SHORTENING A NAME FOR DISPLAY

• US 20140028684A1
• Filed: 07/06/2013
• Published: 01/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Maison, Mickael
• Application Number:
  US13/936,160
• Publication Number:
  US 20140028684A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/467
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1407 General aspects irrespective of display type, e.g. determination of decimal point position, display with fixed or driving decimal point, suppression of non-significant zeros
• 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 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/145 related to small screens

Abstract

A method and system are provided for shortening a name for display. The method may include: determining a size of a display area in which a name is to be displayed; receiving a name string for display and shortening the name string to fit into the display area. Shortening the name string may include: replacing one or more words in the name string with an acronym; and removing or replacing non-distinctive elements in the name string. The method may include receiving two or more name strings to be displayed; and wherein removing or replacing non-distinctive elements in the name string includes: comparing the names and removing or replacing the non-unique elements of the name strings.

Claims

1. A method for shortening a name for display, comprising:

determining a size of a display area in which a name is to be displayed; and

receiving a name string for display and shortening the name string to fit into the display area; and

wherein shortening the name string includes;

replacing one or more words in the name string with an acronym; and

removing or replacing one or more non-distinctive elements in the name string.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving two or more name strings to be displayed; and

wherein removing or replacing one or more non-distinctive elements in the name string includes comparing the names and removing or replacing the non-distinctive elements of the name strings.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein replacing a non-distinctive element replaces the element with an initial or abbreviation.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a non-distinctive element is determined by comparing to a list of terms.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein replacing one or more words in the name string with an acronym, includes:

identifying multiple words in the name string; and

replacing the words with their initials.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein replacing one or more words in the name string with an acronym includes matching multiple words with a list of words to be replaced by a given acronym.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein shortening the name string includes cropping a name string from the middle of the string.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising interactively testing if the shortened name string fits in the display area.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising providing one or more proposed shortened name strings to a user for selection.

10. A system for shortening a name for display, comprising:

a display area determining component for determining a size of a display area in which a name is to be displayed;

a name input component for receiving a name string for display and a name shortening component for shortening the name string to fit into the display area;

wherein the name shortening component includes;

an acronym component for replacing one or more words in the name string with an acronym; and

a non-distinctive element component for removing or replacing non-distinctive elements in the name string.

11. The system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the name input component is for receiving two or more name strings to be displayed;

and

wherein the name shortening component includes a name comparing component for comparing the names and removing or replacing the non-unique elements of the name strings.

12. The system as claimed in claim 10, further comprising a stored list of elements including a list of non-distinctive terms.

13. The system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the acronym component is for:

identifying multiple words in the name string; and

replacing the words with their initials.

14. The system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the acronym component is for matching multiple words with a list of words to be replaced by a given acronym.

15. The system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the name shortening component includes a cropping component for cropping a name string from the middle of the string.

16. The system as claimed in claim 10, further comprising a name fitting component for interactively testing if the shortened name string fits in the display area.

17. The system as claimed in claim 10, further comprising a user selection component for providing one or more proposed shortened name strings to a user for selection.

18. A computer program product for shortening a name for display, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising;

determining a size of a display area in which a name is to be displayed; and

receiving a name string for display and shortening the name string to fit into the display area; and

wherein shortening the name string includes;

replacing one or more words in the name string with an acronym; and

removing or replacing one or more non-distinctive elements in the name string.

19. The computer program product as claimed in claim 18, wherein the instructions are executable by the processing circuit for:

receiving two or more name strings to be displayed; and

wherein removing or replacing one or more non-distinctive elements in the name string includes comparing the names and removing or replacing the non-distinctive elements of the name strings.

20. The computer program product as claimed in claim 18, wherein the instructions are executable by the processing circuit for interactively testing if the shortened name string fits in the display area.