Graphical user interface

摘要

A graphical user interface is provided for navigating and/or manipulating content simply via touch of a touch-sensitive surface. The content may include discrete content items (e.g., songs, video clips, documents, web pages) and/or actions (e.g., place a call, read a message, play a game), and may or may not be hierarchical in nature. The interface may be presented on a touch-screen display, such that a user may navigate to a content item or action via a single touch on the display (e.g., with a finger or other tool), followed by gliding through any number of levels or clusters of nodes (representing content items, content compilations/categories and/or actions). The desired content item or action may be initiated automatically (e.g., opened, performed) simply by touching it, by lifting the gliding finger or by performing some other input (e.g., tapping a node, speaking a command, touching with a second finger).

主权项

1. A method of facilitating a user's navigation of electronic content via a touch-screen display, the method comprising:
displaying a first cluster of nodes representing content available for presentation to the user on the touch-screen display; defining, for at least one node in the first cluster of nodes, an associated commit point located apart from the node;
presenting a control on the touch-screen display that, when actuated, toggles display of one or more of:
the commit points, including a first commit point associated with a first node in the first cluster of nodes; andfor each commit point, a corresponding path that traverses the commit point;wherein each commit point is located along the corresponding path, from a current node displayed on the touch-screen display toward the node associated with the commit point; in response to touch-selection of the first commit point, by the user, without touching the first node, displaying a second cluster of nodes separate from the first cluster of nodes; tracking the user's touching of the touch-screen display through multiple clusters of nodes, including the first cluster of nodes and the second cluster of nodes; and opening content corresponding to a final node selected by the user.