US 12,248,657 B2
Expanded preview mode for folders
Suvojyoti Ray, Bengaluru (IN); Gulmohar Khan, Bengaluru (IN); and Colin Day, Seattle, WA (US)
Assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed by MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed on Dec. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/076,294.
Prior Publication US 2024/0184420 A1, Jun. 6, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 3/0482 (2013.01) [G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 2203/04803 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
displaying, by a computing device including a processing unit and a memory, a plurality of user interface elements representing an associated plurality of folders distributed across a plurality of file contexts in a file manager user interface;
receiving, at the computing device, a first user input indicating a selection of a first folder from the plurality of folders;
in response to the first user input, displaying, by the computing device, a first visual expansion of the first folder comprising a user interface element representing a first content item within the first folder;
determining, by the computing device, a first file context of the first folder selected by the first user input;
generating a first supplementary user interface element based on the first file context of the first folder that is displayed by the computing device concurrently and in association with the user interface element representing the first content item within the first folder;
receiving, at the computing device, a second user input indicating a selection of a second folder from the plurality of folders;
in response to the second user input, displaying, by the computing device, a second visual expansion of the second folder concurrently with the first visual expansion of the first folder, the second visual expansion comprising a user interface element representing a second content item within the second folder;
determining, by the computing device, a second file context of the second folder selected by the second user input;
generating a second supplementary user interface element based on the second file context of the second folder that is displayed by the computing device concurrently and in association with the user interface element representing the second content item within the second folder; and
receiving, at the computing device, a third user input indicating a selection and a simultaneous movement of the first content item and the second content item from the first visual expansion of the first folder and the second visual expansion of the second folder to a third folder associated with a third file context.