High density information presentation using space-constrained display device
DCFirst Claim
1. A method of presenting information on a space-constrained display of a portable device, the method comprising:
- associating a first user-specified indication on the display with a user-defined external state, wherein the first indication is a graphical indication;
establishing a user-defined operation for monitoring the user-defined external state;
updating the first indication on the display in accordance with the monitored user-defined external state in response to an information encoding thereof received via a telecommunications network; and
associating a second indication with the user-defined external state, the second indication providing textual description rendered in response to selection, at the portable device, of the first indication.
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Abstract
A high-density information presentation is provided on a space-constrained display device by associating individual display indications with user-definable states. For example, using a portion of a space-constrained display of a mobile phone, pager personal digital assistant or other portable device, one or more external states may be presented as a simple graphical or character indication that corresponds, in a user-defined way, to the external state or states. In general, implementations allow monitoring and access of a large amount of data on a space-constrained display device. Usability problems associated with traditional systems that split data access and navigation over paged small screens are generally avoided.
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1. A method of presenting information on a space-constrained display of a portable device, the method comprising:
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associating a first user-specified indication on the display with a user-defined external state, wherein the first indication is a graphical indication; establishing a user-defined operation for monitoring the user-defined external state; updating the first indication on the display in accordance with the monitored user-defined external state in response to an information encoding thereof received via a telecommunications network; and associating a second indication with the user-defined external state, the second indication providing textual description rendered in response to selection, at the portable device, of the first indication. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method of presenting information on a space-constrained display of a portable device, the method comprising:
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associating a first user-specified indication on the display with a user-defined external state; establishing a user-defined operation for monitoring the user-defined external state; updating the first indication on the display in accordance with the monitored user-defined external state in response to an information encoding thereof received via a telecommunications network, wherein the display device includes a two-dimensional array of display elements suitable for simultaneously presenting plural visual indications displaced throughout at least a portion thereof, the first indication corresponding to at least one of the plural visual indications. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A portable device comprising:
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a space-constrained display including a two-dimensional array of user-specified display elements suitable for simultaneously presenting plural visual indications displaced throughout at least a portion thereof; a communications interface to be coupled to a telecommunications network, the communications interface coupled to the space-constrained display and allowing the portable device to receive information encoding one or more user-defined external states and to update respective ones of the visual indications based on respective user-defined associations with the external states; and a user interface component, including instructions executable on the portable device to present on the space-constrained display a mechanism for associating a first user-specified indication on the display with a user-defined external state, establishing a user-defined operation for monitoring the user-defined external state, and updating the first indication on the display in accordance with the monitored user-defined external state in response to an information encoding thereof received via a telecommunications network. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A computer program product encoded in at least one computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising:
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a first functional sequence executable to establish an association between plural user-specified indications on a display of a portable device and respective user-defined external states; and a second functional sequence executable to supply via a telecommunications network an information encoding for update of the indications on the display in accordance with the user-defined external states, wherein the first functional sequence is embodied at least in part as code implementing a web page accessible from either or both of the portable device and a networked computer. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45)
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