Steven Alan Welch

US Patent:

20140310661, Oct 16, 2014

Filed:

Apr 15, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/863069

Inventors:

- Redmond WA, US
Christopher Doan - Seattle WA, US
Alan Stephenson - Bellevue WA, US
Bret Anderson - Kirkland WA, US
Michael Seibert - Redmond WA, US
Robert Jarrett - Seattle WA, US
Aleksandar Uzelac - Seattle WA, US
Steven Welch - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 3/01

US Classification:

715863

Abstract:

Systems and methods of blocking, ignoring, suspending, or otherwise altering edge-related UI gestures on touch-sensitive computing devices or on non-touch sensitive computing devices having active edge I/O commands in certain situations are disclosed. In one embodiment, a second UI gesture coming from an outside edge may be altered after a first UI gesture from a user using an running application under certain conditions—e.g., if the second UI gesture is made within a certain time period after the first UI gesture, the second UI gesture is made within a certain proximity of the first UI gesture, etc. In another embodiment, a computing device is disclosed that comprises a controller, a display screen and an operating system that alters certain edge-related UI gestures that might be made by an operating system if, e.g., certain conditions are present.