SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING PUBLISHED ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS

• US 20090249217A1
• Filed: 03/28/2008
• Published: 10/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: NARAYANASWAMI, CHANDRASEKHAR
• Granted Patent: US 9,323,439 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/744
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• 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 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

A system and method that displays published electronic documents including an electronic periodical database that stores electronic files representing a plurality of electronic documents and a plurality of corresponding published issues to each of the plurality of electronic documents, a electronic periodical display controller that displays a graphic substrate upon which the electronic documents and corresponding published issues are arranged, a user input controller that receives user input to manipulate the graphic substrate to control a zooming function and a panning function, and associates input user information with a specific one of the plurality of electronic published issues, and a user input database that saves the input user information associated with the specific electronic published issue, and displays the stored input user information within the graphic substrate associated with the specific one of the plurality of electronic published issues of the plurality of electronic documents.

Claims

1. A system for displaying published electronic documents comprising:

an electronic periodical database that stores electronic files representing a plurality of electronic documents and a plurality of corresponding published issues to each of said plurality of electronic documents;

a electronic periodical display controller that displays a graphic substrate upon which said plurality of electronic documents and said plurality of corresponding published issues retrieved from said electronic periodical database are arranged; and

a user input controller that receives user input to manipulate said graphic substrate to control a zooming function and a panning function that displays said plurality of electronic documents and published issues within said graphic substrate, and associates input user information with a specific one of said plurality of electronic published issues of said plurality of electronic documents.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein said arranged electronic documents displayed within said graphic substrate are arranged by at least one from the group comprising:

a general topic of each of said electronic documents;

user subscription information to a periodical;

a user'"'"'s organization; and

a predetermined arrangement configuration.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein said electronic documents and corresponding published issues are electronic files of at least one from the group comprising:

digitized image files;

digital document files;

animated graphic files;

application program files;

audio files;

video files; and

composite multimedia files.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein said user input controller receives a user selection function applied to a specific issue of said plurality of corresponding published issues of said plurality of electronic documents that causes a display of additional information of said specific issue.

5. The system according claim 4, wherein said display of additional information includes at least one from the group comprising:

displaying a higher resolution document rendering of said specific issue;

displaying a table of contents of said specific issue; and

displaying previously un-displayed content of said specific issue.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein said user input controller receives a user selection function applied to an electronic periodical that causes a display of a previously un-displayed corresponding published issue.

7. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a user input database that saves said input user information from the user input controller associated with said specific one of said plurality of electronic published issues of said plurality of electronic documents, and displays on said graphic substrate said stored input user information within said graphic substrate associated with said specific one of said plurality of electronic published issues of said plurality of electronic documents.

8. The system according claim 7, wherein said display of additionally information includes at least one from the group comprising:

displaying a higher resolution document rendering of said corresponding published issue;

displaying a table of contents of said corresponding published issue; and

displaying previously un-displayed content of said corresponding published issue.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein said panning function applied to said graphic substrate causes a display of additional electronic documents and corresponding published issues previously un-displayed in said graphic substrate.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein said zooming function applied to said graphic substrate one of displays one of additional electronic documents and corresponding published issues previously un-displayed in said graphic substrate, and removes from displaying some of said plurality of electronic documents and said plurality of corresponding published issues previously displayed in said graphic substrate.

11. The system according to claim 1, wherein said user information includes one from the group comprising:

a date and time indicator;

a text message;

an indication of an originating author;

an indication of one of a reviewer and a reviewer text message;

a rating indication;

an authorized reviewing group designation;

an audio file;

a video file; and

an electronic document file.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein said user information is displayed within said graphic substrate and associated with said specific one of said plurality of electronic published issues of said plurality of electronic documents.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein said user information is displayed within said graphic substrate and associated with one of a specific location and a specific feature within said specific one of said plurality of electronic published issues of said plurality of electronic documents.

14. The system according to claim 12, wherein said user information is displayed based on said authorized reviewing group designation that limits the display of said user information to non-designated users.

15. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a publication issue selection function that responds to said user input by displaying in said graphic substrate all of said displayed plurality of corresponding published issues corresponding to a same user selected publication time period.

16. The system according to claim 1, wherein said graphic substrate further comprises:

a scalable tiled graphic composite document rendering that displays information output from said electronic periodical display controller corresponding to said plurality of electronic documents and said plurality of corresponding published issues based on a value of said zooming function and a value of said panning function.

17. The system according to claim 1, wherein said electronic periodical database, said electronic periodical display controller, and said user input database are remotely disposed from a location where a user inputs said user input.

18. A system for displaying published electronic documents comprising:

an electronic periodical display controller that displays a graphic substrate upon which a plurality of electronic documents and a plurality of corresponding published issues to each of said plurality of electronic documents are arranged; and

a user input controller that receives user input to manipulate said graphic substrate to control a zooming function and a panning function that displays said plurality of electronic documents and published issues within said graphic substrate, and associates input user information with a specific one of said plurality of electronic published issues of said plurality of electronic documents.

19. The system according to claim 18, further comprising:

an electronic periodical database that stores electronic files representing said plurality of electronic documents and said plurality of corresponding published issues to each of said plurality of electronic documents.

20. The system according to claim 18, further comprising:

a user input database that saves said input user information from the user input controller associated with said specific one of said plurality of electronic published issues of said plurality of electronic documents, and displays on said graphic substrate said stored input user information within said graphic substrate associated with said specific one of said plurality of electronic published issues of said plurality of electronic documents.

21. A method of displaying published electronic documents, said method comprising:

displaying a scalable graphic tiled graphic substrate upon which a plurality of electronic documents and a plurality of corresponding published issues to each of said plurality of electronic documents are arranged; and

controlling said graphic substrate to manipulate said display of said plurality of electronic documents and published issues by a zooming function, a panning function and a selection function.

22. The method of displaying according to claim 21, further comprising:

inputting user information to be associated with a specific one of said plurality of electronic published issues of said plurality of electronic documents;

storing said user information in a user input database; and

displaying said stored user input within said graphic substrate associated with said specific one of said plurality of electronic published issues of said plurality of electronic documents on said graphic substrate.

23. The method of displaying according to claim 21, wherein said displaying further comprises:

displaying a composite document rendering that displays information regarding said plurality of electronic documents and said plurality of corresponding published issues corresponding to a value of said zooming function and a value of said panning function.

24. The method of displaying according to claim 21, further comprising:

receiving user input from a remotely disposed location used for said controlling said graphic substrate to manipulate said display of said plurality of electronic documents and published issues.

25. A programmable storage medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform operations supporting a method of displaying published electronic documents, the operations comprising:

displaying a scalable tiled graphic substrate upon which a plurality of electronic documents and a plurality of corresponding published issues to each of said plurality of electronic documents are arranged;

controlling said graphic substrate to manipulate said display of said plurality of electronic documents and published issues by a zooming function, a panning function and a selection function;

receiving input to manipulate said graphic substrate display of said plurality of electronic documents and published issues by a zooming function, a panning function and a selection function;

inputting user information to be associated with a specific one of said plurality of electronic published issues of said plurality of electronic documents;

storing said user information in a user input database; and

displaying said stored user input within said graphic substrate associated with said specific one of said plurality of electronic published issues of said plurality of electronic documents on said graphic substrate.