IP Library › Granted Patent US 9,916,075

Granted Patent B2

US 9,916,075 · App. 14/839,889 · Granted Mar 13, 2018

Formatting content for a reduced-size user interface

Inventors: Kevin Will Chen (Sunnyvale, CA); Eliza Block (San Francisco, CA); Lawrence Y. Yang (San Francisco, CA); Christopher Wilson (San Francisco, CA); Eric Lance Wilson (San Jose, CA); Paul W. Salzman (Palo Alto, CA); David Schimon (San Francisco, CA)

Assignee: Apple Inc.

G06F3/04847 G06F3/0488 G06F3/04842 G06F17/214 G06F17/2264

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Patent No.: US 9,916,075
App. No.: 14/839,889
Granted: Mar 13, 2018
Kind: B2

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Abstract

The present disclosure generally relates to displaying content on a reduced-size user interface. An electronic device with one or more processors, memory, and a display, receives content associated with a designated area of the display, where the content is associated with a plurality of available display formats stored in the memory. The device determines a size of the designated area and determines a first display format for the content from the plurality of available display formats based on at least the content and the size of the designated area. The device displays a representation of the content according to the first display format.

Claims (143)

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of an electronic device with a display, cause the electronic device to:

receive data representing an application;

in response to receiving the data representing the application, load the application into the memory, wherein loading the application into the memory includes storing data representing one or more complications associated with the application;

display a first user interface screen including a clock face, wherein the clock face includes one or more complication areas;

receive a first user input;

in response to receiving the first user input, enter a clock face edit mode of the electronic device;

while in the clock face edit mode, receive a second user input corresponding to selection of a first complication area of the one or more complication areas;

in response to receiving the second user input corresponding to selection of the first complication area, display one or more representations of at least one of the one or more complications associated with the application,

wherein the one or more representations includes a first representation of a first complication from the at least one of the one or more complications associated with the application, and

wherein the first complication includes content associated with the first complication;

determine a first display format for the content associated with the first complication;

receive a third user input corresponding to selection of the first representation of the first complication;

in response to receiving the third user input, associate the first complication with the first complication area of the clock face;

while in the clock face edit mode, receiving a fourth user input; and

in response to receiving the fourth user input:

exit the clock face edit mode; and

display a second user interface screen including the clock face, wherein the clock face on the second user interface screen includes the first complication in the first complication area, and wherein the first complication includes a representation of the content formatted according to the first display format.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 ,

wherein the first complication includes a layout with one or more designated areas,

wherein the content associated with the first complication is associated with a first designated area of the one or more designated areas, and

wherein determining the first display format for the content includes:

determining a size of the first designated area;

determining the first display format from a plurality of available display formats based on at least the content and the size of the first designated area.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2 ,

wherein the content is associated with a display style, and

wherein selecting the first display format is further based on the display style associated with the content.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 3 , wherein the display style includes a font associated with the content.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2 ,

wherein each display format of the plurality of available display formats corresponds to a display size of the information formatted according to the respective display format, and

wherein determining the first display format further includes:

determining an optimized display format, wherein the optimized display format is determined to be the display format of the plurality of available display formats that corresponds to the largest display size of the display sizes corresponding to the plurality of available display formats that does not exceed the size of the first designated area; and

determining the first display format to be the optimized display format.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5 ,

wherein the plurality of available display formats forms a hierarchy ranked according to the display sizes corresponding to the display formats of the plurality of available display formats, and

wherein determining the first display format further includes:

determining whether the optimized display format is below a predetermined lowest allowable display format in the hierarchy; and

in accordance with a determination that the optimized display format is below the lowest allowable display format in the hierarchy, determining the first display format to be the lowest allowable display format.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6 ,

wherein determining the first display format of the content from the plurality of available display formats further comprises:

determining whether the optimized display format is above a predetermined highest allowable display format in the hierarchy; and

in accordance with a determination that the optimized display format is above the highest allowable display format in the hierarchy, determining the first display format to be the highest allowable display format.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6 , wherein the one or more programs further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the electronic device to:

determine whether the display size corresponding to the first display format exceeds the size of the first designated area; and

in accordance with a determination that the display size corresponding to the first display format exceeds the size of the first designated area, truncate the representation of the information to the size of the first designated area.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2 , wherein the plurality of available display formats is a defined set that is based on the content of the information.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2 , wherein the content of the information represents a point in time, a duration, an offset, or a decimal number.

11. A method, comprising:

at an electronic device with one or more processors, memory, and a display:

receiving data representing an application;

in response to receiving the data representing the application, loading the application into the memory, wherein loading the application into the memory includes storing data representing one or more complications associated with the application;

displaying a first user interface screen including a clock face, wherein the clock face includes one or more complication areas;

receiving a first user input;

in response to receiving the first user input, entering a clock face edit mode of the electronic device;

while in the clock face edit mode, receiving a second user input corresponding to selection of a first complication area of the one or more complication areas;

in response to receiving the second user input corresponding to selection of the first complication area, displaying one or more representations of at least one of the one or more complications associated with the application,

wherein the one or more representations includes a first representation of a first complication from the at least one of the one or more complications associated with the application, and

wherein the first complication includes content associated with the first complication;

determining a first display format for the content associated with the first complication;

receiving a third user input corresponding to selection of the first representation of the first complication;

in response to receiving the third user input, associating the first complication with the first complication area of the clock face;

while in the clock face edit mode, receiving a fourth user input; and

in response to receiving the fourth user input:

exiting the clock face edit mode; and

displaying a second user interface screen including the clock face, wherein the clock face on the second user interface screen includes the first complication in the first complication area, and wherein the first complication includes a representation of the content formatted according to the first display format.

12. The method of claim 11 ,

wherein the first complication includes a layout with one or more designated areas,

wherein the content associated with the first complication is associated with a first designated area of the one or more designated areas, and

wherein determining the first display format for the content includes:

determining a size of the first designated area;

determining the first display format from a plurality of available display formats based on at least the content and the size of the first designated area.

13. The method of claim 12 ,

wherein the content is associated with a display style, and

wherein selecting the first display format is further based on the display style associated with the content.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the display style includes a font associated with the content.

15. The method of claim 12 ,

wherein each display format of the plurality of available display formats corresponds to a display size of the information formatted according to the respective display format, and

wherein determining the first display format further includes:

determining the first display format to be the optimized display format.

16. The method of claim 15 ,

wherein the plurality of available display formats forms a hierarchy ranked according to the display sizes corresponding to the display formats of the plurality of available display formats, and

wherein determining the first display format further includes:

determining whether the optimized display format is below a predetermined lowest allowable display format in the hierarchy; and

17. The method of claim 16 ,

wherein determining the first display format of the content from the plurality of available display formats further comprises:

determining whether the optimized display format is above a predetermined highest allowable display format in the hierarchy; and

18. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:

determining whether the display size corresponding to the first display format exceeds the size of the first designated area; and

in accordance with a determination that the display size corresponding to the first display format exceeds the size of the first designated area, truncating the representation of the information to the size of the first designated area.

19. The method of claim 12 , wherein the plurality of available display formats is a defined set that is based on the content of the information.

20. The method of claim 12 , wherein the content of the information represents a point in time, a duration, an offset, or a decimal number.

21. An electronic device, comprising:

a display;

one or more processors;

a memory; and

one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for: