Apparatuses, Methods and Systems for Hierarchical Multidimensional Information Interfaces

摘要

The disclosure teaches a hierarchical multidimensional interfaces for navigating information, responsive to user feedback in the placement and appearance of navigation panes The way a user views the contents of a menu pane is to move the mouse toward the particular menu pane. When a cursor is hovering over a pane, it may be highlighted. When the cursor is subsequently moved toward any inactive pane, a preview of that pane slides into view, showing only part of the pane. The closer the cursor gets to the pane, the larger the preview area becomes and if the user moves the mouse away frin an inactive pane, its preview becomes smaller. Once the cursor crosses over to a pane different from the currently viewed, that pane slides into view. A user only need select a menu item when one wishes to navigate to a URL or application external to a navigation system.

主权项

1. A processor-implemented method to provide a hierarchical multidimensional information interface, comprising:
receiving interactive display information; providing received interactive display information to a user in user navigable hierarchical information panes; monitoring user interactions with navigable hierarchical information panes; and updating the appearance of the user navigable hierarchical information panes based on the monitored user interactions, wherein updating the appearance of the user navigable hierarchical information panes includes displaying a preview of a first user navigable hierarchical information pane from the user navigable hierarchical information panes as a user moves a selection indicator closer to the first user navigable hierarchical information pane.