Managing distinct content lists using user interface element and without using modal dialog box

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9483574-B2
Application number	US-201414298324-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 6, 2014
Priority date	Jun 9, 2013
Publication date	Nov 1, 2016
Grant date	Nov 1, 2016

Abstract

A content application includes one or more content list panels. The content application provides mechanisms that allow the user to easily manage article representations included in the content lists such as adding article representations a content list and editing the items directly in menus associated with the content lists.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method for adding an article to a content list panel, the method comprising:
displaying, on a device, a web browser application comprising a main window displaying an article and an individual user interface element associated with a plurality of distinct content lists that include a first content list and a second content list, wherein the individual user interface element is user selectable to automatically add the article to either the first content list or the second content list;
receiving a selection of the individual user interface element to add an article representation of the article displayed in the main window to either the first content list or the second content list from the plurality of content lists;
determining whether to add the article representation of the article to the first content list or the second content list based on whether the selection of the individual user interface element is less than a threshold amount of time or greater than the threshold amount of time;
adding the article representation to the first content list from the plurality of distinct content lists responsive to the selection of the individual user interface element being less than the threshold amount of time; and
adding the article representation to the second content list from the plurality of distinct content lists responsive to the selection of the individual user interface element being greater than the threshold amount of time;
wherein the article representation is added to the determined content list without displaying a modal dialog box to add the article representation to the content list.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein displaying the web browser application comprises:
displaying the main window of the web browser application;
receiving a request from a user of the device to activate a content list panel associated with one of the plurality of content lists; and
displaying the content list panel proximate the main window responsive to receiving the request.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the user interface element visually indicates one of the first content list or the second content list as a default content list in which the article representation will be added based upon a length of time of the selection of the individual user interface element.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 , wherein the individual user interface element displays a first icon indicative that the article representation has not yet been added to the default content list or the individual user interface element displays a second icon indicative that the article representation has been added to the default content list.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 , further comprising:
updating the individual user interface element to visually indicate that the article representation has been added to the determined content list responsive to the automatically adding the article representation to the determined content list.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the article representation includes at least one of an abstract of the article, a link to the article, a title of the article, and an image representing a source of the article.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
displaying a plurality of representations of articles in the main window of the web browser application, each representation representing a frequently viewed article;
receiving a request to add an article represented by one of the plurality of representations of articles to one of the plurality of content lists; and
automatically adding an article representation of the article to the content list responsive to the request, the article representation added to the content list without displaying a modal dialog box.

8. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing executable code for adding an article to a content list panel, the code when executed performs steps comprising:
displaying, on a device, a web browser application comprising a main window displaying an article and an individual user interface element associated with a plurality of distinct content lists that include a first content list and a second content list, wherein the individual user interface element is user selectable to automatically add the article to either the first content list or the second content list;
receiving a selection of the individual user interface element to add an article representation of the article displayed in the main window to either the first content list or the second content list from the plurality of content lists;
determining whether to add the article representation of the article to the first content list or the second content list based on whether the selection of the individual user interface element is less than a threshold amount of time or greater than the threshold amount of time;
adding the article representation to the first content list from the plurality of distinct content lists responsive to the selection of the individual user interface element being less than the threshold amount of time; and
adding the article representation to the second content list from the plurality of distinct content lists responsive to the selection of the individual user interface element being greater than the threshold amount of time;
wherein the article representation is added to the determined content list panel without displaying a modal dialog box to add the article representation to the content list.

9. The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein displaying the web browser application comprises:
displaying the main window of the web browser application;
receiving a request from a user of the device to activate a content list panel associated with one of the plurality of content lists; and
displaying the content list panel proximate the main window responsive to receiving the request.

10. The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the individual user interface element visually indicates one of the first content list or the second content list as a default content list in which the article representation will be added upon based upon a length of time of the selection of the individual user interface element.

11. The computer program product of claim 10 , wherein the individual user interface element displays a first icon indicative that the article representation has not yet been added to the default content list or the individual user interface element displays a second icon indicative that the article representation has been added to the default content list.

12. The computer program product of claim 10 , wherein the code when executed performs further steps comprising:
updating the individual user interface element to visually indicate that the article representation has been added to the determined content list responsive to the automatically adding the article representation to the determined content list panel.

13. The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the article representation includes at least one of an abstract of the article, a link to the article, a title of the article, and an image representing a source of the article.

14. The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the code when executed performs further steps comprising:
displaying a plurality of representations of articles in the main window of the web browser application, each representation representing a frequently viewed article;
receiving a request to add an article repr

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Decker Kevin W
• Adler Darin Benjamin
• Falkenburg Steven J
• Sepulveda Raymond
• Federighi Craig
• Lemay Steve O
• Coffman Patrick
• Wendker Andreas
• Croll Brian
• Karunamuni Chan
• Shultz Conrad

Classifications

• G06F16/957 Primary

  Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation · CPC title

• G06F40/14

  Tree-structured documents (parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226) · CPC title

• G06F16/9562

  Bookmark management · CPC title

• G06F16/955

  using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL] · CPC title

• G06F17/30876

  Physics · mapped topic