Adaptive dynamic navigational control for navigating within an application

• US 7,877,691 B2
• Filed: 07/06/2007
• Issued: 01/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Latzina, Markus, Goering, Katharina
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Cao “Kevin”
• Application Number:
  US11/774,327
• Publication Number:
  US 20080244451A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,299 Days
• Field of Search: 715851-855, 715763-765, 715736-738
• US Class Current: 715/738
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

Abstract

Methods are disclosed for navigating between and within applications that display most recently visited applications and application parts, with redundancies eliminated from the display. The methods can be carried out in a computational machine that compiles a list of visited data-access locations, and identifies data-access locations that have been visited more than once, wherein each data-access location that has been visited more than once is presented in a collapsed form as a single navigational target. The methods then can present the visited data-access locations as a navigational control record including navigational targets that represent the visited data-access locations.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

in a computational machine, compiling a list of visited data-access locations;

identifying data-access locations that are visited more than once, each data-access location that has been visited more than once being presented in a collapsed form as a single navigational target; and

presenting the visited data-access locations as a navigational control record including navigational targets that represent the visited data-access locations, the navigational control record being truncated to present a sequence of less than all visited data-access locations, the presenting of the navigational control record including one of;

presenting the most recently visited data-access location as a prominent navigational target, and

presenting the most frequently visited data-access location as a prominent navigational target.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting the navigational control record is done by presenting the visited data-access location with the longest visiting time-at-a-location as a prominent navigational target.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting navigational control record of visited data-access locations as navigational targets is done by presenting the most recently visited data-access location adjacent a BACK navigational target, which is also adjacent a HOME navigational target.

4. The method of claim 1, further including presenting all visited data-access locations wherein presenting includes presenting a navigational control record, the navigational control record including:

a HOME navigational target;

a BACK navigational target; and

a presentation of navigational targets that represent visited data-access locations, wherein the presentation of navigational targets is sequenced by most-recent-to-earliest visited data-access locations.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting includes presenting a visual navigation menu, the visual navigation menu including:

a HOME navigational target; and

a BACK navigational target.

6. The method of claim 5 further including presenting a scrolling display of the navigational targets to present at least one of the truncated navigational targets.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the navigational control record is truncated in the middle thereof.

8. A method comprising:

in a computational machine, compiling a list of visited data-access locations;

identifying data-access locations that are visited more than once;

presenting the visited data-access locations as a navigational control record including navigational targets that represent the visited data-access locations, the presenting of the navigational control record comprising presenting a most recently visited data-access location as a prominent navigational target, the navigational control record being truncated to present a sequence of less than all visited data-access locations, the presenting of the navigational control record including one of;

presenting the most recently visited data-access location as a prominent navigational target, and

presenting the most frequently visited data-access location as a prominent navigational target.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the prominent navigational target is presented adjacent a BACK navigational target, and wherein the BACK navigational target is presented adjacent a HOME navigational target.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein presenting the navigational control record is done by presenting the visited data-access location with the longest visiting time-at-a location as a prominent navigational target.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein presenting the navigational control record is done by presenting the most recently visited data-access location as a prominent navigational target, and wherein presenting the navigational control record includes truncating the navigational control record of presented navigational targets.

12. The method of claim 11 further including presenting a scrolling display of the navigational targets to present at least one of the truncated navigational targets.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the navigational control record is truncated in the middle thereof.

14. A machine-readable medium embodying instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:

compile a list of visited data-access locations;

identify data-access locations that are visited more than once;

present the visited data-access locations as a navigational control record including navigational targets that represent the visited data-access locations, wherein each data-access location that has been visited more than once is presented in a collapsed form as a single navigational target, or wherein presenting the navigational control record comprises presenting a most recently visited data-access location as a prominent navigational target, the navigational control record being truncated to present a sequence of less than all visited data-access locations, the presenting of the navigational control record including one of;

presenting the most recently visited data-access location as a prominent navigational target; and

presenting the most frequently visited data-access location as a prominent navigational target.

15. The machine readable medium of claim 14, wherein the instructions, when executed by a machine, further cause the machine to:

present a HOME navigational target;

present a BACK navigational target; and

present the navigational control record with the most recently visited data-access location presented adjacent the BACK navigational target.

16. The machine readable medium of claim 14, wherein the instructions, when executed by a machine, further cause the machine to present a scrolling display of the navigational targets.

17. The machine readable medium of claim 14, wherein the instructions, when executed by a machine, further cause the machine to present scrolling display of at least one of the truncated navigational targets.

18. The machine readable medium of claim 14, wherein the instructions, when executed by a machine, further cause the machine to truncate navigational control record in the middle thereof.

19. A computing system comprising:

memory having a repository with a set of instructions that, when executed, cause the computing system machine to;

compile a list of visited data-access locations;

identify data-access locations that are visited more than once;

for a specific data-access location, collapse data-access locations that are visited more than once in the list for the specific data-access location into, a single data-access location; and

present the visited data-access locations as a navigational control record including navigational targets that represent the visited data-access locations, the navigational control record being truncated to present a sequence of less than all visited data-access locations, the presenting of the navigational control record including one of;

presenting the most recently visited data-access location as a prominent navigational target, and

presenting the most frequently visited data-access location as a prominent navigational target.

20. The computing system of claim 19, further including a video display for presenting the list of visited data-access locations.