CONTROL OF SEARCH RESULTS WITH MULTIPOINT PINCH GESTURES

• US 20130036383A1
• Filed: 12/29/2011
• Published: 02/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Yuan, Han-Shen, Melcher, Ryan, Yankovich, Steve
• Granted Patent: US 8,930,855 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/815
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A device incorporates a touch-enabled screen configured to accept a user'"'"'s interaction with the touch screen to control display of the results of searches for information online and for listings within ecommerce sites. A user'"'"'s interaction with multipoint pinch gestures, applied to the touch screen and immediately above item data listings, navigates through large volumes of search results. By touch-selection of a facet of the item data returned in an item listing, a user may scale a characteristic of the selected facet of item data according to an application of multipoint pinch gestures. By application of a pinch-out and a pinch-in gesture respectively, a date facet of metadata may be scaled backward and forward in time.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

displaying a listing of items, including item data corresponding to each respective item in the listing of items, in an item data display area on a display of a device;

receiving, from a touch-enabled screen of the device, an indication of a pinch gesture, including a pinch gesture characteristic, being implemented in association with a scaled-data display area within the item data display area, the scaled-data display area being one of an image data region and a metadata region;

in response to the pinch gesture, scaling a facet of the item data displayed in the scaled-data display area to produce a scaled-facet listing;

receiving an indication of a change in the pinch gesture characteristic being implemented in association with the scaled-facet listing and correspondingly scaling a characteristic of the facet of the item data to produce a further scaled-facet listing; and

displaying the further scaled-facet listing in the scaled-data display area.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein scaling a facet of the item data displayed in the scaled-data display area to produce a scaled-facet listing of associated item data includes:

in response to the pinch gesture and in association with a characteristic corresponding with the facet of the item data displayed in the scaled-data display area, modifying a degree of the characteristic in one of a decreasing amount and an increasing amount according to an amount of a corresponding change in the pinch gesture characteristic, the pinch gesture being one of a pinch-out gesture and a pinch-in gesture; and

displaying the scaled-facet listing in the scaled-data display area further including displaying an updated set of item data having the modified degree of the characteristic scaled by a corresponding pinch gesture characteristic.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein:

the facet of the item data being a temporal indicator and in response to the pinch-out gesture, the scaled-facet listing being a scaled-in listing produced as an updated portion of item data having an earlier temporal indicator than an initial display of item data; and

displaying the scaled-facet listing includes replacing previous item data with the scaled-in listing within the scaled-data display area.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein:

the facet of the item data being a temporal indicator and in response to the pinch-in gesture, the scaled-facet listing being a scaled-out listing produced as an updated display of item data having a later temporal indicator than an initial display of item data, and

displaying the scaled-facet listing includes replacing previous item data with the scaled-out listing within the scaled-data display area.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the facet of the item data being a temporal indicator and the modifying a degree of the characteristic further comprises:

producing a scaled-in listing implemented as an updated portion of item data having an earlier temporal indicator than an initial display of item data by an amount proportional to a magnitude of a pinch gesture characteristic corresponding to the pinch-out gesture and

wherein displaying the scaled-facet listing includes replacing previous item data with the scaled-in listing within the scaled-data display area.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the pinch-out gesture having a pinch gesture characteristic being one of a pinch-out velocity, a pinch-out magnitude, and a pinch-out orientation, each pinch gesture characteristic having respectively a velocity, a distance, and an angle respectively, according to which a separation between a first touch point and a second touch point increases.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the pinch-out gesture includes at least one of:

scaling the listing to produce the scaled-in listing at a rate corresponding to the pinch-out velocity; and

scaling the listing to produce the scaled-in listing by an amount corresponding to the pinch-out magnitude,

the at least one of scaling the listing at a rate and scaling the listing by an amount, indicated with a particular pinch-out orientation.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein the facet of the item data being a temporal indicator and the modifying a degree of the characteristic further comprises:

producing a scaled-out listing implemented as an updated portion of item data having a later temporal indicator than an initial display of item data by an amount proportional to a magnitude of a pinch gesture characteristic corresponding to the pinch-in gesture and

wherein displaying the scaled-facet listing includes replacing previous item data with the scaled-out listing within the scaled-data display area.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the pinch-in gesture having a pinch gesture characteristic being one of a pinch-in velocity, a pinch-in magnitude, and a pinch-in orientation, each pinch gesture characteristic having respectively a velocity, a distance, and an angle respectively, according to which a separation between a first touch point and a second touch point decreases.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the pinch-in gesture includes at least one of:

scaling the listing to produce the scaled-out listing at a rate corresponding to the pinch-in velocity; and

