System and method for electronic table display

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11809816-B2
Application number	US-202015931129-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 13, 2020
Priority date	May 14, 2019
Publication date	Nov 7, 2023
Grant date	Nov 7, 2023

Abstract

A method for enabling selective field expansion in an electronically displayed table is provided. The method includes rendering at least a portion of the electronic table on a display, the electronic table including a plurality of cells, each cell associated with a unique row and column combination, wherein the rendered portion of the electronic table includes a plurality of cells including at least one edge cell containing information; receiving a user input indicating a direction away from the edge cell; in response to the user input, rendering the edge cell with a width wider than a default width to thereby display more information in the wider width than was displayed in the default width; and upon termination of the user input, rendering the edge cell with the default width.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing instructions for enabling displaying electronic document tables, the instructions being configured to cause at least one processor to execute operations, comprising:
rendering a portion of an electronic table on a display, the rendered portion including at least a first edge column and/or at least a first edge row of the table, rendered at a default width and a second column adjacent the first edge column and/or a second row adjacent the first edge row, wherein the at least first edge column and/or first edge row are respectively a column or a row at an edge of said table;
receiving a continuous user input indicating a movement direction starting from a first point on said display and stopping at a second point on said display, wherein said second point is closer to an edge of the rendered portion of said table than said first point;
initially altering the first edge column or the first edge row in a manner rendering the first edge column or the first edge row at a reduced width less than the default width, in response to the received user input, wherein altering the first edge column or the first edge row is according to said movement direction; and
in response to continued received user input, in said movement direction, identifying whether a display portion displaying said portion of said table is in a size capable to accommodate static columns or static rows;
in response to identifying that said display portion displaying said portion of said table is in a size capable to accommodate static columns or static rows, designating said at least first edge column or said at least first edge row as static, and re-rendering the display to cause the first edge column or the first edge row and the second column or the second row to be rendered in an overlaying manner, wherein the overlaying manner is defined as rendering one of the first edge column and the second column, or the first edge row and the second row as an overlaying column or an overlaying row.

2. The computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein when said at least first edge column or said at least first edge row is designated as static, the first edge column or the first edge row is partially transparent, and is rendered on top of the second edge column or the second edge row.

3. The computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein when said at least first edge column or said at least first edge row is designated as static, the second edge column or the second edge row is partially transparent, and is rendered on top of the first edge column or the first edge row.

4. The computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein said at least first edge column of the table and/or said at least a first row of the table comprises two or more columns and/or two or more rows of the table.

5. The computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein said second column comprises a plurality of consecutive columns and/or said second row comprises a plurality of consecutive rows and wherein some of said plurality of consecutive columns and/or said plurality of consecutive rows are rendered in said overlaying manner and a remaining columns and/or rows of the plurality of columns and/or rows are not rendered in said overlaying manner.

6. The computer readable medium of claim 5 , wherein a first portion of one column of said plurality of columns and/or a first part of one row of said plurality of rows is rendered in said overlaying manner and a remaining portion of said one column of said plurality of columns and/or a remaining part of said one row of said plurality of rows is not rendered in said overlaying manner.

7. The computer readable medium of claim 2 , wherein an amount of transparency is determined based on at least one member of a group consisting of: a color of the column and/or a color of the row, a color of column border and/or a color of row border, a color of text, ambient light, display brightness and user preference as manually input.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 3 , wherein an amount of transparency is determined based on at least one member of a group consisting of: a color of the column and/or a color of the row, a color of column border and/or a color of row border, a color of text, ambient light, display brightness and user preference as manually input.

Assignees

• Monday Com Ltd

Inventors

• Lereya Daniel
• Pollack Ariel
• Frenkel Shani

Classifications

• G06F40/177 Primary

  of tables; using ruled lines · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title

• G06F40/103 Primary

  Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents (automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191) · CPC title

• G06F40/106

  Display of layout of documents; Previewing · CPC title