System and method for interface and interaction with internet applications

• US 9,269,110 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2011
• Issued: 02/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Clayton Gunars Strauts, Jonathan Blake
• Original Assignee: Clayton Gunars Strauts
• Inventors: Blake, Jonathan, Strauts, Clayton Gunars
• Primary Examiner(s): Pesin, Boris
• Assistant Examiner(s): Torres, Ayesha Huertas
• Application Number:
  US13/280,222
• Publication Number:
  US 20130104070A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,583 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A graphical user interface system for displaying content on a user interface and for integrating and manipulating social network content includes a display window for displaying and manipulating content from at least one social network; a horizontal panel for manipulating content from at least one social network; and tabs on the horizontal panel and user-selectable for manipulating the content. The tabs disposed on the horizontal panel may include a post tab for selecting a type of content to be manipulated; a media tab for manipulating audio/visual media content; a social tab for manipulating one or more social media or communication content in the social network; a persona tab for configuring at least one user-persona associated with the content to be manipulated; and an account tab for managing at least one external user account or profile when interacting with the content.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for displaying content within a user interface on a computer display device and for integrating and manipulating social network content by way of a graphical user interface system, the graphical user interface system comprising:

a display window disposed within the user interface for displaying and manipulating content from at least one social network;

a horizontal panel for manipulating content from at least one social network;

a plurality of tabs disposed on the horizontal panel and selectable by a user for manipulating the content from the at least one social network and the display window, the plurality of tabs comprising;

a post tab for selecting a type of content to be manipulated;

a media tab for manipulating audio/visual media content;

a social tab for manipulating one or more social media or communication content in the social network;

a persona tab for configuring at least one user-persona associated with the content to be manipulated;

an account tab for managing at least one external user account or profile when interacting with the content; and

a content management tab for interacting with content displayed in the display window, the content management tab comprising a comment button for uploading comments about the content displayed in the display window, the comment button comprising;

a comment text box for entering comments about the content displayed in the display window;

a select user-persona button for selecting the at least one user-persona associated with the comments; and

a post button for uploading and displaying the comments in the display window.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 further comprising a vertical panel for displaying chronologically updated content from at least one social network feed, the vertical panel comprising:

a content category selection tab for selecting a type of content to be displayed in the vertical panel; and

windows for displaying an image from at least one user-persona or feed, each of the windows comprising a drop down box comprising information about the image from at least one user-persona or feed;

wherein the information and content from the at least one social network feed comprises at least one of;

an email account, an online banking account, a news feed, a chat forum, an instant message system, a music account, an audio/visual media account, a social network account, or an Internet-based search engine.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 wherein the at least one external account or profile comprises a social network, phone, email, bank account, and system identity account or profile.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 further comprising a geographical location tab for providing geographical information associated with the content.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 further comprising a content management tab for interacting with content displayed in the display window.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the content management tab comprises a plurality of content management buttons.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the content management buttons comprise:

an edit button;

a remove button;

a share button; and

said comment button for uploading comments about the content displayed in the display window.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, the display window further comprising a micro-comment button for uploading comments about the comments displayed in the display window, the micro-comment button comprising:

a micro-comment text box for entering secondary micro-comments about the content displayed in the display window;

a micro-comment select user-persona button for selecting the at least one user-persona associated with the micro-comments; and

a micro-comment post button for uploading and displaying the micro-comments in the display window.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, the display window further comprising an approval button for adding an approval indication associated with the comments or micro-comments and displaying the approval indication in the display window.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the horizontal panel is moveable within the user interface separately from the display window.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2, wherein the vertical panel is moveable within the user interface separately from the display window.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, the post tab further comprising upon selection by a user a plurality of post sub-tabs for uploading content in the display window.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, the plurality of post sub-tabs comprising one or more of:

a status tab;

a link tab;

a question tab;

a blog tab;

an event tab;

a poll tab; and

an activity tab.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, the persona tab further comprising upon activation by a user, a privacy grid for selecting one or more privacy setting controlling privacy of the content.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium m of claim 14, wherein the privacy grid comprises privacy buttons associated with combinations of the user-personas and privacy tiers for controlling the privacy of the content.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, the media tab comprising upon selection by a user a plurality of media interaction tabs.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, the media tab comprising, upon selection by a user, one or more of:

an upload tab;

an images tab;

a videos tab; and

a files tab.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the audio/visual media content comprises one or more of:

a video;

an audio recording;

an image;

or text.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, the social tab comprising, upon selection by a user, one or more of:

a contents tab;

a messages tab;

a chat tab;

a calendar tab;

a pages tab; and

a networks tab.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the persona tab comprises, upon selection by a user, a plurality of persona submenu tabs for creating and manipulating the at least one user-persona associated with the content.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein selection of a tab by a user activates a transition to reveal submenu options on the horizontal panel wherein the submenu options slide horizontally into view on the horizontal panel appearing from one end of the panel.

22. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions to implement a method of integrating and manipulating social network content on a graphical user interface system, comprising computer-executable instructions to:

provide a graphical user interface system, the system comprising;

a display window disposed within the user interface displaying and content from at least one social network, a horizontal panel for manipulating content from at least one social network;

a plurality of tabs disposed on the horizontal panel and selectable by a user for manipulating the content from the at least one social network and the display window, the plurality of tabs comprising;

a post tab for selecting a type of content to be manipulated;

a media tab for manipulating audio/visual media content;

a social tab for manipulating one or more social media or communication content in the social network;

a persona tab for configuring at least one user-persona associated with the content to be manipulated;

an account tab for managing at least one external user account or profile when interacting with the content;

select a type of content to manipulate from said post tab;

define the content to be manipulated on the social network;

select at least one user-persona associated with the content;

post the content to the social network for display in the display window;

and a content management tab for interacting with content displayed in the display window, the content management tab comprising a comment button for uploading comments about the content displayed in the display window, the comment button comprising;

a comment text box for entering comments about the content displayed in the display window;

a select user-persona button for selecting the at least one user-persona associated with the comments;

and a post button for uploading and displaying the comments in the display window.