System and method for displaying multimedia events scheduling information and Corresponding search results

• US 20080163048A1
• Filed: 12/29/2006
• Published: 07/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Taylor, Thomas H., Brown, David A., Sahami, Mehran, Gupta, Neha, Wagner, Mark, Reiss, David Scott, Scott, Maricia, Tull, Alice, Heilman, Timothy Dharma, Zigmond, Daniel John, Bauer, Marisa, Gossweiler III, Richard Carl, Patel, Manish Gordhan, Blackburn, John Wayne, Zhang, Lucy Congyun
• Application Number:
  US11/618,659
• Publication Number:
  US 20080163048A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/277
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/438 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/44 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/447 Temporal browsing, e.g. timeline

Abstract

A system for displaying information may include memory, one or more processors, and one or more modules stored in memory. The one or more modules are configured for execution by the one or more processors and may include instructions for: presenting a subset of a collection of data on a first grid having a first axis corresponding to units of time and a second axis, the collection of data comprising data representing time-bounded events; presenting a second grid having, first and second axes corresponding to the first and second axes of the first grid, the second grid corresponding to a larger portion of the collection of data than the subset presented on the first grid; and presenting a user moveable window for selecting a portion of the second grid, and selecting the subset presented on the first grid in accordance with a current position of the window.

Claims

1. A method of displaying information, comprising:

presenting a set of search results corresponding to a search query, the search results identifying a first subset of the events represented by a collection of data, the collection of data comprising data representing time-bounded events; and

simultaneously, while presenting the set of search results, also presenting in a grid a second subset of the events represented by the collection of data, the grid having a first axis corresponding to units of time and a second axis;

the second subset comprising a first plurality of time ordered sequences of events, including at least one of the events identified by the search results.

2. The method of claim 1, further including:

in accordance with a user selected event in the presented set of search results, presenting in the grid a new subset of the events represented by the collection of data, the new subset comprising a second plurality of time ordered sequences of events, including the user selected event.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising highlighting, in the grid, data representing the user selected event.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the time-bounded events comprise scheduled presentations of multimedia content.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising highlighting, in the grid, data representing a plurality of the search results.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the collection of data corresponds to television shows scheduled for broadcast in a predefined time period.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the search query is a user specified search query.

8. The method of 1, wherein the search query comprises a predefined search query.

9. A method of displaying information, comprising:

sending, to a client;

a set of search results corresponding to a search query, the search results identifying a first subset of the events represented by a collection of data, the collection of data comprising data representing time-bounded events; and

data representing a second subset of the events to be presented in a grid, the grid having a first axis corresponding to units of time and a second axis, and the second subset comprising a first plurality of time ordered sequences of events, including at least one of the events identified by the search results.

10. The method of claim 9, further including:

in accordance with a user selected event in the presented set of search results, sending, to a client, data representing at least one event in a new subset of the events to be presented in the grid, the new subset comprising a second plurality of time ordered sequences of events, including the user selected event.

11. A system for displaying information, comprising:

memory;

one or more processors; and

one or more modules stored in memory and configured for execution by the one or more processors, the modules comprising;

instructions for presenting a set of search results corresponding to a search query, the search results identifying a first subset of the events represented by a collection of data, the collection of data comprising data representing time-bounded events; and

instructions for simultaneously, while presenting the set of search results, also presenting in a grid a second subset of the events represented by the collection of data, the grid having a first axis corresponding to units of time and a second axis;

the second subset comprising a first plurality of time ordered sequences of events, including at least one of the events identified by the search results.

12. A computer program product for use in conjunction with a computer system, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium and a computer program mechanism embedded therein, the computer program mechanism comprising instructions for:

presenting a set of search results corresponding to a search query, the search results identifying a first subset of the events represented by a collection of data, the collection of data comprising data representing time-bounded events; and

simultaneously, while presenting the set of search results, also presenting in a grid a second subset of the events represented by the collection of data, the grid having a first axis corresponding to units of time and a second axis;

the second subset comprising a first plurality of time ordered sequences of events, including at least one of the events identified by the search results.

13. A system for displaying information, comprising:

memory;

one or more processors; and

one or more modules stored in memory and configured for execution by the one or more processors, the modules comprising instructions for sending, to a client;

a set of search results corresponding to a search query, the search results identifying a first subset of the events represented by a collection of data, the collection of

data comprising data representing time-bounded events; and

data representing a second subset of the events to be presented in a grid, the grid having a first axis corresponding to units of time and a second axis, and the second subset comprising a first plurality of time ordered sequences of events, including at least one of the events identified by the search results.

14. A computer program product for use in conjunction with a computer system, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium and a computer program mechanism embedded therein, the computer program mechanism comprising instructions for sending, to a client:

a set of search results corresponding to a search query, the search results identifying a first subset of the events represented by a collection of data, the collection of data comprising data representing time-bounded events; and

data representing a second subset of the events to be presented in a grid, the grid having a first axis corresponding to units of time and a second axis, and the second subset comprising a first plurality of time ordered sequences of events, including at least one of the events identified by the search results.