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  Graphical user interface for establishing data sharing relationshipsRelated Patent Categories: Data Processing: Presentation Processing Of Document, Operator Interface Processing, And Screen Saver Display Processing, Operator Interface (e.g., Graphical User Interface), On-screen Workspace Or Object, Office Layout Metaphor (e.g., Filing Cabinet, Desk)Graphical user interface for establishing data sharing relationships description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060053389, Graphical user interface for establishing data sharing relationships. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present description relates to enhanced presentations and management of online information and, in particular, to techniques for modeling a user's connectivity relationships with network accessible devices, services, people, and data and to techniques for indicating unidirectional or bi-directional data sharing relationships between objects, such as objects used in modeling the user's connectivity relationships. BACKGROUND [0002] On-line communications have become an increasingly important aspect of people's lives. These communications can take many forms, including explicit person-to-person communication such as email, instant messaging, or other forms of sending electronic messages; communication with on-line services such as web sites, email servers, and other Internet Service Provider ("ISP") services; and communication with local and remote devices, such as printers, scanners, or fax machines on a home network or, for example, on-line phones, cameras, PDAs, and other portable computers or devices. [0003] Managing and communicating with the morass of types of devices and connections has become difficult and not very "user-friendly" to a casual, or not necessarily technically savvy, user. Interfaces to devices are inconsistent, and the requirements for accessing services are not uniform or even well-known. In a typical conventional computing environment, a user conducts such communications by locating a user interface ("UI") associated with the desired target or task, figuring out how to use it, and then invoking it to conduct the desired communication. For example, to set up access to or to change default properties associated with access to a particular printer, a user is forced to find and invoke a "setup" tool (e.g., a printer configuration tool) from a user interface presented by the underlying operating system, for example the Microsoft Windows.TM. "desktop." The setup tool displays a series of dialog boxes or other windows, whose user interface controls are dedicated to interacting with the target printer. The user is then forced to find the correct control, dialog, or other UI component to perform a desired operation. If the user can locate the appropriate user interface, recognize it as the needed one, and find the appropriate specific component to invoke, then the user can perform the desired task. However, for many users, management tools such as this one are impenetrable black boxes with limited options for control and little instruction. [0004] One reason for these difficulties is that the current metaphor for operating system user interfaces for personal computers is typically an "office" desktop or derivative thereof. The desktop metaphor was developed in the 1970's and was originally targeted to the office automation market. However, the office automation environment for which these user interfaces were designed no longer represents a reasonable facsimile of or metaphor for how many people today incorporate computers in everyday life. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0005] FIG. 1 is an example screen display of an example connectivity universe presented by an example WorldView Display System. [0006] FIG. 2 is an example screen display of a device ring displayed by an example WorldView Display System. [0007] FIG. 3 is an example screen display of a data collection ring displayed by an example WorldView Display System. [0008] For example, FIGS. 4A and 4B illustrate still images from an example screen display of a cycling presentation of an active photo collection. [0009] FIG. 5 is an example screen display of an animated representation of an active device. [0010] FIG. 6 is an example screen display of a data collection ring with a sub-collection ring displayed by an example WorldView Display System. [0011] FIG. 7 is an example block diagram of how components of an example WorldView Display System are incorporated in a computer system to provide a user interface to an example user's universe of devices, collections, and connections. [0012] FIG. 8 is an overview flow diagram of operations performed by an example WorldView Display System. [0013] FIG. 9 is an example block diagram of a portion of one internal model of an example connectivity universe by an example WorldView Display System. [0014] FIG. 10 is an example screen display of an example Buddy Room proximity band. [0015] FIG. 11 is an example screen display of a close-up view of an example Web proximity band. [0016] FIG. 12 is an example screen display of an example Web proximity band. [0017] FIG. 13 is an example screen display of a media view of an example WorldView Display System. [0018] FIG. 14 is an example screen display of media viewers presented by a media view of an example WorldView Display System. [0019] FIG. 15 is an example screen display of objects displayed as a result of filtering a media view of an example WorldView Display System. [0020] FIG. 16 is an example screen display of uber-collections presented by a media view of an example WorldView Display System. [0021] FIG. 17 is an example screen display of a combined device and media view of an example WorldView Display System. Continue reading about Graphical user interface for establishing data sharing relationships... Full patent description for Graphical user interface for establishing data sharing relationships Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Graphical user interface for establishing data sharing relationships patent application. ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. Sign up (takes 30 seconds). 2. Fill in the keywords to be monitored. 3. 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