Indexing, sorting, and categorizing application media packages

• US 8,621,034 B1
• Filed: 10/31/2007
• Issued: 12/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: DoDots Licensing Solutions LLC (Strategic Intellectual Solutions, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Mainstream Scientific, LLC (Innovation Management Sciences, LLC)
• Inventors: Gabbay, Lynn D., Kembel, Geoffrey S., Wobbrock, Jake, Kembel, Jeremy L., Russell, John, Kim, Daniel S., Kembel, George Andrew, Kembel, John Albert
• Primary Examiner(s): Nooristany, Sulaiman
• Application Number:
  US11/932,663
• Time in Patent Office: 2,253 Days
• Field of Search: 709/219, 709/217
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/221 Parsing markup language streams streaming G06F40/149
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

An Application Media Package for accessing and displaying Internet content includes a definition for rendering a graphical user interface and a URL pointing to the Internet Content to be downloaded and presented within said user interface. An Application Media viewer may be used in association with the Application Media Package to manage the collection, organization, sharing, and rendering of a plurality of such Packages. A user is provided with the option of arranging multiple Application Media Packages, such as in groups, and such as vertically, horizontally, etc. By selecting, dragging and dropping, Packages are snapped or docked together such that they may be move individually or in mass on the client display. The organization and groupings may be shared with others.

Claims

1. A method of grouping of multiple application media packages, said method comprising:

presenting graphical user interfaces defined by individual ones of the multiple application media packages on the display of the client computing device in a spatial arrangement, a given application media package comprising (i) a definition of a graphical user interface within which content in a web browser-readable language may be presented on a display associated with a client computing device, wherein the graphical user interface lacks user controls for manual network navigation with the given application media package, and (ii) a network reference at which content in a web browser-readable language is obtained over a network by the application media package, said graphical user interface having a plurality of interface boundaries;

associating an identification with said spatial arrangement of the graphical user interfaces such that the identification identifies the spatial arrangement as a whole; and

uploading said spatial arrangement of the graphical user interfaces and said identification from the client computing device to a server computer,

wherein the spatial arrangement of the graphical user interfaces of the application media packages specifies the relative positions of the graphical user interfaces such that the graphical user interfaces are aligned parallel to a boundary of said display of the client computing device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the spatial arrangement of the graphical user interfaces of the application media packages specifies the relative positions of the graphical user interfaces such that the graphical user interfaces are aligned with at least one of said interface boundaries.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said alignment is linear.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the spatial arrangement of the graphical user interface distributes the graphical user interfaces across the display of the client computing device in accordance with user selections received from a user at the client computing device.

5. A system configured to group graphical user interfaces of a plurality of application media packages on a display, said system comprising:

electronic storage configured to store a plurality of application media packages, a given application media package comprising (i) a definition of a graphical user interface within which content in a web browser-readable language may be presented on a display associated with a client computing device, wherein the graphical user interface lacks user controls for manual network navigation with the given application media package, and wherein the graphical user interface has a boundary, and (ii) a network reference at which content in a web browser-readable language is obtained over a network by the application media package;

a display; and

one or more processors configured to;

present the graphical user interfaces defined by said plurality of application media packages on the display in a spatial arrangement;

associate an identification with said spatial arrangement of the graphical user interfaces such that the identification identifies the spatial arrangement as a whole; and

upload said spatial arrangement of the graphical user interfaces and said identification to a server computer,

wherein the spatial arrangement of the graphical user interfaces of the application media packages specifies the relative positions of the graphical user interfaces such that the graphical user interfaces are aligned parallel to a boundary of said display.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the spatial arrangement of the graphical user interfaces of the application media packages specifies the relative positions of the graphical user interfaces such that the graphical user interfaces are aligned with at least one of said interface boundaries.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein said alignment is linear.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to receive user selections regarding the distribution of the graphical user interfaces across the display, and to arrange the graphical user interfaces in the spatial arrangement in accordance with the received user selections.

9. A system configured to group graphical user interfaces of a plurality of application media packages on a display, said system comprising:

electronic storage configured to store a plurality of application media packages, a given application media package comprising (i) a definition of a graphical user interface within which content in a web browser-readable language may be presented on a display associated with a client computing device, wherein the graphical user interface lacks user controls for manual network navigation with the given application media package, and wherein the graphical user interface has a boundary, and (ii) a network reference at which content in a web browser-readable language is obtained over a network by the application media package; and

one or more processors configured to;

transmit, over a network, the application media packages to a client computing device for execution on the client computing device resulting in presentation of the graphical user interfaces defined by the application media packages on a display of the client computing device in a spatial arrangement;

receive the spatial arrangement of the graphical user interfaces and an identification associated with the spatial arrangement from the client computing device such that the identification identifies the spatial arrangement as a whole; and

store the spatial arrangement of the graphical user interfaces and the identification associated therewith to the electronic storage,

wherein the spatial arrangement of the graphical user interfaces of the application media packages specifies the relative positions of the graphical user interfaces such that the graphical user interfaces are aligned parallel to a boundary of the display of the client computing device.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the spatial arrangement of the graphical user interfaces of the application media packages specifies the relative positions of the graphical user interfaces such that the graphical user interfaces are aligned with at least one of said interface boundaries.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein said alignment is linear.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the spatial arrangement reflects user selections regarding the distribution of the graphical user interfaces on the display that are received at the client computing device.