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US 8,572,499 B2Granted
Visual depth-indicators for messages
AssigneeApollo Group, Inc.
InventorsJongwoo Lee, Manish Upendran, Locke D. Berkebile, Jason Brightman
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Abstract
Techniques are described for display and navigation of hierarchical messages, which displays include contextual data for the messages. Context information for a current message includes reply messages, parent messages, and metadata representations. Message representations are also associated with visual depth indicators that are independent of the text of the messages.
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A computer-executed method comprising:
- displaying, within a graphical user interface of a computing device, a plurality of message representations;
- wherein the plurality of message representations correspond to a plurality of messages that belong to a hierarchy of messages;
- wherein the plurality of messages includes messages from two or more different depths in the hierarchy of messages;
- wherein, within the graphical user interface, at least the left borders of the plurality of message representations are aligned along a horizontal axis;
- within each of the plurality of message representations, positioning message text at a position along the horizontal axis that is not based on the depth of the corresponding message within the hierarchy of messages;
- and
- concurrently displaying a corresponding visual depth indicator, for each message representation of the plurality of message representations, along the horizontal axis at a depth-indicating position that is dictated by the depth of the corresponding message within the hierarchy;
- wherein the visual depth indicator is not part of message text;
- wherein the steps of displaying, positioning the message text, and displaying a corresponding visual depth indicator are performed by the computing device.
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One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause performance of a method comprising:
- displaying, within a graphical user interface of a computing device, a plurality of message representations;
- wherein the plurality of message representations correspond to a plurality of messages that belong to a hierarchy of messages;
- wherein the plurality of messages includes messages from two or more different depths in the hierarchy of messages;
- wherein, within the graphical user interface, at least the left borders of the plurality of message representations are aligned along a horizontal axis;
- within each of the plurality of message representations, positioning message text at a position along the horizontal axis that is not based on the depth of the corresponding message within the hierarchy of messages;
- and
- concurrently displaying a corresponding visual depth indicator, for each message representation of the plurality of message representations, along the horizontal axis at a depth-indicating position that is dictated by the depth of the corresponding message within the hierarchy;
- wherein the visual depth indicator is not part of message text.
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