Patent ID: 8930855
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: displaying, by a device having a touch-enabled screen, a listing of items, including item data corresponding to each respective item in the listing of items, in an item data display area on the touch-enabled screen of the device, the listing of items resulting from a search of an online database, each item comprising image data and metadata; receiving, from the touch-enabled screen of the device, an indication of a pinch gesture, including a pinch gesture characteristic, being implemented in association with a scaled-data display area within the item data display area, the scaled-data display area comprising an image data region and a metadata region, the association relative to a specific item in the listing of items; in response to the pinch gesture, scaling a facet of the item data displayed in the scaled-data display area to produce a scaled-facet listing and displaying the scaled-facet listing; receiving an indication of a change in the pinch gesture characteristic being implemented in association with the scaled-facet listing and correspondingly scaling a characteristic of the facet of the item data to produce a further scaled-facet listing; and displaying the further scaled-facet listing in the scaled-data display area, wherein scaling a facet of the item data in response to the pinch gesture includes: scaling an initial temporal indicator of the metadata for the specific item in the listing of items to show metadata spanning forward in time, relative to the initial temporal indicator of the specific item without changing the image data for the specific item when the pinch gesture is a pinch-in gesture; and scaling an initial temporal indicator of the metadata for the specific item in the listing of items to show metadata spanning backward in time, relative to the initial temporal indicator of the specific item without changing the image data for the specific item when the pinch gesture is a pinch-out gesture; wherein scaling a characteristic of the facet of the item data in response to the change in pinch gesture comprises at least one of: scaling a characteristic of the facet of the image data to replace previous image data with at least one of a thumbnail, a stylization, a characterization, symbolic image data, and a bullet point; and scaling a characteristic of the facet of the metadata to replace previous metadata with at least one of a selection of sentences, a select phrase, a selection of words, a heading, and a subject.