Grouping of cards by time periods and content types

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9250769-B2
Application number	US-201313861217-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 11, 2013
Priority date	Oct 5, 2012
Publication date	Feb 2, 2016
Grant date	Feb 2, 2016

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are described herein related to a user interface (UI) for a computing device, such as head-mountable device (HMD). The UI allows a user of the HMD to navigate through a timeline of ordered screens or cards shown on the graphic display of the HMD. The cards on the timeline may be chronologically ordered based on times associated with each card. Numerous cards may be added to the timeline such that a user may scroll through the timeline to search for a specific card. The HMD may be configured to group cards on the timeline. The cards may be grouped by multiple time periods and by various content types within each respective time period. The cards may also be grouped based on durations between the present/on-going time period and each respective time period.

First claim

We claim:

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
generating, by a computing device, one or more time-stamped bundle cards that correspond to a group of cards from a plurality of time-stamped cards wherein a chronologically sorted timeline of cards that spans at least a current time period and a first time period, and wherein the first time period is one of a plurality of time periods, and wherein the plurality of time periods includes a future time period and a past time period, and wherein generating the one or more time-stamped bundle cards includes determining respective bundling thresholds for the future time period and the past time period to bundle the group of cards into the one or more time-stamped bundle cards; and
displaying a user interface for navigation of the chronologically sorted timeline of cards wherein the timeline comprises the one or more time-stamped bundle cards from the plurality of time-stamped cards, and wherein a frequency of bundle cards in the first time period is greater than a frequency of bundle cards in the current time period.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the computing device is a head-mountable device (HMD).

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the first time period is of a greater duration than the current time period such that the first time period is likely to include a greater number of the time-stamped cards than the current time period.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 , wherein generating the one or more time-stamped bundle cards comprises:
determining a number of time-stamped cards of a first type in the current time period;
determining whether or not the number of cards of the first type in the current time period is greater than a bundling threshold;
if the number of cards of the first type in the current time period is greater than the bundling threshold, then generating a single bundle card for all cards of the first type in the current time period;
determining a number of time-stamped cards of the first type in the first time period;
determining whether or not the number of cards of the first type in the first time period is greater than the bundling threshold; and
if the number of cards of the first type in the first time period is greater than the bundling threshold, then generating a single bundle card for all cards of the first type in the first time period.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein generating the one or more time-stamped bundle cards comprises:
determining a number of time-stamped cards of a first type in the current time period;
determining whether or not the number of cards of the first type in the current time period is greater than a first bundling threshold;
if the number of cards of the first type in the current time period is greater than the first bundling threshold, then generating a single bundle card for all cards of the first type in the current time period;
determining a number of time-stamped cards of the first type in the first time period;
determining whether or not the number of cards of the first type in the first time period is greater than a second bundling threshold, wherein the second bundling threshold is less than the first bundling threshold; and
if the number of cards of the first type in the first time period is greater than the second bundling threshold, then generating a single bundle card for all cards of the first type in the first time period.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein, for the current time period, time-stamped cards of a first type are not bundled, and wherein generating the one or more time-stamped bundle cards comprises:
determining a number of time-stamped cards of the first type in the first time period;
determining whether or not the number of cards of the first type in the first time period is greater than a bundling threshold; and
if the number of cards of the first type in the first time period is greater than the bundling threshold, then generating a single bundle card for all cards of the first type in the first time period.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the first time period includes at least one of the following: a) a time period at least one year prior to the current time period, b) a time period at least one month prior to the current time period, c) a time period at least one week prior to the current time period, d) a time period at least one day prior to the current time period, e) a time period at least one hour after the current time period, f) a time period at least two hours after the current time period, g) a time period at least one day after the current time period, and h) a time period at least two days after the current time period.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the timeline of cards spans three or more time periods, including the current time period and the first time period, wherein the one or more time-stamped bundle cards are generated based on two or more bundling thresholds that each correspond to one of the three or more time periods, and wherein the bundling threshold for the each time period varies in proportion to a duration between the first time period and the current time period.

9. A computing device, comprising:
a processor; and
a non-transitory computer-readable medium configured to store program instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing device to carry out functions comprising:
generating one or more time-stamped bundle cards that correspond to a group of cards from a plurality of time-stamped cards; and
displaying a user interface for navigation of a chronologically sorted timeline of cards that spans at least a current time period and a first time period, wherein the timeline comprises the one or more time-stamped bundle cards from the plurality of time-stamped cards, and wherein a frequency of bundle cards in the first time period is greater than a frequency of bundle cards in the current time period;
wherein generating the one or more time-stamped bundle cards comprises:
determining a number of time-stamped cards of a first type in the current time period;
determining whether or not the number of cards of the first type in the current time period is greater than a bundling threshold;
if the number of cards of the first type in the current time period is greater than the bundling threshold, then generating a single bundle card for all cards of the first type in the current time period;
determining a number of time-stamped cards of the first type in the first time period;
determining whether or not the number of cards of the first type in the first time period is greater than the bundling threshold; and
if the number of cards of the first type in the first time period is greater than the bundling threshold, then generating a single bundle card for all cards of the first type in the first time period.

10. The computing device of claim 9 , wherein the computing device is a head-mountable device (HMD).

11. The computing device of claim 9 , wherein the first time period is of a greater duration than the current time period such that the first time period is likely to include a greater number of the time-stamped cards than the current time period.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including program instructions that, when executed by a processor of a computing device, cause the computing device to carry out functions comprising:
generating, by a computing device, one or more time-stamped bundle cards that correspond to a group of cards from a plurality of time-stamped cards wherein a chronologically sorted ti

Assignees

• Google Inc

Inventors

• Costa Antonio Bernardo Monteiro
• The Richard
• Mckenzie Chris

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