Methods and systems for navigating display sequence maps

• US 9,395,881 B2
• Filed: 07/12/2012
• Issued: 07/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: McConnell, Jager, Peter, Ciara
• Primary Examiner(s): Higgs, Stella E
• Application Number:
  US13/547,911
• Publication Number:
  US 20130019161A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,468 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for navigating display sequence maps. A system outputs, to a display device, content views in response to receiving requests for content views via a user interface. At least one of the content views may include a link that enables navigation to another one of the content views. Each of the content views may be a revision to content of another one of the content views. The system outputs, to the display device, a hierarchical representation of a sequence in which the content views were displayed in response to receiving a request for the hierarchical representation via the user interface. The hierarchical representation includes visual representations corresponding to the content views. The system outputs, to the display device, a selected one of the content views in response to a selection of the one of the visual representations corresponding to the content views from the hierarchical representation.

Claims

1. An apparatus for navigating display sequence maps, the apparatus comprising:

a hardware processor; and

one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to carry out the steps of;

outputting, to a display device, a plurality of content views in response to receiving a plurality of requests for content views via a user interface, each of the plurality of content views includes revisions viewable as selectable text in an electronic document or webpage, wherein at least one of the plurality of content views comprises a link that enables navigation to another one of the plurality of content views;

outputting, to the display device in response to a request via the user interface, a hierarchical representation of a sequence of the plurality of content views, the hierarchical representation comprising a plurality of visual representations corresponding to the plurality of content views, the sequence including at least a first revised content view at a first level of the hierarchical representation and a second revised content view at a second level of the hierarchical representation, the second revised content view including revisions from the first revised content view and new revisions;

outputting, to the display device, the first revised content view in response to a selection from the hierarchical representation via the user interface of one of the plurality of visual representations corresponding to the first revised content view, and

deleting the first revised content view such the revisions from the first revised content are deleted while the new revisions in the second revised content view are retained to create a final revised content view in the hierarchical representation, which is then outputted to the display device.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display device comprises one of a handheld computing device, a mobile phone, and a laptop computer.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the plurality of content views comprises a plurality of webpages.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the plurality of content views comprises a plurality of widgets.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the plurality of content views comprises a plurality of records associated with the plurality of widgets.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user interface comprises a touch screen.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein each of the visual representations corresponding to the plurality of content views in the hierarchical representation comprises a corresponding identifier.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising modifying a viewing level of a record to correspond to a viewing level of a widget in response to receiving a level change request via the user interface.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising outputting, to the display device, an indicator of a level in the hierarchical representation in response to the selection of the one of the visual representations corresponding to the plurality of content views from the hierarchical representation via the user interface.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising outputting, to the display device, a notice of a current revision to one of the plurality of content views that the display device is displaying.

11. A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-readable program code embodied therein to be executed by one or more processors, the program code including instructions to:

output, to a display device, a plurality of content views in response to receiving a plurality of requests for content views via a user interface, each of the plurality of content views includes revisions viewable as selectable text in an electronic document or webpage, wherein at least one of the plurality of content views comprises a link that enables navigation to another one of the plurality of content views;

output, to the display device in response to a request via the user interface, a hierarchical representation of a sequence of the plurality of content views, the hierarchical representation comprising a plurality of visual representations corresponding to the plurality of content views, the sequence including at least a first revised content view at a first level of the hierarchical representation and a second revised content view at a second level of the hierarchical representation, the second revised content view including revisions from the first revised content view and new revisions;

outputting, to the display device, the first revised content view in response to a selection from the hierarchical representation via the user interface of one of the plurality of visual representations corresponding to the first revised content view; and

delete the first revised content view such the revisions from the first revised content are deleted while the new revisions in the second revised content view are retained to create a final revised content view in the hierarchical representation, which is then outputted to the display device.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the request for the hierarchical representation is received through a two finger pinch movement via a touch screen.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising instructions to output, to the display device, an indicator of a level in the hierarchical representation in response to the selection from the hierarchical representation via the user interface of one of the visual representations corresponding to the first revised content view.

17. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein each of the plurality of content views comprises an electronic document.

18. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the user interface comprises one of a touch screen and a mouse wheel.

19. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising instructions to output, to the display device, a notice of a current revision to one of the plurality of content views that the display device is displaying.

20. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein each of the visual representations corresponding to the plurality of content views in the hierarchical representation comprises a corresponding identifier.

14. A method for navigating display sequence maps, the method comprising:

outputting, to a display device, a plurality of content views in response to receiving a plurality of requests for content views via a user interface, each of the plurality of content views includes revisions viewable as selectable text in an electronic document or webpage, wherein at least one of the plurality of content views comprises a link that enables navigation to another one of the plurality of content views;

outputting, to the display device in response to a request via the user interface, a hierarchical representation of a sequence of the plurality of content views, the hierarchical representation comprising a plurality of visual representations corresponding to the plurality of content views, the sequence including at least a first revised content view at a first level of the hierarchical representation and a second revised content view at a second level of the hierarchical representation, the second revised content view including revisions from the first revised content view and new revisions;

outputting, to the display device, the first revised content view in response to a selection from the hierarchical representation via the user interface of one of the plurality of visual representations corresponding to the first revised content view; and

deleting the first revised content view such the revisions from the first revised content are deleted while the new revisions in the second revised content view are retained to create a final revised content view in the hierarchical representation, which is then outputted to the display device.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising outputting, to the display device, additional information corresponding to at least one of the plurality of content views in response to receiving a two finger spread movement via a touch screen.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising outputting, to the display device, an indicator of a level in the hierarchical representation in response to the selection from the hierarchical representation via the user interface of one of the visual representations corresponding to the first revised content view.