HIGH DENSITY INFORMATION PRESENTATION USING SPACE-CONSTRAINED DISPLAY DEVICE
First Claim
1. A portable device comprising:
- a space-constrained display including a two-dimensional array of display elements suitable for simultaneously presenting plural visual indications displaced throughout at least a portion thereof;
a communications interface to a telecommunications network, the communications interface coupled to the space-constrained display and allowing the portable device to receive information encoding one or more user-defined external states and to update respective ones of the visual indications based on respective user-defined associations with the external states; and
a user interface component, including instructions executable on the portable device to present on the space-constrained display a mechanism for specifying a display configuration for presenting a first of the visual indications, associating the first visual indication with a first user-defined external state, and establishing a user-defined operation for monitoring the first user-defined external state.
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Abstract
A high-density information presentation is provided on a space-constrained display device by associating individual display indications with user-definable states. For example, using a portion of a space-constrained display of a mobile phone, pager personal digital assistant, or other portable device, one or more external states may be presented as a simple graphical or character indication that corresponds, in a user-defined way, to the external state or states. In general, implementations allow monitoring and access of a large amount of data on a space-constrained display device. Usability problems associated with traditional systems that split data access and navigation over paged small screens are generally avoided.
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1. A portable device comprising:
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a space-constrained display including a two-dimensional array of display elements suitable for simultaneously presenting plural visual indications displaced throughout at least a portion thereof;
a communications interface to a telecommunications network, the communications interface coupled to the space-constrained display and allowing the portable device to receive information encoding one or more user-defined external states and to update respective ones of the visual indications based on respective user-defined associations with the external states; and
a user interface component, including instructions executable on the portable device to present on the space-constrained display a mechanism for specifying a display configuration for presenting a first of the visual indications, associating the first visual indication with a first user-defined external state, and establishing a user-defined operation for monitoring the first user-defined external state. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method of presenting information on a space-constrained display of a portable device, the method comprising:
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establishing a user-defined external state;
establishing a user-defined operation for monitoring the user-defined external state;
establishing a user-specified display configuration; and
updating the display to indicate data underlying the monitored user-defined external state in response to an information encoding thereof received via a telecommunications network. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. An apparatus comprising:
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means for presenting a first visual indication on a display device; and
means for specifying a display configuration for presentation of the first visual indication. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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