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Displaying subheadings and hyperlinks in a scrollable long document

  • US 20040205496A1
  • Filed: 10/11/2001
  • Published: 10/14/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2001
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for displaying portions of a long document in a limited viewing area of a display on a client machine, comprising:

  • retrieving a requested long document from a server communicatively connected over a network to the client;

    parsing the document for tags identifying headings;

    displaying a portion of the document in conjunction with a scroll bar;

    in response to receiving a designated user action, displaying a list of identified headings from the parsed tags; and

    in response to receiving a user selection of one of the identified headings within the list, displaying another portion of the document containing the selected identified heading.

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