US Patent:
20200364099, Nov 19, 2020
Inventors:
- Mountain View CA, US
Carl Magnus Borg - San Francisco CA, US
Miroslav Bojic - San Francisco CA, US
Henry Owen Newton-Dunn - Mountain View CA, US
Jacob M. Klinker - Mountain View CA, US
Mindy Pereira - Santa Clara CA, US
Devin Mancuso - San Francisco CA, US
Daniel June Hyung Park - Sunnyvale CA, US
Lily Sin - San Francisco CA, US
Assignee:
Google LLC - Mountain View CA
International Classification:
G06F 9/54
G06Q 10/10
G06F 8/61
G06F 8/65
G06F 9/48
Abstract:
This document describes techniques and devices for task-related sorting, application discovery, and unified bookmarking for application managers. Through use of an application manager, multiple applications (including standalone applications, instant applications, websites, and other content) that a person can use to accomplish a single task, or multiple related tasks, are sorted into discrete groups for display in the application manager. The application manager can automatically recognize relationships between activities performed with the applications and recognize user actions with the applications that are related to the activities. Based on the relationships and user actions, the application manager can automatically determine that the activities and actions represent a task and display a task group that includes the applications that represent the task. The task groups may be visually displayed as a stack, strip, or pile of windows or thumbnails representing each application or other content the person could use for the task.
