System and method for a home multimedia container

• US 9,535,569 B2
• Filed: 05/23/2013
• Issued: 01/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Kobo Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rakuten Kobo Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Wu, James, Bennett, Robin, Hill, Daniel, Galkina, Anya
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Linh K
• Application Number:
  US13/901,498
• Publication Number:
  US 20140351752A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,321 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/74 Browsing; Visualisation therefor end-user interfaces for requesting or interacting with video content, e.g. video on demand interfaces or electronic program guides, H04N21/472
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

Abstract

A system and method for a home multimedia container. The method includes accessing, within mobile device, a portion of an operating system corresponding to the mobile device and accessing a datastore corresponding to a home multimedia container. In one embodiment, the home multimedia container comprises a first object and a second object. The first object may be a first portion of content and the second object may be an application. The datastore may comprise information about the first object and the second object. The method further includes determining a first image based on the information about the first object and determining a second image based on an application icon corresponding to the application. The method further includes displaying the first image and the second image. In one embodiment, selection of the first image is operable to launch a first application operable to render the first portion of content.

Claims

1. A method for displaying a graphical user interface on a mobile device, said method comprising:

accessing a portion of an operating system operating on said mobile device;

accessing a datastore corresponding to a home multimedia container at a root level of a hierarchy of multimedia containers stored in said mobile device, wherein said home multimedia container comprises a first object, a second object, a third object, and a plurality of subordinate multimedia containers in said hierarchy, wherein said first object is a first portion of content and said second object is an application, wherein said third object is a second portion of content of a different media type from said first object, and wherein said datastore comprises information about said first object, said second object, said third object and said plurality of subordinate multimedia containers;

determining a first image based on said information about said first object;

determining a second image based on an application icon corresponding to said application;

displaying, within said home multimedia container, said first image, said second image, and overlapping images for each of the plurality of subordinate multimedia containers;

in response to a user selection of said first image, launching a first application to render said first portion of content; and

in response to a user selection of a first set of overlapping images of one of the plurality of subordinate multimedia containers, transforming the first set of overlapping images into a second set of images including non-overlapping images that each correspond to a respective image in the first set of overlapping images.

2. The method as described in claim 1, wherein said displaying is performed in response to performance of an unlock function.

3. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the first image is displayed adjacent to said second image.

4. The method as described in claim 1, wherein a user selection of said second image causes launching said application corresponding to said second image.

5. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the first object is a webpage, and wherein said first image is a scaled version of the webpage and is updated automatically.

6. The method as described in claim 1 further comprising, in response to a user operation of dragging said first image on top of said second image, generating a next-level multimedia container that comprises said first object and said second object.

7. The method as described in claim 1 further comprising removing said first object from said home multimedia container in response to a user operation of dragging said first image to a predetermined location within said graphical user interface.

8. The method as described in claim 1, further comprising, in response to the user selection of the first set of the overlapping images, displaying an exploded view of the second set of images.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions that, if executed by a mobile computer system, cause the mobile computer system to perform a method for displaying a graphical user interface, said method comprising:

accessing a portion of an operating system operating on said mobile computer system;

accessing a datastore corresponding to a home multimedia container at a root level of a hierarchy of multimedia containers stored in said mobile computing system, wherein said home multimedia container comprises a first object, a second object, a third object, and a plurality of subordinate multimedia containers in said hierarchy, wherein said first object is a first portion of content and said second object is an application, wherein said third object is a second portion of content of a different media type from said first object, and wherein said datastore comprises information about said first object, said second object, said third object and said plurality of subordinate multimedia containers;

determining a first image based on said information about said first object;

determining a second image based on an application icon corresponding to said application;

displaying, within said home multimedia container, said first image, said second image, and overlapping images for each of the plurality of subordinate multimedia containers;

in response to a user selection of said first image, launching a first application to render said first portion of content; and

in response to a user selection of a first set of overlapping images of one of the plurality of subordinate multimedia containers, transforming the first set of overlapping images into a second set of images including non-overlapping images that each correspond to a respective image in the first set of overlapping images.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as described in claim 9, wherein said displaying is performed in response to performance of a security function of said operating system.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as described in claim 9, wherein said displaying is performed as part of a startup sequence of said operating system.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as described in claim 9, wherein said displaying is performed by said operating system.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as described in claim 9, wherein said mobile computer system is a tablet computing device.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as described in claim 9, wherein said method further comprises:

determining a third image based on said information in said datastore about said application; and

displaying said third image, wherein a user interaction with said third image causes launching said application.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as described in claim 9, wherein selection of said second image causes opening said multimedia container.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as described in claim 9, wherein said first object is moved into said multimedia container in response to user selecting said first image and dragging said first image over said second image.

17. A mobile device configured to display a graphical user interface, said mobile device comprising:

a processor;

memory coupled to said processor and comprising instructions that, when executed by said processor, are configured to;

access a datastore corresponding to a home multimedia container at a root level of a hierarchy of multimedia containers, wherein said home multimedia container comprises a first object, and a second object, a third object, and a plurality of subordinate multimedia containers in said hierarchy, wherein said first object is a first portion of content and said second object is an application, wherein said third object is a second portion of content of a different media type from said first object, and wherein said datastore comprises information about said first object, said second object, said third object and said plurality of subordinate multimedia containers;

determine a first image based on said information about said first object;

determine a second image based on an application icon corresponding to said application;

display, within said home multimedia container, said first image, said second image, and overlapping images for each of the plurality of subordinate multimedia containers;

in response to a user selection of said first image, launch a first application to render said first portion of content; and

in response to a user selection of a first set of overlapping images of one of the plurality of subordinate multimedia containers, transform the first set of overlapping images into a second set of images including non-overlapping images that each correspond to a respective image in the first set of overlapping images.

18. The mobile device as described in claim 17, wherein the instructions are further configured to receive a user selection of said second image and invoke the application corresponding to said second image.

19. The mobile device as described in claim 17 wherein said first image, said second image, and said overlapping images are displayed in response to performance of an unlock function.