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Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20090106691

Systems and methods for displaying and visualizing information

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Kohtaroh Miyamoto (almost 3 years ago)

There are many systems which adjust the amount of text or other types of objects according to the target size of display.
How about these prior arts just to name a few?
US Pat. 5227772, US Pat. 6300947, US Pat. 6452597

Diane Willis (almost 3 years ago)

Just a reminder, to have these patents considered as prior art by the U.S. Patent Office, the patents need to be submitted in the Prior Art section. Thanks.

james stclair (almost 3 years ago)

The Yahoo stock application running on Apple's iPhone changes the information displayed based on screen orientation (and thus usable size). In the standard display a list of stocks is shown at the top of the display, and summary or chart information is shown at the bottom of the display.

If you rotate the device the entire display switches to show an enlarged display of the current stock. Even if you had been showing the miniature chart in screen A, after rotation into screen B, a larger more detailed chart is shown to make use of the landscape screen size.

Diane Willis (almost 3 years ago)

James, Do you know of any dated documentation (publication, patent, etc.) that can be submitted as prior art? For the USPTO's use, information needs to be submitted via the Prior Art section.

Conrad Herrmann (about 3 years ago)

This invention seems to be about changing the displayed content in a window based on the size of the window. For example, if the window is large, then a lot of data about the subject matter can be displayed. If the window is small, then less information is displayed, or the information is displayed in another form that is more suitable to a smaller size. It is expressly not about re-scaling the same display of the subject matter.

One possible kind of prior art would be a program which automatically shows or hides part of a window display (such as a toolbar or panel) if the window shrinks to a certain small size. One example would be a clock which, when it is large enough, displays an analog face, but when it is small, it shows a digital clock, and when it is even smaller, shows only the hours and not the minutes.

Another kind of prior art would be a dynamically painted iconiized window, which can paint itself (not just showing an icon) to show some status. I recall that one could end up with this behavior in earlier versions of Windows if one did not implement iconized painting properly in ones' program.

Conrad Herrmann (about 3 years ago)

Sorry, in the previous post, the example of the clock is actually an example of a different kind of prior art--one which changes the way the content is displayed based on the size of the window it is displayed into.

Diane Willis (almost 3 years ago)

Conrad, Do you have knowledge of any dated prior art for the items you mention so that they can be submitted to the USPTO via the Prior Art section? Thanks.

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