System and methods for interacting with a control environment
First Claim
1. In a portable electronic device, a computer-readable media having instructions for displaying content status indications, the instructions performing steps comprising:
- displaying within a display of the portable electronic device at least a portion of a compact status indicator for displaying information related to the status of content displayed within the display;
accepting user input indicating a desire to browse the content displayed within the display; and
in response to the user input, causing at least a portion of the compact status indicator to move in a substantially radial fashion with respect to a center point of the compact status indicator and displaying the radial movement of the at least a portion of the compact status indicator within the display.
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Abstract
A system and methods for facilitation of user interactions with an electronic device. A number of user interface methods are described and may be used alone or in combination with one another to present an enhanced interface to a user. A method of providing user interaction using a compact status indicator is described. A method for providing a virtual scroll wheel to a user for interaction with content sets is described. A method for allowing a user to dynamically modify a scalable user interface is described. A method for providing gesture based input to a user via a virtual gesture pad is described. A method of providing an interactive graphic search query interface is described. A method for indicating and selecting available content type is described.
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27 Claims
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1. In a portable electronic device, a computer-readable media having instructions for displaying content status indications, the instructions performing steps comprising:
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displaying within a display of the portable electronic device at least a portion of a compact status indicator for displaying information related to the status of content displayed within the display;
accepting user input indicating a desire to browse the content displayed within the display; and
in response to the user input, causing at least a portion of the compact status indicator to move in a substantially radial fashion with respect to a center point of the compact status indicator and displaying the radial movement of the at least a portion of the compact status indicator within the display. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. In a portable electronic device, a computer-readable media having instructions for providing scroll wheel functionality on a display, the instructions performing steps comprising:
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defining within the display of the portable electronic device a first area for displaying a graphical representation of the scroll wheel functionality;
defining within the display of the portable electronic device a second area for accepting user input for providing scroll wheel functionality, the second area encompassing at least a portion of the first area;
accepting user input via the second area which indicates a desire to browse content displayed within the display; and
in response to the user input, causing the content displayed within the display to move in proportion to at least one characteristic value of the user input. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. In a portable electronic device, a computer-readable media having instructions for providing a scalable interface on a display, the instructions performing steps comprising:
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defining within the display of the portable electronic device a first area for accepting user input indicating a desire to modify a first interface characteristic;
accepting user input via the first area, the user input indicating a desire to modify a first interface characteristic of the interface on the display; and
in response to the user input, causing the first interface characteristic of the interface on the display to be modified such that a first interface state of a plurality of interface states is displayed on the display. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. In a portable electronic device, a computer-readable media having instructions for providing interactive search capabilities, the instructions performing steps comprising:
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accepting user input that defines a search criteria;
displaying via use of a Venn diagram comprised of at least two geometric shapes a relationship between the search criteria and a search result set;
accepting user input to move at least one of the geometric shapes to thereby define a new search criteria; and
redisplaying via use of the Venn diagram a relationship between the new search criteria and a search result set. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23)
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24. In a portable electronic device, a computer-readable media having instructions for displaying content status indications, the instructions performing steps comprising:
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displaying within a display of the portable electronic device at least a portion of a compact status indicator for displaying information related to the status of a state of an electronic device;
accepting user input indicating a desire to change the status of the state of the electronic device; and
in response to the user input, causing at least a portion of the compact status indicator to move in a substantially radial fashion with respect to a center point of the compact status indicator, displaying the radial movement of the at least a portion of the compact status indicator within the display, and transmitting at least one command to the electronic device to effect the change of the state of the electronic device.
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25. A portable electronic device adapted to accept gesture based input from a user, comprising
a touch screen pad used to accept the gesture based input, the touch screen pad having a plurality of gesture accepting areas, each gesture accepting area being arranged to accept a gesture in a direction that is unique with respect to the other gesture accepting areas.
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