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Use the Ribbon to Access the Application User Interface

A technology of user interface and functional area, which is applied in the direction of instruments, computing, electrical digital data processing, etc., and can solve problems such as occlusion

Active Publication Date: 2018-06-08
MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC
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However, one drawback associated with current ribbon UIs is that the selection of options often results in too many choices, the presentation of which obscures what the user can display in the associated application, thereby distracting from the user experience

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[0020] Embodiments are provided for utilizing ribbons to access application user interfaces. A ribbon for accessing the application user interface may be provided. The ribbon can be displayed on the computer in association with the application user interface. The Ribbon can include a horizontal scrolling gallery. The horizontal scrolling gallery can display a subset of available options that can be used to perform one or more actions on the content displayed in the application user interface. The computer may receive input to navigate through the options available in the gallery by scrolling horizontally.

[0021] Figure 1A A computer screen display showing an application user interface 100 incorporating functional areas according to an embodiment. Application user interface 100 may be generated by one or more productivity applications executing on a computing device for creating and / or editing content (eg, documents, images, web content, etc.). As will be discussed in gr...

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Abstract

A ribbon for accessing an application user interface may be provided. The ribbon may be displayed on a computer in association with the application user interface. The ribbon may include a horizontal scrolling gallery. The horizontal scrolling gallery may display a subset of available options which may be utilized to perform one or more actions with respect to content displayed in the application user interface. An input may be received by the computer to navigate through the available options in the horizontal scrolling gallery.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to utilizing ribbons to access application user interfaces. Background technique [0002] Many computer software applications utilize user interface (UI) ribbons and / or toolbars to select commands and options associated with a particular application. For example, a word processing application may provide a ribbon UI that displays the option to select a particular font from a drop-down list for entering text into a document, the ribbon UI also displays an option for selecting a representation for use when creating the document The Styles gallery of thumbnails for the style set. However, one drawback associated with current ribbon UIs is that selection of options often results in too many choices, the presentation of which obscures what the user can display in the associated application, thereby distracting from the user experience. For example, selection of a list of fonts may result in a drop-down list that obscures more...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F3/0481G06F3/0485G06F3/0488
CPCG06F3/0482G06F3/0485
Inventor T·A·埃斯特拉达M·D·伍德R·W·特洛伊M·K·S·赤
Owner MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC