Patent attributes
Various embodiments enable a user to navigate between various hierarchical or functional levels of a computing device by providing a hand gesture, such as a multiple finger pinch or splay. For example, a user viewing an application page on an interface of a computing device can leave the application page and navigate to the home page with a single hand gesture. Accordingly, the same hand gesture could be subsequently used to navigate the user to a higher functional level, such as a network level, a disk utility level, and the like. A multiple finger pinch or splay can also be utilized as a trigger to reveal an application's chrome, reveal running applications, provide a short-cut to accessing favorite applications or notes, or to provide alternative views or organization schemes for applications, documents, and the like.
