Hiding portions of display content

• US 8,065,603 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2007
• Issued: 11/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Taylor, Thomas H., Brown, David A., Sahami, Mehran, Gossweiler, Richard C. III, Patel, Manish G., Gupta, Neha, Blackburn, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Basehoar; Adam
• Application Number:
  US11/742,142
• Publication Number:
  US 20080270886A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,667 Days
• Field of Search: 715212-218, 715227-228, 715/863, 725 37- 61, 345/619, 345/173
• US Class Current: 715/227
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/177 of tables; using ruled lines
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26283 for associating distribution time parameters to content, e.g. to generate electronic program guide data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4524 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; systems specially adapted for using geographical information in broadcast systems H04H60/70; protocols in which the network application is adapted for the location of the user terminal in communication control or processing H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape

Abstract

A computer-implemented method includes generating code for displaying a two-dimensional media programming schedule grid, receiving a command to compress the grid at a first location along a first dimension, and generating code for displaying the grid with visible graphical fold marks defining a fold area near the first location along the first dimension.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

generating code for displaying on a touch screen of an electronic device a first portion of a two-dimensional media programming schedule grid;

receiving a command to compress the grid at a first location, wherein receiving the command comprises receiving user input that corresponds to the user touching a first point and a second point on the touch screen and while continuing to touch the touch screen executing a movement to shorten a distance between the user'"'"'s touches;

determining that the command is to compress the grid along a first dimension based on a determination that the movement to shorten the distance between the first and second touches included a greater distance moved in the first dimension than in a second dimension; and

in response to receiving the command to compress and determining the command to compress is in the first dimension, generating code for displaying the grid with visible graphical fold marks defining a fold area near the first location along the first dimension and for displaying a second portion of the grid in an area of the screen made available by compressing the grid along the first dimension, wherein the second portion previously was not displayed on the screen;

wherein the visible graphical fold marks extend an entire length of the media programming schedule grid along the first dimension and are configured to graphically depict a folded portion of paper that is visually pleated into or out of the screen.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating code for displaying printed information in the fold area lengthwise along the visible graphical fold marks, representing information hidden by the fold area.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first dimension comprises a time scale and the printed information presents a time period of programming hidden by the fold area.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the first dimension comprises a channel scale and the printed information presents a range of channels hidden by the fold area.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a compression control whose selection generates information associated with the first location and the first dimension, and displaying the grid with visible graphical fold marks in response to selection of the compression control.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein selection of the compression control causes one or more predetermined groups of channels to be hidden by the fold area.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein selection of the compression control causes a predetermined time period to be hidden by the fold area.

8. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

displaying multi-dimensional graphical information on a touch screen of a display device;

receiving a command to compress the graphical information at a first location, wherein receiving the command comprises receiving user input that corresponds to the user touching a first point and a second point on the touch screen and while continuing to touch the touch screen executing a movement to shorten a distance between the user'"'"'s touches;

determining that the command is to compress the multi-dimensional graphical information along a first dimension based on a determination that the movement to shorten the distance between the first and second touches included a greater distance moved in the first dimension than in a second dimension; and

displaying the multi-dimensional graphical information with visible graphical fold marks defining a hidden information area near the first location along the first dimension, wherein the hidden information area represents a compressed portion of the multi-dimensional graphical information that is no longer displayed and is hidden;

wherein the visible graphical fold marks extend an entire length of the multi-dimensional graphical information along the first dimension and are configured to graphically depict a folded portion of paper that is visually pleated into or out of a display of the multi-dimensional graphical information.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the visible graphical fold marks include inward indentations in the graphical information around the first location.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the visible graphical fold marks include an offset fold representation near the first location.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the first dimension is determined as a line substantially perpendicular to a line connecting the two points of the two-point input.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the multi-dimensional graphical information includes a television programming grid.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising receiving a command to compress the graphical information at a second location along a second dimension at a right angle to the first dimension and displaying the multi-dimensional graphical information with second visible graphical fold marks defining a second hidden information area near the second location along the second dimension, wherein the second hidden information area represents a second compressed portion of the multi-dimensional graphical information that is no longer displayed and is hidden and wherein the second visible graphical fold marks extend an entire length of the multi-dimensional grid along the second dimension and are configured to graphically depict a folded portion of paper that is visually pleated into or out of the display.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising displaying printed information in the hidden information area lengthwise along the second visible graphical fold marks that is indicative of information that has been compressed.

