Rendering selected and unselected lists of an item set
Contents
1. 4 News Article docx Story docx 3X News Article docx 48 Advertisement docx Budget docx 40 A 48 Budget docx 50 ITEM LIST 24 Advertisement docx 48 LIST Budget docx MES Calendar docx 5 5 Letter docx 46 News Article docx 48 Ec RENDER Report docx 46 Story docx 32 wi 48 20 22 SELECTED LIST RECENTLY MODIFIED Calendar docx Advertisement docx Letter docx Story docx Report docx FIG 3 U S Patent 18 2014 Sheet3of7 US 8 676 817 B2 N START EXECUTE ON PROCESSOR INSTRUCTIONS CONFIGURED TO TO SELECTED ITEMS OF ITEM SET ATTACH A SELECTED MARKER FOR UNSELECTED ITEMS OF ITEM SET TO UNSELECTED ITEMS HAVING A LOW PRIORITY ORDER AND EXCEEDING THE UNSELECTED LIST SIZE LIMIT ATTACH A HIDDEN MARKER GENERATE ITEM LIST COMPRISING SELECTED ITEMS AND UNSELECTED ITEMS SORTED ACCORDING TO SORT ORDER RENDER SELECTED LIST AS ITEMS OF ITEM LIST HAVING A SELECTED MARKER RENDER UNSELECTED LIST AS ITEMS OF ITEM LIST HAVING NEITHER A SELECTED MARKER NOR A HIDDEN MARKER END FIG 4 U S Patent Mar 18 2014 Sheet 4 of 7 US 8 676 817 B2 T 92 COMPUTER SYSTEM 94 Al CP ITEM ITEM LIST ITEM LIST MARKING GENERATING RENDERING U I COMPONENT COMPONENT COMPONENT f ITEM LIST ITEM SET SELECTED LIST UNSELECTED LIST 44 42 44 SELECTED UNSELECTED SELECTED UNSELECTED ITEM ITEM ITEM ITEM 106 108 20 22 32 SELECTED RECENTLY LIST MODIFIED Calenda2. 45 50 18 detach the selected marker to the first item and re render the selected list and the unselected list 18 The system of claim 17 the item deselecting compo nent further configured to upon receiving the deselection of the first item among the items having neither a selected marker nor a hidden marker identify a second item having a low second sort order and attach a hidden marker to the second item 19 The system of claim 12 the respective items comprising an item type the items of a first item type to be presented before items of a second item type and the item list generating component further configured to generate the item list comprising the selected items and the unselected items sorted first according to the item type and second according to the first sort order 20 A nonvolatile computer readable storage device storing instructions that when executed on a processor of a device having an item set comprising items having a first sort order and a second sort order that is different from the first sort order present the item set as a selected list and an unselected list having an unselected list size limit by to selected items of the item set attaching a selected marker for unselected items of the item set sort the unselected items according to the second sort order and to the unselected items that when the unselected items are sorted according to the second sort order have a priority o
3. provided herein may be in storage 150 Storage 150 may also store other computer readable instructions to implement an operating system an application program and the like Com puter readable instructions may be loaded in memory 148 for execution by processing unit 146 for example The term computer readable media as used herein includes computer storage media Computer storage media includes volatile and nonvolatile removable and non remov able media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions or other data Memory 148 and storage 150 are examples of computer storage media Computer storage media includes but is not limited to RAM ROM EEPROM flash memory or other memory technology CD ROM Digital Versatile Disks DVDs or other optical storage magnetic cassettes mag netic tape magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices or any other medium which can be used to store the desired information and which can be accessed by device 142 Any such computer storage media may be part of device 142 Device 142 may also include communication connection s 156 that allows device 142 to communicate with other devices Communication connection s 156 may include but is not limited to modem a Network Interface Card NIC an integrated network interface a radio fre quency transmitter receiver an infrared port a USB connec tion or other interfaces for connec
4. As a first example the items 14 are stored together in the item list 60 which may permit iterative operations to be applied to all items 14 of the item set 12 and which may preclude the possibility of a list desynchroniza tion e g where an item 14 appears in both lists The use of one data structure may also promote the efficiency and scal ability of the embodiment e g by avoiding the overhead involved in storing and managing multiple data structures As asecond example the selection status 18 of an item 14 may be reflected by altering the markers attached to the item 14 without having to move the item 14 from a first data structure to a second data structure Additionally such modification does not disrupt the sort order embodied by the item list 60 e g the item list 60 does not have to be resorted upon moving an item 14 from one list to the other list These and other advantages may be achieved according to the techniques pre sented herein FIG 4 presents a first embodiment of these techniques illustrated as an exemplary method 60 configured to render ing items 14 of an item set 12 as a selected list 20 and an unselected list 22 The exemplary method 60 may be imple mented e g as a set of software instructions stored in a memory component e g a system memory circuit a platter of a hard disk drive a solid state storage device or a magnetic oroptical disc ofthe computer 12 that when executed by the processor of the
5. may devise many ways of implementing the selection or deselection of items 14 in the item list 50 in accordance with the techniques presented herein Although the subject matter has been described in lan guage specific to structural features and or methodological acts it is to be understood that the subject matter defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific 20 25 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 12 features or acts described above Rather the specific features and acts described above are disclosed as example forms of implementing the claims As used in this application the terms component mod ule system interface and the like are generally intended to refer to a computer related entity either hard ware a combination of hardware and software software or software in execution For example a component may be but is not limited to being a process running on a processor a processor an object an executable a thread of execution a program and or a computer By way of illustration both an application running on a controller and the controller can be a component One or more components may reside within a process and or thread of execution and a component may be localized on one computer and or distributed between two or more computers Furthermore the claimed subject matter may be imple mented as a method apparatus or article of manufacture using standar
6. region the unselected list as the items of the item list having neither a selected marker nor a hidden marker 2 The method of claim 1 the selected items comprising pinned items comprising items selected by a user the selected list comprising a pinned items list the unselected items further comprising unpinned items comprising items not selected by the user the unselected list further comprising a modified items list comprising unpinned items sorted according to an item modification date and the priority second sort order ordered according to the item modification dates of the items 3 The method of claim 1 rendering the unselected list further comprising rendering with the items of the unselected list an item selection indicator and the instructions further configured to upon receiving a selection of a first item in the unselected list attach a selected marker to the first item and re render the selected list and the unselected list 4 The method of claim 3 the instructions further config ured to upon receiving the selection of the first item among the items having a hidden marker identify a second item having a high second sort order and detach the hidden marker from the second item 5 The method of claim 1 rendering the selected list further comprising rendering with the items of the selected list an item deselection indicator and the instructions further configured to upon receiving a deselection of a first item 1
