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Multimedia matrix architecture user interface

  • US 5,544,354 A
  • Filed: 07/18/1994
  • Issued: 08/06/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/18/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system including a display screen and a first database of records, each record represented by a record cell having preview data, content data, identification data, and attributes, providing a user interface to the first database and comprising:

  • a) a first plurality of displayed cell positions, each cell position displaying either;

    a.1) identification data of a record cell;

    or,a.2) identification data of a parser cell;

    the cells displayed in the first plurality of cell positions selected from of a hierarchical plurality of matrices, each matrix including a plurality of cells, the plurality of cells including record cells or parser cells, each parser cell associated with a matrix in the plurality of matrices;

    each of the first plurality of cell positions responsive to;

    a.3) a first user input to focus the cell displayed in the cell position; and

    a.4) a second user input to select the cell in the cell position when the cell displayed therein is focused; and

    ,a.5) a third user input to play the cell in the cell position when the cell displayed therein is focused;

    b) a content window that displays selected data of a cell;

    c) a computer program stored in a computer readable memory and receiving user inputs, that;

    c.1) in response to a first user input to focus a cell in a cell position;

    c.1.1) displays in the content window a preview of the focused cell, the preview of a focused record cell containing preview data of the focused record cell, and the preview of a focused parser cell including a sequence of previews for the plurality of cells in the matrix associated with the focused parser cell;

    c.1.2) continues to display in the cell position of the focused cell the identification data thereof; and

    ,c.1.3) continues to display in the cell position of each non-focused cell the identification data of the non-focused cell.

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