US 11,681,412 B2
User interface menu transitions with selectable actions
Toru Yamamoto, San Mateo, CA (US); Katsuya Hyodo, San Mateo, CA (US); Koichi Aoki, San Francisco, CA (US); and Robert E. Brown, Lafayette, CA (US)
Assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/388,866.
Application 17/388,866 is a continuation of application No. 16/826,071, filed on Mar. 20, 2020, granted, now 11,093,114.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/826,872, filed on Mar. 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0357087 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); A63F 13/25 (2014.01); G06F 3/0485 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/0482 (2013.01) [A63F 13/25 (2014.09); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
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1. A method of presenting a menu on a computer system, the method comprising:
presenting, on a display communicatively coupled with the computer system, a menu based on an execution of a menu application, wherein the menu comprises a plurality of application windows, each of the plurality of application windows corresponds to a different application of the computer system and is presented in a glanced state with content of a corresponding application;
instantiating, based on the presentation of the menu, an application module that has parameters common to the different applications;
presenting, on the display, a window in a focused state based on a user interaction;
presenting, on the display, the window in a selected state based on a user selection of the window, wherein the window and the content are resized in the selected state and wherein the window includes one or more selectable controls;
updating, based on the window being in the selected state, the application module to include parameters specific to the corresponding application and to present an overlay window reproducing the window in the selected state; and
presenting, on the display, the overlay window coextensive with and over the window in the selected state, the overlay window comprising the content.