DISPLAY DATA GENERATION METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE, NON-TRANSITORY MEDIUM AND COMPUTER

• US 20150220495A1
• Filed: 01/28/2015
• Published: 08/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GREE Inc.
• Original Assignee: GREE Inc.
• Inventors: Takayama, Daisuke
• Granted Patent: US 9,760,253 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/35 Details of game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/355 Performing operations on behalf of clients with restricted processing capabilities, e.g. servers transform changing game scene into an encoded video stream for transmitting to a mobile phone or a thin client
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/53 involving additional visual information provided to the game scene, e.g. by overlay to simulate a head-up display [HUD] or displaying a laser sight in a shooting game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/92 Video game devices specially adapted to be hand-held while playing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• 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 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A display data generation method used in a computer including an output module, includes generating display data of page numbers for scrollably displaying page numbers of a plurality of pages each containing predetermined item information, to output the display data of page numbers from the output module, retrieving page information indicating a same number of pages as a number of page numbers displayed in a distance corresponding to a distance between two points in a display region in which the page numbers are displayed when the two points are specified by the user, wherein the number of page numbers are calculated based on the distance between the two points and the distance between adjacent page numbers displayed in the display region, and generating item display data for displaying item information contained in the pages indicated in the retrieved page information, to output the item display data from the output module.

Claims

1. A display data generation method used in a computer including an output module, the method comprising:

generating display data of page numbers for scrollably displaying page numbers of a plurality of pages each containing predetermined item information, to output the display data of page numbers from the output module;

retrieving page information indicating a same number of pages as a number of page numbers displayed in a distance corresponding to a distance between two points in a display region in which the page numbers are displayed when the two points are specified by the user, wherein the number of page numbers are calculated based on the distance between the two points and the distance between adjacent page numbers displayed in the display region; and

generating item display data for displaying item information contained in the pages indicated in the retrieved page information, to output the item display data from the output module.

2. The display data generation method according to claim 1, further comprising specifying, by the user, a page from among the page numbers displayed in the display region,

wherein the same number of pages as the number of the page numbers include the specified page.

3. The display data generation method according to claim 2, wherein the same number of pages as the number of the page numbers start at the specified page.

4. The display data generation method according to claim 2, wherein the same number of pages as the number of the page numbers are determined from a positional relation between the position of the specified page in the display region and the position of each of the two points.

5. The display data generation method according to claim 1, wherein two points pointed on completion of a swipe operation by the user pointing two points in the display region are specified as the two points in the display region.

6. The display data generation method according to claim 1, wherein two points pointed in response to a swipe operation by the user pointing two points in the display region are specified as the two points in the display region.

7. The display data generation method according to claim 5, further comprising generating display data of pointed page numbers for displaying page numbers corresponding to two points pointed in response to the swipe operation, to output the display data of pointed page numbers from the output module.

8. The display data generation method according to claim 1, wherein the item information is information of a stage in a quest or information of an enemy in a battle.

9. The display data generation method according to claim 1, wherein the item display data is generated using Ajax (registered trademark).

10. The display data generation method according to claim 1, wherein the output module is a communication module for communicating with a device displaying the item information.

11. A computer-readable, non-transitory medium storing a computer program, wherein the computer program causes a computer including an output module, to execute a process, the process comprising:

generating display data of page numbers for scrollably displaying page numbers of a plurality of pages each containing predetermined item information, to output the display data of page numbers from the output module;

retrieving page information indicating a same number of pages as a number of page numbers displayed in a distance corresponding to a distance between two points in a display region in which the page numbers are displayed when the two points are specified by the user, wherein the number of page numbers are calculated based on the distance between the two points and the distance between adjacent page numbers displayed in the display region; and

generating item display data for displaying item information contained in the pages indicated in the retrieved page information, to output the item display data from the output module.

12. A computer comprising:

an output module,

a display data generating module for generating display data of page numbers for scrollably displaying page numbers of a plurality of pages each containing predetermined item information, to output the display data of page numbers from the output module; and

an information retrieving module for retrieving page information indicating a same number of pages as a number of page numbers displayed in a distance corresponding to a distance between two points in a display region in which the page numbers are displayed when the two points are specified by the user, wherein the number of page numbers are calculated based on the distance between the two points and the distance between adjacent page numbers displayed in the display region;

wherein the display data generating module generates item display data for displaying item information contained in the pages indicated in the retrieved page information, to output the item display data from the output module.