System and method for streamlining user interaction with electronic content

• US 10,564,818 B2
• Filed: 12/29/2017
• Issued: 02/18/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LiTL LLC (TRI Ventures, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: LiTL LLC (TRI Ventures, Inc.)
• Inventors: Behar, Yves, Morenstein, Joshua, Hibmacronan, Christopher, Edahiro, Naoya, Day, Matthew David, Havoc Pennington, Robert Sanford, Guyot, Noah Bruce, Kuo, Daniel, Hayes, Jenea Boshart, Tang, Aaron, Fischer, Donald Francis, Schmidt, Christian Marc, Strausfeld, Lisa, Fore, David Livingstone, Chuang, John, Bambacus, Chris, Haney, Bart, Ray, Logan, Beaulieu, Serge
• Primary Examiner(s): Dragoescu, Claudia
• Application Number:
  US15/858,955
• Publication Number:
  US 20180181271A1
• Time in Patent Office: 781 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/162 changing, e.g. reversing, the face orientation of the screen with a two degrees of freedom mechanism, e.g. for folding into tablet PC like position or orienting towards the direction opposite to the user to show to a second user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1677 for detecting open or closed state or particular intermediate positions assumed by movable parts of the enclosure, e.g. detection of display lid position with respect to main body in a laptop, detection of opening of the cover of battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

Various aspects and embodiments are directed to a graphical user interface that organizes interface elements into views of computer content for presentation to a user. Different views of are used to provide an interface that is responsive to configurations of the device and activities performed by the user. Aspects include permitting the user to transition the device from one configuration to another during its use. The elements that comprise the graphical user interface are configured to present a summarized view of available actions and content to simplify user interaction. The different views present different organizations of the interface elements and in some examples display only certain modes of content in order to reduce the number of options a user must navigate. Methods and systems for streamlining user interaction with computer content are also provided. Streamlining includes, for example, pre-configuring a user device based on received information.

Claims

1. At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor in a computer system comprising a display and a keyboard and being configurable between a plurality of computer system configurations, cause the at least one processor to perform a method comprising:

displaying a plurality of views of a plurality of visual representations of computer content;

detecting a current computer system configuration from at least a first computer system configuration of the plurality of computer system configurations where the keyboard is operable to receive input from an operator of the computer system to control the computer system and a second computer system configuration of the plurality of computer system configurations where the keyboard is inoperable to receive input from the operator of the computer system to control the computer system;

selecting one of the plurality of views for display on the computer system in response to the detected current computer system configuration;

transitioning to the selected one of the plurality of views; and

displaying the selected one of the plurality of views.

2. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein each of the first and second computer system configurations comprise a physical positioning of the display relative to the keyboard.

3. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the first computer system configuration is a laptop mode where the keyboard is oriented to be accessible to the operator and wherein the second computer system configuration is an easel mode or a frame mode where the keyboard is oriented to be inaccessible to the operator.

4. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of views includes a home view and wherein the method further comprises displaying the home view.

5. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 4, wherein the home view comprises a plurality of interactive cards each comprising a first display boundary and being associated with at least one system operation.

6. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the method further comprises detecting computer focus on an interactive card of the plurality of interactive cards in the home view.

7. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the method further comprises changing a display boundary of the interactive card from the first display boundary to a second display boundary that is different in size than the first display boundary responsive to the computer focus on the interactive card.

8. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the second display boundary is larger than the first display boundary.

9. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the method further comprises detecting selection of an interactive card of the plurality of interactive cards.

10. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises executing the at least one system operation associated with the interactive card responsive to detecting selection of the interactive card.

11. At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor in a computer system comprising a display and a keyboard and being configurable between a plurality of computer system configurations, cause the at least one processor to perform a method comprising:

displaying a plurality of views of a plurality of visual representations of computer content;

detecting a current computer system configuration from at least a first computer system configuration from the plurality of computer system configurations where the keyboard is positioned to receive input from an operator of the computer system and a second computer system configuration from the plurality of computer system configurations where the keyboard is not positioned to receive input from the operator of the computer system;

selecting one of the plurality of views for display on the computer system in response to the detected current computer system configuration; and

transitioning the display component to the selected one of the plurality of views.

12. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein each of the first and second computer system configurations comprise a physical positioning of the display relative to the keyboard.

13. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the first computer system configuration is a laptop mode where the keyboard is oriented to be accessible to the operator and wherein the second computer system configuration is an easel mode or a frame mode where the keyboard is oriented to be inaccessible to the operator.

14. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the plurality of views includes a home view and wherein the method further comprises displaying the home view.

15. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the home view comprises a plurality of interactive cards each comprising a first display boundary and being associated with at least one system operation.

16. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises detecting computer focus on an interactive card of the plurality of interactive cards.

17. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises changing a display boundary of the interactive card from the first display boundary to a second display boundary that is different in size than the first display boundary responsive to the computer focus on the interactive card.

18. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the second display boundary is larger than the first display boundary.

19. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises detecting selection of an interactive card of the plurality of interactive cards.

20. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the method further comprises executing the at least one system operation associated with the interactive card responsive to detecting selection of the interactive card.