Patent ID: 7765490
Filing Date: 2010-07-27
Classification: G06F,G09G

Abstract:
1. A tiled interface system, comprising: at least one tile cluster as displayed on a display device; and a tile manager, as executed by a processor on said system, to manage said at least one tile cluster on said display device and to translate any of an input event into a tile cluster event, wherein said tile manager provides an area on said display as entirely covered by a two-dimensional grid of tiles, each said at least one tile cluster comprising a group of adjacent tiles in said tile grid if more than one tile is included in the tile cluster, with tiles being blank tiles at locations in said tile grid where no tile cluster has been implemented, wherein each said tile cluster comprises at least one tile and each said tile cluster corresponds to one or more predefined functions for one or more specific applications, said specific application meaning a specific task or function being an object of an interface with a user rather than meaning a function or functions within an application program that is invoked by an operating system on a computer executing said tiled interface system, said display area having said two-dimensional grid of tiles being dedicated to controlling and/or displaying information related to said one or more specific applications, as said applications have been predefined in said tile manager, such that each said specific application occupies a different area in said tile grid, as one or more tiles assigned to a tile cluster related to said specific application, wherein each said tile cluster provides a user interaction of said one or more predefined functions for said one or more specific applications respectively corresponding to that tile cluster and a display presentation of each said tile cluster has incorporated thereon a visual representation related to said one or more predefined functions of its specific application, and each implemented tile cluster has at least one tile that is always visible in said tile grid that has at least a part of said visual representation related to its predefined functions, and wherein each said at least one tile cluster is selectively presented in its entirety on a single frame of said display device using at most one said input event.