Method of associating attributes with documents

• US 8,984,417 B2
• Filed: 06/20/2012
• Issued: 03/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: 9224-5489 Quebec Inc., Maya-Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: 9224-5489 Quebec Inc.
• Inventors: Audet, Mathieu
• Primary Examiner(s): Pesin, Boris
• Assistant Examiner(s): BADAWI, ANGIE M
• Application Number:
  US13/528,359
• Publication Number:
  US 20120260204A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,000 Days
• Field of Search: 715/748
• US Class Current: 715/748
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• 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: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A method of adding a user-selectable element to a destination array of documents, the method comprising adding a document to the destination array of documents, the destination array of documents being adapted to group a plurality of documents having a commonality, the added document being adapted to acquire the commonality by being added to the destination array of documents. A tangible machine-readable medium and a graphical user interface providing same are also provided herewith.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations for adding a user-selectable element to a destination array or user-selectable elements on a display, the operations comprising:

adding a user-selectable element from a group of departure user-selectable elements, adapted to be grouped on the display along a first axis to provide a visual continuity between adjacent user-selectable elements thereof on a basis of a substantially rectilinear arrangement of user-selectable elements, to a destination array of user-selectable elements, the destination array of user-selectable elements being adapted to group a plurality of user-selectable elements having a commonality, the group of destination user-selectable elements being adapted to be grouped on the display along a second axis to provide a visual continuity between adjacent user-selectable elements thereof on a basis of a substantially rectilinear arrangement of user-selectable elements, the group of departure user-selectable elements and the group of destination user-selectable elements being adapted to be acted upon independently, the added user-selectable element being adapted to acquire the commonality by being added to the destination array of user-selectable elements,

wherein the acquired commonality is adapted to be removed from the added user-selectable element when the added user-selectable element is removed from the group of destination user-selectable elements.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the destination array of user-selectable elements disposes user-selectable elements along a timeline.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the commonality is at least one attribute.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 3, wherein the at least one attribute is a plurality of attributes and the attributes to be acquired by the added user-selectable element are selected on a basis of a user input.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the destination array groups documents resulting from a search, the commonality being at least one attribute used in a search query thereof.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the added user-selectable element is adapted to be dragged on the array of user-selectable elements by a user to acquire the commonality.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the user-selectable element is displayed on a departure array of user-selectable elements from which the user-selectable element to be dragged to the destination array of user-selectable elements.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the user-selectable element to be added is adapted to be dragged from the departure array of user-selectable element to the destination array of user-selectable elements with a graphical animation allowing a user to see a movement of the user-selectable element to be added.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the user-selectable element to be added is a document.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the axis of user-selectable elements is scrollable.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein removing or keeping the commonality associated with the user-selectable element is decided on a basis of a user input.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein adding the user-selectable element is adding collectively a plurality of user-selectable elements.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the user-selectable to be added to the destination array of user-selectable elements is stored in a first database and is further stored in a second database on a basis of its addition to the destination array of user-selectable elements.

14. A method of adding a user-selectable element to a destination array of documents on a display, the method comprising:

adding a document from a group of departure documents, adapted to be grouped on the display along a first axis to provide a visual continuity between adjacent documents thereof on a basis of a substantially rectilinear arrangement of documents, to the destination array of documents, the destination array of documents being adapted to group a plurality of documents having a commonality, the group of destination documents being adapted to be grouped on the display along a second axis to provide a visual continuity between adjacent documents thereof on a basis of a substantially rectilinear arrangement of documents, the group of departure documents and the group of destination documents being adapted to be acted upon independently, the added document being adapted to acquire the commonality by being added to the destination array of documents,

wherein the acquired commonality is adapted to be removed from the added document when the added document is removed from the group of destination documents.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the destination array of documents disposes documents along a timeline.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the commonality is a plurality of attributes and the attributes to be acquired by the added document are selected on a basis of a user input.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the destination array groups documents resulting from a search, the commonality being at least one attribute used in a search query thereof.

18. A device, comprising a processor configured to present to a user a graphical interface for navigating axes of elements, the graphical interface comprising:

a first display area that is operable to display a group of departure user-selectable elements adapted to be disposed on the graphical interface along a first axis to provide a visual continuity between adjacent user-selectable elements on a basis of a substantially rectilinear disposition of user-selectable elements;

a second display area that is operable to display a group of destination user-selectable elements sharing at least one attribute, the group of destination user-selectable elements being adapted to be disposed on the graphical interface along a second axis to provide a visual continuity between adjacent user-selectable elements on a basis of a substantially rectilinear disposition of user-selectable elements, the group of departure user-selectable elements and the group of destination user-selectable elements being adapted to be acted upon independently; and

a command area that is operable to select a user-selectable element from the first display area and add the selected user-selectable element to the second display area, the added user-selectable element being adapted to acquire the at least one attribute on a basis of the its addition of the selected user-selectable element to the second display area,

wherein the acquired at least one attribute is adapted to be removed from the added user-selectable element when the added user-selectable element is removed from the group of destination user-selectable elements.

19. The device of claim 18, wherein the destination user-selectable elements are disposed along a timeline.

20. The device of claim 18, wherein removing or keeping the at least one attribute acquired by the user-selectable element is decided on a basis of a user input.