INFORMATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION PRESENTATION METHOD FOR AN INFORMATION TERMINAL, AND INFORMATION PRESENTATION PROGRAM

• US 20120083260A1
• Filed: 09/30/2009
• Published: 04/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Arriola, George, Kawaguchi, Takahiro, Furuya, Jorge, Kawakami, Takashi, Inagawa, Masatoshi, Okada, Takahiro, Aoki, Hironobu, Iwasaki, Seigo, Hasegawa, Takashi, Takahashi, Tetsuya, Kurozumi, Kichiro, Jonhson, Brian, Kuramitsu, Takamasa, Funabashi, Yoshimitsu, Kato, Erica, Kamiya, Makoto
• Granted Patent: US 9,507,588 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2358 Change logging, detection, and notification replication G06F16/27
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/252 between a Database Management System and a front-end application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/447 Temporal browsing, e.g. timeline
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads

Abstract

[Object] To enable a user to simply and easily confirm update information of a plurality of pieces of content data handled by a plurality of various application programs without any troublesome operation. [Solving Means] A plurality of update information display cards (51) are aligned and displayed on a display screen (50). The update information display cards (51) displayed on the display screen (50) are associated with different pieces of content data, and update information of the content data is individually arranged on the corresponding update information display card (51). Moreover, the update information display cards (51) on which the update information of the different types of content data are arranged are aligned and displayed on the display screen (50) in a chronological order of the updates of the content data.

Claims

1. An information terminal, comprising:

an update information storage to store a part of content data updated in an information storage that stores a plurality of types of content data, as update information associated with the respective types of content data;

an information manager to monitor an update of the content data in the information storage, store, when the content data is updated in the information storage, the part of the updated content data in the update information storage as the update information associated with the respective types, and read out, during a predetermined screen display state, the update information associated with the respective types of content data from the update information storage in a chronological order of the updates of the content data; and

a display controller to arrange the individual time-series update information that have been read out from the update information storage by the information manager on a plurality of predetermined object images respectively corresponding thereto, and align and display the predetermined object images on which the update information are arranged individually on a screen in the chronological order of the update information.

2. The information terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the information manager reads out, when a filtering instruction that requests update information associated with the same type of content data is input by a user via a user operation input section, the update information associated with the same type of content data from the update information storage in the chronological order of the updates every time the filtering instruction is input, and

wherein the display controller arranges the individual time-series update information that have been read out from the update information storage by the information manager and are associated with the same type of content data on the plurality of predetermined object images, and switches the alignment display of the plurality of predetermined object images on which the update information are arranged individually every time the filtering instruction is input.

3. The information terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the information manager reads out, when a pivoting instruction that requests update information of another same type of content data or a different type of content data related to a desired content data attribute is input by a user via a user operation input section, the update information of another same type of content data or a different type of content data related to the content data attribute desired by the user in the chronological order of the updates every time the pivoting instruction is input, and

wherein the display controller creates a list of the time-series update information that have been read out from the update information storage by the information manager and are associated with the same or different type of content data, and switches list display of the update information every time the pivoting instruction is input.

4. The information terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the display controller is capable of making a switch between an idle state where the predetermined object images on the display screen are displayed while surfaces of the predetermined object images are virtually tilted in a depth direction of the display screen and a preview state where the predetermined object images are displayed while the surfaces of the predetermined object images are virtually erected to become substantially parallel to the display screen, and

wherein the display controller sets a predetermined object image selected by a user via a user operation input section out of the plurality of predetermined object images that are aligned and displayed to the preview state, and sets the other predetermined object images to the idle state.

5. The information terminal according to claim 4,

wherein the information manager acquires, when a desired predetermined object image is selected by the user via the user operation input section out of the plurality of predetermined object images aligned and displayed on the screen, detailed update information of content data corresponding to the selected predetermined object image from the information storage, and

wherein the display controller arranges the detailed update information on the predetermined object image set to the preview state by the selection.

6. An information presentation method for a mobile terminal, comprising the steps of:

monitoring, by an information manager, an update of content data in an information storage that stores a plurality of types of content data and storing, when the content data is updated in the information storage, a part of the updated content data in an update information storage as update information associated with the respective types of content data;

reading out, by the information manager, during a predetermined screen display state, the update information associated with the respective types of content data from the update information storage in a chronological order of the updates of the content data; and

arranging, by a display controller, the individual time-series update information that have been read out from the update information storage by the information manager on a plurality of predetermined object images respectively corresponding thereto, and aligning and displaying the predetermined object images on which the update information are arranged individually on a screen in the chronological order of the update information.

7. An information presentation program causing a mobile terminal to execute:

information management processing of monitoring an update of content data in an information storage that stores a plurality of types of content data, storing, when the content data is updated in the information storage, a part of the updated content data in an update information storage as update information associated with the respective types of content data, and reading out, during a predetermined screen display state, the update information associated with the respective types of content data from the update information storage in a chronological order of the updates of the content data; and

display control processing of arranging the individual time-series update information that have been read out from the update information storage in the information management processing on a plurality of predetermined object images respectively corresponding thereto, and aligning and displaying the predetermined object images on which the update information are arranged individually on a screen of a display section in the chronological order of the update information.