Dynamic content mapping

• US 9,710,433 B2
• Filed: 11/29/2013
• Issued: 07/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Willis, Eric, Mellina, Clayton, Osindero, Simon Kayode, Jaros, Robert, Svetlichnaya, Anastasia
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Maikhanh
• Application Number:
  US14/093,408
• Publication Number:
  US 20140164913A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,327 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/907 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing

Abstract

Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein may relate to dynamic display of representations of digital content for user interaction on computing devices, for example, including displaying a collection of content items on a display of a computing device, wherein a two-or-more-dimensional spatial arrangement of individual content items of the displayed collection comprises individual content items being positioned relative to other individual content items based, at least in part, on analytic characterizations of one or more attributes of the individual content items.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

displaying a collection of digital content items on a display of a computing device, wherein a two-or-more-dimensional spatial arrangement of individual digital content items of the displayed collection comprises individual digital content items being positioned relative to other individual digital content items based, at least in part, on analytic characterizations of one or more semantically-meaningful attributes of the individual digital content items of the collection of digital content items, wherein the analytic characterizations of the one or more semantically-meaningful attributes of the individual digital content items comprise determining a degree of similarity among individual digital content items of the collection of digital content items based at least in part on one or more semantically-meaningful attributes of the individual digital content items; and

at least in part in response to obtaining a user interaction by way of an input device of the computing device, dynamically rearranging the relative positions of the individual digital content items of the displayed collection of digital content items based at least in part on one or more weighted factors specified at least in part via the user interaction without explicit identification by the user of the one or more weighted factors, wherein the dynamically rearranging the relative positions of the individual digital content items of the displayed collection of digital content items further includes adjusting the spatial arrangement at least in part in response to a user selection of a filter criteria.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more semantically-meaningful attributes comprises one or more image-based attributes.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the one or more image-based attributes comprise one or more attributes based on color.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the one or more image-based attributes comprise one or more attributes based on shape.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more semantically-meaningful attributes comprise one or more text-based attributes.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the one or more text-based attributes comprise one or more attributes based on tags and/or other metadata.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more semantically-meaningful attributes comprise one or more audio-based attributes.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more semantically-meaningful attributes comprise one or more collaborative and/or social attributes.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said dynamically rearranging the relative positions of the individual digital content items of the displayed collection of digital content items at least in part in response to receiving a user interaction comprises dynamically adjusting the spatial arrangement at least in part in response to a user query.

10. A method, comprising:

displaying a collection of digital content items on a display of a computing device, wherein a two-or-more-dimensional spatial arrangement of individual digital content items of the displayed collection comprises individual digital content items being positioned relative to other individual digital content items based, at least in part, on analytic characterizations of one or more semantically-meaningful attributes of the individual digital content items of the collection of digital content items, wherein the analytic characterizations of the one or more semantically-meaningful attributes of the individual digital content items comprise determining a degree of similarity among individual digital content items of the collection of digital content items based at least in part on one or more semantically-meaningful attributes of the individual digital content items;

dynamically adjusting the visual display of the spatial arrangement of the individual digital content items of the displayed collection of digital content items at least in part in response to obtaining a user interaction by way of an input of the computing device, including performing a filter operation and a pan operation, based at least in part on one or more weighted factors specified at least in part via the user interaction without explicit identification by the user of the one or more weighted factors; and

dynamically adjusting the spatial arrangement of the individual digital content items of the displayed collection of digital content items at least in part by performing a zoom operation in response to obtaining an additional user interaction.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the user interaction comprises a user selection of a pan button displayed on the display of the computing device.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the user interaction comprises a user input click-and-drag activation indicative of the pan operation.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the obtaining the additional user interaction comprises obtaining a user selection of a zoom button displayed on the display of the computing device.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the obtaining the additional user interaction comprises obtaining a mouse wheel activation indicative of the zoom operation.

15. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor to initiate display of a collection of digital content items on a display of a computing platform, wherein a two-or-more-dimensional spatial arrangement of individual digital content items of the collection to be displayed to comprise individual digital content items to be positioned relative to other individual digital content items based, at least in part, on analytic characterizations of one or more semantically-meaningful attributes of the individual digital content items of the collection of digital content items, wherein the processor, at least in part to perform the analytic characterization of the one or more semantically-meaningful attributes of the individual digital content items, to determine a degree of similarity among individual digital content items of the collection of digital content items to be based at least in part on one or more semantically-meaningful attributes of the individual digital content items, the processor further to, at least in part in response to a interaction by way of an input device of the computing device, dynamically rearrange the spatial arrangement of the individual digital content items of the collection of digital content items to be displayed based at least in part on one or more factors to be weighted to be specified at least in part via the user interaction without explicit identification by the user of the one or more factors to be weighted, wherein the processor to dynamically rearrange the spatial arrangement of the individual digital content items of the collection of digital content items to be displayed at least in part in response to a user selection of a filter criteria.