Manipulating collections of items in a user interface

• US 9,176,645 B1
• Filed: 06/29/2011
• Issued: 11/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Masterman, Michael F., Parihar, Sunil Singh, Cornali, Delfino J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bashore, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): SHREWSBURY, NATHAN K
• Application Number:
  US13/172,028
• Time in Patent Office: 1,588 Days
• Field of Search: 715/845, 707/737
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data

Abstract

Disclosed are various embodiments for handling large collections of items in a user interface. A collection of items in a data store associated with a request for a content page is identified. A content page is generated that includes a number of items in the content page, where the number of items in the content page can be less than a total number of items in the collection. The content page also includes a select-all element. The content page is also configured to initiate a subsequent request to with an argument corresponding to activation of the select-all element as well as potentially an exclusion list corresponding to deselected items.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in a computing device, wherein, when executed, the program causes the computing device to at least:

receive a request for content from a client device, the request being associated with a plurality of items;

determine a total number of the plurality of items associated with the request;

generate a content page comprising a number of the plurality of items represented in the content page, wherein the number of the plurality of items represented in the content page is less than the total number of the plurality of items, wherein the content page further comprises a select-all element and a content submission user interface element, wherein the content page further comprises;

a plurality of instructions that, when executed, cause the client device to at least determine whether the select-all element is activated,

determine, in response to the select-all element being activated, whether at least one selection element associated with at least one of the plurality of items is deselected,

associate, in response to the at least one selection element being deselected, the at least one of the plurality of items associated with the at least one selection element with an exclusion list, and transmit the exclusion list in conjunction with an operation request to the computing device;

transmit the content page to the client device; and

perform an operation associated with the operation request on at least one of the plurality items that is not in the exclusion list.

2. A system, comprising:

a data store that stores item data; and

at least one computing device in communication with the data store, the at least one computing device configured to at least;

receive a request for content from a client device, the request being associated with a plurality of items;

determine a total number of the plurality of items associated with the request;

generate a content page representing at least a subset of the plurality of items; and

transmit the content page to the client device;

wherein the content page further comprises a select-all element, a content submission user interface element, and an item selection element corresponding to each of the at least a subset of the plurality of items, and the content page, when rendered by the client device, is configured to at least;

build an exclusion list including at least one deselected item in the content page in response to a user selection of the select-all element;

in response to deselection of the item selection element corresponding to a respective one of the at least a subset of the plurality of items, associating the respective one of the at least a subset of the plurality of items with the exclusion list; and

transmit an operation request and the exclusion list to the at least one computing device to perform an operation on at least one item from the at least a subset of the plurality of items that is not in the exclusion list.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein a number of the at least a subset of the plurality of items in the content page is less than the total number of the plurality of items.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the content page further comprises an identifier uniquely identifying the plurality of items associated with the request.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the item selection element associated with each of the plurality of items in the content page facilitates a user selection or deselection of an item.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the content page, when rendered by the client device, is further configured to at least submit the identifier uniquely identifying the plurality of items to the at least one computing device.

7. The system of claim 6,

wherein the operation request further comprises an argument identifying that the select-all element is selected.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to at least:

determine, from the operation request submitted by the client device under control of the content page, an identity of the respective one of the at least a subset of the plurality of items; and

perform the operation on the at least one item that is not in the exclusion list.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to at least:

identify an ordering of the at least a subset of the plurality of items as rendered in the content page, wherein the respective item identifier is based at least upon the ordering; and

identify the respective one of the at least a subset of the plurality of items based at least upon the respective item identifier of the respective one of the at least a subset of the plurality of items in the exclusion list.

10. The system of claim 2, wherein the request for the content further comprises a page selection argument corresponding to a page number, and wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to at least identify which of the plurality of items are displayed in the content page based at least upon the page selection argument.

11. The system of claim 2, wherein the request for the content further comprises an ordering argument corresponding to an ordering of the at least a subset of the plurality of items in the content page, and wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to at least identify which of the plurality of items are in the exclusion list based at least upon the ordering argument.

12. The system of claim 6, wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to at least embed an indicator of a total quantity of the at least a subset of the plurality items in the content page, and wherein the content page, when rendered by the client device, is further configured to at least:

determine a first quantity of deselected items in the content page;

calculate a second quantity of selected items by subtracting the first quantity from the total quantity of the at least a subset of the plurality of items; and

render the second quantity of selected items in the content page.

20. The system of claim 2, wherein the operation request specifies to perform the operation on all the plurality of items that are not in the exclusion list.

13. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

identifying, in at least one computing device, a plurality of items in a data store associated with a request for a content page from a client device;

generating, in the at least one computing device, the content page representing a number of the plurality of items, the number of the plurality of items represented in the content page being a subset of the plurality of items, the content page comprising a select-all element and an item selection element corresponding to each of the subset of the plurality of items;

transmitting, from the at least one computing device, the content page to the client device; and

wherein the content page, when rendered by the client device, is configured to cause the client device to at least;

build an exclusion list including at least one deselected item in the content page in response to a user selection of the select-all element;

in response to deselection of the item selection element corresponding to a respective one of the subset of the plurality of items, associating the respective one of the subset of the plurality of items with the exclusion list; and

submit the exclusion list in conjunction with an operation request to the at least one computing device to perform an operation on at least one item from the subset of the plurality of items that is not in the exclusion list.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, wherein the content page further comprises an identifier with which the plurality of items can be identified.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, wherein the content page further comprises a plurality of item selection elements, wherein each of the plurality of item selection elements allows a user to select and deselect at least one of the plurality of items.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein the content page, when rendered by the client device, is further configured to cause the client device to at least submit the identifier for the plurality of items to the at least one computing device.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 14,

wherein the operation request further comprises the exclusion list and an argument identifying that the select-all element is selected.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 17, further comprising:

determining, in the at least one computing device, from the operation request submitted by the content page, an identity of the respective one of the subset of the plurality of items in the exclusion list; and

performing, in the at least one computing device, the operation on each of the plurality of items that are not in the exclusion list.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 17, wherein the operation request further comprises an additional argument corresponding to an ordering of the subset of the plurality of items in the content page, and the at least one computing device identifies the respective one of the subset of the plurality of items based at least upon the ordering.

21. The method of claim 13, wherein the operation request specifies to perform the operation on all the plurality of items that are not in the exclusion list.

22. The method of claim 13, wherein the operation request specifies to perform the operation on all the plurality of items in the subset of the plurality of items that are not in the exclusion list.