GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF ASSETS STORED ON A PORTABLE MEDIA DEVICE
First Claim
1. A method of graphically representing media assets stored on a portable media device, the method comprising:
- presenting, on a first portion of a display of the portable media device, a listing of a plurality of values of a first metadata item associated with the media assets, wherein each value of the first metadata item is associated with at least one of the media assets in an initial set of media assets; and
presenting, on a second portion of the display, a graphical representation comprising a plurality of elements, each element being associated with a different one of the plurality of values of the first metadata item, wherein relative sizes of elements in the plurality of elements represent a distribution of the media assets in the initial set of media assets across the plurality of values of the first metadata item.
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Abstract
A user interfaces can deliver enhanced information regarding media assets stored on a portable media device. A graphical user interface for database browsing and navigation can include a list of values of a metadata item and a graphical representation of the distribution of media assets across the values on the list, such as a pie chart where the size of different wedges reflects the fraction of media assets having a particular value. As a user browses a list, the graphical representation can be modified to emphasize the correspondence between different graphical elements and different entries on the list.
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27 Claims
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1. A method of graphically representing media assets stored on a portable media device, the method comprising:
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presenting, on a first portion of a display of the portable media device, a listing of a plurality of values of a first metadata item associated with the media assets, wherein each value of the first metadata item is associated with at least one of the media assets in an initial set of media assets; and presenting, on a second portion of the display, a graphical representation comprising a plurality of elements, each element being associated with a different one of the plurality of values of the first metadata item, wherein relative sizes of elements in the plurality of elements represent a distribution of the media assets in the initial set of media assets across the plurality of values of the first metadata item. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method of graphically representing a playlist of media assets being played on a portable media device, the method comprising:
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presenting, on a first portion of a display of the portable media device, a listing of identifiers of each of the media assets on the playlist; presenting, on a second portion of the display, a graphical representation including an element corresponding to each of the media assets on the playlist, wherein a respective size of each element of the graphical representation reflects a duration of the corresponding media asset on the playlist. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25)
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26. A graphical user interface for a portable media device having a store of media assets, the graphical user interface comprising:
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a user input control operable by a user to make a selection; a first display area configured to display a list having a plurality of entries, each entry corresponding to a different one of a plurality of values for a metadata item, wherein each of the entries on the list is selectable by operation of the user input control; a second display area configured to display a plurality of graphical elements, each graphical element corresponding to a different one of the plurality of values of the metadata item, wherein a size of each element indicates a proportion of the media assets stored by the portable media player that have the value of the corresponding metadata item; and a processor configured to receive a user selection of one of the entries on the list from the user input control and to update the list area and the graphical representation area to highlight both the selected entry and the one of the graphical elements that corresponds to the same value of the metadata item as the selected entry. - View Dependent Claims (27)
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