Causing Display of Comments Associated with an Object

• US 20130044050A1
• Filed: 02/13/2012
• Published: 02/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: YLIVAINIO, Risto Matias
• Granted Patent: US 9,361,284 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

Apparatus is configured to cause to be displayed, in a first area of a display, an object and to cause to be displayed, in a second area of the display, a first comment associated with the object, wherein the second area is in a fixed location relative to the first area. The apparatus is responsive to a first dynamic tactile user input within the second area of the display to cause the first comment to be at least partially hidden and to cause to be displayed, in the second area of the display, a second comment that was not visible prior to the first dynamic tactile user input without moving the object on the display.

Claims

1. Apparatus, the apparatus having at least one processor and at least one memory having computer-readable code stored thereon which when executed controls the at least one processor:

to cause to be displayed, in a first area of a display, an object;

to cause to be displayed, in a second area of the display, a first comment associated with the object, wherein the second area is in a fixed location relative to the first area; and

to be responsive to a first dynamic tactile user input within the second area of the display to cause the first comment to be at least partially hidden and to cause to be displayed, in the second area of the display, a second comment that was not visible prior to the first dynamic tactile user input without moving the object on the display.

2. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the apparatus is further responsive to a second dynamic tactile user input within the second area of the display to cause the second comment to be at least partially hidden and to cause the first comment to be re-displayed.

3. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first dynamic tactile user input within the second area of the display generally follows a shape of the second area of the display.

4. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second area of the display surrounds the first area of the display.

5. Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the first comment is the comment which has been most recently associated with the object.

6. Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein, in an initial display configuration, the first comment is displayed in preference to at least a part of the second comment.

7. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second area of the display surrounds the first area of the display, wherein the comments are provided in a sequence around the first area of the display such that comments later in the sequence are displayed in preference to comments earlier in the sequence which are at the same part of the second area of the display, and wherein the first and second dynamic tactile user inputs trace the shape of the second area of the display to reveal or hide comments depending on the direction of movement of the dynamic tactile input.

8. Apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the second dynamic tactile user input is in an opposite direction to the first dynamic tactile user input.

9. A method comprising:

displaying, in a first area of a display, an object;

displaying, in a second area of the display, a first comment associated with the object, wherein the second area is in a fixed location relative to the first area; and

responding to a first dynamic tactile user input within the second area of the display by causing the first comment to be at least partially hidden and displaying, in the second area of the display, a second comment that was not visible prior to the first dynamic tactile user input without moving the object on the display.

10. A method according to claim 9, comprising responding to a second dynamic tactile user input within the second area of the display by causing the second comment to be at least partially hidden and by causing the first comment to be re-displayed.

11. Apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the first dynamic tactile user input within the second area of the display generally follows a shape of the second area of the display.

12. A method according to claim 9, wherein the second area of the display surrounds the first area of the display.

13. A method according to claim 9, wherein the first comment is the comment which has been most recently associated with the object.

14. A method according to claim 9, comprising, in an initial display configuration, displaying the first comment in preference to at least a part of the second comment.

15. A method according to claim 9, wherein the second area of the display surrounds the first area of the display, wherein the comments are provided in a sequence around the first area of the display such that comments later in the sequence are displayed in preference to comments earlier in the sequence which are at the same part of the second area of the display, and wherein the first and second dynamic tactile user inputs trace the shape of the second area of the display to reveal or hide comments depending on the direction of movement of the dynamic tactile input.

16. A method according to claim 10, wherein the second dynamic tactile user input is in an opposite direction to the first dynamic tactile user input.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-readable code, which, when executed by computing apparatus, causes the computing apparatus to perform a method comprising:

displaying, in a first area of a display, an object;

displaying, in a second area of the display, a first comment associated with the object, wherein the second area is in a fixed location relative to the first area; and

responding to a first dynamic tactile user input within the second area of the display by causing the first comment to be at least partially hidden and displaying, in the second area of the display, a second comment that was not visible prior to the first dynamic tactile user input without moving the object on the display.