OUTLINE VIEW

• US 20130151974A1
• Filed: 12/12/2011
• Published: 06/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Inkling Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Inkling Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Cho, Peter S., Halsall, Anne K., Haney, Aaron, Wight, Jonathan, Cromwell, Robert, Forman, Joshua John, Scott, Robert, Maclnnis, Charles M.
• Granted Patent: US 8,977,978 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/733
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/137 Hierarchical processing, e.g. outlines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces

Abstract

Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums for creating and presenting an outline view, the outline view including a first user navigable graphical panel, the first panel displaying first organizational elements corresponding to a first outline level of an electronic content work; a second user navigable graphical panel, the second panel displaying one or more child organizational elements of a selected first organizational element, the child organizational elements corresponding to a second outline level of the electronic content work; and one or more content previews of content within the electronic content work in the first or second panel, the content previews corresponding to the first or second outline levels of the electronic content work, respectively.

Claims

1. A method of presenting an outline view of an electronic document, the method comprising:

displaying, on a display of a client device, first ones of a plurality of organizational elements of the electronic document in a first user navigable graphical panel, said first ones of said organizational elements corresponding to a first outline level of the electronic document;

displaying, on the display of the client device and responsive to user selection of one of the first organizational elements corresponding to the first outline level of the electronic document, one or more child organizational elements of the selected first organizational element in a second user navigable graphical panel, the child organizational elements corresponding to a second outline level of the electronic document;

displaying, on the display of the client device and responsive to user navigation interactions with the first organizational elements or child organizational elements, one or more content previews of content within the electronic document, the content previews being displayed within the first and second user navigable graphical panels according to currently displayed ones of the organizational elements of the first or second outline levels of the electronic document, respectively.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein responsive to a change in the selected first organizational element to a newly selected first organizational element, causing to be displayed one or more child organizational elements of the newly selected first organizational element.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein responsive to a selection of one of the child organizational elements, causing to be displayed the corresponding portion of the electronic document.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the content previews include summaries of one or more social features associated with the electronic document.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second graphical panels are independently scrollable.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to a user moving the second panel in a first direction, hiding the first panel and displaying the second panel and a third panel, the third panel displaying a portion of the electronic content associated with a selected child organizational element of the second panel.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

responsive to a user moving the second panel in a second direction, the second direction being opposite of the first direction, causing the third panel to be hidden and causing to be displayed the first and second panels.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

responsive to a user dragging the third panel in the first direction again, causing the second panel to be hidden and causing to be displayed a full screen version of the third panel on the client device.

9. A method of creating an outline view, the method comprising:

determining for an electronic content work a plurality of organizational elements associated with a plurality of outline levels of the electronic content work using one or more computer processors;

creating one or more content previews from portions of the electronic content work, the one or more content previews associated with a particular organizational element; and

creating an outline view description from the plurality of organizational elements and the one or more content previews, the outline view description providing instructions to a client application for displaying the plurality of organizational elements and one or more content previews in a plurality of graphical panels.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the outline view description includes a description of the number of the plurality of graphical panels to display the plurality of organizational elements and a description of which organizational levels are displayed within each panel.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein determining the plurality of organizational elements comprises parsing the electronic content work for outline level indicators.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the outline level indicators include markup tags of a particular type.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the outline view description is a markup file.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising sending the outline view description to a client over a network.

15. The method of claim 9, comprising inserting one or more instructions into the outline view description which instruct a client to display one or more social feature previews, the social feature previews received by the client from an interaction service.

16. A system for creating an outline view, the system comprising:

one or more processors; and

an outline view builder module implemented by the one or more processors and configured to;

determine for an electronic content work a plurality of organizational elements associated with a plurality of outline levels of the electronic content work;

create one or more content previews from portions of the electronic content work, the one or more content previews associated with a particular organizational element; and

create an outline view description from the plurality of organizational elements and the one or more content previews, the outline view description providing instructions to a client application for displaying the plurality of organizational elements and one or more content previews in a plurality of graphical panels.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the outline view builder module is configured to create the outline view description to include a description of the number of the plurality of graphical panels to display the plurality of organizational elements and a description of which organizational levels are displayed within each panel.

18. The system of claim 16 wherein the outline view builder module is configured to determine the plurality of organizational elements by parsing the electronic content work for outline level indicators.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the outline level indicators include markup tags of a particular type.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the outline view builder module is configured to create the outline view description as a markup file.

21. The system of claim 16, comprising an output module configured to send the outline view description to a client application over a network.

22. The system of claim 16, comprising inserting one or more instructions into the outline view description which instruct a client to display one or more social feature previews, the social feature previews received by the client from an interaction service.