SELECTION OF ITEMS IN A VIRTUALIZED VIEW
First Claim
1. A system for selecting tiles on a user interface comprising:
- a display window configured to display a first set of tiles, the first set of tiles comprising only that number of tiles of a plurality of tiles that can be viewed in a viewing frame of the display window;
a virtualization module configured to render the first set of tiles;
a tile database configured to provide the virtualization module images of the first set of tiles; and
a selection manager configured to determine which of the plurality of tiles have been selected.
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a system and method for selecting items or tiles when they are displayed using a virtualized display window. The system uses the row relative coordinates of each tile to determine whether those tiles were selected by the user. As the user scrolls or moves off of the originally displayed window, information related to the unrealized tiles that were once realized is stored so that selection of unrealized tiles is possible. Typically, the user will select tiles by indicating a starting point and drawing a rectangle to the desired ending point. Information related to the tiles that are intersected by the rectangle or enclosed in the rectangle are stored for use in the selection process in case those tiles are unrealized during the selection process. Once the tiles have been selected the user can perform operations on the selected tiles in a customary fashion.
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19 Claims
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1. A system for selecting tiles on a user interface comprising:
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a display window configured to display a first set of tiles, the first set of tiles comprising only that number of tiles of a plurality of tiles that can be viewed in a viewing frame of the display window; a virtualization module configured to render the first set of tiles; a tile database configured to provide the virtualization module images of the first set of tiles; and a selection manager configured to determine which of the plurality of tiles have been selected. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for selecting items in a user interface comprising:
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rendering a first set of tiles, the first set of tiles comprising only that number of tiles that can be displayed in the user interface; indicating a with a pointing device a starting point for graphically selecting a portion of the tiles currently rendered in the user interface; moving the pointing device to an ending point on the user interface, where the ending point is a point that is not visible on the user interface when the starting point is visible; rendering a second set of tiles, the second set of tiles including at least a number of tiles that become visible as the pointing device moves from the starting point to the ending point; and selecting those tiles that fall between the starting point and the ending point. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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