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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8112716 | Information processing apparatus and control method thereof, and computer program An information processing apparatus comprising display unit configured to display a window, accepting unit configured to accept a resize instruction of the displayed window together with a scroll instruction indicating whether or not to scroll display contents withi... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8078985 | Scrolling of ordered series with item highlighting indicating relevance A graphical user interface displays an ordered series of items. Each of the items has an index value indicating a position of the item within the series. The graphical user interface includes a scroll bar to scroll through the first ordered series. Items with index ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074181 | Screen magnifier panning model with dynamically resizable panning regions A magnifier panning system is described that creates a panning region at the edges of a magnified view. When a user moves the cursor into the panning region, the system pans the magnified view. When the user is not in the panning region, the user can interact with o... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069405 | User interface for efficiently browsing an electronic document using data-driven tabs A method and system for helping a user efficiently browse an electronic document using data-driven tabs. A datasheet providing technical details of a corresponding user module is scanned for indicators (e.g., embedded anchors), wherein a user module is a pre-configu... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8060836 | Navigating displayed content on a mobile device Methods and systems are provided for displaying scrollable information with an improved indicator of relative position. Certain embodiments may be use a focus element that indicates, by its relative position within the display, the relative position of the scrollabl... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7966571 | Methods, apparatus and computer programs for navigating within a user interface A method, apparatus and computer program are disclosed for navigating within a user interface. Navigation within the user interface is monitored and, if detected navigation instructions satisfy a predefined criterion such as if they exceed a predefined rate of movem... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7958455 | Mode activated scrolling A computer implemented method for changing between a cursor control mode and a scroll control mode. The cursor control mode allowing a user to move a cursor on a graphical user interface (GUI) and the scroll control mode allowing a user to scroll on the GUI. The cur... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7958456 | Scrolling list with floating adjacent index symbols Movement of a user's point of contact with a touch-sensitive display is determined. In response to the movement, a list of information items on the touch-sensitive display is scrolled. The list of information items may include a sequence of information item subsets ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7934166 | Snap to content in display The present disclosure provides methods and systems for managing viewable content on a display. In some implementations, the method includes displaying content on the display, monitoring scrolling activity of a user and selectively centering a portion of the content... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930646 | Dynamically updated virtual list view A virtual list view in a web application is dynamically updated such that a user can seamlessly access and manage the presented data despite the inherent latency involved with the web. Data associated with the virtual list view is downloaded in chunks and the view u... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7917865 | Display processing apparatus, display processing method, and computer program product According to one embodiment, an display processing apparatus includes an operation receiver, a relation calculator, a display information generator, a display controller, and a scrolling module. The operation receiver receives selection of a key content. The relatio... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7908566 | System and method for scrolling among categories in a list of documents A system and method is provided to assist a user in selecting, identifying, and handling email messages. A selection color module may provide for the display of color coding and selection highlighting. The selection color module may provide a secondary highlighting ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7877702 | Tree widget data population A method and computer program product for automatically populating data in a tree widget on a Web page are provided. The method includes rendering a tree structure of tree nodes populated with data in a viewable area of a Web page, creating placeholder nodes without... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7849418 | Segregation of redundant control bits in an ECC permuted, systematic modulation code Segregation of redundant control bits in an ECC permuted, systematic modulation code. Appropriately encoding of user information via combined modulation and RS (Reed-Solomon) encoding ensures segregation of scrambled user information, modulation redundancy bits, and... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7810043 | Media user interface left/right navigation Embodiments of a media user interface are presented herein. In one embodiment, a plurality of representations of media items is arranged into a plurality of groups such that the plurality of groups of representations are horizontally navigated like a carousel. In an... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7802178 | Information display apparatus, information display method, information display program, graphical user interface, music reproduction apparatus, and music reproduction program Disclosed herein is an information display apparatus includes: candidate object display means configured to display selectable candidate objects in a first display layer; and selected object display processing means configured to display a selected object, which is ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7802196 | Method and apparatus to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows Methods and apparatuses to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows. In one aspect of the invention, a method to scroll a buffered window on a data processing system includes: determining a second region of a second pixel image of a window in a frame buffer, which ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7770128 | Compensating for cognitive load in jumping back A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for compensating for cognitive load in jumping back. In one embodiment, the method comprises serially displaying a sequence of page images; receiving a user input to stop sequencing through the page images; determining a lo... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7761806 | Mobile communication device and method of controlling operation of the mobile communication device A method of controlling a mobile communication device, which includes displaying a menu list and a scroll bar for scrolling the menu list on a touch screen of the terminal, receiving a dragging signal if a dragging operation has been performed from the scroll bar di... