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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2009
Filed:
May. 19, 2006
Patrick Chiu, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Xiaohua Sun, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jeffrey Huang, Concord, MA (US);
Maribeth J. Back, Woodside, CA (US);
Wolfgang H. Polak, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Patrick Chiu, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Xiaohua Sun, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jeffrey Huang, Concord, MA (US);
Maribeth J. Back, Woodside, CA (US);
Wolfgang H. Polak, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to techniques for supporting organizational, labeling and retrieval tasks on an electronic tabletop, wall or large display. In various embodiments of the invention, a dynamic visualization is used to show a current working set of documents. In an embodiment of the invention, the rest of the collection is represented in the background as small dots. In an embodiment of the invention, when a user moves objects into groups or creates a label, relevant objects in the background are automatically retrieved and moved into the foreground. In an embodiment of the invention, retrieved objects along with relevant objects in the current set are highlighted and decorated with arrows pointing to their relevant groups. In an embodiment of the invention, the movement is animated to provide user feedback when objects must travel long distances on a large display.