PRESENTATION FORMAT FOR AN APPLICATION TILE

• US 20120304068A1
• Filed: 05/27/2011
• Published: 11/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Zaman, Nazia, Flynn, Sean L., Willie, Anthony L., Ray, Ethan Nelson
• Application Number:
  US13/118,288
• Publication Number:
  US 20120304068A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/730
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons

Abstract

This document describes techniques enabling a presentation format for an application tile. These techniques permit a user to view changes to an application through a tile of a user interface, the tile having one of various presentation formats through which a user may view content associated with those changes.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a report having a content change associated with an application along with an indication of a presentation format; and

presenting, within a tile associated with but not generated by the application and in the presentation format, content associated with the content change associated with the application.

2. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 1, further comprising, prior to receiving the report, enabling selection of multiple presentation formats, the multiple presentation formats each indicating a layout and a behavior of the tile.

3. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 2, further comprising determining the presentation format from the multiple presentation formats based on the indication.

4. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 1, wherein the report is a flat list including the indication, an image or image locator, and text.

5. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 1, wherein the report is received via a data transport protocol.

6. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 1, wherein the report includes the content associated with the content change, the content including text, an image, an image locator, or a user interface control element.

7. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 6, wherein presenting the content presents the text at a location within the tile indicated by the presentation format.

8. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 1, wherein the report includes a universal resource locator (URL) for the content and further comprising, prior to presenting the content, retrieving the content using the URL.

9. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 1, further comprising:

enabling selection, through the tile, to present other content associated with another content change to the application; and

responsive to selection, presenting the other content associated with the other content change to the application within the tile and according to the presentation format.

10. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving an extensible markup language (XML) report having;

a presentation format indicator, and

a universal resource locator (URL) at which an image can be retrieved, or

text;

parsing the XML report effective to retrieve the presentation format indicator and the URL or the text;

determining a location and a size for the image or the text based on a presentation format corresponding to the presentation format indicator; and

presenting, within a tile associated with an application but not generated by the application, the image or the text at the location and the size.

11. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 10, wherein the XML report includes the URL and further comprising retrieving the image using the URL.

12. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 11, wherein the XML report includes the text and the presenting presents the image and the text at different times.

13. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 11, further comprising, prior to presenting the image in the tile, shrinking or cropping the image based on the size.

14. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 11, wherein receiving the XML report is received from an entity associated with the application, the entity remote from a computing device on which the presenting is performed and retrieving the image retrieves the image from a source remote from the computing device.

15. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 10, further comprising determining a current tile size of two or more possible tile sizes associated with the application, and wherein determining the location and the size is based on the current tile size.

16. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 10, wherein the presenting transforms the XML report into hypertext machine language (HTML) using an extensible stylesheet language transformation (XSLT) associated with the presentation format.

17. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 10, wherein determining the location and the size is further based on a user-selected preference for a computing device on which the presenting is performed or the application.

18. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 10, wherein:

the XML report includes the URL and the text and further includes a second URL at which a second image can be retrieved and second text; and

parsing the XML report retrieves the second image and the second text.

19. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 18, wherein the presenting presents the first-mentioned image and the first-mentioned text at a different time than the second image and the second text.

20. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 19, further comprising animating a transition between presenting the first-mentioned image and text and the second image and the second text.