7. set as a selected list and an unselected list such as the exemplary system 96 of FIG 5 Some embodiments of this computer readable medium may comprise a nontransitory computer readable storage medium e g a hard disk drive an optical disc or a flash memory device that is configured to store processor executable instructions configured in this manner Many such computer readable media may be devised by those of ordinary skill in the art that are configured to operate in accordance with the techniques presented herein The techniques discussed herein may be devised with variations in many aspects and some variations may present additional advantages and or reduce disadvantages with respect to other variations of these and other techniques Moreover some variations may be implemented in combina tion and some combinations may feature additional advan tages and or reduced disadvantages through synergistic coop eration The variations may be incorporated in various embodiments e g the exemplary method 60 of FIG 4 and the exemplary system 96 of FIG 5 to confer individual and or synergistic advantages upon such embodiments A first aspect that may vary among embodiments of these techniques relates to the scenarios wherein such techniques may be utilized The techniques presented herein may be particularly useful for the scenario utilized in the figures e g presenting folders and files of a file system as a set of pinned items compri
8. 11 the selected list detach the selected marker to the first item and re render the selected list and the unselected list 6 The method of claim 5 the instructions further config ured to upon receiving the deselection of the first item among the items having neither a selected marker nor a hidden marker identify a second item having a low second sort order and attach a hidden marker to the second item 5 10 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 16 7 The method of claim 1 the instructions further config ured to before sorting the item list according to the first sort order sort the items according to the second sort order and attach a priority order marker to respective items based on the second sort order and identifying a second sort order of an item comprising identifying the second sort order ofthe item according to the priority order marker 8 The method of claim 1 the first sort order selected from a sort order set comprising an alphabetic sort order a numeric sort order a date sort order an item type order an item owner order and an item location order 9 The method of claim 1 the instructions further config ured to present to a user a sort order set and upon receiving from the user a selected sort order from the sort order set sort the item list according to the selected sort order and re render the selected list and the unselected list 10 The method of c
9. US008676817B2 United States Patent Chakka US 8 676 817 B2 Mar 18 2014 10 Patent No 45 Date of Patent 54 RENDERING SELECTED AND UNSELECTED LISTS OF AN ITEM SET 75 Inventor Prathiraj Chakka Bothell WA US 73 Assignee Microsoft Corporation Redmond WA US 5 Notice Subject to any disclaimer the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U S C 154 b by 150 days 21 Appl No 12 968 484 22 Filed Dec 15 2010 65 Prior Publication Data US 2012 0158752 A1 Jun 21 2012 51 Int CI G06F 7 00 2006 01 G06F 17 30 2006 01 52 U S Cl USPC 707 752 58 Field of Classification Search None See application file for complete search history 56 References Cited U S PATENT DOCUMENTS 2006 0218503 Al 9 2006 Matthews et al OTHER PUBLICATIONS DeJean et al Revealing the hidden secrets of hide when Sep 1 2000 International Business Machines http www ibm com developerworks lotus library ls hidewhen User s Manual for the Examiners Automated Search Tool EAST Jul 22 1999 Computer Sciences Corp ver 1 0 all Java 1 4 2 API release date Jun 26 2003 Sun Microsystems Oracle Inc all SER Java 1 4 2 API release date Jun 26 2003 Sun Microsystems Oracle Inc http docs oracle com javase 1 4 2 docs api javax accessibil ity AccessibleState html http docs oracle com javase 1 4 2 docs api java io File html http docs oracle
10. by the user or a set of records ina database table matching a particular query As a particular example a file system may present a set of objects e g files and folders having various properties including a name and a modification date computer may present to the user a set of recently modified objects and this list may be limited to a particular size e g no more than ten recently modified items displayed in the list A user may select one or more recently modified items that are of interest and may ask the computer to select or pin the items with respect to a selected list e g a list of items with which the user is currently working The computer may therefore present a first list a selected list comprising the selected items and a second list a unse lectedlist comprising the unselected items Moreover these lists may appear to be mutually exclusive When the user selects an item in the unselected list the item appears in the selected list and disappears from the unselected list These selected items may be presented in various ways For example the selected items may be presented as a separate list e g as a selected list comprising the items ofthe item set that are selected and an unselected list comprising the items ofthe item set that are unselected These different lists may be presented consecutively and or concurrently and the items presented in a list may be sorted in various ways e g by alphab
11. com javase 1 4 2 docs api javax swing JList html Monolith 0 How do I sort into an index Feb 23 2001 http www perlmonks org node id 60442 Basch A Relevant Tale How Google Killed Inktomi May 3 2012 diegobasch com Green JDK release dates Java Glossary date unknown Canadian Mind Products http mindprod com jgloss jdkreleasedates html Chen Raymond Windows Confidential Start Me Up Pub lished Date Jun 2010 http technet microsoft com en us magazine ff758667 aspx Harris Jensen Recently Used Documents Published Date Aug 16 2006 http blogs msdn com b jensenh archive 2006 08 16 702214 aspx Shultz Greg Take Full Advantage of Jump Lists in Windows 7 with these Tips Published Date Dec 2 2009 http blogs techrepublic com com window on windows p 1853 Continued Primary Examiner Jason Liao 74 Attorney Agent or Firm Sung Kim Andrew Sanders Micky Minhas 57 ABSTRACT An item set may comprise items respectively having a selec tion status such as a selected item and an unselected item The item set may be presented as a selected list and an unse lected list having various properties e g mutual exclusivity such that an item appears on at most one list both lists sorted according to a sort order and the unselected list having an unselected list size limit with unselected items appearing in the unselected list based on a priority order In order to rend
12. computer 12 cause the processor to perform the techniques presented herein The exemplary method 60 begins at 62 and involves executing 64 the instructions on the processor More specifically the instructions are configured to to selected items 42 of the item set 12 attach 66 a selected marker 46 The instructions are also configured to for unse lected items 68 ofthe item set 12 identify 70 a priority order of the unselected items 44 and to the unselected items 44 having a low priority order and exceeding the unselected list size limit 24 and attach 72 a hidden marker 48 The instruc tions are also configured to generate 74 an item list 50 com prising the selected items 42 and the unselected items 44 sorted according to the sort order The instructions are also configured to render 76 the selected list 20 as the items 14 of the item list 50 having a selected marker 46 and render 78 the US 8 676 817 B2 7 unselected list 22 as the items 14 of the item list 50 having neither a selected marker 46 nor a hidden marker 48 In this manner the exemplary method 60 achieves the rendering of the item set 12 as a selected list 20 and an unselected list 22 using the item list 50 generated in accordance with the tech niques presented herein and so ends at 80 FIG 5 presents a second embodiment of these techniques illustrated as an exemplary system 96 configured to render the items 14 of an item set 12 as a selected list 20 and an unse lecte
13. computing devices Computer read able instructions may be distributed via computer readable media discussed below Computer readable instructions may be implemented as program modules such as functions objects Application Programming Interfaces APIs data structures and the like that perform particular tasks or imple ment particular abstract data types Typically the functional ity ofthe computer readable instructions may be combined or distributed as desired in various environments FIG 9 illustrates an example ofa system 140 comprising a computing device 142 configured to implement one or more embodiments provided herein In one configuration comput ing device 142 includes at least one processing unit 146 and memory 148 Depending on the exact configuration and type of computing device memory 148 may be volatile such as RAM for example non volatile such as ROM flash memory etc for example or some combination of the two This configuration is illustrated in FIG 9 by dashed line 144 In other embodiments device 142 may include additional features and or functionality For example device 142 may also include additional storage e g removable and or non removable including but not limited to magnetic storage optical storage and the like Such additional storage is illus trated in FIG 9 by storage 150 In one embodiment computer US 8 676 817 B2 13 readable instructions to implement one or more embodiments
