Dynamic user interface for previewing live content

• US 20080320413A1
• Filed: 06/25/2007
• Published: 12/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Fong, Jeffrey C., Margolis, Jeffrey N., Sands, Kort, Oshiro, Marc, Elsbree, John
• Granted Patent: US 8,065,628 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/792
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence

Abstract

A dynamic user interface for previewing live content includes multiple tiles. Information for multiple pieces of live content available from a gallery is obtained, and this information is presented in the multiple tiles of the user interface in accordance with a current user interface layout. In accordance with one aspect, this current user interface layout changes automatically over time as the user interface is displayed. In accordance with another aspect, one or more of the multiple tiles is displayed in the user interface more prominently than the other tiles, and which information is to be displayed in the one or more tiles is based at least in part on a received fee.

Claims

1. One or more computer storage media having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing device, cause the one or more processors to:

obtain multiple pieces of information for multiple pieces of live content available from a gallery; and

display a user interface that includes a preview of the multiple pieces of live content, the user interface having multiple tiles each displaying one of the multiple pieces of information in accordance with a current user interface layout, the current user interface layout changing automatically over time as the user interface is displayed.

2. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 1, the multiple pieces of information comprising the multiple pieces of live content.

3. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 1, two or more of the multiple tiles having different sizes.

4. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 1, different user interface layouts having tiles in different locations.

5. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 1, different user interface layouts having tiles of different shapes.

6. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 1, different user interface layouts indicating that different pieces of the multiple pieces of information are to be displayed at a same location.

7. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 1, different user interface layouts including different quantities of tiles.

8. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 1, the current user interface automatically transitioning to a new current user interface layout after the current user interface is displayed for a particular amount of time.

9. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 1, wherein to obtain the multiple pieces of information is to obtain the multiple pieces of information from the gallery.

10. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 1, where to display the user interface is to display one or more of the multiple tiles more prominently than other tiles of the multiple tiles, and further to display pieces of information in the one or more tiles based on a fee received.

11. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 1, where to display the user interface is to display one or more of the multiple tiles more prominently than other tiles of the multiple tiles, and further to display pieces of information in the one or more tiles based on rankings associated with the multiple pieces of content.

12. A method of displaying a preview of content available from a gallery, the method comprising:

obtaining information for at least some of the content currently available from the gallery; and

displaying a user interface having multiple tiles that each include information for a piece of content available from the gallery, the user interface automatically transitioning through a series of user interface layouts as the preview is displayed, each user interface layout in the series of user interface layouts presenting the preview organized differently than other user interface layouts in the series of user interface layouts.

13. A method as recited in claim 12, each user interface layout in the series of user interface layouts identifying different information to be presented as the preview.

14. A method as recited in claim 12, each user interface layout in the series of user interface layouts including one or more of the multiple tiles having different sizes.

15. A method as recited in claim 12, the displaying the user interface further comprising displaying one or more of the multiple tiles more prominently than other tiles of the multiple tiles, and further determining which information is to be displayed in the one or more tiles based on a fee received.

16. A method as recited in claim 12, the displaying the user interface further comprising displaying one or more of the multiple tiles more prominently than other tiles of the multiple tiles, and further determining which information is to be displayed in the one or more tiles based on rankings associated with the content.

17. One or more computer storage media having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing device, cause the one or more processors to:

identify information for multiple pieces of live content available from a gallery that is to be presented in multiple tiles of a user interface; and

present the user interface in accordance with a current user interface layout, the user interface including the multiple tiles having different sizes and including one or more of the multiple tiles displayed more prominently than other tiles of the multiple tiles, and which information is to be displayed in the one or more tiles being based at least in part on a received fee.

18. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 17, wherein to present the user interface is to present the user interface in accordance with a current user interface layout, and wherein the current user interface layout changes automatically over time as the user interface is displayed.

19. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 17, wherein the user interface dynamically changes to present different ones of the multiple pieces of information at different times without user input requesting the change.

20. One or more computer storage media as recited in claim 17, the information that is to be presented in the multiple tiles comprising the multiple pieces of live content.