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Unified navigation model between multiple applications
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In this article, the user navigates between different user interface states, in and out of different types of applications, using a back, history or other suitable state recording and retrieval function.Citations
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Device, method, and graphical user interface for managing concurrently open software applications
TL;DR: In this paper, a first input is detected, and an application view selection mode is entered for selecting one of concurrently open applications for display in a corresponding application view, and a gesture is detected on a respective open application icon in the first predefined area.
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Multi-application environment
Robert J. Jarrett,Jesse Clay Satterfield,Nils Anders Sundelin,Bret P. Anderson,Tsz Yan Wong,Chaitanya Dev Sareen,Patrice L. Miner,Jensen M. Harris,David A. Matthews,Jennifer Nan,Matthew I. Worley +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe techniques and apparatuses enabling a multi-application environment with combinations of immersive interfaces, windows-based interfaces, and a desktop treated as an immersive interface.
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Methods and systems for storing and accessing application history
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose to store browsing histories of data items accessed during an application's execution in order to be accessed by later instances of the application by a global back or a global forward command.
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Task Switching on Mobile Devices
Rachel Jiang,Rhon Manlapaz,Megan Galbraith Donahue,Amy E. Alberts,Karachale Jan Harold,Ashwini Varma,Vijayendra Gopalrao Vasu,Alan Michael Bush +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a task switching technology on a computing device such as a Smartphone, where a user requests that another task be executed, information about the previously executing task (e.g., including a screenshot) is preserved to a stack.
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Switching back to a previously-interacted-with application
Chaitanya Dev Sareen,Tsz Yan Wong,Jesse Clay Satterfield,Matthew I. Worley,Bret P. Anderson,Nils Anders Sundelin,Patrice L. Miner,Jennifer Nan,Robert J. Jarrett,David A. Matthews +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe techniques and apparatuses for switching back to a previously interacted-with application through a simple gesture that is both easy-to-use and remember.
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Single window navigation methods and systems
TL;DR: In this paper, a user interface (UI) in the form of a single navigable window enables a user to navigate to and between multiple different functionalities that are provided by a single application program.
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Unified navigation shell user interface
Joseph H. Matthews,Stephen P. Capps,Richard W. Stoakley,Joseph D. Belfiore,Walter Smith,Bradley M. Schick,Samuel James McKelvie,Robert V. Welland,John P. Cordell +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a web of command pages is defined as a unit of measure for navigating among screens on a personal computer, where the screens, which include layers of a shell user interface and various locations within applications, are presented as pages.
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Automated root cause analysis of problems associated with software application deployments
TL;DR: In this article, the root cause analysis module is configured to identify one or more problematic objects of the application model, and to use pattern-recognition on the application models to find root cause candidates that may be a root cause of problems associated with the problematic objects.
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Method, software and apparatus for using application state history information when re-launching applications
TL;DR: A system for saving application state history information, containing an historical snap-shot of dynamic application state information associated with execution of a first application on a computing device is described in this article.
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General Purpose Multiprocessor Programming Apparatus And Method
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