Semantic searching using zoom operations

摘要

Computer storage media, computerized methods, and systems for semantically navigating between content using zoom operations, as well as other user-initiated operations, are provided. The zoom operations include an open-pinch gesture (zoom in) and a closed-pinch gesture (zoom out) physically applied to a touch-screen display of a client device, where the touch-screen display presents a document with original content. When one or more of the zoom operations have been detected as being performed upon a targeted portion of the original content, new content that is relevant to the targeted content is retrieved, as opposed to simply expanding or contracting the original content within a display area of the touch-screen display. The document is transitioned to a view with representations of the new content organized according to a format, where the format is dictated by a type of the one or more zoom operations being performed.

主权项

1. A computer system for navigating between semantically-related content in response to zoom operations within a document, the computer system comprising a processing unit coupled to a computer storage medium, the computer storage medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processing unit, implement a method, the method comprising:
detecting at least one zoom operation directed to a portion of original content within the document and transitioning from the document to a view that includes a new set of content that is linked to the original content via tendrils in a predefined directed graph, wherein the directed graph is constructed of a multi-dimensional lattice of semantic connections between nodes, wherein the nodes include the original content and the new set of content; filtering content retrieved from one or more vendor modules to the new set of content and ordering the new set of content based on, in part, relevance to the original content; determining a format of the view based on, in part, a type of the at least one zoom operation and organizing the new set of content in accordance within the format; and providing the view for presentation at a display area.