14. d list 22 in accordance with a sort order and a priority order by utilizing the techniques presented herein The exem plary system 96 may operate within a computer 92 having a processor 94 and be implemented e g as a software archi tecture comprising a set of components each comprising a set of software instructions stored in a memory component e g a system memory circuit a platter of a hard disk drive a solid state storage device or a magnetic or optical disc of the computer 92 that when executed concurrently or con secutively by the processor 94 of the computer 92 cause the processor 94 to perform one or more tasks of the techniques presented herein The exemplary system 96 includes an item marking component 98 which is configured to to selected items 42 of the item set 12 attach a selected marker 46 The item marking component 98 is also configured to for unse lected items 44 of the item set 12 identify a priority order of theunselected items 44 and to the unselected items 44 having a low priority order and exceeding the unselected list size limit 24 of the unselected list 22 attach a hidden marker 48 The exemplary system 96 also includes an item list generating component 100 which is configured to generate an item list 50 comprising the selected items 20 and the unselected items 22 sorted according to the sort order The exemplary system 96 also includes an item list rendering component 102 which is configured to ren
15. d programming and or engineering techniques to produce software firmware hardware or any combination thereof to control a computer to implement the disclosed subject matter The term article of manufacture as used herein is intended to encompass a computer program acces sible from any computer readable device carrier or media Of course those skilled in the art will recognize many modi fications may be made to this configuration without departing from the scope or spirit of the claimed subject matter FIG 9 and the following discussion provide a brief general description of a suitable computing environment to imple ment embodiments of one or more ofthe provisions set forth herein The operating environment of FIG 9 is only one example of a suitable operating environment and is not intended to suggest any limitation as to the scope of use or functionality ofthe operating environment Example comput ing devices include but are not limited to personal comput ers server computers hand held or laptop devices mobile devices such as mobile phones Personal Digital Assistants PDAs media players and the like multiprocessor systems consumer electronics mini computers mainframe comput ers distributed computing environments that include any of the above systems or devices and the like Although not required embodiments are described in the general context of computer readable instructions being executed by one or more
16. d understanding of this specification and the annexed drawings The disclosure includes all such modifications and alterations and is limited only by the scope ofthe following claims In particular regard to the various functions performed by the above described components e g elements resources etc the terms used to describe such components are intended to correspond unless otherwise indicated to any component which performs the specified function of the described component e g that is functionally equivalent even though not structurally equiva lent to the disclosed structure which performs the function in the herein illustrated exemplary implementations of the dis closure In addition while a particular feature of the disclo sure may have been disclosed with respect to only one of several implementations such feature may be combined with one or more other features of the other implementations as may be desired and advantageous for any given or particular application Furthermore to the extent that the terms includes having has with or variants thereof are used in either the detailed description or the claims such terms are intended to be inclusive in a manner similar to the term comprising What is claimed is 1 A method of rendering an item set comprising items having a first sort orderanda second sort order that is different from the first sort order as a selected list and an unselected l
17. der the selected list 20 as the items 14 of the item list 50 having a selected marker 46 and render the unselected list 22 as the items 14 of the item list 50 having neither a selected marker 46 nor a hidden marker 48 In this manner the exemplary system 96 causes the processor 94 of the computer 92 to render the items 14 of the item set 12 as a selected list 20 and an unselected list 22 respecting the sort order and the priority order ofthe items 14 and the unselected list size limit 24 of the unselected list 22 by utilizing the techniques presented herein Still another embodiment involves a computer readable medium comprising processor executable instructions con figured to apply the techniques presented herein Such com puter readable media may include e g computer readable storage media involving a tangible device such as a memory semiconductor e g a semiconductor utilizing static random access memory SRAM dynamic random access memory DRAM and or synchronous dynamic random access memory SDRAM technologies a platter of a hard disk drive a flash memory device or a magnetic or optical disc such as a CD R DVD R or floppy disc encoding a set of computer readable instructions that when executed by a pro cessor of a device cause the device to implement the tech niques presented herein Such computer readable media may also include as a class of technologies that are distinct from computer readable storage media vario
18. dicator e g a control that a user 32 may operate to indicate a selection of an unselected item 44 Upon receiving a selection of a first item 14 in the unselected list 22 an embodiment of these techniques may implement the selec tion by locating the item 14 in the item list 50 and attaching a selected marker 46 to the first item 14 The embodiment may then re render the selected list 20 and the unselected list 22 e g by erasing a first rendering of the list s on a display component and displaying a second rendering thereof or by adjusting a previous rendering to indicate the change Addi tionally if the size of the unselected list 22 after altering the first item 14 is now below the unselected list size limit 24 an embodiment may be configured to replace the first item 14 in the unselected list 22 with a second item 14 For example the embodiment may among the items 14 of the item set 50 having a hidden marker 48 e g the items 14 that are unse lected and also not yet included in the unselected list 22 identify a second item 14 having a high priority order and detach the hidden marker 48 from the second item 14 Conversely and as a second variation of this third aspect respective selected items 42 of the selected list 20 may be rendered with an item deselection indicator e g a control that a user 32 may operate to indicate a deselection of a selected item 42 Upon receiving a deselection of a first item 14 in the selected li
19. e g according to a list size limit in order to avoid rendering a list comprising many items Additionally if the set of items that may appear in the list exceeds the list size limit a selection process may be applied to specify which items appear in the list according to a priority order For example if ten items that qualify for a list having a list size limit of five items the ten items may be sorted according to a particular criterion e g size alphabetic order or modifica 20 30 40 45 55 4 tion date and the five items having the highest priority order may appear in the list while the other items do not appear in the list FIG 1 presents an exemplary scenario 10 featuring a pre sentation of an item set 12 comprising items 14 having a selection status 18 in addition to various other properties e g a name whereby the items 14 may be alphabetically sorted and a modification date when the item was last modi fied A computer storing these items 14 may be configured to render the item set 12 as two lists a selected list 20 compris ing the items 14 having a positive selection status 18 and an unselected list 22 comprising the items 14 that do not appear in the selected list 20 The items 14 of both the selected list 20 and the unselected list 22 are sorted by name in ascending alphabetic order Additionally the unselected list 22 is limited byanunselected list size limit 24 For example whilethe item set 12
