A recent patent filing by Apple details an implementation of Spaces for the iPad. Discovered by Patently Apple, the new filing notes that existing methods for performing manipulations of workspace views are cumbersome and inefficient. For example, moving between one workspace view and another workspace view may require selecting an icon or other small graphical user interface object with a cursor, and/or remembering unintuitive keyboard shortcuts or other navigation commands. Apple suggests a solution would be to create a “plurality of workspace views”. ie Spaces. They illustrate that a two finger pinching gesture at the bottom right corner of the device could bring up a grid view of your Spaces.
