PAGE-BASED CONTENT STORAGE SYSTEM

• US 20110072036A1
• Filed: 01/27/2010
• Published: 03/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Goshi, Justin, Asmi, Yasser, Agsen, Mohsen, Petschnigg, Georg
• Application Number:
  US12/694,962
• Publication Number:
  US 20110072036A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces

Abstract

A page-based content storage system may be provided by a method of managing content which includes generating, from a plurality of electronic files containing displayable content, a plurality of viewpages, where each viewpage contains one or more portions of the displayable content and each viewpage is displayable in a single-page view. The method further includes assembling the viewpages into a journal to provide a page-based storage structure configured to enable individual, selective management of the viewpages based on properties associated with the one or more portions of the displayable content. The method further includes visually presenting the viewpages as single-page views accessible via a page-based user interface of a computing system.

Claims

1. In a page-based content storage system, a method of managing content, the method comprising:

generating, from a plurality of electronic files containing displayable content, a plurality of viewpages, each viewpage containing one or more portions of the displayable content and each viewpage being displayable in a single-page view;

assembling the plurality of viewpages into a journal to provide a page-based storage structure configured to enable individual, selective management of the plurality of viewpages based on properties of the displayable content; and

visually presenting the plurality of viewpages as single-page views accessible via a page-based user interface of a computing system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the journal is configured as a virtual book capable of sequentially displaying the plurality of viewpages within the journal, the plurality of viewpages assembled into the journal being accessible and reorganizable within the journal via the page-based user interface.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising producing a homogeneous content display collection for viewpages having displayable content with a shared property.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising producing a heterogeneous content display collection for viewpages having disparate properties.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising modifying the one or more portions of the displayable content of a selected one of the plurality of viewpages based on input received via the page-based user interface of the computing system.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein modifying the one or more portions of the displayable content of the selected one of the plurality of viewpages includes launching an application on the computing system.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising searching the displayable content of the plurality of viewpages based on a search index.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the plurality of viewpages includes maintaining for each portion of the displayable content a link to the electronic file associated with that portion of the displayable content.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising converting the plurality of viewpages from their page-based storage format to a known electronic file format.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing system includes a touch sensitive computing system.

11. In a page-based content storage system, a method of managing heterogeneous displayable content via a page-based storage structure provided by a journal, the method comprising:

assembling into the journal a plurality of viewpages generated from a plurality of electronic files containing displayable content of various types, each viewpage containing one or more portions of the displayable content;

using a page-based user interface to visually present the journal so that each of the plurality of viewpages is displayed as a single-page view;

receiving a touch input via the page-based user interface, the touch input being directed toward a selected one of the plurality of viewpages; and

accessing the selected one of the plurality of viewpages based on the touch input.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the journal is configured as a virtual book capable of sequentially displaying the plurality of viewpages within the journal, the plurality of viewpages assembled into the journal being accessible and reorganizable within the journal via the page-based user interface.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein accessing the selected one of the plurality of viewpages includes modifying the one or more portions of the displayable content of the selected one of the plurality of viewpages.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising launching an application for editing within the journal the one or more portions of the displayable content of the selected one of the plurality of viewpages.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein accessing the selected one of the plurality of viewpages includes resequencing the selected one of the plurality of viewpages within the journal.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein accessing the selected one of the plurality of viewpages includes changing a display view of the selected one of the plurality of viewpages within the journal.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein each of the one or more portions of displayable content of each viewpage has a link to the electronic file from which the viewpage was generated.

18. A touch sensitive computing system, comprising:

a touch sensitive display;

a page-based content storage system; and

interface software operatively coupled with the touch sensitive display and the page-based content storage system,

where the interface software is configured to detect a touch input applied to the touch sensitive display and, in response to such detection, display a touch operable page-based user interface, the interface software being further configured to;

generate, from a plurality of electronic files containing displayable content, a plurality of viewpages, each viewpage containing one or more portions of the displayable content and each viewpage being displayable in a single-page view;

assemble the plurality of viewpages into a journal to provide a page-based storage structure configured to enable individual, selective management of the plurality of viewpages based on properties of the displayable content; and

visually present the plurality of viewpages as single-page views accessible via a page-based user interface of a computing system.

19. The touch sensitive computing system of claim 18, wherein the interface software is further configured to modify the displayable content of the plurality of viewpages based on inputs received via the page-based user interface.

20. The touch sensitive computing system of claim 18, wherein the interface software is further configured to search the displayable content of the plurality of viewpages based on a search index.