20. er the selected list and the unselected list an item list may be generated that attaches to respective items a selected marker indicating that the item appears in the selected list or a hidden marker indicating that the item does not appear in either the selected list or the unselected list where the item list is also sorted according to the sort order 20 Claims 7 Drawing Sheets 62 START Y EXECUTE ON PROCESSOR INSTRUCTIONS CONFIGURED TO TO SELECTED ITEMS OF ITEM SET ATTACH A SELECTED MARKER FOR UNSELECTED ITEMS OF ITEM SET IDENTIFY A PRIORITY ORDER OF THE UNSELECTED ITEMS TO UNSELECTED 5 HAVING A LOW PRIORITY ORDER AND EXCEEDING THE UNSELECTED LIST SIZE LIMIT ATTACH A HIDDEN MARKER UNSELECTED ITEMS SORTED GENERATE ITEM LIST COMPRISING SELECTED ITEMS AND ACCORDING TO SORT ORDER 74 76 RENDER SELECTED LIST AS ITEMS OF ITEM LIST HAVING A SELECTED MARKER RENDER UNSELECTED LIST AS ITEMS OF ITEM LIST HAVING NEITHER A SELECTED MARKER NOR A HIDDEN MARKER 78 US 8 676 817 B2 Page2 56 References Cited OTHER PUBLICATIONS Johnsone Dave Files and Folders to the Taskbar in Windows 7 Published Date Jul 7 2010 http www bnet com blog businesstips pin files and folders to the taskbar in windows Jul 8077 Windows 7 New Features Retrieved Date Sep 15 2010 http www learningco
21. etic order by item type or by date of creation or modification Additionally a user may be permitted to per form various operations on the items such as selecting or deselecting items SUMMARY This Summary is provided to introduce a selection of con cepts in a simplified form that are further described below in the Detailed Description This Summary is not intended to identify key factors or essential features of the claimed sub ject matter nor is it intended to be used to limit the scope of the claimed subject matter The items in an item set comprising a mixed set of selected items and unselected items may be presented as two different lists that differentiate the selected and unselected items How ever it may be difficult for a computer to achieve this presen tation of items in a scalable and performant manner For example the items of the item set may be separated into two data structures based on the selected or unselected status of each item and the computer may separately manage the data structures and render a list from each set However it may be advantageous to keep the items together as a single set e g in order to promote operations on the items as a single set e g iterative operations applied to all items of the set to reduce the overhead of maintaining separate sets and to avoid issues such as failed synchronization e g an item improperly appearing in both lists For example removing an item from the
22. first data structure and adding it to the second data struc ture may involve a resorting of the second data structure to ensure that the added item appears in the correct location Additional details applicable to some scenarios may fur ther complicate this presentation For example the items of 0 5 40 45 50 65 2 the item sethavea sort order e g the order in which the items are to appear in a list such as ascending or descending alpha betic or numerical order item type order or date of creation The items also have a priority order that indicates which items appear inthe unselected list e g ifthe items in the unselected list were sorted according to a priority order a particular subset of items having the highest priority order are included in the unselected list while the remaining items do not appear in either the selected list or the unselected list As one such scenario the items included in the unselected list may com prise recently modified objects e g folders and files ina file system A user may be permitted to select or an item to a pinned items list and a pinned item may be removed from the list of recently modified objects Additionally the recently modified objects list may be sorted according to the modification date in descending order and the list may be limited to a particular number of items such as the eight most recently edited objects Both lists may al
23. he embodiment may render the selected list 20 and the unselected list 22 on the display component As a US 8 676 817 B2 9 second such example the selected list 20 and the unselected list 22 may be stored on a storage device of the computer 92 As a third such example the selected list 20 and the unse lected list 22 may be electronically transmitted to another computer 92 and or user 32 Those of ordinary skill in the art may devise many scenarios wherein the techniques presented herein may be utilized second aspect that may vary among embodiments of these techniques relates to the order of the items 14 according to the sort order and or the priority order As a first variation of this second aspect many criteria may be utilized as a sort order and or a priority order of the items 14 such as an ascending or descending alphabetic sort order numeric sort order or date sort order based on one or more data and or metadata associated with the items 14 an item type order e g sorting items ofa first item type before items ofa second item type an item owner order e g sorting items owned by a first owner before items owned by a second owner and an item location order e g sorting items located in a first loca tion before items located in a second location For example in the exemplary scenario 40 of FIG 3 the item set 12 may represent the objects of a file system including various files and folders It may be advantageous t
24. hin the item set 12 However in this exemplary scenario 130 this information is utilized when the user 32 performs a deselection 132 of a selected item 42 in the selected list 20 e g a deselection of the Letter docx item The embodi ment may locate this item 14 inthe item list 50 and detach the selected marker 46 to indicate the removal ofthe item 14 from the selected list 20 However the embodiment also has to remove an item 14 from the unselected list 22 in order to conform to the unselected list size limit 24 Accordingly the embodiment may compare the priority order markers 122 of the items 14 in the item list 50 having neither a selected marker 46 nor a hidden marker 48 and to the item 14 having the lowest priority order marker 122 e g the Question naire docx item 14 may attach a hidden marker 48 to remove the unselected item 44 from the unselected list 42 The embodiment may then according to the techniques pre sented herein re render the selected list 20 now excluding the Letter docx item 14 and the unselected list 22 now including the Letter docx item 14 and excluding the Ques tionnaire docx item 14 Again it may be appreciated that in accordance with the techniques presented herein the sort order of the selected item 20 and the unselected item 22 are preserved without having to resort either list and without jeopardizing the synchronization of the lists Those of ordi nary skill in the art
25. in this exemplary scenario 10 includes seven items 14 that are unselected the unselected list 22 is limited to a maximum size of three items 14 In order to select the items 14 to be included in the unselected list 22 a priority order may be applied to such items 14 e g by including only the three items that have been most recently modified In this manner the exemplary scenario 10 of FIG 1 presents the item set 12 as a selected list 20 and an unselected list 22 according to the sort order e g alphabetic sort and the priority order e g descending order of modification date As further illustrated in the exemplary scenario 10 of FIG 1 the selected list 20 and the unselected list 22 are mutually exclusive e g an item 14 appearing in the selected list 20 does not appear in the unselected list 22 and vice versa However this mutual exclusivity is somewhat complicated by the priority ordering of the unselected list 22 FIG 2 illustrates an exemplary scenario 30 involving a selected list 20 and an unselected list 22 populated by items 14 where the unselected list 22 is limited by an unselected size limit 24 of three items 14 which are selected according to a priority order When a user 32 creates a selection 34 of an item 14 presented in the unselected list 22 e g the Budget docx item the item 14 may be removed from the unselected list 22 and added to the selected list 20 However the unselected list 22 now includes fewe
