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US 2014/0181708 A1Published application
Navigating Content Hierarchies and Persisting Content Item Collections
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsErez Kikin-Gil, Mark Eugene Pearson, Vignesh Sachidanandam, Doreen Grieb, Patrick Malatack
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Abstract
Navigation of multiple information item hierarchies within a same application display pane or view is provided. Information items may be displayed in a customized collection of information items, for example, a “favorites” collection, that may be assembled from a variety of content sources and that may be persisted across a variety of information item views.
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A method of navigating related information items, the method comprising:
- providing a graphical representation of a plurality of information items, the plurality of information items comprising a collection of information items;
- providing a selectable control for displaying one or more additional information items related to the plurality of information items;
- providing a graphical representation of a nested collection, the nested collection being hierarchically related to the collection of information items;
- providing a selectable control for displaying one or more information items contained in the nested collection;
- upon receiving an indication of a selection of the selectable control for displaying one or more additional information items related to the plurality of information items, exposing the one or more additional information items contained in the collection in-line with the plurality of related information items in the collection;
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- upon receiving an indication of a selection of the selectable control for displaying one or more information items contained in the nested collection, exposing the one or more information items contained in the nested collection in-line with the information items contained in the collection.
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A method of displaying a customized collection of information items, the method comprising:
- assembling the customized collection of information items from a variety of content sources;
- providing a graphical representation of the customized collection of information items including providing a graphical representation of a plurality of information items comprising the customized collection of information items;
- displaying the graphical representation of the customized collection of information items on a display space along with a display of other individual information items or other collections of information items not associated with the customized collection of information items;
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- persisting a display of the graphical representation of the customized collection of information items regardless of whether a display of other individual information items or other collections of information items not associated with the customized collection of information items changes.
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A system for navigating a customized collection of information items, the system comprising:
- a memory storage;
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- a processing unit coupled to the memory storage, wherein the processing unit is operable to:
- assemble a collection of a plurality of information items from a variety of content sources;
- provide a graphical representation of the collection of a plurality of information items;
- provide a selectable control for displaying one or more additional information items related to the plurality of information items;
- provide a graphical representation of a nested collection, the nested collection being hierarchically related to the collection of information items;
- provide a selectable control for displaying one or more information items contained in the nested collection;
- expose the one or more additional information items contained in the collection in-line with the plurality of related information items in the collection upon receiving an indication of a selection of the selectable control for displaying one or more additional information items related to the plurality of information items;
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- expose the one or more information items contained in the nested collection in-line with the information items contained in the collection upon receiving an indication of a selection of the selectable control for displaying one or more information items contained in the nested collection.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.