Foldable Page Interface for Digital Content Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing graphical interfaces for digital content management systems face inefficiencies in displaying information, particularly in mobile interfaces, where grid arrangements require adjustments and window systems can cause content overlap, making it difficult for users to manage and navigate digital content effectively.
Innovation Solution
A processor-readable medium stores code that defines indicators for content segments, creating links between center and edge components of content segments to provide a graphical view similar to an accordion layout, allowing seamless navigation and management of digital content without affecting adjacent segments during operations like deletion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If grid arrangements are used to display digital content, then every piece of information can be displayed without overlap, but adjustments to scale or scrolling are required which reduces efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from traditional 2D grid arrangements to a 3D spatial arrangement where content segments are displayed as foldable pages in three-dimensional space. This allows content to be viewed at natural scale without scrolling or scaling adjustments, improving both display completeness and retrieval efficiency by enabling direct access to content segments through spatial navigation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic foldable pages that can be manipulated through gestures to expand, collapse, and navigate between content segments. This dynamic structure allows the interface to adapt to user interactions, providing efficient access to information without requiring scale adjustments or scrolling while maintaining complete information display.
2Measurement precision
If window systems are used to maintain content at the same scale, then content overlap occurs, but this requires users to manage multiple windows which increases complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple content segments into a single unified foldable page structure rather than requiring separate windows. This consolidation maintains content at consistent scale while eliminating the need for window management, reducing device complexity while preserving scale consistency across all content segments.
Solution Approach 2:
By arranging content segments in 3D space as foldable pages, the patent eliminates content overlap issues inherent in 2D window systems. The spatial arrangement allows all content segments to be accessed within a single interface at consistent scale without requiring multiple windows or complex window management.
3Reliability
If traditional grid or window interfaces are used in mobile devices, then navigation through content requires scrolling or window switching, but this slows down user interaction speed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic foldable pages that respond to user gestures for rapid navigation. Users can quickly expand, collapse, and switch between content segments through intuitive gestures, dramatically increasing navigation speed while maintaining full interface functionality for content management and interaction.
Solution Approach 2:
The foldable page structure pre-organizes content segments in a navigable sequence, allowing users to access any segment directly through spatial navigation rather than sequential scrolling. This preliminary organization of content in 3D space enables faster navigation while preserving all standard interface functions.
Data Source
AI summary
A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to be executed by a processor to define a set of indicators encoding a set of content segments from the set of content segments. The processor further defines, for each content segment, a first link between that content segment and an indicator from the set of indicators, such that the first link associates a center component of the content segment to that indicator. The processor also defines, for each content segment, a second link between that content segment and an adjacent content segment within the sequence of content segments, such that the second link associates an edge component of that content segment to an edge component of the adjacent content segment. The processor also defines a presentation of the set of content segments based on the first link and the second link, for each content segment.