MULTISCALED TRADE CARDS

• US 20090172570A1
• Filed: 12/28/2007
• Published: 07/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Sheppard, Adam, Lawler, Stephen L., Estrada, Julio, Szeliski, Richard Stephen, Flake, Gary W., Drucker, Steven, Farouki, Karim, Lindsay, Donald James, Brewer, Brett D., Weir, Jeffrey Jon, Arcas, Blaise Aguera y, Kasperkiewicz, Tomasz
• Application Number:
  US11/966,525
• Publication Number:
  US 20090172570A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• 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

Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates interacting with a trade card that includes pyramidal volumes of data. A trade card with data can represent a computer displayable multiscale image with at least two substantially parallel planes of view in which a first plane and a second plane are alternatively displayable based upon a level of zoom and which are related by a pyramidal volume, wherein the image includes a pixel at a vertex of the pyramidal volume. An environment can host the trade card to enable access to a portion of the displayable multiscale image.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented system that facilitates interacting with a trade card that includes pyramidal volumes of data, comprising:

a trade card with data that represents a computer displayable multiscale image with at least two substantially parallel planes of view in which a first plane and a second plane are alternatively displayable based upon a level of zoom and which are related by a pyramidal volume, the image includes a pixel at a vertex of the pyramidal volume; and

an environment that hosts the trade card to enable access to at least one of the trade card or a portion of the displayable multiscale image.

2. The system of claim 1, the second plane of view displays a portion of the first plane of view at one of a different scale or a different resolution.

3. The system of claim 1, the second plane of view displays a portion of the trade card that is graphically or visually unrelated to the first plane of view.

4. The system of claim 1, the second plane of view displays a portion of a trade card that is disparate than the portion of the trade card associated with the first plan of view.

5. The system of claim 1, the trade card includes the portion of data as a distillation of information identified as essential to a topic of such trade card, wherein the portion of data includes at least one of static data or active data.

6. The system of claim 1, the trade card incorporates at least one of a portion of a graphic, a portion of audio, a portion of video, a portion of an image, a portion of text, an applet, a gadget, a real-time feed, a live feed, or a real-time data update.

7. The system of claim 1, the trade card is granular with one or more sections of data, each section includes at least one of a view, a scale, or a resolution, the trade card granularity is determined based upon at least one of a zoom on the trade card or a pan on the trade card.

8. The system of claim 1, the trade card is universally implemented in the environment independent of a format for the environment, the environment is at least one of a website, a portion of the web, a portion of the Internet, a web page, a disparate trade card, a network, a server, a uniform resource locator (URL), a web address, an Internet Protocol (IP) address, a desktop computer, a component, a machine, a machine with a windows-based operating system, a media device, a portable media player, a cellular device, a portable digital assistant (PDA), a gaming device, a laptop, a web-browsing device, a gaming console, a portable gaming device, a mobile device, a portion of hardware, a portion of software, a smartphone, a wireless device, or a third-party service.

9. The system of claim 1, at least one portion of the trade card is exposed based at least in part upon one of the following:

the environment accessing the trade card;

a location on a plane of view for the trade card;

a plane of view associated with the trade card;

or

a user accessing the trade card.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a display engine that enables at least one of the following:

dynamic zooming and panning on the trade card;

intra trade card navigation;

or

navigation of a plurality of trade cards.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a cloud that hosts at least one of the trade card, the display engine, or the multiscale image, wherein the cloud is at least one resource that is maintained by a party and accessible by an identified user over a network.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising an extension component that receives a portion of the trade card and enables seamless publication to allow access thereto.

13. The system of claim 12, the portion of trade card is received from a web service, a user, a machine, a website, a company, or a business.

14. The system of claim 1, the trade card exposes a portion of data based at least in part upon an amount of time spent navigating on a particular location on a plane of the trade card or a location on a plane of the trade card.

15. The system of claim 1, the first plane is published to a first environment and the second plane is published to a second environment.

16. The system of claim 1, further comprising a browse component that leverages the display engine to allow interaction with a portion of the trade card across a communication medium.

17. A computer-implemented method that facilitates hosting a portion of a trade card to enable accessibility, comprising:

receiving a portion of a trade card, the trade card includes a portion of data that is displayed based upon a navigated view level on the trade card; and

publishing the portion of the trade card to enable access of the portion of data.

18. The method of claim 17, the trade card includes a computer displayable multiscale image with at least two substantially parallel planes of view in which a first plane and a second plane are alternatively displayable based upon a level of zoom and which are related by a pyramidal volume, the image includes a pixel at a vertex of the pyramidal volume.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

embedding a portion of the trade card into at least one of an environment or a disparate trade card;

exposing a portion of data on the trade card based upon a navigated location, the navigated location is at least one of a layer associated with the trade card or a location on a particular layer related to the trade card; and

exposing a portion of data on the trade card based upon a duration spent on the navigated location.

20. A computer-implemented system that facilitates utilizing a trade card that displays a portion of data on a network, comprising:

means for representing a computer displayable multiscale image in a trade card with at least two substantially parallel planes of view in which a first plane and a second plane are alternatively displayable based upon a level of zoom and which are related by a pyramidal volume, the image includes a pixel at a vertex of the pyramidal volume; and

means for hosting the trade card to enable access to at least one of the trade card or a portion of the displayable multiscale image.