Hiding Portions of Display Content

• US 20080270886A1
• Filed: 04/30/2007
• Published: 10/30/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Taylor, Thomas H., Brown, David A., Sahami, Mehran, Patel, Manish G., Gupta, Neha, Blackburn, John, Gossweiler, Richard C.
• Granted Patent: US 8,065,603 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/227
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/177 of tables; using ruled lines
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26283 for associating distribution time parameters to content, e.g. to generate electronic program guide data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4524 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; systems specially adapted for using geographical information in broadcast systems H04H60/70; protocols in which the network application is adapted for the location of the user terminal in communication control or processing H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape

Abstract

A computer-implemented method includes generating code for displaying a two-dimensional media programming schedule grid, receiving a command to compress the grid at a first location along a first dimension, and generating code for displaying the grid with visible graphical fold marks defining a fold area near the first location along the first dimension.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

generating code for displaying a two-dimensional media programming schedule grid;

receiving a command to compress the grid at a first location along a first dimension; and

generating code for displaying the grid with visible graphical fold marks defining a fold area near the first location along the first dimension.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating code for displaying printed information in the fold area, representing information hidden by the fold area.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first dimension comprises a time scale and the printed information presents a time period of programming hidden by the fold area.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the first dimension comprises a channel scale and the printed information presents a range of channels hidden by the fold area.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a compression control whose selection generates information associated with the first location and the first dimension, and displaying the grid with visible graphical fold marks in response to selection of the compression control.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the compression control causes one or more predetermined groups of channels to be hidden by the fold area.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein selection of the compression control causes a predetermined time period to be hidden by the fold area.

8. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

displaying multi-dimensional graphical information;

receiving a command to compress the graphical information at a first location along a first dimension; and

displaying the multi-dimensional graphical information with visible graphical fold marks defining an hidden information area near the first location along the first dimension.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the visible graphical fold marks include inward indentations in the graphical information around the first location.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the visible graphical fold marks include an offset fold representation near the first location.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the command to compress the graphical information at the first location is received by two-point touch input on opposed sides of the location.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first dimension is determined as a line substantially perpendicular to a line connecting the two points of the two-point input.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the two-point input is received as a pair of finger contacts on a touch screen, followed by motion of the finger contacts toward each other.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the multi-dimensional graphical information includes a television programming grid.

15. The method of claim 8, further comprising receiving a command to compress the graphical information at a second location along a second dimension at a right angle to the first dimension and displaying the multi-dimensional graphical information with visible graphical fold marks near the second location along the second dimension.

16. The method of claim 8, further comprising displaying printed information in the hidden information area indicative of information that has been compressed.

17. The method of claim 8, wherein the fold marks represent compressed information by areas extending in a direction away from a viewer of the display.

18. A computer-implemented system for generating media programming information, comprising:

a interface to receive requests for media programming content;

a programming database storing information about schedules for a large plurality of media programs; and

a grid generator configured to generate code for producing a representation of a folded page at a location of hidden media programming content in a media programming grid.

19. The system of claim 18, further comprising a page generator for combining a display of a media programming grid with a search result list including one or more entries matching a cell in the media programming grid.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the representation of a folded page comprises one or more creases represented by inward-directed angled lines defined at opposed ends or a folded page.

21. The system of claim 18, wherein the representation of a folded page includes advertising targeted to information associated with the media programming grid displayed in a folded zone of the grid.