Granted Patent B2

US 9,159,087 · App. 13/011,612 · Granted Oct 13, 2015

Inventors: Matthew Cheung (Mississauga, CA); David Au-Yeung (Toronto, CA); Jeff Francis (Oakville, CA); David Meyers (Mississauga, CA); Wehuns Tan (Oakville, CA)

Assignee: FLIPP CORPORATION

G06Q30/0277G06F17/30884G06F17/211G06F17/30864G06T2210/32

Abstract

Claims (45)

1. A method of creating a digital flyer with contextual information in a viewport of a communication device, the method comprising:

receiving a source flyer image and polygon mapping information associated with a digital flyer from a server, the polygon mapping information comprising a polygon for defining a polygonal area on the source flyer image, the polygon being tagged with contextual information; and

overlaying the source flyer image with the polygon mapping information;

generating navigational information comprising (i) a navigational strip or (ii) the navigational strip and a table of content, using the polygon mapping information; and

displaying the navigational information in a navigation interface, wherein the navigational strip comprises a directly proportional navigation strip, a text-only proportional navigation strip, or an area proportional navigation strip, or a combination thereof.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving point of interest information associated with the digital flyer from the server; and

overlaying the source flyer image with the point of interest information.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein generating the table of content comprises:

locating all top-level polygons not contained within any other polygon;

locating all next-level polygons contained in the top-level polygons but not contained within any other polygon;

setting the next-level polygons located as the new top-level polygons; and

repeating locating all the next-level polygons contained in the new top-level polygon but not contained with any other polygon until all the next-level polygons are located.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein generating the directly proportional navigation strip comprises:

applying a scaling factor to the polygon;

labelling the scaled polygon with the contextual information corresponding to the polygon; and

displaying the scaled polygon in the navigation interface.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein generating the text-only proportional navigation strip comprises:

applying a scaling factor to the polygon;

labelling the scaled polygon at a reference point with the contextual information corresponding to the polygon;

creating a bounding box around the label;

removing the scaled polygon; and

displacing the label in a reference direction until the bounding box encounters a bounding box of another label or an edge of the navigation strip.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein generating the area proportional navigation strip comprises:

determining a scaling factor relating the polygonal area of the polygon to distance on the navigation strip;

ordering the polygon based on a criteria; and

creating the navigation strip using the ordered polygon, wherein the distance on the navigation strip being determined by applying the scaling factor to the polygonal area of the ordered polygon.

7. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

generating related information using the polygon mapping information; and

displaying the related information in a related information interface.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein generating the related information using the polygon mapping information comprises:

retrieving a related digital flyer, the relevancy being based on the polygon mapping information of the digital flyer and polygon mapping information of the related digital flyer;

ordering the retrieved related digital flyer based on the relevancy when there are more than one related digital flyer; and

displaying the retrieved related digital flyers in the related information interface.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the source flyer image comprises a flyer image tile set, the set including multiple copies of a flyer image segmented into a plurality of flyer image tiles with each copy representing the flyer image at one of a plurality of zoom levels, wherein a copy of the multiple copies is configured to fit within a viewport having a resolution.

10. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

sending device information related to the communication device to the server.

11. A method of creating a digital flyer with contextual information in a viewport of a communication device, the method comprising:

receiving a source flyer image and polygon mapping information associated with a digital flyer from a server, the polygon mapping information comprising a polygon for defining a polygonal area on the source flyer image, the polygon being tagged with contextual information;

overlaying the source flyer image with the polygon mapping information;

generating related information using the polygon mapping information; and

displaying the related information in a related information interface, wherein generating the related information using the polygon mapping information comprises:

retrieving a related digital flyer, the relevancy being based on the polygon mapping information of the digital flyer and polygon mapping information of the related digital flyer;

ordering the retrieved related digital flyer based on the relevancy if there are more than one related digital flyer; and

displaying the retrieved related digital flyers in the related information interface, and wherein the retrieved relevant digital flyer is displayed in the related information interface using an area proportional navigation strip.

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