DOCUMENTS DISCRIMINATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF

• US 20090228788A1
• Filed: 03/09/2009
• Published: 09/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: 9224-5489 Quebec Inc., Maya-Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: 9224-5489 Quebec Inc.
• Inventors: Audet, Mathieu
• Granted Patent: US 8,739,050 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/273
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191

Abstract

A computer-readable medium including computer-executable instructions for performing a method of discriminating documents is provided, the method comprising displaying a first array of documents, receiving instructions from the selection of an attribute associated with at least one document, displaying a second array of documents grouping documents having the selected attribute, and displaying documents associated with the selected attribute with a graphical discriminating feature. A method, a system and an graphical user interface providing same is also provided.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium including computer-executable instructions for performing a method of discriminating documents, the method comprising:

displaying a first array of documents;

receiving instructions from the selection of an attribute associated with at least one document;

displaying a second array of documents grouping documents having the selected attribute; and

displaying documents associated with the selected attribute with a graphical discriminating feature.

2. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the graphical discriminating feature is displayed on the first array of documents.

3. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the graphical discriminating feature is displayed on the second array of documents.

4. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the graphical discriminating feature is associated with a transition between the first array of documents and the second array of documents.

5. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the graphical discriminating feature is a displacement of documents having the selected attribute from the first array of documents to their respective positions on the second array of documents.

6. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the graphical discriminating feature is applied on the documents having the selected attribute on the first array of documents and the second array of documents.

7. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the graphical discriminating feature is selected from a group consisting of a document color, a document frame, a document texture, a document animation.

8. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the graphical discriminating feature is progressively applied to the documents.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the display of the second array of documents triggers the removal of the first array of documents.

10. A computer-readable medium including computer-executable instructions implementing a method of discriminating documents, the method comprising:

associating a first graphical discriminator with a first attribute;

associating a second graphical discriminator with a second attribute; and

displaying the first graphical discriminator and the second graphical discriminator with a document having the first attribute and the second attribute associated therewith.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the graphical discriminator is selected from a group consisting of a color and a shape.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the attribute is a value.

13. In a computing device, a method for graphically associating a plurality of attributes with documents, the method comprising:

associating a plurality of attributes therewith;

providing a document;

selecting at least one attribute from the plurality of attributes;

providing at least a some of the remaining attributes from the plurality of attributes; and

associating at least one attribute from the plurality of attributes with the document.