display of a computing device, wherein the display is overlaid by a touch input surface; detecting, on the touch input surface, a dragging user input from a peripheral edge of the first window, to a location within the display area of the first window wherein the dragging user input comprises a motion having a dominant directional component generally orthogonal to the peripheral edge of the first window; and in response to detecting the dragging input, generating and displaying a second window on the display of the computing device, contracting the first window, and displaying the contracted first window simultaneously with the second window, wherein the first window includes graphical elements of a first application opened within the first window and wherein the second window displays, in response to the dragging user input, graphical elements of a second application opened in the second window or graphical elements of a new instantiation of the first application, but wherein the second window does not include a new pane of an existing instantiation of the first application.