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7735019 | Method for providing functional context within an actively scrolling view pane A method, system and computer-usable medium for using a context aware viewport module to graphically display, and interact with, a viewport. The context aware viewport is implemented in a graphical user interface (GUI) and comprises a spatially context aware informa... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7716597 | Dynamic materialization of disappearing entities In various embodiments, a method, computer system and computer program product for displaying information are provided. A first subset of information of the file is presented in a scrollable area. The first subset of information comprises, at least in part, a second... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7681142 | Scrolling web pages using direct interaction Aspects of the present invention provide a system and method for scrolling or dragging information on a display. A panning tool is provided that may scroll information, such as a web page, on a display in tandem with movement of a cursor. If interactive elements are... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7681141 | Fast scrolling in a graphical user interface A method of scrolling in a graphical user interface includes: receiving a command to scroll a plurality of contents icons displayed in the graphical user interface; and retrieving an appropriate number of additional contents icons from a contents icon database to pr... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7665034 | Accelerated scrolling A system and method for accelerating scrolling of a display is disclosed. When a wheel of a wheeled pointing device is actuated by a user at a first rotational rate, the display in a window scrolls up or down one line at a time. When the wheel is rotated at a second... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7661072 | Accelerated scrolling A system and method for accelerating scrolling of a display is disclosed. When a wheel of a wheeled pointing device is actuated by a user at a first rotational rate, the display in a window scrolls up or down one line at a time. When the wheel is rotated at a second... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7568166 | Apparatus for displaying a part of an object A displaying apparatus is disclosed which displays part of a target object in magnified fashion and scrolls what is being displayed of the target object in accordance with instructions from a user. The displaying apparatus includes an inputting device operable to in... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7536651 | Computer-implemented methods and systems for accessing data in a computer system by a user Methods and systems are provided for accessing, processing, and outputting data on a graphical output device for a user is provided. In one implementation, a method is provided that comprises presenting on the graphical output device a first portion of a data object... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7496855 | Method and system for maintaining scroll position in a web user interface A method for maintaining scroll position in a web user interface may include translating a selected scroll position in the web user interface to a pair of scroll coordinates in response to operation of a set scroll position function. The method may also include adva... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7490297 | Window scroll bar A method, system, and program product for generating a window scroll-bar. In the preferred embodiment, a controller displays the window scroll-bar on a display screen. The window scroll-bar contains sections associated with respective windows on the display. The win... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7458035 | System and method for selecting an item in a list of items and associated products The present invention concerns a system and a method for selecting an item in a list of items and associated products. The selecting system comprises means for repeatedly and simultaneously providing at least two sub-lists of items of the list for displaying on a sc... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7441207 | Method and system for improved viewing and navigation of content A system and method for small computing devices that present a thumbnail image of content such as a web page, allows a viewer to select a region, and zooms in on the selected region in a way that reduces scrolling and helps users to understand the content they are r... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437678 | Maximizing window display area using window flowing A method, system, and a computer program product that enables a second window opened on a display screen to “flow” into and fill/occupy all available space within the displayable area of the display screen without overlapping a first window occupying less than t... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437005 | Rapid visual sorting of digital files and data Described is a system and method including a user interface to manage sets of digital data (e.g., files) such as digital photographs or email messages. The system and method comprise a rapid sort mechanism and an underlying support mechanism that associates metadata... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434173 | Scrolling web pages using direct interaction Aspects of the present invention provide a system and method for scrolling or dragging information on a display. A panning tool is provided that may scroll information, such as a web page, on a display in tandem with movement of a cursor. If interactive elements are... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428709 | Multiple-panel scrolling In a scrollable user interface window including two or more panels, a single scroll bar scrolls all of the panels. Panels move in lock-step with one another at certain times, but not at other times, depending on whether the lock-step scrolling would cause blank area... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426696 | Method and system for image windowing Improved techniques for managing image data associating with asset records in an electronic media programs catalog list between a media server (e.g., a video-on-demand server) and a terminal device or a client system (e.g., a set-top box) is disclosed. The catalog l... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424510 | Methods and systems for Web-based incremental searches The present invention provides for quick and efficient searches over a network. In one embodiment, program and formatting code is transmitted to a client having a browser, the code generates in the browser a search mode interface including a search field, a list are... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7415666 | Method and system for navigating paginated content in page-based increments A method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially exact increment in a document, such as one page, regardless of whether the zoom is such that some, all or one page is currently being viewed. In one implementation, pressing a Page Down or Page U... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415676 | Visual field changing method In an image display system for changing a display of image data based on a visual field changing instruction, one or a plurality of visual field changing start region associated with a visual field changing operation, which defines display update processing contents... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412660 | Automatically centered scrolling in a tab-based user interface A method and apparatus for presenting a tab-based graphic user interface (GUI) having more tabs than can be fitted across a screen side for a computer system. The computer system can be handheld devices such as personal digital assistants (PDA's) and cell phones. Th... | 08/12/2008 |
