System for Enabling a User to View Visual Content on an Information Handling System

• US 20120054649A1
• Filed: 08/26/2010
• Published: 03/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Ligameri, Mark, McDonald, Kevin M., Orr, Jason
• Granted Patent: US 8,863,025 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7867 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/968 interface for database querying and retrieval

Abstract

A navigation system which provides: a navigation front end which provides tiles that are easily identifiable and content-driven vs. context-driven; a navigation system that includes an expanded view/tile paradigm; and a navigation system that allows users to interact with the native operating system environment of the information handling system.

Claims

1. A method for presenting visual content via an information handling system comprising:

acquiring visual content for presentation; and

,

presenting the visual content within a mosaic screen presentation, the mosaic screen presentation leverages rows and columns of a grid, the grid comprising a plurality of discrete content pieces of various sizes and shapes.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the presenting further comprises arranging the visual content by time based inclusion in a library.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the visual content comprises at least one of photo content and video content.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein:

the presenting comprises a horizontal organization and a vertical organization;

the horizontal organization being divided into a plurality of columns; and

,

the vertical organization being based on recency.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the acquiring further comprises incorporating visual items from web services.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein:

the incorporating visual items from the web services further comprises limiting content provided via the web services via a favoriting process.

7. An apparatus for presenting visual content via an information handling system comprising:

means for acquiring visual content for presentation; and

,

means for presenting the visual content within a mosaic screen presentation, the mosaic screen presentation leverages rows and columns of a grid, the grid comprising a plurality of discrete content pieces of various sizes and shapes.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein:

the means for presenting further comprises means for arranging the visual content by time based inclusion in a library.

9. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein:

the visual content comprises at least one of photo content and video content.

11. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein:

the means for acquiring further comprises means for incorporating visual items from web services

12. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein:

the means for incorporating visual items from the web services further comprises means for limiting content provided via the web services via a favoriting process.

10. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein:

the presenting comprises a horizontal organization and a vertical organization;

the horizontal organization being divided into a plurality of columns; and

,

the vertical organization being based on recency.

13. An information handling system comprising:

a processor;

memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing a system for presenting visual content via the information handling system, the system comprising instructions executable by the processor for;

acquiring visual content for presentation; and

,

presenting the visual content within a mosaic screen presentation, the mosaic screen presentation leverages rows and columns of a grid, the grid comprising a plurality of discrete content pieces of various sizes and shapes.

14. The information handling system of claim 13 wherein:

the instructions for presenting further comprise instructions for arranging the visual content by time based inclusion in a library.

15. The information handling system of claim 13 wherein:

the visual content comprises at least one of photo content and video content.

16. The information handling system of claim 15 wherein:

the presenting comprises a horizontal organization and a vertical organization;

the horizontal organization being divided into a plurality of columns; and

,

the vertical organization being based on recency.

17. The information handling system of claim 13 wherein:

the instructions for acquiring further comprise instructions for incorporating visual items from web services.

18. The information handling system of claim 17 wherein:

the instructions for incorporating visual items from the web services further comprise instructions for limiting content provided via the web services via a favoriting process.