Geospheric Interface for Spatial Data Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing user interfaces struggle to efficiently navigate and organize the vast amount of data, files, and applications accessible from computing devices, leading to user frustration and decreased productivity.
Innovation Solution
A metaphor application that organizes user interfaces based on geospheric direction or geolocation, associating documents, files, applications, or data with specific directions or locations, and generates presentation objects that are rendered on the device's display when it is pointing in the associated direction or located at the associated geolocation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional menu-based user interfaces are used to organize data, files, and applications, then the interface structure is simple and easy to implement, but users experience difficulty in quickly navigating and locating objects among vast amounts of data
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from traditional two-dimensional menu interfaces to a three-dimensional geospheric interface where data, files, and applications are organized on the surface of a sphere. Users can navigate this 3D space by orienting the device in different directions, allowing simultaneous access to multiple objects that would require sequential navigation in flat interfaces. This dimensional expansion resolves the contradiction by providing both comprehensive data organization and rapid access through spatial orientation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces geospheric direction and geolocation metadata as intermediary elements between users and data objects. Instead of directly browsing through menus, users interact with spatial coordinates and directional orientations that map to specific data locations. This intermediary layer enables intuitive spatial navigation while maintaining systematic data organization, solving the navigation efficiency problem without sacrificing structure.
2Ease of operation
If a metaphor application organizes user interface based on geospheric direction and geolocation, then user navigation becomes more intuitive and access to data improves, but the device complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the metaphor application multi-functional by enabling it to organize and present various types of content (data, files, applications) using the same geospheric interface framework. The application handles multiple data formats and organization schemes through a unified spatial interface, reducing the need for separate handling mechanisms for different content types and thereby managing complexity through consolidation rather than proliferation of separate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes parameter changes in device orientation (geospheric direction) and location (geolocation) to dynamically control which data objects are displayed. Instead of complex menu navigation logic, the system simply maps spatial parameters to data retrieval queries. This parameter-based control simplifies the underlying complexity by reducing navigation from a multi-step process to a direct parameter-to-result mapping.
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AI summary
Method, system for presenting an object on a computing device. A metaphor application on a computing device organizes a user interface based upon a metaphor. The metaphor organizes a document, file, application, or combination thereof based on geospheric direction, geolocation, or both. The metaphor may also organize a document, file, application, data, or a combination thereof based on a solid geometrical figure in three-dimensional Euclidean space. A document, file, application, or any combination thereof may be associated with geophysical direction, a geolocation, or both. The document, file, application, data, or any combination thereof may further be associated with a solid geometrical figure. A presentation object containing data on the document, file, application, data, or combination thereof, and the geospheric direction, geolocation, or both is formatted into data blocks for rendering on a display. The display may be the display screen of the computing device. The metaphor application causes the presentation object to be rendered on the display when the computing device is pointing in the geospheric direction, in the geolocation or both associated with the presentation object.