SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE CODE FOR DISPLAYING CONCURRENT AND CONTEXTUAL DISPLAY OF INFORMATION IN SEPARATE DISPLAY CONTAINERS ON A VISUAL SCREEN

• US 20120019555A1
• Filed: 07/25/2011
• Published: 01/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hutch K. Hicken
• Original Assignee: Hutch K. Hicken
• Inventors: Hicken, Hutch K.
• Application Number:
  US13/190,303
• Publication Number:
  US 20120019555A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/629
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A system for displaying information on a display, the system including a display, a processor that provides information on the display based on commands received by the processor, and at least one computer process operable with the processor. The at least one computer process is configured to display a first set of information in a first display container when commanded, the first set of information possesses at least one link that when activated provides a second set of information in a second display container, the first set of information in the first display container is partially obscured by the second display container, but non-obscured information in the first display container remains accessible while the second display container also remains accessible and visible. A method and computer software computer code for displaying information on a display are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A system for displaying information on a display, the system comprising:

a display;

a processor that provides information on the display based on commands received by the processor; and

at least one computer process operable with the processor;

wherein the at least one computer process is configured to display a first set of information in a first display container when commanded, the first set of information possesses at least one link that when activated provides a second set of information in a second display container, the set of information in the first display container is partially obscured by the second display container, but non-obscured information in the first display container remains accessible while the second display container also remains accessible and visible.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the display is part of a tablet computer system.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one link is a hyperlink that is located within information on the display and/or is a functional feature that is a part of the display.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the functional feature that is a part of the display comprises a display that is a touch activated display.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one computer process further is configured to allow the second display container to be moved about the display to allow for obscured information to be non-obscured.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the second display container may be moved where a part of the second display container is not visible on the display.

7. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a sizing link associated with the second display container configured to activate sizing of second display container.

8. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a closing link associated with the second display container configured to close the second display container.

9. A method for displaying information on a display, the method comprising:

displaying a first set of information, when a processor is commanded, in a first display container;

providing at least one link within the first set of information that when commanded by the processor accesses a second set of information not currently displayed;

opening a second display container displaying the second set of information when the link is activated wherein the second container may partially obscure the first display container; and

allowing both the first set of information in the first display container that is not obscured by the second display container and the second set of information in the second display container to remain accessible.

10. The method according claim 9, further comprising repopulating the second display container with a different second set of information associated with a second link when the second link is activated.

11. The method according to claim 9, further comprising displaying the first set of information in a portrait and/or landscape configuration and displaying the second set of information in the second display container in an equivalent configuration.

12. The method according to claim 9, further comprising expanding the second display container to completely cover the first display container.

13. The method according to claim 9, further comprising that when the information in the first display container is changed, populating the second display container with a new second set of information in the second display container of a similar type of the second set of information that was previously displayed in the second display container prior to the information in the first display container being changed.

14. The method according to claim 9, wherein the opening a second display container displaying the second set of information comprises the second set of information being a larger font of the first set of information.

15. A computer software code stored on a computer readable medium and configured for execution with a processor designated for displaying information on a display, the computer software code comprising:

a computer software module for displaying a first set of information, when a processor is commanded, in a first display container, when operated with a processor;

a computer software module for providing a link within the first set of information that when commanded by the processor accesses a second set of information not currently displayed, when operated with the processor;

a computer software module for opening a second display container displaying the second set of information when the link is activated where the second container may partially obscure the first display container, when operated with the processor; and

a computer software module for allowing both the first set of information in the first display container that is not obscured by the second display container and the second set of information in the second container to remain accessible, when operated with the processor.

16. The computer software code according claim 15, further comprising a computer software module for repopulating the second display container with a different second set of information associated with a second link when the second link is activated, when operated with the processor.

17. The computer software code according to claim 15, further comprising a computer software module for displaying the first set of information in a portrait and/or landscape configuration and displaying the second set of information in the second display container in an equivalent configuration, when operated with the processor.

18. The computer software code according to claim 15, further comprising a computer software module for expanding the second display container to completely cover the first display container, when operated with the processor.

19. The computer software code according to claim 15, further comprising that when the information in the first display container is changed, a computer software module for populating the second display container with a new second set of information in the second display container of a similar type of the second set of information that was previously displayed in the second display container prior to the information in the first display container being changed, when operated with the processor.