ARRAY OF DOCUMENTS MANAGEMENT

• US 20090055729A1
• Filed: 07/05/2008
• Published: 02/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: 9224-5489 Quebec Inc., Maya-Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: 9224-5489 Quebec Inc.
• Inventors: Audet, Mathieu
• Granted Patent: US 8,701,039 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/243
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/904 Browsing; Visualisation therefor for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

A method, a system and an interface for discriminating arrays of user-selectable elements is provided, the method comprising displaying a first array of user-selectable elements, the first array of user-selectable elements being adapted to group user-selectable elements; displaying a second array of user-selectable elements, the second array of user-selectable elements being adapted to group user-selectable elements; enabling a discriminating visual feature to at least one of the first array of user-selectable elements and the second array of user-selectable elements, the discriminating visual feature being adapted to indicate a position of the array of user-selectable elements in a sequence about which the array of user-selectable elements have been displayed. A method, a system and an interface for locking and unlocking a logical array intersection is also provided. A user selectable pop-up dialog associated with a user-selectable element or an array is also provided.

Claims

1. A machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions providing a method for discriminating arrays of user-selectable elements, the method comprising:

displaying a first array of user-selectable elements, the first array of user-selectable elements being adapted to group user-selectable elements;

displaying a second array of user-selectable elements, the second array of user-selectable elements being adapted to group user-selectable elements;

enabling a discriminating visual feature to at least one of the first array of user-selectable elements and the second array of user-selectable elements, the discriminating visual feature being adapted to indicate a position of the array of user-selectable elements in a sequence about which the arrays of user-selectable elements have been displayed.

2. The machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions providing the method for discriminating arrays of documents of claim 1, wherein the discriminating visual feature is selected from the group consisting of a size of an array of user-selectable elements, a color of an array of user-selectable elements and a brightness of an array of user-selectable elements.

3. The machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions providing the method for discriminating arrays of user-selectable elements of claim 1, wherein the array is a substantially longitudinal alignment of user-selectable elements.

4. The machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions providing the method for discriminating arrays of user-selectable elements of claim 3, wherein at least some of the user-selectable elements are a computer files.

5. The machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions providing the method for discriminating arrays of user-selectable elements of claim 3, wherein at least some of the user-selectable elements are a documents.

6. The machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions providing the method for discriminating arrays of user-selectable elements of claim 3, wherein at least some of the user-selectable elements are a multimedia assets.

7. The machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions providing the method for discriminating arrays of user-selectable elements of claim 3, wherein the discriminating visual feature is a perspective representing the spatial relationship between the arrays.

8. The machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions providing the method for discriminating arrays of user-selectable elements of claim 3, wherein the most recent array is displayable on top of the foremost arrays.

9. The machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions providing the method for discriminating arrays of user-selectable elements of claim 3, comprising:

defining a maximum number of displayable arrays of user-selectable elements;

displaying additional arrays of user-selectable elements;

enabling invisibility of arrays of user-selectable elements exceeding the maximum number of displayable arrays of user-selectable elements, the foremost displayed arrays of user-selectable elements being the first to enable invisibility and the latter displayed arrays of user-selectable elements within the maximum number of displayable arrays of user-selectable elements remain displayed.

10. The machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions providing the method for discriminating arrays of visible arrays of user-selectable elements of claim 9, wherein enabling invisibility is adapted to progressively enable invisibility.

11. The machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions providing the method for discriminating arrays of visible arrays of user-selectable elements of claim 9, wherein the maximum number of displayable arrays of user-selectable elements is a first maximum number of displayable arrays of user-selectable elements associated with a first zoom level and a second maximum number of displayable arrays of user-selectable elements is associated with a second zoom level.

12. The machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions providing the method for discriminating arrays of user-selectable elements of claim 3, wherein the second array of user-selectable elements is displayable non-parallel with the first array of user-selectable elements.

13. The machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions providing the method for discriminating arrays of user-selectable elements of claim 12, wherein a change in brightness is associatable with an intersection of the second array of user-selectable elements with the first array of user-selectable elements.

14. The machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions providing the method for discriminating arrays of user-selectable elements of claim 12, wherein the first array of user-selectable elements and the second array of user-selectable elements are adapted to intersect at an intersection, the method comprising:

defining a maximum number of displayable intersections;

sequentially displaying additional arrays of user-selectable elements enabling additional array intersections;

enabling invisibility of arrays of user-selectable elements exceeding the maximum number of displayable intersections, the foremost displayed arrays of user-selectable elements being adapted to be the first to enable invisibility and the latter displayed arrays of user-selectable elements material in the formation of the number of array intersections and within the maximum number of displayable intersections remain displayed.

15. The machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions providing the method for discriminating arrays of user-selectable elements of claim 14, wherein the maximum number of displayable intersections is a maximum number of displayable logical intersections and wherein the enablement of logical intersections defines a sequence of logical intersection enablement, the method further comprises

enabling invisibility of arrays of user-selectable elements, the foremost displayed arrays of user-selectable elements being the first to enable invisibility until a number of displayed logical intersections is equal to the maximum number of logical intersections, the latter displayed arrays remain displayed.

16. The machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions providing the method for discriminating arrays of user-selectable elements of claim 15, comprising:

receiving instructions to either view forward or rearward logical intersections along the sequence of logical intersections, displayed arrays enabling invisibility, when needed, and invisible arrays becoming visible, when needed, in accordance with the viewed logical intersection.

17. A machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions providing a method adapted to connect longitudinal alignment of user-selectable elements, the method comprising:

displaying a first longitudinal alignment of user-selectable elements;

displaying a second longitudinal alignment of user-selectable elements intersecting the first longitudinal alignment of user-selectable elements at an intersection;

selecting one of a locked intersection state and an unlocked intersection state, wherein the second longitudinal alignment of user-selectable elements is not moveable in respect with the first longitudinal alignment of user-selectable elements when the intersection is the locked state and wherein the second longitudinal alignment of user-selectable elements is moveable in respect with the first longitudinal alignment of user-selectable elements when the intersection is in the unlocked state.

18. The machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions providing the method for connecting longitudinal alignment of user-selectable elements of claim 17, wherein the second longitudinal alignment of user-selectable elements is adapted to group user-selectable elements having an attribute in common, the attribute being selected from attributes associated with user-selectable elements from the first longitudinal alignment of user-selectable elements, the second longitudinal alignment of user-selectable elements being adapted to intersect the first longitudinal alignment of user-selectable elements at a user-selectable element associated with the selected attribute, the user-selectable elements associated with the selected attribute defining a logical intersection, the logical intersection being adapted to selectively lock and unlock the first longitudinal alignment of user-selectable elements with the second longitudinal alignment of user-selectable elements whereby a movement of one longitudinal alignment of user-selectable elements respectively effects or not the other longitudinal alignment of user-selectable elements.

19. A machine-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions providing a method for displaying information related to a document, the method comprising:

displaying an array of documents grouping a group of documents;

receiving instructions regarding a desired portion of the display;

determining what is displayed on the desired portion of the display;

if a document is displayed at the desired portion of the display, displaying a dialog related to the document;

if an array of documents is displayed at the desired portion of the display, displaying a dialog related to the array; and

selecting an information from the displayed dialog.

20. The machine-readable medium comprising machine readable instructions providing the method of claim 19, wherein the selected information is an attribute and further displaying an additional array of documents grouping, at least partially, documents having the selected attribute in common.