CONTENT AND SUBFOLDER NAVIGATION CONTROL

• US 20100251085A1
• Filed: 03/25/2009
• Published: 09/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Park, Seung-Hae, Zearing, David B.
• Application Number:
  US12/411,045
• Publication Number:
  US 20100251085A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

Abstract

Techniques for navigating content and one or more subfolders within a folder are described. In an implementation, an instance of content is situated in a folder. The folder also includes one or more subfolders that may each have one or more instances of content situated within them. When the instance of content is accessed, an iterator control may be provided that is scrollable to present one or more representations (e.g., icons) of content that is situated in the folder and one or more representations of subfolders that are situated in the folder. One or more of the representations of subfolders are selectable to navigate to a subfolder page.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

outputting a scrollable iterator control that includes one or more representations of content that is situated within a folder, the one or more representations of content being selectable to output an instance of content; and

outputting, within the scrollable iterator control, a representation of a subfolder situated within the folder, the representation of the subfolder being selectable to navigate within the subfolder.

2. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the scrollable iterator control is output as part of a web page retrieved from a network resource, the web page further including an instance of content retrieved from the folder.

3. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the scrollable iterator control is output responsive to navigation to an instance of content situated within the folder.

4. A method as described in claim 3, wherein the navigation to the instance of content is via a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the instance of content.

5. A method as described in claim 1, further comprising outputting the scrollable iterator control via a web browser.

6. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the scrollable iterator control is configured to dynamically retrieve one or more other representations of content that is situated within the folder from a remote resource and responsive to a navigation within the scrollable iterator control.

7. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the subfolder is associated with a subfolder page comprising a subfolder iterator control, the subfolder iterator control including one or more representations of content that is situated within the subfolder.

8. A method as described in claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving, responsive to a navigation within the scrollable iterator control, data associated with other content that is situated within the folder, wherein the data is retrieved from a remote resource; and

outputting at least some of the data as one or more icons within the scrollable iterator control.

9. A method comprising:

retrieving, from a folder maintained by a web resource, an instance of content situated in the folder and information about one or more subfolders situated in the folder; and

outputting the instance of content and a folder iterator control adjacent to the instance of content, the folder iterator control being scrollable to present a plurality of icons associated with other instances of content situated in the folder and the one or more subfolders, at least one of the plurality of icons being selectable to navigate to a subfolder page associated with one of the one or more subfolders.

10. A method as described in claim 9, further comprising retrieving the instance of content and the information about the one or more subfolders responsive to a selection of a hyperlink.

11. A method as described in claim 9, wherein the folder iterator control is configured to dynamically retrieve one or more icons responsive to a navigation within the folder iterator control.

12. A method as described in claim 9, wherein at least one of the plurality of icons is selectable to retrieve and display another instance of content from the folder.

13. A method as described in claim 9, further comprising outputting a subfolder page responsive to a selection of one of the plurality of icons.

14. A method as described in claim 13, wherein the subfolder page comprises a subfolder iterator control that is scrollable to display icons associated with content situated within the one or more subfolders.

15. One or more computer-readable media comprising instructions that are executable by a device to:

receive a selection of a subfolder icon within a first iterator control, the first iterator control being configured to present one or more representations of content and one or more representations of subfolders that are situated within a folder; and

navigate to a subfolder associated with the subfolder icon, the subfolder including a second iterator control that is configured to present one or more representations of content that is situated within the subfolder.

16. One or more computer-readable media as described in claim 15, wherein the folder and the subfolder are hosted by a web-based resource.

17. One or more computer-readable media as described in claim 15, wherein one or more of the representations of content are selectable to retrieve content from a web-based resource.

18. One or more computer-readable media as described in claim 15, wherein one or more of the representations of content comprise a thumbnail image of content.

19. One or more computer-readable media as described in claim 15, wherein one or more of the first iterator control or the second iterator control are configured to dynamically retrieve one or more icons from a remote resource and responsive to a navigation within the first iterator control or the second iterator control.

20. One or more computer-readable media as described in claim 15, wherein the folder is accessible via a uniform resource locator (URL).