Interactive Display Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products

• US 20100218129A1
• Filed: 12/29/2009
• Published: 08/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NGC Network US LLC
• Original Assignee: NGC Network US LLC
• Inventors: Piazza, Jeff, Fahey, Christopher, Hanau, Ryan, Coppock, Seth Barret, Geiser, Chris, Harrington, Christopher
• Granted Patent: US 10,572,136 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4786 e-mailing message switching systems, e.g. electronic mail systems H04L51/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape

Abstract

In one example, a user interface is provided for interactively displaying data. The interactive user interface includes: an interactive display window that displays data according to a tabular format including one or more rows and one or more columns, and wherein the displayed data is dynamically displayed within the interactive display window based on a drag and drop user action performed within the display window; and a frame that surrounds the display window and that dynamically displays a first range of first axis data corresponding to the one or more rows and a second range of second axis data corresponding to the one or more columns.

Claims

1. An interactive user interface, comprising:

an interactive display window that displays data according to a tabular format including one or more rows and one or more columns, and wherein the displayed data is dynamically displayed within the interactive display window based on a drag and drop user action performed within the display window; and

a frame that surrounds the display window and that dynamically displays a first range of first axis data corresponding to the one or more rows and a second range of second axis data corresponding to the one or more columns.

2. The user interface of claim 1 wherein the displayed data includes a plurality of images.

3. The user interface of claim 1 wherein the first axis data and the second axis data are dynamically displayed based on the drag and drop user action performed within the display window.

4. The user interface of claim 1 further comprising a highlight selection item that reformats a subset of the displayed data to visually distinguish the subset from the displayed data.

5. The user interface of claim 1 further comprising one or more shift selection items that shift the displayed data and at least one of the first axis data and the second axis data in a direction indicated by the shift selection items.

6. The user interface of claim 1 further comprising one or more axis selection items that shift the displayed data and at least one of the first axis data and the second axis data to a location indicated by the axis selection time.

8. The user interface of claim 1 wherein the first axis data and the second axis data include at least one of days, dates, and times associated with the schedule of events.

9. The user interface of claim 1 wherein the displayed data includes a plurality of images associated with the schedule of events.

10. The user interface of claim 9 wherein the events are television programs and wherein the images are associated with the television programs.

11. The user interface of claim 1 wherein the first axis data and the second axis data are dynamically displayed based on the drag and drop user action performed within the display window.

12. The user interface of claim 1 further comprising a highlight selection item that reformats one or more of the scheduled events to visually distinguish the one or more of the scheduled events from other scheduled events.

13. The user interface of claim 1 further comprising one or more shift selection items that shift the schedule of events and at least one of the first axis data and the second axis data in a direction indicated by the shift selection items and within the interactive display window.

14. The user interface of claim 1 further comprising one or more axis selection items that shift the displayed schedule of events and at least one of the first axis data and the second axis data to an event indicated by the axis selection time.

7. An interactive user interface for displaying a schedule of events, the user interface comprising:

an interactive display window that displays data indicating a schedule of events, and wherein the schedule of events is dynamically displayed within the interactive display window based on a drag and drop user action performed within the display window; and

a frame that surrounds the display window and that dynamically displays a first range of first axis data corresponding to the one or more rows and a second range of second axis data corresponding to the one or more columns.

15. An interactive display system, the system comprising:

a display window manager module that selectively generates window display data that is displayed within a display window of a user interface in response to a user drag and drop action; and

a frame manager module that selectively generates frame display data of at least one of a first frame axis and a second frame axis that is displayed within a frame surrounding the display window of the user interface in response to the user drag and drop action.

16. The system of claim 15 further comprising a programs datastore that stores data associated with one or more television programs, and wherein the window display data is data associated with the one or more television programs.

17. The system of claim 15 further comprising a range manager module that selectively determines a range of the frame display data for the at least one of the first frame axis and the second frame axis, wherein the frame manager module selectively generates the frame display data based on the range, and wherein the display window manager module selectively generates window display data based on the range.

18. The system of claim 15 further comprising a highlight manager module that selectively modifies a subset of the windows display data to distinguish the subset when displayed within the window display of the user interface.

19. The system of claim 15 wherein the window display data is data associated with a schedule of events.

20. The system of claim 19 further comprising a details manager module that selectively generates details data associated with an event of the schedule of events wherein the details data is displayed in a details user interface.