Patent ID: 9189773
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G09G,H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: providing a device comprising a first display and a second display; providing a smartpad device, wherein the device is inserted into the smartpad device, wherein the smartpad device includes a display functionally separated into a first portion and a second portion, and wherein a display in the first portion is associated with the first display and a display in the second portion is associated with the second display; in a first display mode and while the device is docked into the smartpad device, presenting at least a first user interface for an email application on the first portion of the smartpad device, wherein the first display mode includes displaying content in a landscape orientation and displaying content on the first portion, and wherein the second portion is unavailable to a user; receiving an input from the user into the display of the smartpad device, wherein the input includes making the second portion available to the user; determining orientations of the device and the smartpad based on input from an accelerometer on the device; the smartpad device determining a second display mode at least based on the determined orientations, wherein the second display mode includes displaying content on both the first portion and the second portion; in response to making the second portion available to the user and the determination that the smart pad device is in a second display mode, the smartpad device presenting the first user interface on the first portion; in response to making the second portion available to the user and the determination that the device is in a second display mode, the smartpad device presenting a second user interface on the second portion, wherein the second user interface is also associated with the email application; wherein when changing to the second display mode the email application program on the smartpad display is further operable to change at least one of a size, an orientation, a position or an aspect ratio of at least one user interface object in the first user interface or the second user interface; and wherein when changing to the second display mode the email application program on the smartpad display is further operable to at least one of open a new child window, expand the email application program window across both displays, expand a keyboard across both virtual displays, or maintain the email application program window in the set virtual display portion and show other content from another application or the desktop in the other virtual display portion.