Multi-panel user interface

• US 9,064,281 B2
• Filed: 02/25/2013
• Issued: 06/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mastercard Mobile Transactions Solutions, Inc. (MasterCard Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Mastercard Mobile Transactions Solutions, Inc. (MasterCard Incorporated)
• Inventors: Ballard, Barbara Elaine, Bharathur, Raghu, Maniar, Nehal
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Amee A
• Application Number:
  US13/776,388
• Publication Number:
  US 20130268400A1
• Time in Patent Office: 848 Days
• Field of Search: 705/27.1, 715/240, 715/788, 715/764, 715/781, 715/864, 715/798
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/36 using electronic wallets or electronic money safes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces

Abstract

A multi-panel user interface includes one-tap access of a shopping-related function from a collapsed panel in an expandable panel user shopping interface without requiring expanding the collapsed panel.

Claims

1. A method of accessing one of a plurality of shopping related functions via a multi-panel user interface, the method comprising:

displaying a single expanded panel of a multi-panel user shopping interface on an electronic display of a computing device;

displaying a plurality of collapsed panels of the multi-panel user shopping interface on the electronic display, wherein at least one of the plurality of collapsed panels includes an icon to facilitate performing a shopping-related function; and

receiving an indication of a user selection of the icon and in response thereto;

determining with the computing device a shopping-related function from the plurality of shopping-related functions based on an association of the icon and the shopping-related function; and

causing execution of program steps by the computing device that perform the determined shopping-related function while permitting the collapsed panel that includes the icon to remain collapsed.

2. The method of claim 1, further including permitting the single expanded panel to remain expanded and the plurality of collapsed panels to remain collapsed during the execution of the program steps.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the indication of a user selection of the icon comprises an indication that the user selected the icon by single-tapping the icon in a touch sensitive electronic display.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the at least one of the plurality of collapsed panels includes a plurality of icons to facilitate accessing different shopping-related functions without requiring expansion of the collapsed panel.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the program steps are adapted to cause a display generated by the shopping-related function to supplant a portion of the multi-panel user shopping interface on the electronic display.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the supplanted portion is the single expanded panel.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the supplanted portion comprises the single expanded panel and a portion of the plurality of collapsed panels.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the supplanted portion comprises the single expanded panel and all of the plurality of collapsed panels.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing device is a mobile user device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the user shopping interface further comprises an icon disposed on the single expanded panel for accessing a shopping-related function.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein at least two of the plurality of collapsed panels include at least one icon for facilitating one-tap access to distinct shopping-related functions.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of shopping-related functions includes one or more of accessing vouchers, accessing shopping lists, performing payments, presenting loyalty cards, and redeeming coupons.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein determining a shopping-related function includes using data associated with the icon to access a dataset of shopping-related functions.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the shopping-related function comprises:

activating a camera function of the computing device without requiring the collapsed panel to be expanded;

presenting an image of a field of view of the camera in a portion of the electronic display;

analyzing with the computing device the image to determine a data value associated with a visual code detected in the image;

transmitting at least the data value over a network to a server;

receiving from the server in response a purchase price for a purchasable product associated with the determined data value; and

presenting at least the purchase price of the purchasable product in the portion of the electronic display.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising adding the purchasable product to a virtual shopping cart without requiring the collapsed panel to expand.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein execution of the program steps comprises:

forwarding an action type associated with the shopping-related function to a mobile transaction processing platform that communicates via an application programming interface layer with a wallet access widget to access select mobile wallet payment resources of the mobile device; and

performing the shopping-related function via the mobile transaction processing platform with a specific mobile wallet payment resource that is based on the action type.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein performing the shopping-related function includes executing a wallet companion applet on the mobile device for accessing the payment resource of the mobile wallet.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein determining a shopping-related function comprises accessing a data table that cross-references icons with shopping-related functions.

19. A personal mobile electronic device comprising a display on which a user shopping interface configured to provide access to a plurality of shopping related functions is presented, wherein the user shopping interface comprises one or more collapsed panels;

and

a portion of the one or more collapsed panels including one or more icons that are configured to cause the mobile electronic device to perform program steps that provide access to a portion of the plurality of shopping related functions in response to selection of the one or more icons without requiring expanding any of the one or more collapsed panels.