Techniques to display location-based information

• US 9,292,189 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2013
• Issued: 03/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Djabarov, Gueorgui, Hui, Daniel Jeng-Ping, Williams, Joshua
• Primary Examiner(s): Ell, Matthew
• Application Number:
  US14/023,652
• Publication Number:
  US 20150074596A1
• Time in Patent Office: 923 Days
• Field of Search: 715/781, 715/788, 715/800
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• 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 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

Techniques to display location-based information are described. An apparatus may comprise a screen management component and an interface component. The screen management component may be operative to display in a first screen area location-based information on a map according to geographic location, to display in a second screen area a list comprising the location-based information, and to adjust a relative size of the first screen area and the second screen area in response to a received interaction with one of the first screen area and second screen area. The interface component may be operative to receive the interaction with one of the first screen area and second screen area. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

displaying in a first screen area location-based information on a map according to geographic location;

displaying in a second screen area a list comprising the location-based information;

receiving an interaction with one of the first screen area and second screen area; and

adjusting a relative size of the first screen area and the second screen area in response to the received interaction, wherein adjusting the relative size of the first screen area and the second screen area comprises;

maintaining a center point of the map in a center of the first screen area during a resizing of the first screen area, and expanding or contracting an amount of map area that is displayed in the first screen area.

2. The method of claim 1, the location-based information comprising search results for a location-based search.

3. The method of claim 1, the first screen area and the second screen area equal in size in an initial layout.

4. The method of claim 1, comprising:

increasing in size the first screen area in response to the received interaction being with the first screen area; and

decreasing in size the second screen area in response to the received interaction being with the first screen area.

5. The method of claim 4, the second screen area decreased in size to no longer be visible in response to the received interaction with the first screen area, the first screen area increased in size to fill a combined area of the first screen area and second screen area.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising:

increasing in size the second screen area in response to the received interaction being with the second screen area; and

decreasing in size the first screen area in response to the received interaction being with the second screen area.

7. The method of claim 6, the increasing in size of the second screen area and the decreasing in size of the first screen area comprising the second screen area expanding to eclipse the first screen area to make visible a larger portion of the location-based information in response to the received interaction comprising a request to scroll the displayed list.

8. The method of claim 7, the increasing in size of the second screen area stopping once the second screen area has expanded to fill a combined area of the first screen area and second screen area, the first screen area no longer visible.

9. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor circuit on a device;

a screen management component operative on the processor circuit to display in a first screen area location-based information on a map according to geographic location, to display in a second screen area a list comprising the location-based information, and to adjust a relative size of the first screen area and the second screen area in response to a received interaction with one of the first screen area and second screen area, wherein adjusting the relative size of the first screen area and the second screen area comprises;

maintaining a center point of the map in a center of the first screen area during a resizing of the first screen area, and expanding or contracting an amount of map area that is displayed in the first screen area; and

an interface component operative on the processor circuit to receive the interaction with one of the first screen area and second screen area.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, the screen management component operative to increase in size the first screen area and to decrease in size the second screen area in response to the received interaction being with the first screen area.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, the second screen area decreased in size to no longer be visible in response to the received interaction with the first screen area, the first screen area increased in size to fill a combined area of the first screen area and second screen area.

12. The apparatus of claim 9, the screen management component operative to increase in size the second screen area and decrease in size the first screen area in response to the received interaction being with the second screen area.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, the increasing in size of the second screen area and the decreasing in size of the first screen area comprising the second screen area expanding to eclipse the first screen area to make visible a larger portion of the location-based information in response to the received interaction comprising a request to scroll the displayed list.

14. At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a system to:

display in a first screen area location-based information on a map according to geographic location, the local-based information comprising search results for a location-based search;

display in a second screen area a list comprising the location-based information;

receive an interaction with one of the first screen area and second screen area; and

adjust a relative size of the first screen area and the second screen area in response to the received interaction, wherein adjusting the relative size of the first screen area and the second screen area comprises;

maintaining a center point of the map in a center of the first screen area during a resizing of the first screen area, and expanding or contracting an amount of map area that is displayed in the first screen area.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 comprising further instructions that, when executed, cause a system to:

increase in size the first screen area in response to the received interaction being with the first screen area; and

decrease in size the second screen area in response to the received interaction being with the first screen area.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 comprising further instructions that, when executed, cause a system to:

increase in size the second screen area in response to the received interaction being with the second screen area; and

decrease in size the first screen area in response to the received interaction being with the second screen area.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, the increase in size of the second screen area and the decrease in size of the first screen area comprising the second screen area expanding to eclipse the first screen area to make visible a larger portion of the location-based information in response to the received interaction comprising a request to scroll the displayed list.