Dynamic multi monitor display and flexible tile display

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10990419-B2
Application number	US-201916291266-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 4, 2019
Priority date	Apr 18, 2018
Publication date	Apr 27, 2021
Grant date	Apr 27, 2021

Abstract

Interfaces utilize two types of tiles, including boundary spanning type tiles and boundary non-spanning type tiles. The boundary non-spanning tile each have a boundary non-spanning parameter/property that prevent the tile from overlapping a particular type of display boundary and that is operable for triggering a modification of a layout presentation of the canvas by causing/modifying the one or more tiles in the first set of tiles to be automatically resized and/or repositioned within the canvas layout presentation when it is determined the boundary non-spanning type tile(s) would overlap the particular type of boundary in a current/prior layout. The boundary spanning type tiles omit the boundary non-spanning parameter/property or have it set to an inactive state.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer system comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more storage medium having stored executable instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more processors, for configuring the computer system to control configuration of an interface having multiple types of tiles that each render content for presentation on different types of display systems having different pluralities of display devices with different numbers of display devices, and by at least configuring the computer system to perform the following:
create the interface having a plurality of tiles, the interface being configured to be automatically and dynamically adjusted in size or arrangement of tiles to accommodate different display systems having different pluralities of display devices with different numbers of display devices, the interface being created with a plurality of tiles including:
a first set of one or more tiles that each has a boundary display parameter that specifies a particular type of display area boundary between two or more display devices of the different display systems that the first set of tiles is prohibited from overlapping during display, and
a second set of one or more tiles that omits the boundary display parameter or that has the boundary display parameter set to inactive;

identify a display parameter for a particular display system of the different display systems, the display parameter comprising one or more of: (i) quantity of display devices of the particular display system, or (ii) relative positioning of the display devices of the particular display system;
determine a layout presentation of the interface for rendering the interface on at least two display devices of the particular display system of the different display systems simultaneously, the layout presentation of the interface being at least partially based on the display parameter for the particular display system; and
render the interface within display areas of the at least two display devices of the particular display system simultaneously without any of the first set of tiles overlapping a boundary of the particular type of display area boundary between the at least two display devices of the particular display system.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the boundary display parameter is a boundary non-spanning parameter that causes the first set of one or more tiles to be automatically resized and/or repositioned within a layout presentation for display on the particular display system when it is determined the one or more tiles would overlap the particular type of display area boundary between the at least two display devices of the particular display system during rendering of the interface and in a manner to prevent any of the first set of tiles from overlapping the particular type of boundary during rendering on the particular display system.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the second set of one or more tiles omits the boundary non-spanning parameter, such that the second set of one or more tiles is displayed without being automatically resized and/or repositioned to avoid overlapping the particular type of boundary within the display areas of the at least two display devices.

4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the second set of one or more tiles includes the boundary non-spanning parameter, but the boundary non-spanning parameter is set to an inactive state, such that the second set of one or more tiles is displayed without being automatically resized and/or repositioned to avoid overlapping the particular type of boundary within the display areas of the at least two display devices.

5. The system of claim 2 , wherein the computer-executable instructions are further executable to configure the computer system to modify the second set of one or more tiles in response to a modification of the first set of one or more tiles.

6. The system of claim 2 , wherein the computer-executable instructions are further executable to configure the computer system to render at least one of the second set of tiles overlapping the particular type of boundary between the at least two display devices of the particular display system.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the different display systems include a plurality of different multi monitor display configurations having different quantities of boundaries of the particular type of display area boundary and wherein the computer-executable instructions are further executable to configure the computer system to render the interface on each of the different display systems with a different layout presentation for each different display system to prevent the one or more first set of one or more tiles from spanning any of the boundaries of the particular type of display area boundary between two or more display devices of the different display systems.

8. A computer implemented method for controlling configuration of an interface having multiple types of tiles is configured for presentation on different types of display systems having different numbers of display devices, the method comprising:
obtaining an interface having a plurality of tiles, the interface being configured to be automatically and dynamically adjusted in size or arrangement of tiles to accommodate different display systems having different pluralities of display devices with different numbers of display devices, the plurality of tiles including:
a first set of one or more tiles that each has a boundary display parameter that specifies a particular type of display area boundary between two or more display devices of the different display systems that the first set of tiles is prohibited from overlapping during display, and
a second set of one or more tiles that omits the boundary display parameter or that has the boundary display parameter set to inactive;

identifying one or more display parameters for the different display systems, the one or more display parameters comprising one or more of: (i) quantity of display devices of the different display systems, or (ii) relative positioning of display devices of the different display systems; and
generating one or more layout presentations of the interface for rendering on the different pluralities of display devices of the different display systems by at least modifying tile display characteristics for at least one of the first set of tiles in the one or more layout presentations to ensure none of the first set of tiles overlap a boundary of the particular type of display area boundary between at least two display devices of the different display systems when being rendered on the at least two display devices of the different display systems, the one or more layout presentations of the interface being at least partially based on the one or more display parameters.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the boundary display parameter is a boundary non-spanning parameter that causes the first set of one or more tiles to be automatically resized and/or repositioned within a layout presentation for display on a corresponding display system when it is determined the one or more tiles would overlap a particular type of boundary of display areas of a set of two or more display devices of the corresponding display system during rendering of the interface and in a manner to prevent any of the first set of tiles from overlapping the particular type of boundary during rendering on the corresponding display system.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the second set of one or more tiles omits the boundary non-spanning parameter, such that the second set of one or more tiles is displayed without being automatically resized and/or repositioned to avoid overlapping the particular t

Assignees

• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Schwartz Eli
• Foynes Michael Andrew
• Vakaluk Alexander
• Levy Nir
• Kantor Irit Shalom
• Arbel Eli
• Livne Eyal
• Shahar-Kashtan Avner

Classifications

• G06F9/451 Primary

  Execution arrangements for user interfaces · CPC title

• G06F40/106

  Display of layout of documents; Previewing · CPC title

• G06F3/0483

  Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor · CPC title

• G06F9/542

  Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications · CPC title

• G06F40/186

  Templates · CPC title