Method and Apparatus for Organizing and Delivering Digital Media Content and Interactive Elements

• US 20120105489A1
• Filed: 10/28/2011
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Marshall Monroe
• Original Assignee: Marshall Monroe
• Inventors: Monroe, Marshall McLaury, Monroe, William Wesley, Joshi, Vineet Shriniwas, Barve, Atul Madhukar
• Application Number:
  US13/284,472
• Publication Number:
  US 20120105489A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/684
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/444 Spatial browsing, e.g. 2D maps, 3D or virtual spaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Abstract

A method of displaying information on a display (and concomitant non-transitory medium comprising computer software) comprising displaying a cascading variant picker array and simultaneously displaying a gallery of images associated with the information content of the array. Also a method of displaying information on a display (and concomitant non-transitory medium comprising computer software) comprising displaying a background and simultaneously superimposed on the background displaying a vertically scrollable arrangement.

Claims

1. A method of displaying information on a display, the method comprising the steps of:

displaying a cascading variant picker array; and

simultaneously displaying a gallery of images associated with the information content of the array.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein a parent-child relationship exists for the elements of the array when moving left to right.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the gallery is an element within a vertically scrollable grid of horizontal elements.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein two or more of the elements are scrollable horizontally.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the array presents categories of items for purchase and the gallery presents images of items found in the corresponding categories, which items can be purchased via the corresponding images.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the array displaying step comprises displaying a cascading variant picker array proximate a bottom of a display.

7. The method of claim 1 additionally comprising the step of populating the picker with keywords chosen based on search results.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the gallery is selected from the group consisting of a grid gallery, a coverflow gallery, a deep zoom gallery, and a list gallery.

9. A method of displaying information on a display, the method comprising the steps of:

displaying a background; and

simultaneously superimposed on the background displaying a vertically scrollable arrangement.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the arrangement displaying step comprises displaying a vertically scrollable grid of horizontal elements.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein in the arrangement displaying step two or more of the elements are scrollable horizontally.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein one of the elements comprises a cascading variant picker array.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein a parent-child relationship exists for the elements of the array when moving left to right.

14. The method of claim 12 wherein one of the elements comprises a gallery of images associated with the information content of the array.

15. The method of claim 9 wherein all elements of the vertically scrollable arrangement relate to a common topic.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein each element relates to a distinct common media format relating to the common topic.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein each element displays items not owned by the user differently from items owned by the user.

18. A non-transitory storage medium comprising computer software for displaying information on a display, said software comprising:

code displaying a cascading variant picker array; and

code simultaneously displaying a gallery of images associated with the information content of the array.

19. The medium of claim 18 wherein a parent-child relationship exists for the elements of the array when moving left to right.

20. The medium of claim 18 wherein the gallery is an element within a vertically scrollable grid of horizontal elements.

21. The medium of claim 20 wherein two or more of the elements are scrollable horizontally.

22. The medium of claim 18 wherein the array presents categories of items for purchase and the gallery presents images of items found in the corresponding categories, which items can be purchased via the corresponding images.

23. The medium of claim 18 wherein the array displaying code comprises code displaying a cascading variant picker array proximate a bottom of a display.

24. The medium of claim 23 additionally comprising code populating the picker with keywords chosen based on search results.

25. The medium of claim 18 wherein the gallery is selected from the group consisting of a grid gallery, a coverflow gallery, a deep zoom gallery, and a list gallery.

26. A non-transitory storage medium comprising computer software for displaying information on a display, said software comprising:

code displaying a background; and

code simultaneously superimposed on the background displaying a vertically scrollable arrangement.

27. The medium of claim 26 wherein the arrangement displaying code comprises code displaying a vertically scrollable grid of horizontal elements.

28. The medium of claim 27 wherein in the arrangement displaying code two or more of the elements are scrollable horizontally.

29. The medium of claim 27 wherein one of the elements comprises a cascading variant picker array.

30. The medium of claim 29 wherein a parent-child relationship exists for the elements of the array when moving left to right.

31. The medium of claim 29 wherein one of the elements comprises a gallery of images associated with the information content of the array.

32. The medium of claim 27 wherein all elements of the vertically scrollable arrangement relate to a common topic.

33. The medium of claim 32 wherein each element relates to a distinct common media format relating to the common topic.

34. The medium of claim 33 wherein each element displays items not owned by the user differently from items owned by the user.