USER INTERFACE FOR MERGER AND DISPLAY OF MULTIPLE CONTENT TIMELINES AND METHOD THEREFOR

摘要

Disclosed are a user interface and a method for providing various content timelines. A timeline user interface is provided for effective presentation of and intuitive access to various forms of timeline contents, where a timeline is merged, divided or searched for. The method for merging, dividing, and searching for a timeline, as well as a user interface comprising a touch gesture is also included.

主权项

1. A method performed on an apparatus which includes or is connected to a display device, the method comprising:
merging two or more merge-target timelines to generate a new merged timeline (merged/consolidated timeline), wherein each merge-target timeline is a singular timeline or a separate merged timeline containing a singular timeline, and the singular timeline includes zero content item object or one or more content item objects and time information for the one or more content item objects, and zero piece of participant information or one or more pieces of participant information; and displaying the new merged timeline on the display device, wherein the generating of the new merged timeline comprises:
dividing or converting all merged timelines, included in the merge-target timelines, into or to singular timelines;correcting or adjusting a reference time for all singular timelines included in the merge-target timelines;assigning a time order among each of content item objects included in the merge-target timelines; andgenerating a new merged timeline by assigning information about the corresponding singular timeline to each content item objects included in the merge-target timelines and combining them into a new timeline.