26. ist having an unselected list size limit on a computer having a processor and a display component the method comprising executing on the processor instructions configured to to selected items of the item set attach a selected marker US 8 676 817 B2 15 for unselected items of the item set sort the unselected items according to the second sort order and to the unselected items that when the unselected items are sorted according to the second sort order have a priority order index below the unselected list size limit attach a hidden marker storean item list persisting the selected markers attached to the selected items and the hidden markers attached to the unselected items concurrently present ina first region ofthe display component the items of the item list having a selected marker sorted according to the first sort order and in a second region of the display component that is different from the first region the unselected list as the items of the item list having neither a selected marker nor a hidden marker and sorted according to the first sort order and upon receiving a second request to present the selected list and the unselected list retrieve the item list including the selected markers and the hidden markers and concurrently present ina first region ofthe display component the items of the item list having a selected marker and in a second region of the display component that is different from the first
27. laim 1 respective items further comprising an item type the items of a first item type to be sorted before items of a second item type and generating the item list further comprising generating the item list comprising the selected items and the unse lected items sorted first according to the item type and second according to the first sort order 11 The method of claim 10 the item set further comprising a file system the first item type further comprising a folder and the second item type further comprising a file 12 A system configured to render an item set comprising items having a first sort order and a second sort order that is different from the first sort order as a selected list and an unselected list having an unselected list size limit the system comprising an item marking component configured to to selected items of the item set attach a selected marker for unselected items of the item set sort the unselected items according to the second sort order and to the unselected items that when the unselected items are sorted according to the second sort order have a priority order index below the unselected list size limit attach a hidden marker an item list generating component configured to store an item list persisting the selected markers attached to the selected items and the hidden markers attached to the unselected items sorted and an item list rendering component configured to concurrently presen
28. may encode this information in the item set 50 For example an embodiment may while generating the item list 50 identify a priority order of the items 14 and attach a priority order marker to respective items 14 based on the priority order e g an integer identifying the priority order of the item 14 within the item set 12 The embodiment may then utilize these priority order markers while perform ing comparisons of the items 14 of the item list 50 FIG 7 presents an illustration of an exemplary scenario 120 featuring an item list 50 comprising items 14 sorted according to a sort order e g in ascending alphabetic order andto which selected markers 46 and hidden markers 48 have been attached to indicate inclusion and or exclusion in a selected list 20 and an unselected list 22 In accordance with US 8 676 817 B2 11 this third variation of this third aspect an embodiment may have also attached to respective items 14 a priority order marker 122 that identifies the priority order of the item 14 within the item set 12 This information may be utilized when a user 32 performs a selection 34 of an unselected item 44 in the unselected list 22 e g a selection ofthe Advertisement docx item The embodiment may locate this item 14 in the item list 50 and attach a selected marker 46 to indicate the inclusion of the item 14 in the selected list 20 However the embodiment also has to replace the item 14 in the unselected list 22 i
29. mputer com microsoft windows windows7 new features html Taskbar Retrieved Date Sep 15 2010 http msdn microsoft com en us library aa5 11446 aspx cited by examiner U S Patent Mar 18 2014 Sheet 1 of 7 US 8 676 817 B2 yos 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 12 V Recipe docx Today 000 7 1 Reprdox a Today 10 00pm no 7 14 46 Neus Ariele door 6 Today 5 00pm 1 MEA Leterdox fye Today 9 00pm yes 7 14 46 ndvenisement door _ Today 8 00pm 1 14 17 summary doox Today 400pm 7 re 7 YES 7 No 7 14 14 14 i 14 5 14 1 YES YES NO ES 22 RECENTLY MODIFIED LIST size Budget docx LIMIT 3 20 Story docx Y 30 20 22 SELECTED LIST RECENTLY MODIFIED Calendar docx Advertisement docx Budget docx Ideeen Questionnaire docx SELECTION 20 22 SELECTED LIST RECENTLY MODIFIED Budget docx Advertisement docx Calendar docx Questionnaire docx Report docx Story docx 2 U S Patent Mar 18 2014 Sheet 2 of 7 US 8 676 817 B2 N 12 x 142 Repotdoox 46 Today 10 00pm NO T 141 News Arioledoor 4g Todey 500pm no 7 4 Wi bs be 142 summary docx 4g Todey400pm NO Th 14 Questionnaire docx 6 Today 700pm no b i 42 4 44 SELECTED ITEMS UNSELECTED ITEMS UNSELECTED ITEMS Veteranen Report doc Calendar dooxst Advertisement docx
30. n order to conform to the unselected list size limit 24 Accordingly the embodiment may compare the priority order markers 122 of the items 14 in the item list 50 having a hidden marker 48 and to the item 14 having the highest priority order marker 122 e g the Budget docx item 14 may remove the hidden marker 48 to include the unselected item 44 in the unselected list 42 The embodiment may then according to the techniques presented herein re render the selected list 20 now including the Advertisement docx item 14 and the unselected list 22 now excluding the Advertisement docx item 14 and including the Budget docx item 14 It may be appreciated that in accordance with the techniques presented herein the sort order of the selected item 20 and the unse lected item 22 are preserved without having to resort either list and without jeopardizing the synchronization of the lists FIG 8 presents an illustration of another exemplary sce nario 130 featuring an item list 50 comprising items 14 sorted according to a sort order e g in ascending alphabetic order andto which selected markers 46 and hidden markers 48 have been attached to indicate inclusion and or exclusion in a selected list 20 and an unselected list 22 Again in accordance with this third variation of third aspect an embodiment may have also attached to respective items 14 a priority order marker 122 that identifies the priority order of the item 14 wit
31. nselected items 14 appearing in the unselected list 22 according to a priority order without storing the items 14 in separate data structures In accordance with these techniques the items 14 ofthe item set 12 may be stored in a single data structure an list that is sorted according to the sort order with various markers attached to the items 14 to indicate inclusion in either the selected list 20 or the unselected list 22 This result may be achieved in the following manner To the items 14 that are selected a selected marker may be attached The unselected items 14 may be sorted according to the priority order and for all but the unselected items 14 having the highest priority e g those having the most recently modifi cation dates and not exceeding the unselected list size limit 24 a hidden marker may be attached indicating that although the item 14 is unselected it does not appear in the unselected list 22 The selected items 14 and the unselected items 14 may then be merged and sorted according to the sort order e g in ascending alphabetic order in order to generate the item list This item list may then be utilized to render the selected list 20 and the unselected list 22 in an efficient manner For example the selected list 20 may be rendered in accordance with the sort order by iterating through the item list and rendering in order the items 14 having a selected marker The unselected list 22 may be rende
32. o within the selected list 20 and or the unselected list 22 present items comprising folders before items comprising files while otherwise main taining the alphabetic order of the items 14 Therefore an embodiment of these techniques may while sorting the items 14 in the item set 50 apply a first sort order based on the item type sorting folders before files and then apply a second sort order based on the ascending alphabetic order of the names of the items 14 within each item type As a second of this second variation an embodiment may allow a user 32 to select the sort order and or the priority order ofthe item list 50 from a sort order set and or a priority order set As a first such example a rendering of the selected list 20 and or the unselected list 22 may include a control such as a combo box including a sort order set Upon receiving from the user 32 a selected sort order the embodiment may sort the item list 50 according to the selected sort order and re render the selected list 20 and the unselected list 22 As a second such example a rendering of the unselected list 22 may include a control including a priority order set Upon receiving from the user 32 a selected priority order the embodiment may re render the unselected list 22 using the selected priority order As a third such example the user 32 may be permitted to specify an unselected list size limit 24 and an embodiment may be configured to upon receiving from