15. The method of claim 8, wherein the fold marks represent compressed information by areas extending in a direction away from a viewer of the display.

27. The method of claim 8, wherein the multi-dimensional graphical information comprises geographical mapping information.

16. A computer-implemented system for generating media programming information, comprising:

an interface to receive requests for media programming content;

a programming database storing information about schedules for a plurality of media programs; and

a grid generator configured to generate code for producing a representation on a touch screen of a display device of a page having a folded area at a location, the folded area comprising hidden media programming content in a media programming grid, wherein the representation of the folded area extends a length of the media programming grid along a dimension of the media programming grid and is configured to graphically depict a folded portion of paper that is visually pleated into or out of a display of the media programming grid;

wherein the location of the folded area is determined based on received user input that corresponds to a user touching a first point and a second point on the touch screen and while continuing to touch the touch screen executing a movement to shorten a distance between the user'"'"'s touches and wherein the dimension along which the folded area extends is determined based on a determination that the movement to shorten the distance between the first and second touches included a greater distance moved in the dimension than in a second dimension.

17. The system of claim 16, further comprising a page generator for combining a display of a media programming grid with a search result list including one or more entries matching a cell in the media programming grid.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the representation of the folded area comprises one or more creases represented by inward-directed angled lines defined at opposed ends of a folded page.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the representation of the folded area includes advertising targeted to information associated with the media programming grid displayed in the folded area of the grid.

20. A computer-implemented method comprising:

generating code for displaying on a touch screen of a display device a portion of multi-dimensional information, wherein a full display of all the information would not fit on the touch screen;

receiving a command to compress the displayed portion of information between a first point and a second point, wherein receiving the command comprises receiving user input that corresponds to the user touching the first point and the second point on the touch screen and while continuing to touch the touch screen executing a movement to shorten a distance between the user'"'"'s touches;

determining that the command is to compress the displayed portion of information between the first and second points along a first dimension based on a determination that the movement to shorten the distance between the user'"'"'s touches included a greater distance moved in the first dimension than in a second dimension; and

in response to receiving the command to compress and determining the command is to compress in the first dimension, generating code for displaying the portion of the information with visible graphical fold marks defining a fold area between the first point and the second point along the first dimension;

wherein the visible graphical fold marks are configured to graphically depict a folded portion of paper that is visually pleated into or out of the touch screen.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein displaying the portion of the information with visible graphical fold marks further comprises displaying a second portion of the information in an area of the touch screen made available by compressing the information along the first dimension, wherein the second portion previously was not displayed on the touch screen.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein the multi-dimensional information comprises geographical mapping information.

23. The method of claim 20, wherein the multi-dimensional information comprises media-scheduling information.

24. The method of claim 20, further comprising:

receiving a second command to unfold the fold area between the first point and the second point, wherein receiving the command comprises receiving a second user input that corresponds to the user touching the fold area; and

in response to receiving the second command, generating code for displaying the portion of the information without the visible graphical fold marks.

25. The method of claim 20, further comprising:

receiving a second command to unfold the fold area between the first point and the second point, wherein receiving the command comprises receiving a second user input that corresponds to the user touching the fold area at two touch points and while continuing to touch the touch screen executing a movement to lengthen a distance between the user'"'"'s touches; and

in response to receiving the second command, generating code for displaying the portion of the information without the visible graphical fold marks.

26. The method of claim 20, wherein the first dimension is orthogonal to the second dimension.