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Active lock wallpapers

A technology for wallpapering and locking the screen, applied to instruments, calculations, electrical digital data processing, etc., can solve problems that are not particularly useful

Inactive Publication Date: 2013-03-27
MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC
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[0024] Aspects of the techniques described herein generally relate to a technique for automatically selecting and displaying a lock wallpaper (eg, content including images, videos, or animations) on a device screen. Thus, the lock wallpaper changes based on, for example, the current device or software program context or other automatic changing events. The context may correspond to an application or the current state of an application, including background applications or services that are not running in the foreground (and thus generally have no control over the display). For example, a currently running podcast that is recounting or analyzing a sporting event may have a locked wallpaper that is related to that sporting event in some general or more specific way.

[0025] It should be understood that any examples herein are non-limiting. For example, although touchscreen mobile devices / smartphones are used here as examples, at least some of the concepts described herein are ...

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The invention relates to active lock wallpapers. The subject disclosure is directed towards a technology in which a mobile device such as a phone automatically changes its lock wallpaper content (e.g., an image or video) that appears when the device is in its lock state. An API or the like allows information to be received from an application or service according to which the content is changed, including obtaining the content as needed. The lock wallpaper content may change in response to an automatic change event, and may correspond to a current device context. For example, lock wallpaper content may be displayed based upon a currently playing podcast, audio track, or currently running application program or service. The lock wallpaper may change among content obtained from a social networking site, or from a favorites store. The device may allow gesturing to change the content.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to live lock wallpapers. Background technique [0002] Touch screen mobile devices such as smartphones use a 'lock screen' to prevent accidental touches that would otherwise be detected by the device software when the device is not actively being used. The lock screen also appears when the device is initially turned on. The lock screen typically communicates the time, date, message notifications, and system status, such as cellular signal strength and battery level. [0003] Contemporary mobile devices allow users to specify an image, sometimes referred to as a 'lock wallpaper', that appears beneath the information conveyed when the device is in the locked screen state. For example, the lock wallpaper appears when the user first touches a button to make the device light up the display after the screen has dimmed (timed out) due to inactivity. The locked wallpaper thus appears before the user sees his or her home screen ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F3/0484G06F3/0488G06F17/30H04M1/725H04M1/72427H04M1/72442H04M1/72448
CPCH04M1/67H04M1/72563G06F3/04812H04M1/72544H04M1/72558H04M1/72427H04M1/72442H04M1/72448G06F3/01G06F3/017G06F3/14
Inventor B·W·尼尔勒J·D·菲利普斯K·C·伦森L·许J·D·卡南M·S·多尔
Owner MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC
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