33. present particular disadvantages As a first example the storage of items 14 in separate data structures adds overhead US 8 676 817 B2 to the implementation As a second example each data struc ture is separately sorted according to the sort order and when an item 14 is inserted into a data structure the data structure may have to be resorted in order to maintain the sort order As a third example the storage of items 14 in separate data structures may preclude iterative processes to be applied to all items 14 of the item set 12 particularly where such iterative processes are to be performed according to the sort order As a fourth example the storage of items 14 in separate data structures may raise an undesirable possibility of desynchro nization e g where a logical error causes an item 14 to appear in both the selected list 20 and the unselected list 22 These and other disadvantages may result from the storage of the items 14 in separate data structures in order to achieve the differential rendering of the items 14 in a selected list 20 and an unselected list 22 Presented herein are techniques for rendering the items 14 ofanitem set 12 as a selected list 20 and an unselected list 22 respecting various properties of the scenarios described herein e g the items 14 appearing in at most one list both lists sorted according to a sort order and the unselected list 22 having an unselected list size limit 24 with the u
34. r docx Advertisement docx 104 Letter docx Story docx Report docx FIG 5 U S Patent Mar 18 2014 116 114 COMPUTER INSTRUCTIONS 01011010001010 10101011010101 101101011100 Sheet 5 of 7 US 8 676 817 B2 11 Pan U S Patent Mar 18 2014 Sheet 6 of 7 US 8 676 817 B2 120 422 ITEM LIST Advertisement docx 72 122 gt 32 22 492 Budget docx 8 Calendar docx 122 132 Letter docx x 155 6 News Article docx 2 MODIFIED 34 SELECT 2 122 122 Story docx Y 99 Summaydo S 20 SELECTED LIST Story docx FIG 7 130 E 122 ITEM LIST 2 2 122 5 News Article docx y 2 aou i d 122 48 9 Summary docx 22 20 SELECTED LIST Calendar docx FIG 8 U S Patent Mar 18 2014 Sheet 7 of 7 STORAGE PROCESSING UNIT OUTPUT DEVICE S INPUT DEVICE S MEMORY COMMUNICATION CONNECTION S COMPUTING DEVICE FIG 9 US 8 676 817 B2 US 8 676 817 B2 1 RENDERING SELECTED AND UNSELECTED LISTS OF AN ITEM SET BACKGROUND Within the field of computing many scenarios involve a set of items that may be selected or unselected For example a computer may present a file system with various files and folders that have been selected based on known or arbitrary criteria e g files and or folders matching the criteria of a filter or that have been selected
35. r items 14 than the unselected list size limit 24 so an item 14 having a high priority order among the items 14 that are not already included in the selected list 20 or the unselected list 22 may be identified and added to the unselected list 22 Therefore and as illustrated in FIG 2 the resulting selected list 20 includes the item 14 targeted by the selection 34 of the user 32 and the unselected list 22 is supplemented with an item 14 having a high priority order among the remaining unselected items 14 e g the Report docx item having a most recent modification date among the items 14 not yet included in either the selected list 20 or the unselected list 22 Additionally while moving the item 14 to the selected list 20 and while adding an item 14 to the unse lected list 22 the computer may preserve the sort order of each list While FIGS 1 2 illustrate a specialized scenario the techniques presented herein may be applied to many scenarios involving item sets 12 items 14 and lists having these properties However it may be difficult to configure a computer to render the selected list 20 and the unselected list 22 with these features in a scalable and performant manner For example some implementations may create separate data structures for the selected items 14 and the unselected items and may render the selected list 20 and the unselected list 22 by refer ring to the respective data structure but this implementation may
36. rconnect PCI such as PCI Express a Universal Serial Bus USB firewire IEEE 1394 an optical bus structure and the like In another embodiment components of computing device 142 may be interconnected by a network For example memory 148 may be comprised of multiple physical memory units located in different physical locations interconnected by a network Those skilled in the art will realize that storage devices utilized to store computer readable instructions may be dis tributed across a network For example a computing device 160 accessible via network 158 may store computer readable instructions to implement one or more embodiments pro vided herein Computing device 142 may access computing device 160 and download a part or all of the computer read 0 5 40 45 65 14 able instructions for execution Alternatively computing device 142 may download pieces of the computer readable instructions as needed or some instructions may be executed at computing device 142 and some at computing device 160 Various operations of embodiments are provided herein In one embodiment one or more of the operations described may constitute computer readable instructions stored on one or more computer readable media which if executed by a computing device will cause the computing device to per form the operations described The order in which some or all ofthe operations are described should not be construed as to imply
37. rder index below the unselected list size limit attach a hidden marker storing an item list persisting the selected markers attached to the selected items and the hidden markers attached to the unselected items concurrently presenting ina first region ofthe display component the items of the item list having a selected marker sorted according to the first sort order and in a second region of the display component that is different from the first region the unselected list as the items of the item list having neither a selected marker nor a hidden marker and sorted according to the first sort order and upon receiving a second request to present the selected list and the unselected list retrieving the item list including the selected markers and the hidden markers and concurrently presenting ina first region of the display component the items of the item list having a selected marker and in a second region of the display component that is different from the first region the unselected list as the items of the item list having neither a selected marker nor a hidden marker
38. red in accor dance with the sort order by iterating through the item list and rendering in order the items 14 having neither a selected marker nor a hidden marker FIG 3 presents an illustration of an exemplary scenario 40 involving the rendering from an item set 12 comprising vari ous items 14 of a selected list 20 and an unselected list 22 in accordance with the techniques presented herein In this exemplary scenario 40 three selected items 42 are to be included in the selected list 20 and among unselected items 44 comprising the remainder of the item set 12 only three unselected items 44 are to appear in the unselected list 22 according to an unselected list size limit 24 and the unse lected items 44 are to be selected based on a priority order defined by the modification dates of the items 14 Moreover the selected list 20 and the unselected list 22 are mutually exclusive e g an item 14 appearing in one list may not appear in the other list and both lists are sorted according to a sort order e g an alphabetic order according to the names of the items 14 In this exemplary scenario 40 an embodi ment of these techniques achieves this rendering in the fol lowing manner First to the selected items 42 of the item set _ 0 an 5 35 40 45 50 60 65 6 12 a selected marker 46 is attached illustrated in this and other figures as a white star Second for the unselected items 44 of the item se
