Display Sequence Map for Content Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in efficiently navigating and reviewing previously displayed content in application programs and widgets, requiring them to remember navigation paths through multiple content views.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for navigating display sequence maps that outputs a hierarchical representation of content views to a display device, allowing users to select and review previous content views through visual representations, such as icons, using touch screen gestures like pinching and spreading, enabling quick access and modification of viewing levels and revisions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users navigate through multiple content views to review previously displayed content, then they can access historical content, but the navigation process becomes complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a visual representation (map) that copies the navigation history and content sequence into a simplified graphical format. Users can view previously displayed content by selecting icons representing past content views from the map, eliminating the need to remember or re-navigate through complex paths.
Solution Approach 2:
The navigation history is segmented into discrete visual representations (icons) for each content view. This segmentation allows users to individually access specific past content views without navigating through intermediate steps, reducing navigation complexity while maintaining access to historical information.
2Productivity
If users remember navigation paths to access specific content, then they can locate content quickly, but cognitive load increases and usability decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides self-service by automatically generating and maintaining the visual map of navigation history. Users simply need to interact with the map (tap, click, or gesture) to access content without needing to remember or recall navigation paths, significantly reducing cognitive burden while maintaining quick access.
3Loss of information
If the system tracks and stores all content view sequences, then complete navigation history is available, but system complexity and data management burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential navigation history information needed to create the visual map, separating this data from the full content view sequences. The system stores and manages only the sequence map structure and associated metadata, simplifying data management while preserving complete navigation history for user access.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for navigating display sequence maps. A system outputs, to a display device, content views in response to receiving requests for content views via a user interface. At least one of the content views may include a link that enables navigation to another one of the content views. Each of the content views may be a revision to content of another one of the content views. The system outputs, to the display device, a hierarchical representation of a sequence in which the content views were displayed in response to receiving a request for the hierarchical representation via the user interface. The hierarchical representation includes visual representations corresponding to the content views. The system outputs, to the display device, a selected one of the content views in response to a selection of the one of the visual representations corresponding to the content views from the hierarchical representation.