9224-5489 Quebec Inc.

Other

Maya-systems Inc.

Mathieu Audet

Francois Cassistat

Eric Maziade

Madeleine Roy

An aspect of the invention hereby presented provides a means to display a first set of, for instance, documents in conjunction with a second set of documents when the second set of documents would not necessarily fit in the query used to select the documents of the first set of documents and/or would not necessarily fit the collation of the first set of documents. The second set of documents so located in relationship with the first set of documents having a beneficial effect for the understanding of the first set of documents. A system and a GUI thereof is also hereby presented.

Method of selecting a time-based subset of information elements

The invention pertains to a device and a method for displaying an axis of content on a basis of a year time-scale attribute using a chronological order with a linear time-scale, upon a selection of a month time-scale attribute, displaying an axis of contents including multimedia contents associated with the month time-scale attribute using the chronological order with a non-linear time-scale.

Method of displaying axis of user-selectable elements over years, months, and days

The present invention provides a method of displaying a plurality of elements on an axis of elements on a display area of a user's device, the method comprising assigning a collation function to the axis of elements, the collation function including a time-based order, receiving a plurality of elements from another user, the plurality of elements being transmitted through a network, the elements including a timestamp respectively associated thereto, associating the plurality of elements with respective collation positions on the axis of elements, displaying the plurality of elements in a substantially rectilinear and vertical orientation on the display in an overlapping stacked configuration of elements on the axis of elements and displaying a notification indicating an identity of the another user adding the plurality of elements, wherein the plurality of stacked elements is unstacked and elements are individually displayed on the axis on a basis of an action performed by the user.

Method of expanding stacked elements

A method of retrieving multiple copies of an information element on a display is presented, the method comprising displaying a plurality of information elements along a first axis including a first axial direction thereof, displaying a second plurality of information elements along a second axis including a second axial direction thereof parallel with the second direction, the first axis displaying a first information element thereon, the second axis including the first information element thereon, the first information element on the second axis being not transversally aligned with the first information element displayed on the first axis and displacing at least one of the first axis of information elements and the second axis of information elements to display the first information element from the first axis of information elements adjacent to the first information element from the second axis of information elements.

Method of transversally aligning information elements along axes

Method of abutting multiple sets of elements along an axis thereof

The invention pertains to a method and an apparatus adapted to carry out a mechanism for managing navigation among information elements displayed on axes thereof when information elements are not displayed on a display area, the method generally comprising displaying an array, or an axis, of information elements adapted to receive thereon information elements, the array of information elements virtually extending outside a viewing area, the array of information elements including a portion thereof having no information elements thereon, and displaying an indicator of a non-displayed information element present on the axis of information elements outside the viewing area.

Method of retrieving information elements on an undisplayed portion of an axis of information elements

A method, device, interface and systems thereof is hereby presented to facilitate interactions between sets of attributes and axes of computer-readable elements with corresponding graphical arrangements of associated documents. Interactions are generally facilitated through an interaction tool having input and output capabilities. Documents can be classified by associating documents with an interaction element from the interaction tool. Conversely, selecting an interaction element is used as a basis to display documents corresponding to the attributes associated with the selected interaction element.

Method of displaying axes in an axis-based interface

An embodiment provides a product comprising a machine-readable medium and machine-executable instructions for causing a computer to perform a method comprising providing expendable axes of user-selectable element displaying same user-selectable elements in corresponding axial locations along the axes of user-selectable elements to provide axial correspondence of user-selectable elements simultaneously displayed on more than one axis of user-selectable elements. A system and a graphical user interface providing the same are equally provided herein.

Expandable and collapsible arrays of aligned documents

A method, device, interface and systems thereof is hereby presented to facilitate interactions between sets of attributes and workflow steps with corresponding graphical arrangements of associated documents. Interactions are generally facilitated through an interaction tool having input and output capabilities. Documents can be classified by associating documents with an interaction element from the interaction tool. Conversely, selecting an interaction element is used as a basis to display documents corresponding to the attributes associated with the selected interaction element.

Multi-functions axis-based interface

The present invention provides solutions to the potential undesirable effects the insertion and removal of information elements and documents may have on arrays and axes of information elements using a collation function to determine the position of information elements thereon. The invention can be effectuated as a method, a device and an apparatus carrying out the method described herein.

Method of inserting and removing information elements in ordered information element arrays

An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of applying a set function on documents in an axis-based interface, the method comprising grouping a plurality of documents in a plurality of axes of documents, the documents from each axis of documents having commonality, grouping a plurality of axes of documents in a group of axes of documents, the documents from the group of axes of documents being disposed along a collation function, wherein at least some of the axes of documents are adapted to be used by a set function adapted to mathematically collectively manipulate documents thereof. Groups of axes of documents are also adapted to be used by a set function adapted to mathematically collectively manipulate documents thereof.

Selection and operations on axes of computer-readable files and groups of axes thereof

An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for dynamically and statically managing information elements on axes thereof, the method comprising defining a logical operation applicable to a plurality of computer-readable files, the logical operation being adapted to be dynamically applied to the plurality of computer-readable files, applying the logical operation to the plurality of computer-readable files to define operation-selected computer-readable files, providing a group of operation-selected computer-readable files on a basis of the logical operation, displaying at least a portion of the group of the operation-selected computer-readable files in an array of computer-readable files and dynamically updating the displayed group of operation-selected computer-readable files on a basis of an event effecting the plurality of computer-readable files.

Static and dynamic information elements selection

Method and apparatus for displaying data element axes

Is provided herein a method of non-homogeneously magnifying objects comprising providing an information element adapted to be displayed on a display and surrounded by a margin thereof; displaying the information element and its margin on a display; defining a standardized object adapted to respectively include therein the information element and at least a portion of the margin; magnifying the standardized object; defining a size of the magnified information element by removing an unmagnified size of the at least a portion of the margin to the size of the magnified standardized object; and displaying the magnified information element with its surrounding margin.

Non-homogeneous objects magnification and reduction

An embodiment provides a product comprising a machine-readable medium and machine-executable instructions for causing a computer to perform a method comprising providing a first array of information elements adapted to be expanded into at least one other array of information elements on a display. Another embodiment provides a method of displaying information elements on a display of a computer system with arrays of information elements, the method comprising displaying a first array of information elements, expanding the first array of information elements into at least one other array of information elements, wherein the first array of information elements and the at least one other array of information elements have a commonality. A system and a graphical user interface providing same are equally provided herein.

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Montreal, Canada

Francois Cassistat