User interface for presenting heterogeneous content

摘要

A user interface and methods are provided for presenting electronic content on a mobile device with a content-serving application. Heterogeneous content includes ‘internal’ and ‘external’ content. Internal content includes items served by a system hosting the application and/or other items to which the host has full access rights, while external content includes items to which the application host does not have full access rights (e.g., because they are served by a remote site). Placeholders representing content items are browsed using one input, and an item is opened by different input when its placeholder is displayed. External items may not be retrieved until they are opened. Gestures while an external item is open are communicated to its remote site, and when either type of item is fully panned left or right, the item begins to scroll out of view sideways and the placeholder of the next item scrolls into view.

主权项

1. A method of operating a mobile electronic device, the method comprising:
executing an application for displaying internal content and external content on a mobile electronic device operated by a user, wherein internal content is served from a host network domain of a host system of the application and external content is served from one or more external network domains other than the host network domain; displaying on the device a portion of a first content item in response to a first user input; determining whether the first content item is internal content or external content; while the portion of the first content item is displayed, receiving a second user input having different significance depending on whether the first content item is internal content or external content; when the first content item is internal content, applying the second user input to transition the display of the portion of the first content item to a display of a portion of a second content item; and when the first content item is external content: determining whether a side edge of the first content item is displayed, by: communicating the second input to the external domain that served the first content item; and receiving from the external domain an interpretation of the second input, the interpretation comprising one of: information identifying a second portion of the first content item; and an indication that the user has navigated to a side edge of the first content item; and applying the second user input to update the display as directed by the external domain that served the first content item.