39. sing a pinned items list and a set of unpinned items comprising an modified items list including the unpinned items sorted according to an item modification date sorting the items 14 of both lists in ascending alphabetic order and including unselected items 44 in the unselected list 22 according to a priority order based on the item modifica tion dates However these techniques may be applicable to many other scenarios As a first variation of this first aspect these techniques may be utilized to render many types of item sets 12 comprising many types of items 14 such as files and folders in a file system records in a database table rows columns or cells in a spreadsheet objects in an object sys tem or email messages in a mailbox As a second variation of this first aspect the selection of items 14 in the item set 12 may be performed automatically and or by a user 32 and may represent many types of semantics e g items 14 matching the criteria of a query or filter items 14 involved in an opera tion such as a move or delete operation of a file system or items 14 arbitrarily selected by a user 32 As a third variation ofthis first aspect the selected lists 20 and unselected lists 22 generated from the item list 50 may be rendered in various ways As a first such example a computer 92 featuring an embodiment of these techniques may include a display com ponent which may be configured to display the item set 12 to auser 32 and t
40. so be visually sorted in a particular manner e g in ascending alphabetic order Presented herein are techniques for presenting the items of an item set in a selected list and an unselected list without generating separate data structures for the different items In accordance with these techniques the selected and unse lected items of the item set may be stored together as a single list with markers may be attached to respective items to differentiate the items for rendering For example the item set may be examined to identify the selected items and may attach a selected marker thereto The item set may also be examined to identify the unselected items may sort the items according to the priority order and to the items having a low priority order e g all but the three items in the item set having the highest priority if the unselected list is limited to three items may attach a hidden marker thereto The items having been so marked may be stored together in an item list which may be sorted according to the sort order e g ascend ing alphabetic order This item list may therefore be used to render both the selected list e g by iterating down the list and rendering in order the items having a selected marker and the unselected list e g by iterating down the list and rendering in order the items having neither a selected marker nor an unselected marker Additionally items may be moved between
41. st 20 an embodiment of these techniques may implement the deselection by locating the item 14 in the item list 50 and detaching the selected marker 46 from the first item 14 The embodiment may then re render the selected list 20 and the unselected list 22 e g by erasing a first rendering of the list s on a display component and displaying a second rendering thereof or by adjusting a previous rendering to indicate the change Additionally ifthe size of the unselected list 22 after altering the first item 14 exceeds the unselected list size limit 24 an embodiment may be configured to remove an item 14 from the unselected list 22 For example the embodiment may among the items 14 of the item set 50 having neither a selected marker 46 nor a hidden marker 48 e g the items 14 that are unselected and included in the unselected list 22 identify a second item 14 having a low priority order and attach a hidden marker 48 to the second item 14 These and other variations may involve a comparison the priority order of various items 14 or subsets thereof in the item list 50 However it may be inefficient for an embodiment of these techniques to perform this comparison in an ad hoc manner e g upon receiving each selection or deselection of items 14 from a user 32 Accordingly and as a third variation of this third aspect an embodiment of these techniques may perform the priority order evaluation during the generation of the item set 50 and
42. t ina first region ofthe display component the items of the item list having a selected marker sorted according to the first sort order and in a second region of the display component that is different from the first region the unselected list as the items of the item list having neither a selected marker nor a hidden marker and sorted according to the first sort order and US 8 676 817 B2 17 upon receiving a second request to present the selected list and the unselected list retrieve the item list including the selected markers and the hidden markers and concurrently present ina first region ofthe display component the items of the item list having a selected marker and in a second region of the display component that is different from the first region the unselected list as the items of the item list having neither a selected marker nor a hidden marker 13 The system of claim 12 the system further comprising a display component con figured to display the item set to a user and the item list rendering component further configured to concurrently present the selected list in a first region of on the display com ponent and the unselected list in a second region of the display component that is different from the first region 14 The system of claim 12 the selected items comprising pinned items comprising items selected by a user the selected list further comprising a pinned items list the unselected i
43. t 12 the embodiment may identify a priority order among the unselected items 44 e g by sorting the unselected items 44 in descending order of modification date To the unselected item 44 having a low priority order and exceeding the unselected list size limit 24 e g all but the top three unselected items 44 a hidden marker 48 may be attached illustrated in this and other figures as a shaded star The items 14 of the item set 12 may then be merged into an item list 60 e g not a visually rendered list but a data structure such as an array or linked list and the item list 60 may be sorted according to a sort order e g sorting the items 14 by name according to ascending alphabetic order This item list 60 may be utilized to render both the selected list 20 and the unselected list 22 The selected list 20 may be ren dered by iterating down the item list 60 and rendering in order the items 14 to which a selected marker 46 is attached The unselected list 22 may be rendered by iterating down the item list 60 and rendering in order the items 14 to which neither a selected marker 46 nor a hidden marker 48 is attached In this manner an embodiment operating in the exemplary scenario 40 may utilize a single item list 60 to achieve the rendering of the selected list 20 and the unselected list 22 As compared with other implementations the implemen tation illustrated by the exemplary scenario 40 of FIG 3 may present some advantages
44. tems further comprising unpinned items comprising items not selected by the user the unselected list further comprising a modified items list comprising the unpinned items sorted according to an item modification date and the priority second sort order comprising the item modifi cation dates of the items 15 The system of claim 12 the item list rendering component further configured to render with the items ofthe unselected list an item selec tion indicator and the system further comprising an item selecting compo nent configured to upon receiving a selection of a first item in the unselected list attach a selected marker to the first item and re render the selected list and the unselected list 16 The system of claim 15 the item selecting component further configured to upon receiving the selection of the first item among the items having a hidden marker identify a second item that when the unselected items are sorted accord ing to the second sort order has a priority order index above the unselected list size limit and detach the hidden marker from the second item 17 The system of claim 12 the item list rendering component further configured to present with the items of the selected list an item dese lection indicator and the system further comprising an item deselecting com ponent configured to upon receiving a deselection of a first item in the selected list 5 20 25 30 35 40
45. that these operations are necessarily order dependent Alternative ordering will be appreciated by one skilled in the art having the benefit of this description Further it will be understood that not all operations are necessarily present in each embodiment provided herein Moreover the word exemplary is used herein to mean serving as an example instance or illustration Any aspect or design described herein as exemplary is not necessarily to be construed as advantageous over other aspects or designs Rather use of the word exemplary is intended to present concepts in a concrete fashion As used in this application the term is intended to mean an inclusive rather than an exclusive or That is unless specified otherwise or clear from context X employs A or B is intended to mean any of the natural inclusive permutations That is if X employs A X employs B or X employs both A and B then X employs A or B is satisfied under any of the foregoing instances In addi tion the articles and as used in this application and the appended claims may generally be construed to mean one or more unless specified otherwise or clear from con text to be directed to a singular form Also although the disclosure has been shown and described with respect to one or more implementations equivalent alterations and modifications will occur to others skilled in the art based upon a reading an
