METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING CONTINUOUSLY CONNECTED DISPLAY ELEMENTS FROM A USER INTERFACE DISPLAY USING A SINGLE CONTINUOUS SWEEPING MOTION

摘要

Display elements are displayed in a corresponding display region of a multi-display element interface display with continuously connected data display elements so that each display element is shown as connected to at least one other display element in a continuous manner. A user is provided the capability to make contact with two or more continuously connected data display regions of the display regions in the multi-display element interface display with continuously connected data display elements through a single continuous contact with multi-display element interface display on the display screen of the computing system. For each display region contacted by the user's single continuous contact with the display screen, the display element corresponding to the contacted display region is transformed into a selected display element.

主权项

1. A computing system implemented method for providing a multi-display element interface display with continuously connected data display elements selectable through a single continuous motion comprising:
defining two or more data elements to be represented by display elements in a multi-display element interface display with continuously connected data display elements; generating the display elements representing the data elements; associating each data element to a corresponding display element; designating two or more display regions of the multi-display element interface display with continuously connected data display elements, each of the display regions of the multi-display element interface display with continuously connected data display elements being physically positioned in the multi-display element interface display with continuously connected data display elements such that at least a portion of each display region is represented as connected to at least one other display region; displaying each display element in a corresponding display region of the multi-display element interface display with continuously connected data display elements such that each display element is displayed in that display element's corresponding display region of the multi-display element interface display with continuously connected data display elements; displaying the multi-display element interface display with continuously connected data display elements on a display screen of a computing system; providing a user access to the multi-display element interface display with continuously connected data display elements on the display screen of the computing system; providing the user the capability to make contact with two or more continuously connected display regions of the display regions in the multi-display element interface display with continuously connected data display elements through a single continuous contact with multi-display element interface display on the display screen of the computing system wherein; for each display regions display region contacted by the single continuous contact with the display screen, the display element corresponding to the contacted display region is transformed into a selected display element, further wherein; the data elements associated with each of the selected display elements are transformed into selected data elements; the selected data elements are accumulated in a selected data element set; and the selected data element set is stored as selected data.