US 7,890,889 B2Granted

User-interface application for media file management

AssigneeNokia Corporation

InventorsTuomas Artman, Sami Koskela

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Abstract

A media management user-interface (UI) application that provides access to media items and media files and provides browsing and search capabilities for locating media items within media files. The UI application may rely on a hierarchical display of various levels or categories of media files and, as such, the application is uniquely suited for portable digital devices having small displays. The hierarchal display of media file levels allows the user to easily browse through levels to identify a desired media file and to locate and display a desired media item. In addition, the UI application may provide for an easily activated search function that provides for keyword searches to be performed based on information that has been associated with media files and media items.

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Dependent claims

A computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions for a user-interface application for providing access to media items on a display of a digital device, the computer executable instructions comprising:

first instructions for generating a media management view of one or more media item classification levels for each of a plurality of different categories of media items, wherein each level includes one or more media item icons, and wherein a media item classification level of one category of media items includes a media item classification level of another category;
second instructions for defining a focus point within one of the media item classification levels, wherein the focus point has a fixed position within the view and selects one of the one or more icons within the level for presentation of the one or more media items associated with the icon;
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third instructions for generating, in response to a search, a search result level that includes one or more icons, wherein each icon is related to at least one search result media item and wherein the search result level also includes a search result information icon configured to occupy the focus point so as to selectably allow for display of search result information defining categories providing results from the search and indicating a quantity of corresponding media items in each category providing results from the search.

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An apparatus comprising:

a processor that executes computer-readable program instructions for accessing media files, the computer-readable program instructions being stored in a memory and comprising:
first instructions for generating a media management view of one or more media item classification levels for each of a plurality of different categories of media items, wherein each level includes one or more media item icons, and wherein a media item classification level of one category of media items includes a media item classification level of another category;
second instructions for defining a focus point within one of the media item classification levels, wherein the focus point has a fixed position within the view and selects one of the one or more icons within the level for presentation of the one or more media items associated with the icon;
and
third instructions for generating, in response to a search, a search result level that includes one or more icons, wherein each icon is related to at least one search result media item and wherein the search result level also includes a search result information icon configured to occupy the focus point so as to selectably allow for display of search result information defining categories providing results from the search and indicating a quantity of corresponding media items in each category providing results from the search.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.