scaling the listing to produce the scaled-out listing by an amount corresponding to the pinch-in magnitude,

the at least one of scaling the listing at a rate and scaling the listing by an amount, indicated with a particular pinch-in orientation.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium embodying a set of instructions, that when executed by at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:

displaying a listing of items, including item data corresponding to each respective item in the listing of items, in an item data display area on a display of a device;

receiving, from a touch-enabled screen of the device, an indication of a pinch gesture, including a pinch gesture characteristic, being implemented in association with a scaled-data display area within the item data display area, the scaled-data display area being one of an image data region and a metadata region;

in response to the pinch gesture, scaling a facet of the m data displayed in the scaled-data display area to produce a scaled-facet listing;

receiving an indication of a change in the pinch gesture characteristic being implemented in association with the scaled-facet listing and correspondingly scaling a characteristic of the facet of the item data to produce a further scaled-facet listing; and

displaying the further scaled-facet listing in the scaled-data display area.

12. The storage medium of claim 11, wherein scaling a facet of the item data displayed in the scaled-data display area to produce a scaled-facet listing of associated item data includes:

in response to the pinch gesture and in association with a characteristic corresponding with the facet of the item data displayed in the scaled-data display area, modifying a degree of the characteristic in one of a decreasing amount and an increasing amount according to an amount of a corresponding change in the pinch gesture characteristic, the pinch gesture being one of a pinch-out gesture and a pinch-in gesture; and

displaying the scaled-facet listing in the scaled-data display area further including displaying an updated set of item data having the modified degree of the characteristic scaled by a corresponding pinch gesture characteristic.

13. The storage medium of claim 12, wherein:

the facet of the item data being a temporal indicator and in response to the pinch-out gesture, the scaled-facet listing being a scaled-in listing produced as an updated portion of item data having an earlier temporal indicator than an initial display of item data and

displaying the scaled-facet listing includes replacing previous item data with the scaled-in listing within the scaled-data display area.

14. The storage medium of claim 12, wherein:

the facet of the item data being a temporal indicator and

in response to the pinch-in gesture, the scaled-facet listing being a scaled-out listing produced as an updated display of item data having a later temporal indicator than an initial display of item data; and

displaying the scaled-facet listing includes replacing previous item data with the scaled-out listing within the scaled-data display area.

15. The storage medium of claim 12, wherein the facet of the item data being a temporal indicator and the modifying a degree of the characteristic further comprises:

producing a scaled-in listing implemented as an updated portion of item data having an earlier temporal indicator than an initial display of item data by an amount proportional to a magnitude of a pinch gesture characteristic corresponding to the pinch-out gesture and

wherein displaying the scaled-facet listing includes replacing previous item data with the scaled-in listing within the scaled-data display area.

16. The storage medium of claim 15, wherein the pinch-out gesture having a pinch gesture characteristic being one of a pinch-out velocity, a pinch-out magnitude, and a pinch-out orientation, each pinch gesture characteristic having respectively a velocity, a distance, and an angle respectively, according to which a separation between a first touch point and a second touch point increases.

17. The storage medium of claim 16, wherein the pinch-out gesture includes at least one of:

scaling the listing to produce the scaled-in listing at a rate corresponding to the pinch-out velocity; and

scaling the listing to produce the scaled-in listing by an amount corresponding to the pinch-out magnitude,

the at least one of scaling the listing at a rate and scaling the listing by an amount, indicated with a particular pinch-out orientation.

18. The storage medium of claim 12, wherein the facet of the item data being a temporal indicator and the modifying a degree of the characteristic further comprises:

producing a scaled-out listing implemented as an updated portion of item data having a later temporal indicator than an initial display of item data by an amount proportional to a magnitude of a pinch gesture characteristic corresponding to the pinch-in gesture and

wherein displaying the scaled-facet listing includes replacing previous item data with the scaled-out listing within the scaled-data display area.

19. The storage medium of claim 18, wherein the pinch-in gesture having a pinch gesture characteristic being one of a pinch-in velocity, a pinch-in magnitude, and a pinch-in orientation, each pinch gesture characteristic having respectively a velocity, a distance, and an angle respectively, according to which a separation between a first touch point and a second touch point decreases.

20. The storage medium of claim 19, wherein the pinch-in gesture includes at least one of:

scaling the listing to produce the scaled-out listing at a rate corresponding to the pinch-in velocity; and

scaling the listing to produce the scaled-out listing by an amount corresponding to the pinch-in magnitude,

the at least one of scaling the listing at a rate and scaling the listing by an amount, indicated with a particular pinch-in orientation.