A new Apple patent filing points at an interesting prospect for productivity hounds on the iPad: bringing the multi-desktop Spaces feature found in Mac OS X to the realm of the touchscreen tablet.
Apple's patent refers to a device with a touchscreen that has "a plurality of workspace views". Credit: US Patent and Trademark Office
Called "device, method and graphical user interface for manipulating workspace views", the 2009 application, which went live on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's site on 31 March and was found by Patently Apple, describes a device with a touchscreen that has "a plurality of workspace views". When enabled, the idea is to let users jump around to their various screens with finger gestures, turning the 10-inch screen into a just a window of a larger work space.
The various toggles for surfing around these work spaces are described as gestures, including pinching in various parts of the screen as well as a five-finger tap and pinch.
For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Apple patent hints at 'Spaces' coming to iPad on CNET News.
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