Interactive Display Data Navigation via Unified Drag
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Solution Overview
Problem
Viewing large datasets on a user interface can be tedious and time-consuming due to the need to scroll vertically and horizontally separately, making it difficult to access data near the end of a file efficiently.
Innovation Solution
An interactive user interface that allows data to be dynamically displayed within a tabular format, enabling users to drag and drop information to scroll, shift, or slide across the display window, with a surrounding frame that adjusts to display ranges of rows and columns based on user actions, allowing simultaneous horizontal and vertical scrolling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If separate vertical and horizontal scroll bars are used to navigate data, then data can be displayed in a tabular format, but the user must scroll sequentially (first vertical then horizontal) which is tedious and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines separate vertical and horizontal scrolling operations into a single unified drag-and-drop interaction. Users can simultaneously navigate both axes by performing one drag action, merging two sequential operations into one concurrent operation, thereby eliminating the time loss associated with sequential scrolling.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a diagonal navigation dimension by allowing drag operations that simultaneously affect both vertical and horizontal scroll positions. This adds a new degree of freedom to the interaction model, enabling users to move through data space in any direction with a single action rather than being constrained to orthogonal sequential movements.
2Loss of information
If data is displayed in a comprehensive tabular format with all rows and columns, then complete data visibility is achieved, but the interface becomes complex and difficult to navigate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic scrolling regions that automatically adjust their visible ranges based on user interactions. The vertical and horizontal scroll bars independently manage their respective axes, allowing the interface to dynamically reconfigure its display state without requiring complex manual control mechanisms, thus maintaining simplicity while ensuring complete data accessibility.
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AI summary
In one example, a user interface is provided for interactively displaying data. The interactive user interface includes: an interactive display window that displays data according to a tabular format including one or more rows and one or more columns, and wherein the displayed data is dynamically displayed within the interactive display window based on a drag and drop user action performed within the display window; and a frame that surrounds the display window and that dynamically displays a first range of first axis data corresponding to the one or more rows and a second range of second axis data corresponding to the one or more columns.