Radial Menu Hub for Financial Trading Interface Space Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing graphical interface systems for financial trading platforms are inefficient in managing display screen space, limiting users' ability to customize their interface and access necessary information, especially when multiple applications are open simultaneously.
Innovation Solution
A graphical interface management system that includes a widget visualization with a semi-circular hub element, alert notification badges, and radial menus, allowing users to customize their interface by positioning widgets on screen edges, receiving alerts, and accessing multiple platform features through intuitive radial menus.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional window and pane interfaces are used to display financial trading information, then users can access multiple products and data, but the display screen becomes overcrowded and runs out of space for additional products
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a nested interface structure where widgets are contained within a hub element, which itself is nested within the overall trading platform interface. The radial menu is nested within the widget, creating a hierarchical containment structure that consolidates multiple functions into compact nested units, thereby preserving display screen space while maintaining access to diverse products and features.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from traditional two-dimensional window-based interfaces to a radial menu system that utilizes angular dimension. The radial menu elements are arranged in a circular pattern around the hub element, allowing multiple functions and products to be accessed by rotating through different angular positions rather than occupying linear screen space, effectively adding a rotational dimension to the interface layout.
2Loss of information
If multiple windows and panes are opened to include all desired products, then comprehensive information is available, but screen space is completely consumed leaving no room for additional products
Solution Approach 1:
The hub element serves as a universal container that can hold multiple widgets of different types (price widgets, chart widgets, order entry widgets, etc.). This multi-functional hub can adapt to display various products and information types without requiring separate dedicated windows for each, thereby maintaining information completeness while conserving screen space through a single consolidated interface structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The interface employs dynamic widget instantiation where widgets can be created, removed, and repositioned within the hub element based on user needs. The radial menu dynamically rotates to reveal different widget options, and the interface can adapt its configuration in real-time, allowing comprehensive information access without permanent occupation of fixed screen space by all possible windows.
3Area of stationary object
If a radial menu system is implemented to improve space efficiency, then display space is optimized, but the interface structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The interface is segmented into distinct functional modules: the hub element, individual widgets, and the radial menu system. Each component has a specific, well-defined function and can be independently configured. This segmentation allows the complex radial menu system to be built from simple, manageable parts, making the overall complexity more controllable and maintainable despite the innovative interface structure.
4Area of stationary object
If widgets are positioned on screen edges to maximize space utilization, then more screen real estate is available, but accessibility to certain widgets may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the navigation function with the widget display by integrating the radial menu directly into the hub element structure. Instead of requiring separate navigation mechanisms or making widgets difficult to reach at screen edges, the radial menu is combined with the hub, allowing users to access all widgets through the centralized radial interface regardless of their positions, thereby maintaining ease of operation while utilizing edge positioning for maximum space efficiency.
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AI summary
Methods and systems for managing a graphical user interface involve, for example, one or more processors displaying on a display screen a visualization of a hub element defined in part by an arc-shaped boundary portion and defining a badge element within the visualization of the hub element. Thereafter, a radial menu element may be animated by the one or more processors for rotation to a position adjacent and extending radially from the arc-shaped boundary portion of the hub element and defined in part by an arc-shaped boundary portion of the radial menu element spaced apart from the arc-shaped boundary portion of the hub element.