Continuous reading of articles

• US 10,055,096 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2014
• Issued: 08/21/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Falkenburg, Steven J., Decker, Kevin W., Adler, Darin Benjamin, Chan, Ada Y.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ries, Laurie A
• Application Number:
  US14/502,751
• Publication Number:
  US 20150355795A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,421 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A content list panel displays a list of article representations. In response to a selection of an article representation from the content list panel, the content application loads an article associated with the selected article representation in addition to one or more second articles. By preloading the second articles, the user can continuously read through different articles in the main window of the content application without having to select an article representation from the content list panel.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for displaying an article, the method comprising:

at a device with one or more processors, non-transitory memory, one or more input devices, and a display;

displaying, on the display;

a main window of a web browser application including respective content; and

a sidebar adjacent to the main window, the sidebar including article representations of articles, wherein at least two of the articles correspond to distinct articles;

detecting, via the one or more input devices, a selection of a first article representation within the sidebar;

responsive to detecting the selection of the first article representation within the sidebar, replacing display of the respective content within the main window with a first article on the display, the first article corresponding to the first article representation in the sidebar, while maintaining display of the sidebar adjacent to the main window;

detecting, via the one or more input devices, a navigation command within the main window; and

responsive to detecting the navigation command within the main window, displaying, on the display, a portion of a second article and a portion of the first article within the main window, the second article corresponding to a second article representation in the sidebar, while maintaining display of the sidebar adjacent to the main window, wherein the first and second articles are distinct articles.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein, displaying the portion of the second article comprises:

displaying a banner in the main window, the banner comprising a preview of content of the second article.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein displaying the portion of the second article comprises:

scrolling, by the device, the first article until the banner is displayed in the main window responsive to the navigation command;

displaying an animation to pause the display at the banner responsive to displaying the banner; and

resuming, by the device, scrolling past the banner to display the second article in the main window responsive to displaying the animation.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein displaying the portion of the second article comprises:

scrolling, by the device, the first article displayed in the main window until the banner is displayed responsive to the navigation command;

preventing the device from scrolling past the banner responsive to less than a threshold amount of time elapsing since the banner is displayed; and

allowing the device to scroll past the banner to display the second article in the main window responsive to the threshold amount of time elapsing.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to receiving the selection of the first article representation, loading, on the device, the first article corresponding to the first article representation and one or more additional articles corresponding to other article representations included in the sidebar.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the other article representations are adjacent to the first article representation in the sidebar, wherein an adjacent article representation immediately precedes the first article representation in the sidebar or immediately follows the first article representation in the content panel sidebar.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first article representation includes at least one of an abstract of the first article, a link to the first article, a title of the first article, and an image representing a source of the first article.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein:

the first article representation is associated with a person or entity that is socially connected to a user of the web browser application in one or more social networking systems; and

the first article representation comprises;

a username of a person or entity that posted social media content corresponding to the first article on one of the one or more social networking systems and is socially connected to a user of the device in the one or more social networking systems;

a display name of the person or entity on the one or more social networking systems;

an image that represents the person or entity; and

an icon representing the social networking system that posted the social media content.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first and second articles correspond to different domains.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein displaying the second article includes scrolling, by the device, the first article in the main window responsive to the navigation command;

and

the method further comprising, responsive to a subsequent navigation command, scrolling past the first article to display the second article in the main window responsive to the subsequent navigation command.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the navigation command corresponds to scrolling the main window in a particular direction.

12. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing executable code, which, when executed by one or more processors of a device with a display and one or more input devices, causes the device to perform steps comprising:

displaying, on the display;

a main window of a web browser application including respective content; and

a sidebar adjacent to the main window, the sidebar including article representations of articles, wherein at least two of the articles correspond to distinct articles;

detecting, via the one or more input devices, a selection of a first article representation within the sidebar;

responsive to detecting the selection of the first article representation within the sidebar, replacing display of the respective content within the main window with a first article on the display, the first article corresponding to the first article representation in the sidebar, while maintaining display of the sidebar adjacent to the main window;

detecting, via the one or more input devices, a navigation command within the main window; and

responsive to detecting the navigation command within the main window, displaying, on the display, a portion of a second article and a portion of the first article within the main window, the second article corresponding to a second article representation in the sidebar, while maintaining display of the sidebar adjacent to the main window, wherein the first and second articles are distinct articles.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein, displaying the portion of the second article comprises:

displaying a banner in the main window, the banner comprising a preview of content of the second article.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein displaying the portion of the second article comprises:

scrolling, by the device, the first article until the banner is displayed in the main window responsive to the navigation command;

displaying an animation to pause the display at the banner responsive to displaying the banner; and

resuming, by the device, scrolling past the banner to display the second article in the main window responsive to displaying the animation.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein displaying the portion of the second article comprises:

scrolling, by the device, the first article displayed in the main window until the banner is displayed responsive to the navigation command;

preventing the device from scrolling past the banner responsive to less than a threshold amount of time elapsing since the banner is displayed; and

allowing the device to scroll past the banner to display the second article in the main window responsive to the threshold amount of time elapsing.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the executable code further causes the device to perform steps comprising:

responsive to receiving the selection of the first article representation, loading, on the device, the first article corresponding to the first article representation and one or more additional articles corresponding to other article representations included in the sidebar.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the other article representations are adjacent to the first article representation in the sidebar, wherein an adjacent article representation immediately precedes the first article representation in the sidebar or immediately follows the first article representation in the sidebar.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the first article representation includes at least one of an abstract of the first article, a link to the first article, a title of the first article, and an image representing a source of the first article.

19. A device comprising:

a display;

one or more input devices;

one or more processors;

non-transitory 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;

displaying, on the display;

a main window of a web browser application including respective content; and

a sidebar adjacent to the main window, the sidebar including article representations of articles, wherein at least two of the articles correspond to distinct articles;

detecting, via the one or more input devices, a selection of a first article representation within the sidebar;

responsive to detecting the selection of the first article representation within the sidebar, replacing display of the respective content within the main window with a first article on the display, the first article corresponding to the first article representation in the sidebar, while maintaining display of the sidebar adjacent to the main window;

detecting, via the one or more input devices, a navigation command within the main window; and

responsive to detecting the navigation command within the main window, displaying, on the display, a portion of a second article and a portion of the first article within the main window, the second article corresponding to a second article representation in the sidebar, while maintaining display of the sidebar adjacent to the main window, wherein the first and second articles are distinct articles.

20. The device of claim 19, wherein, displaying the portion of the second article comprises:

displaying a banner in the main window, the banner comprising a preview of content of the second article.