Retaining custom item order

• US 20050240489A1
• Filed: 03/14/2005
• Published: 10/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Onfolio, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Lambert, Brian M.
• Application Number:
  US11/079,454
• Publication Number:
  US 20050240489A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0621 Item configuration or customization

Abstract

A Web-information manager stores items captured in Web research. It displays groups of such items and enables the user to move them around in the display so as to specify a custom order. It retains a specification of that order not only between times when the group is displayed but sometimes also while the group is being displayed in a different order. The user can therefore return to the custom order even after employing a different order.

Claims

1. For presenting items on a display, a method comprising:

A) displaying a group of items in an original order;

B) receiving input by which a user selects a displayed item in a group thereof displayed in an order and specifies a new position within the order for the selected item to produce a custom order;

C) thereafter retaining a description of the custom order while displaying the items in a subsequent order different from the custom order; and

D) in response to user input requesting the custom order, displaying the items in accordance with the stored description of the custom order.