COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A DOCUMENT EDITOR IN-SPACE USER INTERFACE AND A DOCUMENT EDITOR OUT-SPACE USER INTERFACE

• Main Authors: ALBERTS, Amy, E, GORDNER, Jonathan, Ian, TREVINO, Maria, Fernandez, SINGH, Navjot, DUKHON, Marina, SATTERFIELD, Jesse, Clay, GUNTAUR, Paula
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 17.01.2018
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

An out-space actuator is selected to access an out-space user interface for a document editor program. An out-space actuator is associated with an in-space user interface having a displayed document. When the out-space actuator is selected, an out-space user interface is displayed that includes an expanded feature selection surface. The out-space user interface may be used to display one or more status panes for providing status information about a document being edited in the in-space user interface. Application features for affecting changes to a given document's status may be exposed in the out-space interface in proximity to associated status information. An out-space communication user interface (UI) component may be temporarily displayed in the document in-space user interface to communicate document status information that is presently available in the out-space user interface. A message bar may be displayed in the in-space user interface for communicating information from the out-space user interface.