46. the lists simply by updating the markers attached thereto e g moving an item from the unselected list to the selected list by attaching a selected marker To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends the following description and annexed drawings set forth certain illustrative aspects and implementations These are indicative of but a few of the various ways in which one or more aspects may be employed Other aspects advantages and novel features of the disclosure will become apparent from the following detailed description when considered in conjunction with the annexed drawings DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG 1 is an illustration of an exemplary scenario featuring an item set rendered as a selected list and an unselected list FIG 2 is an illustration of an exemplary scenario featuring a selection by a user of an item from an unselected list FIG 3 is an illustration of an exemplary scenario featuring an item set rendered as a selected list and an unselected list according to the techniques presented herein FIG 4 is a flow chart illustrating an exemplary method of rendering items of an item set as a selected list and an unse lected list US 8 676 817 B2 3 FIG 5 is a component block diagram illustrating an exem plary system for rendering items of an item set as a selected list and an unselected list FIG 6 is an illustration of an exemplary computer readable medium comprising processor executable ins
47. the user 32 a selection of an unselected list size limit 24 re render the unselected list using the unselected list size limit 24 Those of ordinary skill in the art may devise many ways of sorting and or prioritizing the items 14 of the item list 50 in accor dance with the techniques presented herein A third aspect that may vary among embodiments of these techniques relates to the selection and deselection of items 14 after generating the item list 50 In some scenarios the selected list 20 and the unselected list 22 may not permit changes to the selection statuses 18 of the items 14 However in other scenarios after the items 14 are presented to a user 32 the user 32 may select or deselect items 14 and an embodiment of these techniques may have to adjust the item list 50 the selected list 20 and or the unselected list 22 to reflect these changes Moreover such adjustments may have to be performed in order to maintain the features of the ren dering e g the mutual exclusivity of the selected list 20 and the unselected list 22 the sort order of the selected list 20 and the unselected list 22 and the restriction of the unselected list 30 40 45 55 60 65 10 22 according to the unselected list size limit 24 with unse lected items 44 included according to a priority order As a first variation of this third aspect respective unse lected items 44 of the unselected list 22 may be rendered with an item selection in
48. ting computing device 142 to other computing devices Communication connection s 156 may include a wired connection or a wireless connection Communication connection s 156 may transmit and or receive communication media The term computer readable media may include commu nication media Communication media typically embodies computer readable instructions or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave or other transport mecha nism and includes any information delivery media The term modulated data signal may include a signal that has one or more of its characteristics set or changed in such a manner as to encode information in the signal Device 142 may include input device s 154 such as key board mouse pen voice input device touch input device infrared cameras video input devices and or any other input device Output device s 152 such as one or more displays speakers printers and or any other output device may also be included in device 142 Input device s 154 and output device s 152 may be connected to device 142 via a wired connection wireless connection or any combination thereof In one embodiment an input device or an output device from another computing device may be used as input device s 154 or output device s 152 for computing device 142 Components of computing device 142 may be connected by various interconnects such as a bus Such interconnects may include a Peripheral Component Inte
49. tructions con figured to embody one or more of the provisions set forth herein FIG 7 is an illustration of another exemplary scenario featuring a selection by a user of an item from an unselected list FIG 8 is an illustration of an exemplary scenario featuring a deselection by a user of an item from a selected list FIG 9 illustrates an exemplary computing environment wherein one or more ofthe provisions set forth herein may be implemented DETAILED DESCRIPTION The claimed subject matter is now described with reference to the drawings wherein like reference numerals are used to refer to like elements throughout In the following descrip tion for purposes of explanation numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the claimed subject matter It may be evident however that the claimed subject matter may be practiced without these specific details In other instances structures and devices are shown in block diagram form in order to facilitate describing the claimed subject matter Within the field of computing many scenarios involve a presentation of an item set comprising a set of items where a subset ofthe items may be selected e g automatically or by a user As a first example a computer may present a file system as a set of objects e g files and folders and a user may be permitted to select particular objects to which an operation within the file system is to be applied s
50. uch as deleting or relocating the objects As a second example a computer may present a database table comprising a set of records where a subset of records may match selected according to a query specifying one or more criteria In such scenarios the computer may render e g visually represent the selection of items within the item set in various ways As one such example the selected items and unselected items may be rendered as separate lists e g a selected list and an unselected list These lists may be mutually exclusive e g an item appearing in the selected list does not appear in the unselected list and vice versa Additionally the user may be permitted to move items e g when an item selects an item in the unselected list the item may be removed from the unse lected list and added to the selected list and vice versa Additional properties ofthe selected list and the unselected list may further complicate such scenarios As a first example each list may be presented with various properties such as sorting according to a sort order e g an ascending or descending alphabetic numeric date item type or creation date sort order These properties may be maintained while performing various operations e g a sort order for each list 18 to be maintained upon moving an item from one list to the other list As a second example the number of items appear ing in the selected list and or the unselected list may be limited
51. us types of commu nications media such as a signal that may be propagated through various physical phenomena e g an electromag netic signal a sound wave signal or an optical signal and in various wired scenarios e g via an Ethernet or fiber optic cable and or wireless scenarios e g a wireless local area network WLAN such as WiFi a personal area network PAN such as Bluetooth or a cellular or radio network and which encodes a set of computer readable instructions that 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 8 when executed by a processor of a device cause the device to implement the techniques presented herein An exemplary computer readable medium that may be devised in these ways is illustrated in FIG 6 wherein the implementation 110 comprises a computer readable medium 112 e g a CD R DVD R or a platter of a hard disk drive on which is encoded computer readable data 114 This com puter readable data 114 in turn comprises a set of computer instructions 116 configured to operate according to the prin ciples set forth herein In one such embodiment the proces sor executable instructions 116 may be configured to perform a method 118 of rendering items of an item set as a selected list and an unselected list such as the exemplary method 60 of FIG 4 In another such embodiment the processor execut able instructions 116 may be configured to implement a sys tem for rendering items of an item
Download Pdf Manuals
Related Search