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US 2016/0103573 A1Published application
Scalable and tabbed user interface
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorTimothy Charles Jones
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Abstract
System and methods of providing more space to present data in a graphical user interface which uses tabs, are presented. A GUI including a plurality of tabs in a first portion of the GUI and a tab adjustment element, is provided to the user. User input indicating an activation of the tab adjustment element is received. In response to the user input, the size of the first portion of the graphical user interface is modified, and the plurality of tabs is adjusted to fit within the modified size of the first portion of the GUI.
Claims17
A method comprising:
- providing, by a processing device, a graphical user interface comprising a menu bar, a tab context portion and a content portion, the menu bar having a plurality of tabs and a menu bar adjustment element, wherein one of the plurality of tabs comprises a selected tab that is visually differentiated from other tabs of the plurality of tabs, wherein the selected tab is associated with a video presented in the content portion, and wherein the tab context portion displays tab context data specifying a plurality of actions pertaining to playback of the video in the content portion corresponding to the selected tab;
- receiving a first user input indicating an activation of the menu bar adjustment element;
- and
- in response to the first user input:
- reducing a size of the menu bar and adjusting the plurality of tabs to fit within the reduced size of the menu bar, wherein the selected tab remains visually differentiated from the other tabs of the plurality of tabs;
- and
- increasing the size of the tab context portion to present additional actions pertaining to the playback of the video in the content portion corresponding to the selected tab.
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A system comprising:
- a processing device configured to:
- provide a graphical user interface comprising a menu bar, a tab context portion and a content portion, the menu bar having a plurality of tabs and a menu bar adjustment element, wherein one of the plurality of tabs comprises a selected tab that is visually differentiated from other tabs of the plurality of tabs, wherein the selected tab is associated with a video presented in the content portion, and wherein the tab context portion displays tab context data specifying a plurality of actions pertaining to playback of the video in the content portion corresponding to the selected tab;
- receive a first user input indicating an activation of the menu bar adjustment element;
- and
- in response to the first user input:
- reduce a size of the menu bar and adjusting the plurality of tabs to fit within the reduced size of the menu bar, wherein the selected tab remains visually differentiated from the other tabs of the plurality of tabs;
- and
- increase the size of the tab context portion to present additional actions pertaining to the playback of the video in the content portion corresponding to the selected tab.
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A method comprising:
- providing, by a processing device, a graphical user interface comprising a plurality of tabs in a first portion of the graphical user interface and a tab adjustment element, the plurality of tabs comprising a tab selected by a user that is visually differentiated from other tabs of the plurality of tabs;
- receiving a first user input indicating an activation of the tab adjustment element;
- and
- in response to the first user input, modifying a size of the first portion of the graphical user interface and adjusting the plurality of tabs to fit within the modified size of the first portion of the graphical user interface, wherein adjusting the plurality of tabs to fit within the modified size of the first portion of the graphical user interface comprises increasing a size of the tab selected by the user, wherein the increased size of the tab selected by the user is larger than sizes of other tabs of the plurality of tabs and provides for an unobscured view of data within the tab selected by the user, wherein the tab selected by the user remains visually differentiated from the other tabs of the plurality of tabs.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.