Route selection by drag and drop

摘要

The various embodiments of the present invention may be directed to a system for facilitating data processing in a visual manner. An application may include, inter alia, a basket component for visually representing the particular data items that a user desires to be processed by an application. The application may allow a user to initially search for data items that may be of interest (e.g., points-of-interest or POIs). A user may select POIs to obtain additional descriptive information regarding each data item. If the selected POI is to be included in processing, a user may drag the visual representation of the POI into the basket component. When the basket component contains all POIs desired for processing, the user may further instruct the application to formulate a result that is a composite of some or all of the POIs in the basket component.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
determining to display a basket component in a map application of a communication device, the basket component including at least a visual representation of a container configured to accept interest information; formulating the interest information including a plurality of points of interest based on, at least in part, a point of interest category, each of the plurality of points of interest including at least descriptive information; determining to display the interest information in a source collection and determining to display other interest information in one or more other source collections; selecting at least one point of interest from formulated interest information to be moved into the basket component by a drag-and-drop interface activity; formulating composite information based on selected points of interest in the basket component; determining to display the composite information on a map; and communicating between the communication device and a remote application platform to facilitate a synchronization function, wherein the synchronization function comprises one or more of storage and communication of the interest information to facilitate information sharing amongst subscribers to the map application, and communication of one or more of synchronization requests, commands and synchronization-related information.