Mapping visualization contexts

• US 10,139,989 B2
• Filed: 12/13/2013
• Issued: 11/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Shiroor, Kedar, Cronin, Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): Blaufeld, Justin R.
• Application Number:
  US14/106,475
• Publication Number:
  US 20150169057A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,810 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

In accordance with aspects of the disclosure, systems and methods are provided for displaying user interactive regions having corresponding tap sensitive targets for each of a plurality of scalable values representing a visualization context associated with each user interactive region while maintaining a size of each user interactive region and each corresponding tap sensitive target according to each scalable value associated therewith.

Claims

1. A computing system comprising:

a mobile communication device having at least one processor, display, and memory; and

a visualization mapper configured to cause the at least one processor to display a plurality of user interactive regions having respective sizes on a touch screen adjacent to each other in a size-based hierarchy, each user interactive region including a finger tap sensitive target that is configured to receive an interactive finger tap by a user touching the finger tap sensitive target, the each user interactive region and the included finger tap sensitive target being associated with a respective scalable value, the respective scalable values representing a visualization context associated with the each user interactive region, the visualization mapper including;

an algorithm handler configured to cause the at least one processor to selectively scale the size of each user interactive region and included finger tap sensitive target according to the respective scalable values associated therewith,

a grouping handler configured to cause the at least one processor to group, based on a determination that one or more of the selectively scaled user interactive regions are dimensionally smaller than a predefined finger tap target size on the touch screen, the one or more of the selectively scaled user interactive regions on the touch screen into a specified user interactive region on the touch screen that is larger than the predefined finger tap target size, the specified user interactive region being expandable in size, upon selection thereof by a user touching the finger tap sensitive target included in the specified user interactive region, to ungroup and display a plurality of constituent selectively scaled user interactive regions of the specified user interactive region at sizes larger than the predefined finger tap target size, and

a display handler configured to cause the at least one processor to display each of the user interactive regions on the touch screen along with the specified user interactive region according to each scalable value associated therewith,

wherein, receipt of the selection thereof by the user causes the specified, expandable user interactive region to undergo expansion to incrementally display the plurality of constituent selectively scaled user interactive regions in a second size-based hierarchy, in which larger regions thereof display included information more rapidly than smaller regions thereof during the expansion.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a personalization handler configured to cause the at least one processor to selectively scale the size of each finger tap sensitive target according to a user tactile input via tactile gesture by the user.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the algorithm handler is configured to cause the at least one processor to:

measure available display area of the display, and

partition the available display area into the plurality of user interactive regions.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the user interactive regions and each corresponding finger tap sensitive target occupy a same partitioned area on the display.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the finger tap target size includes a block of pixels having predefined dimensions.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the scalable values represents a predefined property associated with information related to the user.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein each visualization context represents each corresponding scalable value as scale of the associated user interactive region.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein each visualization context represents each corresponding scalable value as a textual property for text in each associated user interactive region including at least one of font size of the text, font type of the text, and font color of the text.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein each visualization context represents each corresponding scalable value as a regional property for each associated user interactive region including at least one of orientation for each associated user interactive region, outline shape for each associated user interactive region, outline color for each associated user interactive region, and background color for each associated user interactive region.

10. A computer program product, the computer program product being tangibly embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and including instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, are configured to:

display a plurality of user interactive regions having respective sizes on a touch screen adjacent to each other in a size-based hierarchy, each user interactive region including a finger tap sensitive target that is configured to receive an interactive finger tap by a user touching the finger tap sensitive target, the each user interactive region and the included finger tap sensitive target being associated with a respective scalable value, the respective scalable values representing a visualization context associated with the each user interactive region, the instructions including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, are further configured to;

selectively scale the size of each user interactive region and included finger tap sensitive target according to the respective scalable values associated therewith,

group, based on a determination that one or more of the selectively scaled user interactive regions are dimensionally smaller than a predefined finger tap target size on the touch screen, the one or more of the selectively scaled user interactive regions into a specified user interactive region on the touch screen that is larger than the predefined finger tap target size, the specified user interactive region being expandable in size, upon selection thereof by a user touching the finger tap sensitive target included in the specified user interactive region, to ungroup and display a plurality of constituent selectively scaled user interactive regions of the specified user interactive region at sizes larger than the predefined finger tap target size, and

display each of the user interactive regions on the touch screen along with the specified user interactive region according to each scalable value associated therewith,

wherein, receipt of the selection thereof by the user causes the specified, expandable user interactive region to undergo expansion to incrementally display the plurality of constituent selectively scaled user interactive regions in a second size-based hierarchy, in which larger regions thereof display included information more rapidly than smaller regions thereof during the expansion.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, are further configured to selectively scale the size of each finger tap sensitive target according to a user tactile input via tactile gesture by the user.

12. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, are further configured to:

measure available display area of the display, and

partition the available display area into the plurality of user interactive regions.

13. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein each visualization context represents each corresponding scalable value as scale of the associated user interactive region.

14. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

displaying a plurality of user interactive regions having respective sizes on a touch screen adjacent to each other in a size-based hierarchy, each user interactive region including a finger tap sensitive target that is configured to receive an interactive finger tap by a user touching the finger tap sensitive target, the each user interactive region and the included finger tap sensitive target being associated with a respective scalable value, the respective scalable values representing a visualization context associated with the each user interactive region, the displaying including;

selectively scaling the size of each user interactive region and included finger tap sensitive target according to the respective scalable values associated therewith,

grouping, based on a determination that one or more of the selectively scaled user interactive regions are dimensionally smaller than a predefined finger tap target size on the touch screen, the one or more of the selectively scaled user interactive regions into a specified user interactive region on the touch screen that is larger than the predefined finger tap target size, the specified user interactive region being expandable in size, upon selection thereof by a user touching the finger tap sensitive target included in the specified user interactive region, to ungroup and display a plurality of constituent selectively scaled user interactive regions of the specified user interactive region at sizes larger than the predefined finger tap target size, and

displaying each of the user interactive regions on the touch screen along with the specified user interactive region according to each scalable value associated therewith,

wherein, receipt of the selection thereof by the user causes the specified, expandable user interactive region to undergo expansion to incrementally display the plurality of constituent selectively scaled user interactive regions in a second size-based hierarchy, in which larger regions thereof display included information more rapidly than smaller regions thereof during the expansion.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

selectively scaling the size of each finger tap sensitive target according to a user tactile input via tactile gesture by the user.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

measuring available display area of the display; and

partitioning the available display area into the plurality of user interactive regions.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein each visualization context represents each corresponding scalable value as scale of the associated user interactive region.