METHOD OF INSERTING AND REMOVING INFORMATION ELEMENTS IN ORDERED INFORMATION ELEMENT ARRAYS

• US 20130080880A1
• Filed: 09/25/2012
• Published: 03/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: 9224-5489 Quebec Inc., Maya-Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Francois Cassistat, Mathieu Audet
• Inventors: CASSISTAT, Francois, AUDET, Mathieu
• Granted Patent: US 9,613,167 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/244
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/904 Browsing; Visualisation therefor for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957
• 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 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing

Abstract

The present invention provides solutions to the potential undesirable effects the insertion and removal of information elements and documents may have on arrays and axes of information elements using a collation function to determine the position of information elements thereon. The invention can be effectuated as a method, a device and an apparatus carrying out the method described herein.

Claims

1. A method of managing movements of information elements on an array of information elements, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of information elements on the array of information elements on a basis of a collation function;

adding at least one information element to the plurality of displayed information elements;

identifying a collation position of the at least one information element on the array of information elements;

moving at least some of the displayed plurality of information elements on the array of information elements in a direction on a basis of a reference to create a space for displaying the added at least one information element on the array of information elements; and

displaying the added at least one information element to the array of information elements at its collection position on the array of information elements.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the array is an axis adapted to substantially rectilinearly display information elements thereon.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein at least some of the information elements are documents.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the reference is a location of the collation position on a display.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the reference is at least partially based on a user input.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the reference is at least partially based on a movement of a user from which is inferred a direction on the display.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the method further comprises providing a receiving space adapted to accommodate information elements therein at a location on the array of information elements, the receiving space being adapted to accommodate more information elements therein than a maximum number of information elements displayable at the location without the receiving space.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein information elements in the receiving space are scrollable independently from the arrays of information it belongs to.

9. The method of claim 3, wherein a user is warned before the at least one information element is added to the array of information elements and wherein a choice of insertion is acknowledged by the user before the at least one information element are added and displayed on the array of information elements.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations for managing documents in relation with representations of objects displayed with a computer, the operations comprising:

displaying a plurality of information elements on the array of information elements on a basis of a collation function;

adding at least one information element to the plurality of displayed information elements;

identifying a collation position of the at least one information element on the array of information elements;

moving at least some of the displayed plurality of information elements on the array of information elements in a direction on a basis of a reference to create a space for displaying the added at least one information element on the array of information elements; and

displaying the added at least one information element to the array of information elements at its collection position on the array of information elements.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the array is an axis adapted to substantially rectilinearly display information elements thereon.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein at least some of the information elements are documents.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the reference is a location of the collation position on a display.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the reference is at least partially based on a user input.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the reference is at least partially based on a movement of a user from which is inferred a direction on the display.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the method further comprises providing a receiving space adapted to accommodate information elements therein at a location on the array of information elements, the receiving space being adapted to accommodate more information elements therein than a maximum number of information elements displayable at the location without the receiving space.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein information elements in the receiving space are scrollable independently from the arrays of information it belongs to.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein a user is warned before the at least one information element is added to the array of information elements and wherein a choice of insertion is acknowledged by the user before the at least one information element are added and displayed on the array of information elements.

19. A device, comprising a processor configured to present a graphical user interface for displaying and managing information elements, the graphical interface comprising areas adapted to provides the operations comprising:

displaying a plurality of information elements on the array of information elements on a basis of a collation function;

adding at least one information element to the plurality of displayed information elements;

identifying a collation position of the at least one information element on the array of information elements;

moving at least some of the displayed plurality of information elements on the array of information elements in a direction on a basis of a reference to create a space for displaying the added at least one information element on the array of information elements; and

displaying the added at least one information element to the array of information elements at its collection position on the array of information elements.

20. The device of claim 19, wherein the array is an axis adapted to substantially rectilinearly display information elements thereon and at least some of the information elements are documents.