Method and system for visualization and operation of multiple content filters

• US 7,856,604 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2008
• Issued: 12/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ACD Systems International Incorporated
• Original Assignee: ACD Systems Ltd. (ACD Systems International Incorporated)
• Inventors: Hooper, David Sheldon, Stanlake, Matthew, Mao, Yida
• Primary Examiner(s): Lo; Weilun
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tran; Tuyetlien T
• Application Number:
  US12/043,079
• Publication Number:
  US 20080189643A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,021 Days
• Field of Search: 715/841, 715/854, 707/3, 707/705
• US Class Current: 715/841
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/968 interface for database querying and retrieval

Abstract

A system for operation and visualization of multiple content filters, including a plurality of filter interfaces for setting parameters of corresponding content filters that filter a catalog of assets, each content filter having a lock status being in a locked or an unlocked state, and each filter interface having a display generator for rendering a user interface display, wherein at least one such user interface display for a content filter is dependent upon the lock status of another content filter, and a lock processor for setting the lock status of at least one content filter. A method and a computer readable storage medium are also described and claimed.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium containing instructions which when executed implement a system for operation and visualization of multiple content filters, comprising:

instructions for a plurality of user interfaces UI₁, UI₂, . . . , UI_n, used for setting parameters of corresponding content filters CF₁, CF₂, . . . , CF_n that filter content from a catalogue of content, each content filter CF_k having a lock status of being in a locked or an unlocked state, and each user interface UI_k, while being used to set the parameters of content filter CF_k, indicating the content that is filtered from the catalogue by only the content filters other than CF_k that are locked;

instructions for a lock processor for setting and clearing the lock statuses of the content filters by means of lock controls;

wherein each user interface UI_k indicates an alphanumeric string dependent upon the lock statuses of the content filters other than CF_k; and

the alphanumeric string is a statistic of the catalogue as filtered by the content filters other than CF_k that are locked.

2. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein UI_k is selectively controllable so as to indicate either all content from the catalogue, or else content that is filtered from the catalogue by the content filters other than CF_k that are locked.

3. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1 further comprising instructions for generating a user interface comprising a button for clearing the parameters of at least one content filter.

7. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein each user interface UI_k includes a selectable show-all option, and indicates all content from the catalogue, when the show-all option is selected, and indicates the content that is filtered from the catalogue by the content filters other than CF_k that are locked, when the show-all option is not selected.

4. A method for operation and visualization of multiple content filters, comprising:

setting parameters of content filters CF₁, CF₂, . . . , CF_n that filter content from a catalogue of content, each content filter CF_k having a lock status of being in a locked or an unlocked state;

setting and clearing the lock statuses of the content filters by means of lock controls;

rendering, for each content filter CF_k, a user interface display UI_k which, while being used to set the parameters of content filter CF_k, indicates the content that is filtered from the catalogue by only the content filters other than CF_k that are locked;

wherein each user interface UI_k comprises an alphanumeric string dependent upon the lock statuses of the content filters other than CF_k; and

the alphanumeric string is a statistic of the catalogue as filtered by the content filters other than CF_k that are locked.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein said rendering is selectively controllable to render UI_k such that UI_k indicates either all content from the catalogue, or else content that is filtered from the catalogue by the content filters other than CF_k that are locked.

6. The method of claim 4 further comprising clearing the parameters of at least one content filter.

8. The method of claim 4 wherein each user interface includes a selectable show-all option, and wherein said rendering comprises:

indicating all content from the catalogue, when the show-all option is selected; and

indicating the content that is filtered from the catalogue by the content filters other than CF_k that are locked, when the show-all option is not selected.