Twitter was Trying to patent action 'Pull to Refresh'

Action 'Pull to Refresh' is a common gesture found in mobile applications such as application Twitter, Facebook, Tweetbot, and others to perform certain commands (usually refresh). But soon the possibility of this action will be increasingly rare to find if Twitter was granted a patent by the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office).

Loren Brichter has documenting  patent User Interface Mechanics in 2010, when he was working for Tweetie (before it was acquired and renamed by Twitter). The document reads:

A method, comprising: displaying the content area to receive input related to the first command, the first command that includes a request to scroll the content area, and based on the first command, do the second command, the second command is independent of the first order.

That's about the definition of the action 'Pull to Refresh' who want to patent, not just focus on the refresh command. If the patent is approved, Twitter will get all the patents gesture similar to Pull action and not be limited to the actions taken when doing the gesture. With the entry of this patent application will gesture, hopefully in the future other companies are also not part of it tried to trademark the other gestures such as tap, Swoop, Nudge, bump, circle, and the other gesture. Because if it is successful, the user indirectly also to be affected.

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