Virtual address bar user interface control
First Claim
1. A system for selecting content for display on a display device according to a virtual address bar, the system comprising:
- a computing device having a processor and a memory;
at least one storage device communicatively coupled to the computing device for storing content; and
a display device communicatively coupled to the computing device for displaying a virtual address bar comprising one or more interactive address segments, each interactive address segment corresponding to a predefined filter applied to the content stored on the at least one storage device;
wherein the predefined filters of the one or more interactive address segments represent a virtual address; and
wherein selection of the one or more interactive address segments navigates a user to a display comprising content located at that virtual address, the content displayed satisfying the predefined filters of the one or more selected interactive address segments in the virtual address bar.
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Abstract
A virtual address bar user interface control is presented. The virtual address bar includes a plurality of interactive segments, each segment corresponding to a predetermined filter for selecting content in a computer file system. Collectively, the interactive segments represent a virtual address for selecting content. Selecting an interactive segment in the virtual address bar causes those segments subsequent to the selected segment to be removed from the virtual address bar. A user may select a peer filter for a segment to replace that segment'"'"'s current filter and removes those segments subsequent to the updated segment. The virtual address bar can be selectively configured to operate as a conventional address bar, and reconfigured to operate as a virtual address bar. Additional filter segments are added to the end of the existing filter segments. Those existing filter segments that conflict with the added segment are removed from the virtual address bar.
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39 Claims
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1. A system for selecting content for display on a display device according to a virtual address bar, the system comprising:
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a computing device having a processor and a memory; at least one storage device communicatively coupled to the computing device for storing content; and a display device communicatively coupled to the computing device for displaying a virtual address bar comprising one or more interactive address segments, each interactive address segment corresponding to a predefined filter applied to the content stored on the at least one storage device; wherein the predefined filters of the one or more interactive address segments represent a virtual address; and wherein selection of the one or more interactive address segments navigates a user to a display comprising content located at that virtual address, the content displayed satisfying the predefined filters of the one or more selected interactive address segments in the virtual address bar. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A virtual address bar user interface control for selecting content accessible to a computer system for display, the virtual address bar user interface control stored on one or more computer-readable storage media and executable by a computing device, the virtual address bar user interface control comprising:
a plurality of interactive address segments, each interactive address segment corresponding to a predefined filter applied to content stored on at least one storage device associated with the computer system, wherein; (1) the predefined filters of the plurality of interactive address segments represent a virtual address, and (2) selection of one or more of the plurality of interactive address segments navigates a user to a display comprising content located at the selected virtual address, the content displayed satisfying the predefined filters of the one or more selected plurality of interactive address segments in the virtual address bar. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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